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Red Shoe Diaries

Red Shoe Diaries is a Showtime erotic drama anthology series (1992–1997) created by Zalman King and Patricia Knop, spun off from a 1992 TV movie, hosted by David Duchovny as Jake Winters reading women's intimate diaries, running five TV-MA seasons.

Red Swan (TV series)

Red Swan (화인가 스캔들, Hwain Family Scandal) is a 2024 Disney+ Korean action-romance series, 10 episodes, July 3–31, 2024, starring Kim Ha-neul and Rain, directed by Park Hong-kyun, about a golfer and her bodyguard uncovering chaebol secrets.

Red Table Talk

Red Table Talk: Facebook Watch web talk show (2018–2023) hosted by Jada Pinkett Smith, Willow Smith, and Adrienne Banfield-Norris; five seasons, 129 episodes, canceled when Meta ended Facebook Watch originals.

Reece Dinsdale

Reece Dinsdale (born 1959, Normanton, West Yorkshire) is an English actor and director known for Threads, Home to Roost, I.D., Coronation Street's Joe McIntyre, and directing Emmerdale.

Reeta Sanyal

Reeta Sanyal (रीता सान्याल) is a 2024 Hindi legal crime dramedy web series on Disney+ Hotstar, directed by Abhirup Ghosh, starring Adah Sharma as a lawyer-detective, adapted from Amit Khan's Reeta Sanyal Ke Mukkadamein novels, 20 episodes, IMDb 5.0/10.

Regai

Regai (ரேகை, "fingerprint") is a 2025 Tamil ZEE5 crime thriller web series, six episodes directed by M. Dhinakaran from Rajesh Kumar's novel, starring Bala Hasan as SI Vetri investigating staged clinical-trial deaths.

Regalo de amor

Regalo de amor (Gift of Love) is a 2025 TelevisaUnivision Mexican telenovela adapted from the Turkish series Bir Küçük Gün Işığı, starring Alejandra Robles Gil and Chris Pazcal, produced by Silvia Cano, aired on Las Estrellas 23 June to 7 November 2025 in 100 one-hour episodes.

Regeneration (新生)

Regeneration (新生, Fei Ke's Banquet) is a 2024 ten-episode Chinese suspense web drama directed by Shen Ao, adapted from Luo Jia's novel, in which five people at a conman's memorial service give contradictory Rashomon-style accounts; it topped Netflix's daily chart but was criticized for a rushed finale.

Reginald Barclay

Reginald Barclay is a fictional Star Trek Starfleet engineer played by Dwight Schultz, debuting in TNG's 'Hollow Pursuits'; the anxious, holo-addicted 'Broccoli' later led the Pathfinder Project that contacted Voyager.

Regular Show

Regular Show (Un Show Más) is J.G. Quintel's 2010-2017 Cartoon Network animated series about Mordecai and Rigby; it won a 2012 Emmy and returned as The Lost Tapes.

Regular Show: The Lost Tapes

Regular Show: The Lost Tapes is an official 2026 Cartoon Network revival series created by J.G. Quintel, not lost media. Premiered May 11, 2026; 40 episodes greenlit; Pops plays VHS memory tapes in the afterlife as a framing device.

Rei Ayanami (綾波レイ)

Rei Ayanami (綾波レイ) is the quiet First Child and pilot of Evangelion Unit-00 in Neon Genesis Evangelion, voiced by Megumi Hayashibara; a clone of Yui Ikari bearing Lilith's soul whose design spawned the "Ayanami-kei" archetype.

Reign (TV series)

Reign (2013–2017) is a CW historical romantic drama created by Laurie McCarthy and Stephanie SenGupta, loosely following Mary, Queen of Scots at the French court, starring Adelaide Kane; four seasons, 78 episodes, deliberately historically inaccurate with modern costumes and pop soundtrack.

Reign: The Conqueror

Reign: The Conqueror (Alexander Senki, アレクサンダー戦記) is a 1999 Madhouse anime series retelling Alexander the Great as sci-fi, designed by Peter Chung, aired on WOWOW and Adult Swim in 2003.

Reinout Oerlemans

Reinout Oerlemans (born 1971) is a Dutch media entrepreneur: soap star Arnie in GTST, founder of Eyeworks sold to Warner Bros. in 2014, and chairman of 3 Ball Media Group in Los Angeles.

