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Barney's World
Barney's World is a 2024 CGI-animated preschool series rebooting Barney & Friends, co-produced by Mattel Television and Nelvana. It premiered October 14, 2024 on Max and Treehouse TV, set in a playground with Barney, Billy, Baby Bop, and kids David, Mel, and Vivie.
Barracuda Queens
Barracuda Queens is a Swedish Netflix crime drama created by Camilla Ahlgren, premiering June 5, 2023, about privileged teen women in Djursholm who burgle rich neighbors, loosely inspired by the real male Lidingöligan gang; season 2 followed in 2025.
Barrister Babu
Barrister Babu (बैरिस्टर बाबू), a Colors TV Hindi period drama by Shashi Sumeet Productions (2020–2021, 408 episodes), follows Anirudh saving child bride Bondita from sati and educating her to become a barrister.
Barry (TV series)
Barry is an HBO dark comedy-drama (2018–2023, four seasons, 32 episodes) co-created by Bill Hader and Alec Berg about hitman Barry Berkman, who follows a target into an acting class; it won 10 Emmys from 55 nominations.
Bart Simpson
Bart Simpson (Bartholomew JoJo Simpson), Matt Groening's mischievous 10-year-old from The Simpsons, debuted April 19, 1987 in a Tracey Ullman short, is voiced by Nancy Cartwright, and sparked 1990s T-shirt bans and Bush criticism.
Barzakh (برزخ) (TV series)
Barzakh (برزخ) is a 2024 Pakistani Urdu-language fantasy drama web series written and directed by Asim Abbasi, starring Fawad Khan and Sanam Saeed, streaming on ZEE5; six episodes about a resort owner's wedding to a woman believed dead.
Bas Tera Saath Ho (بس تیرا ساتھ ہو)
Bas Tera Saath Ho (بس تیرا ساتھ ہو) is a 2026 Pakistani Urdu ARY Digital family drama starring Farhan Saeed as Anas and Sana Javed as Ansa, written by the late Saira Raza and directed by Qasim Ali Mureed, covering deepfake misuse, with reported peak ratings of 15.7.
Based on a True Story (TV series)
Based on a True Story, also called BOATS, is a Peacock dark comedy thriller created by Craig Rosenberg, starring Kaley Cuoco, Chris Messina, and Tom Bateman as a couple making a true crime podcast with serial killer Matt, the Westside Ripper; two seasons, 16 episodes, 2023 to 2024, cancelled April 2025.
Basil Brush
Basil Brush is a British glove puppet fox created by Ivan Owen with a puppet designed by Peter Firmin, known for the catchphrase "boom boom" and a Terry-Thomas-style voice. He starred in The Basil Brush Show on BBC1 from 1968 to 1980, moved to ITV schools reading programs in 1982, returned in a 2002–2007 CBBC sitcom, and still tours live shows.
Basilisk (manga)
Basilisk (バジリスク 〜甲賀忍法帖〜) is a 2003-2004 Kodansha seinen manga by Masaki Segawa adapting Futaro Yamada's novel The Kouga Ninja Scrolls: ten Kouga versus ten Iga ninja in a Tokugawa succession duel. Five volumes, Kodansha Manga Award, 2005 Gonzo anime.
Baskets (TV series)
Baskets is an FX dark comedy (2016-2019, 4 seasons, 40 episodes) created by Zach Galifianakis, Louis C.K., and Jonathan Krisel, starring Galifianakis as twins Chip and Dale Baskets and Emmy-winning Louie Anderson as their mother Christine in Bakersfield.
Bastard!!
Bastard!!, also known as Bastard!! Heavy Metal, Dark Fantasy, is a dark fantasy manga by Kazushi Hagiwara, serialized since 1988 with over 30 million copies sold.
Bat-Fam
Bat-Fam is a 2025 Prime Video animated comedy series from DC and Warner Bros. Animation, a sequel to Merry Little Batman, following Batman (Luke Wilson), Damian, and reformed villains in a crime-free Gotham; ten episodes premiered November 10, 2025.
Batang Quiapo (TV series)
FPJ's Batang Quiapo is a Philippine action drama television series starring Coco Martin as Tanggol, an outlaw in Manila's Quiapo district; adapted from a 1986 Fernando Poe Jr. film, it aired from 2023 to 2026.
