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Reacher (TV series)

Reacher is a Prime Video action crime series developed by Nick Santora, adapting Lee Child's Jack Reacher novels one per season with Alan Ritchson starring; renewed through season 6 with the Neagley spinoff.

Reading Rainbow

Reading Rainbow: American PBS children's literacy series, premiered 1983, produced by WNED-TV Buffalo, hosted by LeVar Burton, 155 episodes to 2006, Peabody and 26 Emmys, revived 2025 with Mychal Threets on YouTube.

Ready Jet Go!

Ready Jet Go! is a PBS KIDS animated series (2016–2019) created by Craig Bartlett in which alien boy Jet Propulsion from Bortron 7 and Earth friends Sean, Sydney, and Mindy learn space science, with NASA astronomer Amy Mainzer as science advisor.

Ready Set Learn!

Ready Set Learn! was TLC and Discovery Kids' commercial-free preschool programming block, launched December 28, 1992 with host Rory, relaunched February 24, 2003 with mascot Paz the penguin, ending on TLC in 2008 and with The Hub's 2010 launch.

Ready Steady Cook

Ready Steady Cook is a British daytime cookery game show (BBC Two, 1994–2010; revived BBC One 2020) where contestants hand chefs a £5 bag of groceries to turn into a meal in 20 minutes, with red tomato and green pepper audience voting cards.

Real (リアル) (manga)

Real (リアル) is a wheelchair basketball manga by Takehiko Inoue, serialized in Weekly Young Jump since 1999, following Nomiya, Togawa, and Takahashi; it won the 2001 Japan Media Arts Festival Excellence Award.

Real Humans

Real Humans (Äkta människor) is a Swedish sci-fi drama series (SVT1, 2012–2014) by Lars Lundström about hubots, humanlike robots, in an alternative Sweden; remade as Humans.

Real Husbands of Hollywood

Real Husbands of Hollywood (RHOH) is a BET scripted parody of reality TV, co-created by Kevin Hart, airing 2013–2016 over five seasons, spoofing The Real Housewives with celebrities playing fictional versions of themselves, revived on BET+ in 2022.

Real Rob

Real Rob is a Netflix sitcom (2015–2017, 16 episodes) in which Rob Schneider plays an exaggerated version of himself, intercut with stand-up clips, co-written with wife Patricia Azarcoya Arce; it holds a 0% Rotten Tomatoes critic score.

Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model

Reality Check: Inside America's Next Top Model is a 2026 three-part Netflix docuseries by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan revisiting ANTM's legacy; Tyra Banks later sued Netflix for defamation over her edited interview.

Reality Ranis of the Jungle

Reality Ranis of the Jungle is an Indian all-women survival reality series on Discovery Channel and Discovery+, hosted by Varun Sood, adapted from Reality Queens of the Jungle; 12 former reality stars compete, season 1 in the Himalayas (2024), season 2 on the coast (2025).

Reality television

Reality television (reality TV): unscripted television genre featuring people portraying themselves, rooted in An American Family (1973) and The Real World (1992), breakout wave with Survivor and Big Brother (2000), now a franchised, streaming-era mainstay.

Reality Z

Reality Z is a 2020 Brazilian Netflix horror-comedy series, 10 episodes, adapting Charlie Brooker's Dead Set: a zombie apocalypse traps a Big Brother-style reality show's contestants in a Rio de Janeiro studio called Olimpo.

Reaper (TV series)

Reaper is an American supernatural comedy-drama on The CW (2007-2009, 31 episodes), created by Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas, in which slacker Sam Oliver, whose parents sold his soul, works as the Devil's bounty hunter; starring Bret Harrison, Tyler Labine, and Ray Wise.

Reasonable Doubt (TV series)

Reasonable Doubt is a 2022 Hulu legal drama, Onyx Collective's first scripted series, created by Raamla Mohamed, starring Emayatzy Corinealdi as LA defense attorney Jax Stewart; four seasons, 36 episodes, distinct from the 2017 ID docuseries.

