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Penny (The Big Bang Theory)

Penny (later Penny Hofstadter) is a fictional character in the CBS sitcom The Big Bang Theory, played by Kaley Cuoco for all 12 seasons; a waitress and aspiring actress from Nebraska, rewritten from the rejected pilot character Katie.

Penny Branning

Penny Branning (Penelope Branning) is a fictional EastEnders character, daughter of Jack and Selina Branning, a wheelchair user played by Mia McKenna-Bruce (2008) and Kitty Castledine (2024-present), currently in a pregnancy paternity storyline.

Penny Crayon

Penny Crayon is a 1989 British animated BBC One children's series created by Peter Maddocks: schoolgirl Penny's magic crayons bring her drawings to life, voiced by Su Pollard and Peter Hawkins in 12 ten-minute episodes (1989-1990), distinct from Harold and the Purple Crayon and Penny's Pencil.

Penny Dreadful (TV series)

Penny Dreadful (TV series): British-American horror drama created by John Logan for Showtime and Sky, 2014–2016, three seasons set in 1891 Victorian London, filmed in Dublin, starring Eva Green as Vanessa Ives.

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels is a 2020 Showtime supernatural crime drama created by John Logan, set in 1938 Los Angeles with an all-new cast led by Natalie Dormer, Daniel Zovatto, and Nathan Lane; canceled after one ten-episode season.

Penny the Polar Bear

Penny the Polar Bear is a Peppa Pig playgroup character voiced by Mabel Green who, in the 2022 episode 'Families', revealed she has two mothers, the show's first LGBTQ+ characters; distinct from unrelated mascots and toy patterns of the same name.

Pennyworth (TV series)

Pennyworth (2019–2022), also Pennyworth: The Origin of Batman's Butler, is a DC drama by Gotham creators Bruno Heller and Danny Cannon about young Alfred Pennyworth (Jack Bannon) in alternate-history 1960s London, canceled in 2023 after three seasons.

People Just Do Nothing

People Just Do Nothing: BBC Three mockumentary sitcom (2014–2018, five series) about Kurupt FM, a deluded UK garage pirate radio crew in Brentford, West London; created by and starring Mustafa, Chegwin, Stamp, and Chaudhry; won the 2017 BAFTA for Best Scripted Comedy and spawned the 2021 film Big In Japan.

People of Earth

People of Earth: TBS comedy series (2016–2017), created by David Jenkins, about skeptical journalist Ozzie Graham (Wyatt Cenac) investigating the StarCrossed alien-abductee support group; two seasons, 20 episodes, canceled in 2018.

Pepito Manaloto

Pepito Manaloto (Pepito Manaloto: Tuloy ang Kuwento) is GMA Network's longest-running Philippine sitcom, created by and starring Michael V. as a lottery winner of P700 million; airing since March 2010, retitled several times, and the top-rated Philippine comedy program of 2021.

Peppa Pig

Peppa Pig is a British preschool animated series created by Astley Baker Davies, first aired on Channel 5 in May 2004, now in 180-plus territories, 40 languages, a $1.7bn franchise owned by Hasbro.

Pepper Ann

Pepper Ann (1997–2000) is a Disney animated series created by Sue Rose about 12-year-old Pepper Ann Pearson, voiced by Kathleen Wilhoite, on ABC's One Saturday Morning; five seasons, 65 episodes, now on Disney+.

Percy Jackson and the Olympians (TV series)

Percy Jackson and the Olympians is a Disney+ live-action fantasy series adapting Rick Riordan's five-book Percy Jackson novels, one book per season, created by Riordan and Jonathan E. Steinberg, starring Walker Scobell, Leah Sava Jeffries, and Aryan Simhadri, premiering December 20, 2023.

Perdiendo el juicio (2025 TV series)

Perdiendo el juicio, Spanish legal drama series premiered 23 March 2025 on atresplayer (Atresmedia/Boomerang TV), 10 episodes starring Elena Rivera as lawyer Amanda Torres with OCD; distinct from the 2024 Dominican film of the same name.

Perfect 10 Liners (สายรหัสเทวดา)

Perfect 10 Liners (สายรหัสเทวดา), also called Engineer Cute Boy, is a GMMTV Thai BL series adapted from Jittirain's novels, airing 24 episodes on GMM25 from October 27, 2024 to April 6, 2025, following three engineering-student couples.

