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Shrinking (TV series)

Shrinking is an Apple TV+ comedy-drama co-created by Jason Segel, Bill Lawrence, and Brett Goldstein, premiering January 27, 2023. Segel plays widowed therapist Jimmy Laird; Harrison Ford plays Dr. Paul Rhodes. Three seasons, nine Emmy nominations, fourth season planned.

Shtisel (שטיסל)

Shtisel (שטיסל) is an Israeli Haredi family drama series created by Ori Elon and Yehonatan Indursky, set in Jerusalem's Geula neighborhood, aired 2013–2021 in three seasons, an Ophir-winning Netflix international hit.

Shueisha

Shueisha (集英社), "gathering of intellect," is a major Tokyo publisher founded in 1926 from Shogakukan's entertainment division, known for Weekly Shonen Jump, One Piece, and Dragon Ball, and described as the world's largest manga publisher.

Shugo Chara! (しゅごキャラ!)

Shugo Chara! (しゅごキャラ!, My Guardian Characters) is a Peach-Pit shōjo manga serialized in Nakayoshi from 2006, collected in 12 volumes, adapted into a 51-episode Satelight anime (2007–2009), winner of the 32nd Kodansha Manga Award children's division, now continuing with the Jewel Joker sequel.

Shui Nian Xi Feng Du Zi Liang

Shui Nian Xi Feng Du Zi Liang (谁念西风独自凉) is a 2025 Chinese 70-episode short drama directed by Li Nan, starring Liu Yuetao and Li Wenhui, about an heiress, a brain-injured construction worker, and their lost daughter; title from a Nalan Xingde poem.

Shut Eye

Shut Eye is a 2016 American dark comedy-drama streaming series created by Les Bohem for Hulu, starring Jeffrey Donovan as a fake psychic who gains real visions.

Shut Up & Sit Down

Shut Up & Sit Down is a British board game review website and YouTube channel combining game criticism with comedy, founded in 2011 by Paul Dean and Quintin Smith.

Shut Up! Cartoons

Shut Up! Cartoons was a Smosh-run YouTube animation channel by Ian Hecox, Anthony Padilla, and Barry Blumberg, funded by YouTube's $100 million channel initiative, running April 30, 2012 to June 23, 2017 with series like Oishi High School Battle, Pubertina, and Smosh Babies.

Sicily Express

Sicily Express (Sicilia Express) is a 2025 five-episode Netflix holiday comedy written, directed, and starring Ficarra & Picone as two Sicilian nurses in Milan who find a dumpster portal home to Sicily before Christmas.

Sick Note (TV series)

Sick Note is a British dark-comedy sitcom on Sky One, 2017–2018, 14 episodes in 2 series, created by Nat Saunders and James Serafinowicz. It stars Rupert Grint as Daniel Glass, who keeps a fake esophageal cancer diagnosis after Dr Ian Glennis (Nick Frost) misdiagnoses him; Don Johnson and Lindsay Lohan join series 1 and 2.

Sid Owen

Sid Owen (born David John Sutton, 1972) is an English actor best known as Ricky Butcher in BBC's EastEnders (1988-2023, on and off), with a 1997 wedding episode drawing 22 million viewers; also a former singer and 2021 memoirist.

Sid the Science Kid

Sid the Science Kid is an American CGI-animated PBS KIDS preschool series (2008-2012) by The Jim Henson Company and KCET, teaching science readiness to ages 3-6 via the PrePS curriculum, inquiry skills, and its 60 episodes, movie, and merchandise.

Side Quest (TV series)

Side Quest (formerly Mere Mortals) is a 2025 Apple TV+ four-episode comedy anthology spinoff of Mythic Quest, created by Ashly Burch, Katie McElhenney, and John Howell Harris, premiering March 26, 2025.

Side Story of Fox Volant (飞狐外传)

Side Story of Fox Volant (飞狐外传) is a 2022 Chinese wuxia drama adapted from Jin Yong's novel, directed by Lian Yiming, starring Qin Junjie as Hu Fei; 40 episodes on Tencent Video from August 31, 2022, Douban 7.1.

Sideshow Bob

Sideshow Bob, Robert Underdunk Terwilliger, is The Simpsons' erudite recurring villain, voiced by Kelsey Grammer since 1990's "Krusty Gets Busted"; a former Krusty sidekick defined by his obsession with killing Bart, the "Cape Feare" rake gag, and Gilbert and Sullivan.

