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Running Wild with Bear Grylls
Running Wild with Bear Grylls (also Bear Grylls Is Running Wild) is a reality adventure series, launched on NBC July 28, 2014, in which Bear Grylls takes a celebrity on a 48-hour wilderness trek; it later moved to Nat Geo and FOX, with an Obama Alaska special.
RuPaul's Drag Race
RuPaul's Drag Race, American reality competition series (premiered 2009 on Logo, now MTV) hosted by RuPaul; Season 18 crowned Myki Meeks; renewed for Season 19 and All Stars 12; 11 Emmy nominations in 2026.
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars
RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars is the American spin-off of RuPaul's Drag Race, premiering October 22, 2012 on Logo, in which returning contestants compete for the Drag Race Hall of Fame. Known for changing elimination mechanics almost every season, from Lip Sync for Your Legacy to the 18-queen Tournament format of seasons 10 and 11 with a $200,000 prize.
RuPaul's Drag Race Global All Stars
RuPaul's Drag Race Global All Stars, a 2024 Paramount+ spin-off of RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars, has 12 international queens competing for Queen of the Mothertucking World, $200,000, and Hall of Fame induction; Alyssa Edwards won season 1.
RuPaul's Drag Race UK
RuPaul's Drag Race UK: British reality drag competition on BBC Three from October 2019, made by World of Wonder; judges RuPaul, Visage, Norton, Carr; The Vivienne won series 1; left BBC for WOW Presents Plus in 2026.
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked!
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked! is the backstage after-show to RuPaul's Drag Race, begun as Under the Hood in 2009, airing after each episode on MTV and streaming on Paramount+, with 18 Emmy nominations.
RuPaul's Drag U
RuPaul's Drag U, a Logo reality spin-off of RuPaul's Drag Race (2010-2012, 26 episodes), had RuPaul and former contestants give drag makeovers to three women per episode competing for the highest Drag Point Average.
RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race
RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race, a VH1 spin-off of RuPaul's Drag Race (2020–2022), had celebrities compete incognito in drag for the America's Next Celebrity Drag Superstar title and a charity cash prize.
Rupert Giles
Rupert Giles, also Rupert Edmund Giles, is the fictional Watcher, Sunnydale High librarian, and mentor of Buffy Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), played by Anthony Stewart Head; known for his Ripper past and unmade BBC spin-off.
Rural purge
The rural purge was the mass cancellation of rural-themed television series, chiefly by CBS in 1971, to make way for shows aimed at younger, urban viewers.
Rurouni Kenshin (2023 TV series)
Rurouni Kenshin (るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚-) 2023 TV series: Liden Films reboot of Watsuki's manga, 24 episodes from July 6, 2023 on Fuji TV noitamina, new cast led by Soma Saito, followed by Kyoto Disturbance in 2024.
Rurouni Kenshin (るろうに剣心)
Rurouni Kenshin (るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚-) is Nobuhiro Watsuki's 1994–1999 Weekly Shōnen Jump manga about reverse-blade swordsman Himura Kenshin, with 72 million copies sold, a 94-episode 1996 anime, 2023 remake, and 19.3-billion-yen live-action films.
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (Tsuioku-hen) is a 1999 four-episode Studio Deen OVA prequel directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi, depicting Kenshin Himura's assassin past, his scar, and Tomoe Yukishiro, released in English as Samurai X by ADV Films.
Rush to the Dead Summer (夏至未至) (TV series)
Rush to the Dead Summer (夏至未至) is a 2017 Chinese youth romance drama, a 48-episode adaptation of Guo Jingming's novel about classmates from the fictional town of Qianchuan.
Russell Hantz
Russell Hantz (Russell Dennis Hantz), American reality TV contestant on CBS's Survivor: Samoa, Heroes vs. Villains, Redemption Island, and Australian Survivor 2018; two-time finalist who never won, known for idol hunting and villain persona.
Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone
Russia 1985–1999: TraumaZone, or Зона травмы, is Adam Curtis's 2022 seven-part BBC iPlayer documentary built from BBC Moscow archive footage, narrated by block-capital captions, covering the Soviet collapse through Putin's rise.
