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Ordeal by Innocence (TV series)

Ordeal by Innocence (2018) is Sarah Phelps's three-part BBC One adaptation of Agatha Christie's 1958 novel, starring Bill Nighy and Anna Chancellor, set at Christmas 1954 in Scotland, notable for Ed Westwick's recasting with Christian Cooke and a changed killer.

Ordinary Greatness (警察荣誉)

Ordinary Greatness (警察荣誉) is a 2022 38-episode Chinese police drama directed by Ding Hei and written by Zhao Dongling, following four rookie officers at the fictional Balihe station; it premiered 28 May 2022 on CCTV-8 and iQIYI and reached a Douban score of 8.6. A different 2015 border-police drama shares the name.

Ordinary Joe

Ordinary Joe is an NBC drama series starring James Wolk as Joe Kimbreau, shown in three parallel timelines as a musician, a nurse, and a police officer.

Origin (TV series)

Origin is a 2018 British sci-fi horror series created by Mika Watkins for YouTube Premium, starring Natalia Tena, Tom Felton, and Sen Mitsuji as colonists stranded on a damaged ship bound for the planet Thea.

Original video animation

Original video animation (OVA, also OAV, オリジナル・ビデオ・アニメーション) is Japanese anime released direct to home video instead of TV or theaters; it began with Dallos in December 1983 and spawned OAD and ONA variants.

Orihime Inoue (井上織姫)

Orihime Inoue (井上織姫) is a BLEACH character, Ichigo Kurosaki's classmate and later wife, wielding Shun Shun Rikka, six hairpin spirits that reject events for defense, healing, and attack.

Orochimaru (Naruto)

Orochimaru (大蛇丸) is a Naruto manga and anime villain by Masashi Kishimoto, a rogue Konoha Sannin seeking immortality via Living Corpse Reincarnation, founder of Otogakure, killer of the Third Hokage, later Mitsuki's non-binary parent in Boruto.

Orphan Black

Orphan Black: Canadian sci-fi thriller created by Graeme Manson and John Fawcett, aired 2013-2017 on Space and BBC America, five seasons, 50 episodes. Tatiana Maslany played 17 clones of Sarah Manning; won 2016 Emmy and a Peabody; spin-off Echoes (2024).

Orson Hodge

Orson Hodge is a fictional character on the American television series Desperate Housewives, played by Kyle MacLachlan from 2006 to 2010 as the second husband of Bree Van de Kamp.

Oruchuban Ebichu

Oruchuban Ebichu (おるちゅばんエビちゅ), aka Ebichu Minds the House, is Risa Itō's seinen 4-koma adult comedy about a hamster housekeeper, 15 volumes, with a 1999 24-episode Gainax anime.

Os Donos do Jogo

Os Donos do Jogo is a 2025 Netflix Brazilian fictional crime drama (8 episodes, 29 October 2025) by Heitor Dhalia and Paranoïd Filmes about four families fighting over the jogo do bicho in Rio de Janeiro; renewed for a second season.

Oscar Branning

Oscar Branning is a fictional character in the BBC soap EastEnders, son of Max Branning and Tanya Cross, born on screen 2007 and played by four actors, currently Pierre Counihan-Moullier, who returned as a teenage regular in July 2025.

Oscar Martinez (The Office)

Oscar Martinez is a fictional character in the American sitcom The Office, played by Oscar Nuñez, an accountant at the Dunder Mifflin Scranton branch of a paper company.

Oscar the Grouch

Oscar the Grouch is the green Muppet grouch of Sesame Street, debuting 1969, originally orange, created by Jim Henson, performed by Caroll Spinney then Eric Jacobson, living in a trash can, loving trash, singing "I Love Trash."

Oshi no Ko (2023 TV series)

Oshi no Ko (【推しの子】) is a 2023 Doga Kobo anime adapting Akasaka and Yokoyari's Weekly Young Jump manga about an idol fan reborn as her son, with three seasons from April 2023 to January 2026.

Oshi no Ko (推しの子】)

Oshi no Ko (【推しの子】) is a manga by Aka Akasaka and Mengo Yokoyari, serialized in Weekly Young Jump from April 2020 to 2024 across 16 volumes, following idol Ai Hoshino's twins Aqua and Ruby after her murder, adapted into multi-season anime, live-action drama, and film.

