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Archie Bunker

Archie Bunker, the bigoted working-class patriarch of All in the Family (CBS, 1971–1979) and Archie Bunker's Place, played by Carroll O'Connor; Norman Lear's adaptation of Alf Garnett that topped Nielsen ratings for five seasons.

Archie Bunker's Place

Archie Bunker's Place, the CBS continuation of All in the Family (1979–1983), stars Carroll O'Connor as bar owner Archie Bunker in Queens, with partners Murray Klein and Gary Rabinowitz and the offscreen death of Edith Bunker.

Archive 81

Archive 81 (2022) is an eight-episode Netflix supernatural horror series, adapted from the Dead Signals podcast by Dan Powell and Marc Sollinger, starring Mamoudou Athie and Dina Shihabi; showrunner Rebecca Sonnenshine; canceled after one season in March 2022.

Arctic Circle (2018 TV series)

Arctic Circle (Finnish: Ivalo) is a Finnish-German crime drama thriller series (2018-) by Yellow Film & TV and Bavaria Fiction, starring Iina Kuustonen as officer Nina Kautsalo, premiering on Elisa Viihde December 21, 2018; five seasons, 6.5 million euro budget, filmed in Finnish Lapland.

Are We There Yet? (franchise)

Are We There Yet? is an American media franchise by Cube Vision and Revolution Studios: the 2005 Ice Cube road-trip comedy, its 2007 sequel Are We Done Yet?, the TBS sitcom with Terry Crews (2010-2013), and the announced sequel Are They Gone Yet?

Are We There Yet? (TV series)

Are We There Yet? is a TBS sitcom (2010–2013, 100 episodes) based on the 2005 Ice Cube film, starring Terry Crews and Essence Atkins as newlyweds in a blended family, created by Ali LeRoi.

Are You Afraid of the Dark?

Are You Afraid of the Dark? is a Nickelodeon/YTV children's horror anthology created by D.J. MacHale and Ned Kandel, framed by the Midnight Society campfire storytellers; ran 1990s, rebooted 2019–2022.

Are You Being Served?

Are You Being Served? is a British BBC1 sitcom (1972–1985, 69 episodes) by Jeremy Lloyd and David Croft, set in the Grace Brothers department store, starring John Inman and Mollie Sugden, with a 1977 film, Grace and Favour sequel, Australian version, and 2016 revival.

Are You Human? (너도 인간이니)

Are You Human? (너도 인간이니), also titled Are You Human Too?, is a 2018 South Korean drama starring Seo Kang-joon, in which a robot impersonates a comatose heir.

Are You Safe (你安全吗?)

Are You Safe (你安全吗?) is a 2022 Chinese web drama, the first domestic series centered on cybersecurity, directed by Cao Dun and Yang Biao, starring Tan Jianci and Rong Zishan, 31 episodes aired on Tencent Video and iQiyi.

Are You Sure? (TV series)

Are You Sure?! (이게맞아) is a Disney+ Korean travel reality series starring BTS's Jimin and Jung Kook: season 1 (2024) filmed pre-enlistment in the US, Jeju, and Sapporo; season 2 (2025) in Switzerland and Vietnam after discharge.

Are You the One (柳舟记)

Are You the One (柳舟记, Liu Zhou Ji) is a 2024 Chinese costume romantic comedy, 40 episodes on Tencent Video, adapted from Kuang Shang Kuang Jia's novel Jiao Cang, starring Zhang Wanyi and Wang Churan as an amnesiac bandit leader and the prince who poses as her husband.

Are You the One?

Are You the One? is an MTV reality dating competition (2014–2023, 9 seasons) where producers secretly pair singles as 'perfect matches' via a matchmaking algorithm; the cast must find all pairings to split $1,000,000. Notable for its sexually fluid season 8 in Hawaii.

Arena (British TV series)

Arena is the BBC's long-running arts documentary strand, first broadcast on BBC2 on 1 October 1975, created by Humphrey Burton and later edited by Alan Yentob and Anthony Wall; known for the message-in-a-bottle titles and over 600 award-winning films.

Ares

Ares (2020) is the first fully Dutch Netflix Original series, an eight-episode psychological horror drama from Pupkin about students Rosa and Jacob joining a secret Amsterdam society hiding demonic Golden Age secrets; distinct from the Greek god and the Tron film.