Relic Hunter

Relic Hunter is a syndicated action-adventure series (1999–2002, 66 episodes, creator Gil Grant) starring Tia Carrere as Professor Sydney Fox, who recovers artifacts worldwide with assistant Nigel Bailey, a Fireworks/Gaumont Canada-France co-production.

ReLIFE

ReLIFE (リライフ) is Yayoiso's full-color webtoon on comico, 2013–2018, 15 volumes, about 27-year-old Arata Kaizaki repeating high school; adapted into a 2016 TMS anime, a stage play, and a 2017 live-action film.

Remarriage & Desires (블랙의 신부)

Remarriage & Desires (블랙의 신부, The Bride of Black) is a 2022 Netflix Korean satirical drama, 8 episodes, directed by Kim Jung-min, starring Kim Hee-seon, set at the elite matchmaking agency Rex whose top tier is "Black."

Rematch (miniseries)

Rematch is a 2024 Franco-Hungarian, English-language six-part miniseries directed by Yan England, dramatizing Garry Kasparov's 1997 loss to IBM's Deep Blue; starring Christian Cooke, it won the Series Mania 2024 grand prize and aired on Arte, HBO, and Disney+.

Remember (TV series)

Remember: War of the Son (리멤버 - 아들의 전쟁), also titled Remember, is a 2015-2016 SBS Korean legal melodrama in which lawyer Seo Jin-woo, played by Yoo Seung-ho, uses hyperthymesia to prove his father's innocence while losing his memory to Alzheimer's.

Remembering Lichuan (遇见王沥川)

Remembering Lichuan (遇见王沥川) is a 2016 Chinese romance drama adapted from Shi Dingrou's novel Lichuan Wangshi, directed by Chen Mingzhang, starring Godfrey Gao and Jiao Junyan, 38 episodes, Douban 9.0.

Remi Carter

Remi Carter is a fictional character in the Australian soap opera Home and Away, played by Adam Rowland since 4 July 2022; lead guitarist of the band Lyrik, record label owner, and central figure in the 2026 brain tumour storyline.

Remington Steele

Remington Steele: American NBC crime comedy-drama (1982-1987, MTM Productions, 72 episodes) starring Stephanie Zimbalist and Pierce Brosnan; a female PI invents a fictitious male boss, a thief assumes the identity, and the role nearly made Brosnan James Bond in 1986.

Remix (TV series)

Remix (2004–2006) is an Indian teen drama on STAR One, a Rose Audio Visuals remake of Argentina's Rebelde Way, set at Maurya High boarding school with leads Karan Wahi, Shweta Gulati, Raj Singh Arora, and Priya Wal forming the band Remix.

Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon"

Ren & Stimpy "Adult Party Cartoon" (a.k.a. Ren & Stimpy's All New Adult Party Cartoon) is John Kricfalusi's 2003 TV-MA revival of The Ren & Stimpy Show on TNN/Spike TV: six episodes, three aired, bisexual couple portrayal, Eric Bauza as Stimpy, 2006 DVD release.

Ren Faire

Ren Faire is a 2024 three-part HBO documentary series by Lance Oppenheim following George Coulam, elderly founder of the Texas Renaissance Festival, and his would-be heirs.

Rena Ryūgū

Rena Ryūgū (竜宮レナ, legal name Reina) is the main female protagonist of Higurashi When They Cry's question arcs, known for her Omochikaeri catchphrase, Ibaraki backstory, and Tsumihoroboshi-hen school hostage arc.

Renascence (凤唳九天)

Renascence (凤唳九天, Feng Li Jiu Tian) is a 2020 Chinese historical romance drama, 36 episodes, adapted from Xiao Yun's novel, directed by Liu Haibo and Shen Yang, starring Chen Zheyuan and Li Mozhi, about a murdered empress reborn in her sister's body seeking revenge, streamed on iQiyi and Mango TV.

Rendezvous with the Future (未来漫游指南)

Rendezvous with the Future (未来漫游指南) is a 2022 three-part BBC Studios science documentary for Bilibili, narrated by Liu Cixin, exploring the real science behind The Three-Body Problem, from first contact to supercivilizations.

Renee Montoya

Renee Montoya, also the Question, is a DC Comics Gotham City police detective created for Batman: The Animated Series by Timm, Dini, and Brian, debuting in Batman #475 (1992), later succeeding Vic Sage as the Question.