Bates Motel (TV series)
Bates Motel (2013–2017) is an A&E psychological drama by Carlton Cuse, Kerry Ehrin, and Anthony Cipriano, a contemporary prequel to Psycho starring Freddie Highmore and Vera Farmiga as Norman and Norma Bates in White Pine Bay, Oregon; five seasons, 4.6 million premiere viewers, ending with its own retelling of the film.
Batfink
Batfink is a 1966–1967 American animated series of 100 five-minute shorts by Hal Seeger, parodying Batman and The Green Hornet, featuring the steel-winged bat hero, sidekick Karate, and villain Hugo A-Go-Go.
Batman (TV series)
Batman (ABC, January 12, 1966 to March 14, 1968) was the first live-action Batman TV series, a campy Adam West and Burt Ward show in 120 twice-weekly cliffhanger episodes, which sparked 1966 Batmania, $75 million in merchandise, and revived the comic's sales.
Batman Beyond
Batman Beyond (1999–2001) is a Warner Bros. Animation series by Alan Burnett, Paul Dini, and Bruce Timm, set in Neo-Gotham 2039, where Terry McGinnis (Will Friedle) becomes Batman under an elderly Bruce Wayne (Kevin Conroy); three seasons, 100% on Rotten Tomatoes.
Batman: Caped Crusader
Batman: Caped Crusader is a 2024 Prime Video animated series reimagining Batman's early years in a 1940s noir Gotham, created by Bruce Timm with J.J. Abrams and Matt Reeves, starring Hamish Linklater, with two seasons released.
Batman: The Animated Series
Batman: The Animated Series is an American animated series based on DC Comics' Batman, created by Bruce Timm and Eric Radomski and aired on Fox from 1992 to 1995.
Batman: The Audio Adventures
Batman: The Audio Adventures is a scripted Batman audio drama podcast on HBO Max, debuting September 18, 2021. Written and directed by Dennis McNicholas, it stars Jeffrey Wright, Rosario Dawson, and John Leguizamo, ran two seasons, and spawned a DC comic miniseries.
Batman: The Brave and the Bold
Batman: The Brave and the Bold is a 2008–2011 Cartoon Network animated series based on DC's Batman team-up comic, with Diedrich Bader voicing a lighter Silver Age Batman; also the name of an announced, still-undeveloped DCU Batman film.
Battle Angel (OVA)
Battle Angel (Hyper Future Vision Gunnm, 銃夢) is a 1993 two-episode OVA directed by Hiroshi Fukutomi, adapting the first two volumes of Yukito Kishiro's Gunnm manga about the cyborg Gally/Alita; never released on Japanese DVD.
Battle Angel Alita
Battle Angel Alita, originally Gunnm (銃夢) by Yukito Kishiro, is a cyberpunk manga serialized 1990-1995 in Business Jump, nine volumes, continued in Last Order and Mars Chronicle, adapted as a 1993 OVA and the 2019 film.
Battle Camp
Battle Camp is a 2025 Netflix reality competition series in which 18 Netflix Reality Universe alumni compete in three teams for $250,000, with eliminations decided by a spinning wheel; hosted by Taylor Lewan, cancelled after one season. Also a 2013 mobile monster-collecting MMORPG.
Battle Creek (TV series)
Battle Creek is a 2015 CBS police comedy-drama created by Vince Gilligan and David Shore, starring Josh Duhamel and Dean Winters as mismatched FBI and local lawmen in Battle Creek, Michigan; 13 episodes, canceled after one season.
Battle for Dream Island
Battle for Dream Island (BFDI) is a YouTube animated competition series created by twin brothers Michael and Cary Huang, premiered January 1, 2010 on jacknjellify; it originated the object-show genre, uses viewer-voted eliminations, and has over 2.6 billion views.
Battle of Fates (운명전쟁49)
Battle of Fates (운명전쟁49) is a 2026 Disney+ Korean reality competition in which 49 fortune readers, shamans, saju, tarot, and face-reading practitioners, compete in elimination rounds for a 100 million won prize; it became Disney+ Korea's most-watched show.
Battle of the Planets
Battle of the Planets (1978) is Sandy Frank's American adaptation of Science Ninja Team Gatchaman, 85 syndicated episodes with violence cut, new robot 7-Zark-7, Hoyt Curtin music, and worldwide broadcasts.
Battle Tendency (戦闘潮流)
Battle Tendency (戦闘潮流, Sentō Chōryū) is Part 2 of Hirohiko Araki's JoJo's Bizarre Adventure manga, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 1987–1989, following Joseph Joestar against the Pillar Men in 1938; adapted as anime episodes 10–26 (2012–2013).