Ari Gold (Entourage)

Ari Gold is the fictional Hollywood superagent of HBO's Entourage (2004-2011) and its 2015 film, played by Jeremy Piven, based on real agent Ari Emanuel, winner of three consecutive supporting-actor Emmys and famous for "hug it out, bitch".

Aria (manga)

Aria (アリア) by Kozue Amano is a 2002-2008 healing slice-of-life manga, 12 volumes plus the AQUA prequel, set in Neo-Venezia on terraformed Mars, adapted into three anime seasons and films, with Tokyopop's Masterpiece English edition.

Arianne Zucker

Arianne Zucker (Arianne Bethene Zuckerman, born 1974) is an American actress and former model, five-time Emmy nominee best known as Nicole Walker on Days of Our Lives (1998-2024), subject of the 2005 Access Hollywood tape, and plaintiff in a 2024 lawsuit settled in 2025.

Ariel (TV series)

Disney Jr.'s Ariel is a 2024 Disney Junior animated musical preschool series inspired by The Little Mermaid, set in a Caribbean-inspired Atlantica, starring Mykal-Michelle Harris, with Ursula recast as Ariel's aunt rather than a villain.

Arizona Robbins

Arizona Robbins is the fictional pediatric and fetal surgeon played by Jessica Capshaw on ABC's Grey's Anatomy, introduced in season 5, married to Callie Torres from seasons 7 to 11, written off in the season 14 finale, and a season 20 guest return.

Arjun (TV series)

Arjun (Har Yug Mein Aayega Ek – Arjun) is an Indian Star Plus crime series (2012–2014, 145 episodes) by 4 Lions Films, starring Shaleen Malhotra as ACP Arjun Rawte of the Emergency Task Force.

Ark: The Animated Series

Ark: The Animated Series is a Paramount+ animated adaptation of ARK: Survival Evolved, created by Jeremy Stieglitz and Jesse Rapczak, following paleontologist Helena Walker; announced 2020, premiered March 21, 2024 with six episodes, Part 2 set for 2026.

Arknights (アークナイツ) (TV series)

Arknights (アークナイツ) is the TV anime adaptation of Hypergryph's mobile tower-defense game, produced by Yostar Pictures and directed by Yuki Watanabe. Three seasons: Prelude to Dawn (Oct 28, 2022), Perish in Frost (Oct 2023), and Rise from Ember (July 2025), covering main-story chapters through 8.

Armando Montelongo

Armando Montelongo Jr. is an American real estate investor and seminar promoter from San Antonio, Texas, best known as a star of A&E's Flip This House from 2006 to 2009.

Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre is a British anthology series of single television plays on ITV from 1956 to 1974, credited with changing British television drama, produced by ABC and later Thames Television.

Armed Girl's Machiavellism

Armed Girl's Machiavellism (武装少女マキャヴェリズム, Busō Shōjo Machiavellism) is a Japanese school battle manga by Yūya Kurokami and Karuna Kanzaki, serialized in Monthly Shōnen Ace 2014–2022 across 13 volumes, about Fudō Nomura fighting the weapon-wielding Five Supreme Swords at Aichi Symbiosis Academy; a 12-episode Silver Link anime aired in 2017.

Armorsaurs

Armorsaurs is a 2025 live-action/VFX/animation children's series from MGA Entertainment, a remake of South Korea's Armored Saurus (Daewon Media, 2021). Five teen pilots bond armored dinosaurs against aliens; premiered on Disney XD October 13, 2025, Disney+ February 2026, CBBC in the UK.

Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas

Army of the Dead: Lost Vegas was a planned six-episode Netflix anime prequel to Zack Snyder's 2021 film Army of the Dead, showrun by Jay Oliva, with scripts, animatics, and voice recordings completed before Netflix quietly canceled it; it was never released.

Army Wives

Army Wives is an American Lifetime drama series (2007-2013, seven seasons) created by Katherine Fugate from Tanya Biank's book Under the Sabers, following military spouses at fictional Fort Marshall, South Carolina.

Around the Horn

Around the Horn is an American sports debate show produced for ESPN. It ran for 22 years, accumulating 4,953 episodes and helping define the modern sports debate format.