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Now and Then, Here and There (今、そこにいる僕)

Now and Then, Here and There (今、そこにいる僕, Ima, Soko ni Iru Boku) is a 1999–2000 13-episode AIC/Pioneer LDC anime directed by Akitaro Daichi, aired on WOWOW, about Shu and Lala-Ru in a war-torn desert future.

Now Apocalypse

Now Apocalypse is a 2019 Starz comedy series, Gregg Araki's first, co-written with Karley Sciortino: ten half-hour episodes about Ulysses (Avan Jogia) and friends in Los Angeles, canceled after one season.

Now, We Are Breaking Up (지금, 헤어지는 중입니다)

Now, We Are Breaking Up (지금, 헤어지는 중입니다) is a 2021 SBS 16-episode romance melodrama starring Song Hye-kyo and Jang Ki-yong as a fashion designer and photographer, averaging 6.6% Nielsen ratings.

Nowhere Boys

Nowhere Boys is an Australian children's supernatural series created by Tony Ayres for Matchbox Pictures, airing on ABC3/ABC ME 2013-2018. Four boys are stranded in a parallel world where they were never born; four seasons, a film, and an International Emmy Kids Award.

Nowhere Man (罪梦者)

Nowhere Man (罪梦者, also Bardo) is Netflix's first Mandarin-language original series, an 8-episode 2019 Taiwanese crime thriller by DJ Chen starring Joseph Chang, about a death row inmate's jailbreak.

Noyontara

Noyontara is a Hindi-language supernatural thriller television series airing from 2025 to 2026, an official remake of the Bengali series Trinayani, starring Shruti Bhist and Arjun Chakrabarty.

Nozoki Ana (のぞき穴)

Nozoki Ana (のぞき穴, "Peeping Hole"), also published abroad as A Peephole, is a Japanese erotic romance manga by Wakoh Honna, one of the best-selling mobile comics in Japan.

NTR: Netsuzou Trap

NTR: Netsuzou Trap (捏造トラップ―NTR―) is a yuri manga by Kodama Naoko, serialized in Comic Yuri Hime 2014–2017 in six volumes, about schoolgirls Yuma and Hotaru cheating on their boyfriends; adapted into a 2017 twelve-episode anime by Creators in Pack.

NTSF:SD:SUV::

NTSF:SD:SUV:: (National Terrorism Strike Force: San Diego: Sport Utility Vehicle::) is Paul Scheer's Adult Swim police-procedural parody, born from a Childrens Hospital fake ad, airing three seasons, 2011–2013, starring Mulgrew, Starr, Romijn, Gillan.

Number 1 Happy Family USA

#1 Happy Family USA (Number 1 Happy Family USA) is a 2025 Prime Video adult animated sitcom co-created by Ramy Youssef and Pam Brady about an Egyptian American Muslim family in post-9/11 New Jersey; eight episodes, A24 production, 96% Tomatometer.

Number 10 (upcoming TV series)

Number 10 is a British comedy drama set at 10 Downing Street, written by Steven Moffat, and stars Rafe Spall, Jenna Coleman, and Katherine Kelly.

Number One (Star Trek)

Number One, later named Una Chin-Riley, is Star Trek's Enterprise first officer from the unaired 1965 pilot "The Cage", played by Majel Barrett and now by Rebecca Romijn in Strange New Worlds.

Number One Fan (TV series)

Number One Fan is a four-part British psychological thriller starring Jill Halfpenny as TV presenter Lucy Logan and Sally Lindsay as her obsessive superfan, aired on Channel 5 in May 2026.

Number Six (Battlestar Galactica)

Number Six is a humanoid Cylon model in Battlestar Galactica (2004-2009), played by Tricia Helfer. Distinctive aliases: Caprica Six, Shelly Godfrey, Gina Inviere; seduced Baltar, and appears as the angelic Head Six.

Numberblocks

Numberblocks: British CBeebies preschool animated series (2017–) by Joe Elliot and Blue Zoo teaching numeracy through block characters; BAFTA-winning, 150 episodes, part of the Blocks Universe franchise with Alphablocks and Colourblocks.