Sidetalk

Sidetalk (@sidetalknyc), also called Sidetalk NYC, is a one-minute man-on-the-street comedy show in New York created by Trent Simonian and Jack Byrne at NYU in 2019, known for the viral 2021 "Bing Bong" Knicks video.

Siege in Fog (人生若如初相见)

Siege in Fog (人生若如初相见) is a 2018 Chinese Republican-era romance drama, 50 episodes, directed by He Shupei, adapted from Fei Wo Si Cun's novel Mi Wu Wei Cheng, starring Elvis Han and Sun Yi; distinct from the 2025 series A Love Never Lost.

Siesta Key (TV series)

Siesta Key is an MTV reality series that premiered July 31, 2017, following young adults in Sarasota County, Florida. Made by Laguna Beach's producers, it uses a cinematic, confessional-free format and drew recurring accusations of being staged.

Sigabo

Sigabo is a 2026 Philippine action comedy romance drama teleserye starring Coco Martin as Gabo Magtibay and Julia Montes, premiering June 22, 2026 on Kapamilya Channel, TV5, A2Z, and ALLTV2 with an episodic weekly-mission format.

Sight Unseen (TV series)

Sight Unseen is a Canadian CTV/CW crime drama (2024–2025) created by Karen and Nikolijne Troubetzkoy, starring Dolly Lewis as clinically blind detective Tess Avery and Agam Darshi as remote guide Sunny Patel; 20 episodes, two seasons, filmed in Vancouver.

Signal (시그널) (South Korean TV series)

Signal (시그널) is a 2016 South Korean fantasy police procedural drama on tvN, starring Lee Je-hoon, Kim Hye-soo, and Cho Jin-woong as detectives linked by a walkie-talkie across time.

Signora Volpe

Signora Volpe is a British-Italian detective drama starring Emilia Fox as Sylvia Fox, a former MI6 spy who becomes an amateur detective in Umbria, Italy, from 2022.

Sihai Chongming (四海重明)

Sihai Chongming (四海重明, Love's Rebellion) is a 2024 Chinese xianxia romance drama adapted from Yi Daixue's novel, starring Jing Tian and Zhang Linghe, 36 episodes, aired on Mango TV and iQIYI.

Siheyuan zhi Shazhu Chongsheng

Siheyuan zhi Shazhu Chongsheng (四合院之傻柱重生) is a rebirth-genre title shared by web novels and micro-dramas spun off from the TV series Qingman Siheyuan, in which the exploited cook He Yuzhu (Shazhu) dies and returns to his youth for revenge; one version ranked 13th among micro-dramas with 6.79 hundred million play increments.

Sijjin (film series)

Sijjin (Siccîn, Siccin), Turkish supernatural horror film series about black magic and jinn, directed by Alper Mestçi since 2014; nine theatrical films by 2026, over 3.5 million Turkish admissions, with an Indonesian remake titled Sijjin (2023).

Silence (Doctor Who)

The Silence are fictional memory-erasing alien villains created by Steven Moffat for Doctor Who series 6 (2011), designed by Neill Gorton from Edvard Munch's The Scream and the Men in Black; also the religious Order of the Silence tied to the 'Silence will fall' arc.

Silent Witness

Silent Witness is a long-running BBC crime drama created by Nigel McCrery, first broadcast 21 February 1996, following forensic pathologists; 29 seasons and 268 episodes, led in recent series by Emilia Fox as Dr Nikki Alexander.

Silicon Valley (TV series)

Silicon Valley is HBO's 2014-2019 comedy series created by Mike Judge, John Altschuler, and Dave Krinsky, satirizing tech startups through programmer Richard Hendricks and Pied Piper; six seasons, 53 episodes, 41 Emmy nominations.

Silk (TV series)

Silk (BBC One, 2011–2014) is a British legal drama by former barrister Peter Moffat about Shoe Lane Chambers barristers Martha Costello (Maxine Peake) and Clive Reader (Rupert Penry-Jones) competing to become Queen's Counsel, over three series ending 31 March 2014.

Silk Stalkings

Silk Stalkings: Stephen J. Cannell's 1991–1999 American crime drama about Palm Beach, Florida homicide detectives, airing on CBS late night and USA Network, 176 episodes, cable's longest-running original drama at cancellation.