Russian Doll (TV series)
Russian Doll is a Netflix comedy-drama (2019-2022, 2 seasons, 15 episodes) created by Natasha Lyonne, Amy Poehler, and Leslye Headland, in which Nadia Vulvokov repeatedly dies on her 36th birthday in a time loop; season 2 shifts to time travel and intergenerational trauma.
Rust Cohle
Rustin "Rust" Cohle is the fictional Louisiana homicide detective played by Matthew McConaughey in True Detective season 1 (2014), created by Nic Pizzolatto; known for pessimist monologues, the "Tax Man" nickname, and "time is a flat circle".
Rust Valley Restorers
Rust Valley Restorers is a Canadian reality television series following Mike Hall, Avery Shoaf, and Connor Hall as they restore vintage cars in Tappen, British Columbia.
Rutherford Falls
Rutherford Falls is a Peacock sitcom (2021-2022) created by Sierra Teller Ornelas, Ed Helms, and Michael Schur, starring Helms and Jana Schmieding; the first US TV show run by a Native showrunner, canceled after two seasons.
Ruthless (TV series)
Tyler Perry's Ruthless: American drama, 2020–present, spinoff of The Oval on BET+ (season 6 moved to Paramount+, June 30, 2026), following Ruth Truesdale inside the Rakudushis cult; 6 seasons, 115 episodes, TV-MA.
Ruthuragalu
Ruthuragalu is a Telugu daily serial directed by Manjula Naidu on Doordarshan, described as the first Telugu mega daily serial to win audiences beyond the mythologicals.
Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace (如懿传)
Ruyi's Royal Love in the Palace (如懿传, Ruyi Zhuan) is an 87-episode 2018 Chinese Qing-court drama on Tencent Video, starring Zhou Xun and Wallace Huo, adapted from Liu Lian Zi's sequel novel to Empresses in the Palace, later hit by a 2024 online backlash.
Ruyue
Ruyue (如月), aka Bingxue Yao/Snowfall, is a 2024 Chinese Republican-era fantasy romance web drama adapted from Ni Luo's novel, directed by Li Muge, starring Gao Weiguang and Ouyang Nana, 24 episodes on Tencent Video.
RWBY
RWBY (pronounced Ruby) is an American 3D anime-style web series created by Monty Oum at Rooster Teeth, premiering 2013; nine volumes, 117 episodes, now owned by VIZ Media with Volume 10 in production.
RWBY Chibi
RWBY Chibi is a Rooster Teeth animated comedy spin-off of RWBY (2016–2018, plus 2021 Neon Konbini shorts), created by Miles Luna and Kerry Shawcross, with chibi-style characters in non-canon 2–4 minute skits.
RWBY: Ice Queendom (RWBY 氷雪帝国)
RWBY: Ice Queendom (RWBY 氷雪帝国) is a 2022 12-episode Japanese TV anime by SHAFT adapting Rooster Teeth's RWBY, directed by Toshimasa Suzuki, with Gen Urobuchi concept, Tow Ubukata scripts, huke designs, airing from July 3, 2022.
Ryan Atwood
Ryan Atwood (later Ryan Atwood-Cohen) is the fictional protagonist of Fox's teen drama The O.C. (2003-2007), played by Ben McKenzie: a troubled teen from Chino, California taken in by the Cohen family, whose romance with Marissa Cooper and eventual career as an architect anchor the series.
Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television
Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television is a Rawson Marshall Thurber meta comedy procedural on YouTube Red/Premium (2017-2019), starring Ryan Hansen as himself and Samira Wiley, canceled after two seasons and 16 episodes.
Ryan Howard (The Office)
Ryan Howard (Ryan Bailey Howard) is a fictional character on NBC's The Office, played by B.J. Novak. He starts as Dunder Mifflin's Scranton temp, becomes vice president, is arrested for fraud, joins the Michael Scott Paper Company, and leaves in season 9 with Kelly Kapoor.