Numberphile

Numberphile, Brady Haran's mathematics YouTube channel launched in 2011 with Google funding, features mathematicians explaining ideas on brown paper; about 4.8 million subscribers, MSRI/Jane Street backing, and a companion podcast.

Numbers (TV series)

NUMB3RS (Numbers) is an American CBS crime drama (2005-2010, 6 seasons, 118 episodes) created by Nicolas Falacci and Cheryl Heuton, in which FBI agent Don Eppes and mathematician brother Charlie solve crimes with math.

Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (ぬらりひょんの孫)

Nura: Rise of the Yokai Clan (ぬらりひょんの孫, Nurarihyon no Mago) is Hiroshi Shiibashi's 2008-2012 Weekly Shonen Jump manga (218 chapters, 25 volumes) about quarter-yokai Rikuo Nura, heir to Nurarihyon's Nura clan, adapted by Studio Deen into two anime seasons.

Nurse Jackie

Nurse Jackie: Showtime half-hour comedy-drama (2009-2015, 7 seasons) starring Edie Falco as addicted ER nurse Jackie Peyton; created by Linda Wallem and Liz Brixius; 24 Emmy nominations, 5 wins; ambiguous 2015 finale, Prime Video revival in development 2023.

Nurses (Canadian TV series)

Nurses is a Canadian medical drama series created by Adam Pettle. It premiered on Global Television Network in 2020 and was picked up by NBC for US broadcast.

NWA Power

NWA Powerrr (NWA Power) is the National Wrestling Alliance's weekly studio-wrestling TV series, premiered October 8, 2019 on YouTube at 6:05 p.m. ET under owner Billy Corgan, later airing on FITE, Roku, Comet, CHARGE!, and Tubi.

NY by Night

NY by Night (Vampire: The Masquerade – New York by Night) is an official World of Darkness actual play web series, successor to LA by Night, run by Jason Carl on YouTube from July to November 2022 in two 8-episode seasons, now paused before its planned third season.

Nyaa Torrents

Nyaa Torrents (nyaa.si), launched 2005, is a major public BitTorrent index for East Asian media, mainly anime; it lists metadata and magnet links rather than hosting files, was voluntarily shut down 1 May 2017, forked to nyaa.si, and faces Japanese CODA enforcement.

Nyota Uhura

Nyota Uhura is the Star Trek communications officer, played by Nichelle Nichols (1966–69), Zoe Saldaña (2009), and Celia Rose Gooding; her first name, Swahili for star, became canon only in 2009.

NYPD Blue

NYPD Blue: American ABC police procedural created by Steven Bochco and David Milch, airing 1993-2005, 261 episodes about Manhattan's fictional 15th precinct; won 20 Emmys and a 1996 Peabody despite a debut boycott.

O Maidens in Your Savage Season

O Maidens in Your Savage Season (Araburu Kisetsu no Otome-domo yo.) is a Mari Okada and Nao Emoto manga serialized in Kodansha's Bessatsu Shonen Magazine from 2016 about five literature club girls confronting adolescent sexuality, adapted into a 2019 Lay-duce anime.

Oasis (2017 TV series)

Oasis (2017 TV series) is a one-hour Prime Video science fiction drama pilot based on Michel Faber's novel The Book of Strange New Things, starring Richard Madden as priest Peter Leigh; directed by Kevin Macdonald, it was never ordered to series.

Obi-Wan Kenobi (2022 TV series)

Obi-Wan Kenobi is a 2022 Disney+ Star Wars limited series, six episodes directed by Deborah Chow, starring Ewan McGregor and Hayden Christensen, set ten years after Revenge of the Sith, with Metacritic score 73.

Obito Uchiha (うちはオビト)

Obito Uchiha (うちはオビト, Uchiha Obito) is a Naruto character, Kakashi's Uchiha teammate presumed dead at Kannabi Bridge who returned as Tobi, controlled the Akatsuki, started the Fourth Shinobi World War, became the Ten-Tails jinchuriki, and died redeemed.

Obituary (TV series)

Obituary is a 2023 Irish black comedy series created by Ray Lawlor for RTÉ, starring Siobhán Cullen as obituarist Elvira Clancy, who murders townspeople for €200-per-obituary income; two seasons, Hulu and RTÉ One.