Oshin (おしん)

Oshin (おしん) is NHK's 31st asadora, broadcast 1983–84, written by Sugako Hashida; it averaged 52.6% ratings, peaked at 62.9%, aired in over 60 countries, and made おしん a byword for endurance.

Osmosis (2019 TV series)

Osmosis is a 2019 French Netflix science-fiction series created by Audrey Fouché, 8 episodes set in near-future Paris, where a dating app implant matches soulmates by mining brain data; adapted from a 2015 Arte Creative web series by the Chiche brothers.

Osomatsu-kun

Osomatsu-kun (おそ松くん) is Fujio Akatsuka's gag manga about six identical sextuplet brothers, serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday 1962–1969 and famed for Iyami's "Shee!" fad, adapted as TV anime in 1966, 1988, and as Osomatsu-san in 2015.

Ossan's Love Thailand (รักนี้ให้ "นาย")

Ossan's Love Thailand (รักนี้ให้ "นาย") is a 2025 GMMTV-TV Asahi Thai BL romantic comedy remaking Japan's Ossan's Love, starring Earth and Mix; 12 episodes on GMM25, TELASA, and YouTube, January to March 2025.

Oswald (2027 TV series)

Oswald (2027 TV series), also called Oswald the Lucky Rabbit series, is a Jon Favreau three-part Disney+ live-action/2D-animated comedy miniseries premiering February 17, 2027, reviving Disney's pre-Mickey 1927 rabbit character with Sergio Pablos' SPA Studios animation.

Oswald (TV series)

Oswald (TV series), also called Oswald the Octopus, is a 2001-2003 Nick Jr. animated preschool show created by Dan Yaccarino about a blue octopus, his pet Weenie, and friends Henry and Daisy in Big City, with 26 episodes voiced by Fred Savage.

Oswald Cobblepot (Gotham)

Oswald Cobblepot, the Penguin of Fox's Gotham (2014-2019), played by Robin Lord Taylor: a thin, mother-raised underworld climber who rises from Fish Mooney's flunky toward kingpin, distinct from the comic Penguin and the later Oz Cobb version.

Other Space

Other Space is a 2015 American sci-fi comedy series created by Paul Feig, streaming eight episodes on Yahoo Screen about an incompetent UMP Cruiser crew lost in an alternate universe; cancelled after Yahoo's $42 million write-down and the platform's 2016 shutdown.

Our Beloved Summer (그 해 우리는)

Our Beloved Summer (그 해 우리는) is a 2021 SBS, 16-episode Korean romantic comedy drama, also on Netflix, starring Choi Woo-shik and Kim Da-mi as exes reunited by a viral high-school documentary; written by Lee Na-eun, directed by Kim Youn-jin, inspired by a 2015 EBS documentary.

Our Blues (우리들의 블루스)

Our Blues (우리들의 블루스) is a 2022 tvN 20-episode omnibus drama by writer Noh Hee-kyung and director Kim Kyu-tae, set on Jeju Island with 14 protagonists, starring Lee Byung-hun, Shin Min-a, and an ensemble cast; it reached second on Netflix's Global Non-English Top 10.

Our Cartoon President

Our Cartoon President: Showtime animated political satire (2018–2020, 3 seasons, 46 episodes) created by Stephen Colbert, Matt Lappin, Tim Luecke, Chris Licht, and RJ Fried, parodying the Trump White House; Jeff Bergman voiced Trump.

Our Dating Sim (우리 연애 시뮬레이션)

Our Dating Sim (우리 연애 시뮬레이션, Uyeonsi) is a 2023 South Korean BL web drama, 8 short episodes, in which illustrator Lee Wan and programmer Shin Ki Tae reunite seven years after a failed high-school confession to build a dating simulator game.

Our Flag Means Death

Our Flag Means Death is an HBO Max period comedy (2022-2024) created by David Jenkins, starring Rhys Darby as Stede Bonnet and Taika Waititi as Blackbeard, reimagining their 1717 piracy liaison as a queer romance across two seasons, 18 episodes, cancelled January 2024.

Our Friends in the North

Our Friends in the North is Peter Flannery's nine-part BBC Two drama serial (1996), following four Newcastle friends, played by Eccleston, McKee, Craig, and Strong, from 1964 to 1995 through corruption, housing, and political change; distinct from the 1982 RSC stage play it derives from.