Reba (TV series)

Reba is an American sitcom (2001–2007, The WB/The CW) starring Reba McEntire as divorced Houston mom Reba Hart; created by Allison M. Gibson, 124 episodes, People's Choice winner, revived on Netflix in 2024.

Rebecca Breeds

Rebecca Elizabeth Breeds (born 1987, Sydney) is an Australian actress known for Ruby Buckton in Home and Away (2008–2012) and as Clarice Starling in CBS's Clarice (2021); also The Originals, Bhaag Milkha Bhaag, and Kangaroo Island (2024).

Rebecca Callard

Rebecca Callard (Rebecca Jayne Callard, born Rebecca Jayne Atkinson, 1975) is an English actress and writer, daughter of Beverley Callard; known for Detectorists, Fearless, Ordinary Lies, The Borrowers, and writing Breeders and A Bit of Light.

Rebecca Gibney

Rebecca Gibney (Rebecca Catherine Gibney), New Zealand-born actress in Australian TV: Emma Plimpton in The Flying Doctors, Jane Halifax in Halifax f.p., Julie Rafter in Packed to the Rafters; Gold Logie 2009, Logies Hall of Fame 2024.

Rebecca Herbst

Rebecca Herbst, also known as Becky Herbst, is an American actress best known for originating Elizabeth Webber on ABC's General Hospital in 1997, earning three Daytime Emmy nominations.

Rebekah Elmaloglou

Rebekah Elmaloglou is an Australian actress who played Sophie Simpson on Home and Away from 1990 to 1993. She later played Terese Willis on Neighbours from 2013 to 2025.

Rebel (2021 TV series)

Rebel (2021 TV series) is an American legal drama inspired by Erin Brockovich. It stars Katey Sagal as Annie "Rebel" Bello, a brilliant legal advocate without a law degree.

Rebel Alliance

Rebel Alliance (Alliance to Restore the Republic) is the fictional Star Wars coalition that fought the Galactic Empire, declared in 2 BBY, triumphed at Endor, and became the New Republic.

Rebelde

Rebelde (Mexican telenovela, Televisa 2004–2006), adaptation of Argentina's Rebelde Way; 440 episodes, six leads who formed RBD, 10 million albums, 65 countries, 2022 Netflix reboot.

Rebelde (2022 TV series)

Rebelde (2022) is a Mexican Netflix teen drama, a reboot of the 2004-2006 telenovela and Argentina's Rebelde Way. Directed by Santiago Limón, 2 seasons, 16 episodes, set at Elite Way School, canceled in 2023.

Rebellion (miniseries)

Rebellion (2016) is a five-part RTÉ miniseries by Colin Teevan, directed by Aku Louhimies, dramatizing the 1916 Easter Rising through fictional characters. Its 2019 sequel Resistance (War of Independence) aired on Netflix as Rebellion season 2.

Rebirth For You (嘉南传)

Rebirth For You (嘉南传, formerly Mu Nan Zhi 慕南枝) is a 2021 Chinese historical romance drama adapted from Zhi Zhi's novel, starring Ju Jingyi and Joseph Zeng; 40 episodes streamed on iQiyi and Tencent from October 17 to November 22, 2021, with a low Douban score around 3.8-4.0.

ReBoot

ReBoot is a Canadian CGI-animated TV series (1994–2001) created by the Hub and produced by Mainframe Entertainment in Vancouver; the first half-hour fully computer-animated series, set inside the computer city of Mainframe, predating Toy Story.

Reboot (2022 TV series)

Reboot (2022) is a Hulu meta comedy created by Steven Levitan (Modern Family) about the cast of a fictional early-2000s sitcom, Step Right Up, reuniting for a revival. Eight episodes premiered September 20, 2022; Hulu canceled it January 30, 2023.

Reboot (fiction)

Reboot (fiction): restarting an established fictional universe, film, TV, comic, or game franchise with new continuity, discarding prior storylines. Distinct from remake, revival, sequel; popularized by Batman Begins (2005); includes soft reboots and film-to-TV reboots like Fargo.