Perfect Crown

Perfect Crown (21세기 대군부인, 21st Century Grand Prince's Wife) is a 2026 MBC K-drama starring IU and Byeon Woo-seok, set in a constitutional-monarchy Korea, a Disney+ streaming record holder hit by a coronation-accuracy controversy.

Perfect Family (Indian TV series)

Perfect Family is a 2025 Hindi comedy-drama web series about the Karkaria family in group therapy, created by Palak Bhambri, directed by Sachin Pathak, produced by Pankaj Tripathi's JAR Pictures, starring Manoj Pahwa, Seema Pahwa, Gulshan Devaiah, and Neha Dhupia; distinct from the 2024 Korean KBS2 drama of the same name.

Perfect Family (완벽한 가족)

Perfect Family (완벽한 가족) is a Korean family mystery thriller webtoon by writer Nyangppa and artist Joo Eun, serialized on Naver Webtoon 2020–2021, about an adopted daughter's murder confession, adapted into a 2024 KBS2 drama directed by Yukisada Isao.

Perfect Match (TV series)

Perfect Match is a Netflix American reality dating competition (2023-present) hosted by Nick Lachey and created by Chris Coelen, where alumni of Love Is Blind, Too Hot to Handle, and other reality shows compete in a villa; four seasons, 40 episodes.

Perfect Strangers (TV series)

Perfect Strangers (1986-1993), ABC sitcom distinct from Hulu's Nine Perfect Strangers: cousins Balki Bartokomous (Bronson Pinchot) and Larry Appleton (Mark Linn-Baker) share a Chicago apartment, anchor ABC Fridays, and spawn Family Matters.

Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini

Perfect Wife: The Mysterious Disappearance of Sherri Papini is a 2024 three-episode Hulu true-crime docuseries by Erin Lee Carr and Michael Beach Nichols about Sherri Papini's 2016 staged kidnapping near Redding, California and the six-year investigation that exposed it.

Perilloor Premier League

Perilloor Premier League (പേരില്ലൂർ പ്രീമിയർ ലീഗ്) is a 2024 Malayalam comedy web series on Disney+ Hotstar, directed by Praveen Chandran, written by Deepu Pradeep, starring Nikhila Vimal as Malavika, a reluctant village panchayat president.

Permanent Roommates

Permanent Roommates is TVF's 2014 Hindi romantic-comedy web series, India's first, starring Sumeet Vyas and Nidhi Singh as Mikesh and Tanya, with three seasons (2014, 2016, 2023) ending on Prime Video.

Perry Cox

Dr. Perry Cox is a fictional physician in the American medical comedy-drama Scrubs, portrayed by John C. McGinley as the abrasive mentor to J.D. Dorian.

Perry Mason (1957 TV series)

Perry Mason (1957 TV series): CBS legal drama, September 21, 1957 to May 22, 1966, nine seasons, 271 episodes, starring Raymond Burr as Erle Stanley Gardner's defense attorney, with Barbara Hale, William Hopper, and William Talman; produced by Paisano Productions under Gail Patrick Jackson.

Perry Mason (2020 TV series)

Perry Mason (2020–2023) is HBO's Depression-era origin drama starring Matthew Rhys as a young private investigator in 1930s Los Angeles, created by Rolin Jones and Ron Fitzgerald, canceled after two seasons.

Perry the Platypus

Perry the Platypus, codenamed Agent P, is the mute pet platypus of Phineas and Ferb who secretly works for the O.W.C.A. foiling Dr. Doofenshmirtz; voiced by Dee Bradley Baker, created by Povenmire and Marsh.

Person of Interest (TV series)

Person of Interest is a CBS crime drama (2011–2016, five seasons, 103 episodes) created by Jonathan Nolan, starring Jim Caviezel and Michael Emerson, about an AI called the Machine that predicts violent crimes via mass surveillance.

Persona (페르소나)

Persona (페르소나) is a 2019 Netflix Korean anthology of four short films, Love Set, Collector, Kiss Burn, and Walking at Night, each by a different director and all starring IU (Lee Ji-eun) in her film debut; a planned Sulli-led second season became Persona: Sulli (2023).

Personal Taste (개인의 취향)

Personal Taste (개인의 취향, also Personal Preference, Perfect Match) is a 2010 MBC 16-episode romantic comedy starring Son Ye-jin and Lee Min-ho, adapted from Lee Se-in's novel, about an architect who pretends to be gay to move into a woman's hanok.