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Bandwaale

Bandwaale (बैंडवाले) is a 2026 Prime Video Hindi musical dramedy, 8 episodes, created by Ankur Tewari and Swanand Kirkire, starring Shalini Pandey as poet Mariam in Ratlam, with music by Yashraj Mukhate.

BanG Dream! Ave Mujica

BanG Dream! Ave Mujica (Ave Mujica: The Die is Cast) is a 13-episode 2025 TV anime by Sanzigen and Bushiroad, sequel to It's MyGO!!!!!, following the masked band Ave Mujica, Sakiko Togawa, and its disbandment and revival.

BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!!

BanG Dream! It's MyGO!!!!! is a 2023 Sanzigen anime in the BanG Dream! franchise, following the band MyGO!!!!! (Tomori, Anon, Rāna, Soyo, Taki) after CRYCHIC's breakup; sequel Ave Mujica, 2026 film, 2027 series.

Banged Up Abroad

Banged Up Abroad, also known as Locked Up Abroad, is a British National Geographic docudrama created by Bart Layton, recounting arrests, imprisonments, and kidnappings abroad via interviews and reenactments, running 2007 to about 2021 in 15 seasons.

Bank Under Siege

Bank Under Siege (Asalto al Banco Central) is a 2024 Netflix miniseries directed by Daniel Calparsoro about the 23 May 1981 Banco Central robbery in Barcelona, in which 11 robbers held over 200 hostages for 37 hours demanding the release of 23-F coup officers.

Banoo Main Teri Dulhann (बनू मैं तेरी दुल्हन)

Banoo Main Teri Dulhann (बनूँ मैं तेरी दुल्हन) is a Zee TV Hindi drama serial aired 14 August 2006 to 28 May 2009, 700 episodes, starring Divyanka Tripathi as Vidya, Sharad Malhotra as Sagar, and Kamya Punjabi as Sindoora, produced by Shakuntalam Telefilms.

Banshee (TV series)

Banshee (Cinemax, 2013–2016) is an American action crime drama created by Jonathan Tropper and David Schickler, starring Antony Starr as ex-con thief Lucas Hood posing as a Pennsylvania sheriff; four seasons, 90% Rotten Tomatoes.

Baptiste (TV series)

Baptiste is a BBC One British crime drama (2019-2021), a spin-off of The Missing starring Tcheky Karyo as retired French detective Julien Baptiste, two six-part series set in Amsterdam and Budapest, made by Two Brothers Pictures.

Bara (薔薇) (genre)

Bara (薔薇, "rose") is the English label for Japanese gay manga, called gei komi in Japan; derived from the 1971 magazine Barazoku, once a slur, objected to by Tagame, and distinct from female-audience BL.

Barakamon

Barakamon (ばらかもん) is Satsuki Yoshino's slice-of-life manga about calligrapher Seishuu Handa exiled to the Goto Islands; 18 volumes, 10 million copies, 2014 anime by Kinema Citrus, 2023 Fuji TV drama.

Barbara Knox

Barbara Knox, also known as Barbara Mullaney, is an English actress best known for playing Rita Tanner on ITV's Coronation Street, a role she has held continuously since 1972.

Barbara Wright (Doctor Who)

Barbara Wright (Doctor Who) is a fictional First Doctor companion, a Coal Hill School history teacher played by Jacqueline Hill from An Unearthly Child (1963) to The Chase (1965), the first human woman to travel in the TARDIS.

Barbarians (2020 TV series)

Barbarians, known in German as Barbaren, is a 2020 German historical drama series on Netflix, set in 9 A.D. and based on the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest.

Barbecue Showdown

Barbecue Showdown (originally The American Barbecue Showdown) is a Netflix reality competition series, premiered September 18, 2020, in which American pitmasters compete for the American Barbecue Champion title and a $50,000 prize, judged by Kevin Bludso and Melissa Cookston across three seasons.

Barbie Mysteries: The Great Horse Chase

Barbie Mysteries: The Great Horse Chase is a 2024 Mattel Television Studios animated Netflix series (8 x 25 min, TV-Y7) in which Barbie Malibu and Brooklyn Roberts chase suspects across Europe after show horses Tornado and Pepper and a diamond saddle are stolen; season 2 was retitled Beach Detectives.

Barbie: A Touch of Magic

Barbie: A Touch of Magic is a CGI-animated Mattel Television series (2023-2024) on Netflix in which Barbie "Malibu" Roberts and Barbie "Brooklyn" Roberts find Peggy, a baby Pegasus, and protect her from Rocki the Glyph across two 13-episode seasons.

Barbie: It Takes Two

Barbie: It Takes Two is a 2022 Netflix CGI-animated series, also called Barbie It Takes Two, sequel to Big City, Big Dreams; 26 episodes follow Malibu and Brooklyn Roberts chasing music stardom in New York.

Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse

Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse is Mattel's CGI-animated web series (2012-2015, seven seasons) parodying reality TV, starring Kate Higgins' Barbie in Malibu, later on Netflix and succeeded by Dreamhouse Adventures.

Bardock (バーダック)

Bardock (バーダック), also called Bardock the Father of Goku, is a Saiyan warrior and Goku's father in Dragon Ball, created for the 1990 TV special, later canonized via Dragon Ball Minus and Dragon Ball Super.

Bareilly Ke Bacchan

Bareilly Ke Bacchan (बरेली के बच्चन), also spelled Bareilly Ke Bachchan, is a 2026 Hindi family dramedy on Colors TV and JioHotstar, a remake of Tamil Ayyanar Thunai, starring Pravisht Mishra and Ramneek Kataria as Krishna and Sangam Bacchan.

Bargain (몸값)

Bargain (몸값, Momgap) is a 2022 TVING South Korean disaster thriller series, a six-episode one-take expansion of Lee Chung-hyun's 2015 short film, starring Jin Sun-kyu and Jeon Jong-seo; it won Best Screenplay at Canneseries 2023.

Bargain Hunt

Bargain Hunt is a long-running BBC One daytime antiques game show, first aired 13 March 2000 with David Dickinson, in which red and blue teams spend £300 on three antiques sold at auction for profit.

Barnabas Collins

Barnabas Collins is the vampire protagonist of the American daytime serial Dark Shadows (1966–1971), played by Jonathan Frid, who transformed the failing show into a cultural phenomenon.

Barnaby Jones

Barnaby Jones (神威勇探), CBS private-eye series 1973–1980 starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether; a Quinn Martin 'old Columbo' with a milk-drinking elderly detective, 178 episodes, Cannon crossovers.

Barney (franchise)

Barney is an American children's media franchise centered on a purple Tyrannosaurus rex who teaches preschoolers through songs, known through the PBS series Barney & Friends.

Barney & Friends

Barney & Friends is an American children's television series on PBS from 1992 to 2010, starring Barney, a purple Tyrannosaurus rex who teaches young children through song and dance.

Barney Fife

Barney Fife (Bernard Fife) is the fictional, bumbling deputy sheriff of Mayberry on The Andy Griffith Show, played by Don Knotts, who won five Emmys; the character carried one bullet in his shirt pocket and left for Raleigh in 1965.

Barney Miller

Barney Miller: American ABC sitcom (1975–1982, 8 seasons, 168 episodes) created by Danny Arnold and Theodore J. Flicker, set in a Greenwich Village NYPD precinct, starring Hal Linden; won 3 Emmys including 1982 Outstanding Comedy Series.

Barney Rubble

Barney Rubble (Bernard Matthew Rubble) is the deuteragonist of The Flintstones (ABC, 1960-1966), Fred Flintstone's best friend, Betty's husband, Bamm-Bamm's adoptive father; modeled on Ed Norton, voiced by Mel Blanc, and also Cockney slang for trouble.

Barney Stinson

Barney Stinson is the womanizing, suit-obsessed character played by Neil Patrick Harris on CBS's How I Met Your Mother (2005–2014), a mocked embodiment of pre-feminist masculinity later criticized as misogynistic and reprised in How I Met Your Father.