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Spider-Man: The New Animated Series
Spider-Man: The New Animated Series, aka MTV's Spider-Man (スパイダーマン 新アニメシリーズ), is a 2003 cel-shaded CGI cartoon, 13 episodes on MTV, a college-age Peter Parker sequel to the 2002 film, voiced by Neil Patrick Harris, canceled on a cliffhanger.
Spider-Noir
Spider-Noir is a 2026 live-action Prime Video and MGM+ series, also called Spider-Man Noir, starring Nicolas Cage as 1930s private investigator Ben Reilly, a retired superhero called The Spider; eight episodes, showrun by Oren Uziel and Steve Lightfoot.
Spider-Slayer
Spider-Slayer: Marvel Comics robots built to capture or kill Spider-Man, debuting in Amazing Spider-Man #25 (1965), built by Spencer Smythe for J. Jonah Jameson; the name later belongs to his son Alistair Smythe.
Spidey and His Amazing Friends (2021 TV series)
Marvel's Spidey and His Amazing Friends (2021) is a Disney Jr./Disney+ preschool animated series, Marvel's first full-length preschool show, starring child Peter Parker, Miles Morales (Spin), and Gwen Stacy (Ghost-Spider) as Team Spidey; its 1.3 billion Disney+ hours make it Marvel's most-watched series on the platform.
Spike (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)
Spike is a fictional vampire in Buffy the Vampire Slayer, portrayed by James Marsters. Also known as William the Bloody, he developed from an antagonist intended for a short role into a.
Spike Spiegel (スパイク・スピーゲル)
Spike Spiegel (スパイク・スピーゲル) is the fictional bounty-hunter protagonist of Sunrise's 1998 anime Cowboy Bebop: 27 years old, born on Mars, ex-Red Dragon Syndicate hitman, Jeet Kune Do practitioner, voiced by Kōichi Yamadera and played by John Cho in Netflix's 2021 live-action series.
Spin City
Spin City (1996–2002) is an ABC sitcom created by Gary David Goldberg and Bill Lawrence about New York Deputy Mayor Mike Flaherty (Michael J. Fox) managing Mayor Randall Winston; Charlie Sheen led the final two seasons after Fox left.
Spinning Out
Spinning Out is a 2020 Netflix drama series, 10 episodes, created by former skater Samantha Stratton, starring Kaya Scodelario as injured skater Kat Baker; canceled after one season.
Spiral (TV series)
Spiral (Engrenages) is a French police and legal drama, Canal+'s first internationally successful crime series, running eight seasons (2005–2020, 86 episodes) about Paris's 2e DPJ unit, with Laure Berthaud, Joséphine Karlsson, and Judge Roban; International Emmy 2015.
Spirit Fingers (TV series)
Spirit Fingers (스피릿 핑거스) is a 2025 TVING South Korean drama, 12 episodes, adapted from Han Kyoung Chal's Naver webtoon (1.3 billion views); starring Park Ji-hu and Jo Jun-young, released Oct 29 to Nov 26, 2025, ranked 9th in TIME's Best K-Dramas of 2025.
Spirit Riding Free
Spirit Riding Free is a DreamWorks/Netflix CGI animated series (2017, creator Aury Wallington) about Lucky Prescott, her mustang Spirit Jr., and friends Pru and Abigail in Miradero; inspired by the 2002 film Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron.
Spiritual successor
A spiritual successor, also called a spiritual sequel, is a new work resembling an earlier one under a separate brand, most commonly in video games.
Spitting Image
Spitting Image: British satirical puppet sketch show on ITV 1984–1996, created by Peter Fluck, Roger Law, and Martin Lambie-Nairn; latex caricatures of Thatcher and others, 15 million peak viewers, BritBox revival 2020, cancelled after two series.
Spitting Image (2020 TV series)
Spitting Image (2020) was a BritBox revival of the British satirical puppet show, led by Roger Law with showrunner Jeff Westbrook, two 10-episode series from October 2020 to December 2021, cancelled in 2022.
Splash Splash Love (퐁당퐁당 Love)
Splash Splash Love (퐁당퐁당 LOVE) is a 2015 MBC 54th-anniversary time-slip romance web drama in which math-fearing senior Jang Dan-bi lands in drought-era Joseon and tutors young King Lee Do; 10 Naver episodes, 2 TV parts, starring Kim Seul-gi and Yoon Doo-joon.
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch
Splinter Cell: Deathwatch is a 2025 Netflix adult animated series, the first adaptation of Ubisoft's Splinter Cell games, created by Derek Kolstad, starring Liev Schreiber as Sam Fisher, renewed for season 2.
Splitting Up Together
Splitting Up Together is an American ABC sitcom (2018–2019), adapted by Emily Kapnek from the Danish series Bedre skilt end aldrig, in which divorced parents Lena (Jenna Fischer) and Martin (Oliver Hudson) bird-nest, alternating weeks between house and garage apartment, across 26 episodes in two seasons.
Spock
Spock, often called Mr Spock, is a fictional Star Trek character, the half-Vulcan, half-human science officer and first officer of the starship Enterprise, played by Leonard Nimoy.
SpongeBob SquarePants
SpongeBob SquarePants, created by marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg for Nickelodeon, is an American animated series that premiered July 17, 1999, set in Bikini Bottom; it has run 17+ seasons, 339+ episodes, four films, and $16 billion in retail sales.
SpongeBob SquarePants (character)
SpongeBob SquarePants is the title sea sponge of Nickelodeon's 1999 animated series, voiced by Tom Kenny, created by marine biologist Stephen Hillenburg from his 1989 comic character Bob the Sponge, living in a Bikini Bottom pineapple and frying Krabby Patties at the Krusty Krab.
SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone
SpongeBob SquarePants Presents The Tidal Zone, also called The Tidal Zone, is Nickelodeon's first SpongeBob Universe crossover special, a Twilight Zone-style anthology premiering January 13, 2023, linking SpongeBob SquarePants, Kamp Koral, and The Patrick Star Show through GrandPat's dimension-hopping frame story.
Spooks (TV series)
Spooks (MI-5 in the US) is a BBC One spy drama about MI5's Counter-Terrorism section, created by David Wolstencroft, produced by Kudos, 2002–2011, 10 series, 86 episodes, Bafta-winning, famous for killing lead characters.
Spooky in Love
Spooky in Love (오싹한 연애, Ossakhan Yeonae, also Chilling Romance) is a 2026 tvN Korean horror-romantic-comedy series, a remake of the 2011 film Spellbound, starring Park Eun-bin and Yang Se-jong, 12 episodes, streamed on Netflix and TVING.
Sportacus
Sportacus (Íþróttaálfurinn, the Athletic Elf) is the health-hero of the Icelandic children's show LazyTown, created and played by Magnús Scheving from the 1995 book Áfram Latibær through the 2004–2014 TV series, with real stunts, the number 10, and a sugar allergy.
Sports Night
Sports Night is Aaron Sorkin's American half-hour comedy-drama about producers of a nightly cable sports newscast modeled on ESPN's SportsCenter; it ran two seasons on ABC (1998-2000), 45 episodes, won 3 Emmys, and was canceled for low ratings.
Spriggan (スプリガン) (manga)
Spriggan (スプリガン) is a 1989–1996 Shogakukan Weekly Shonen Sunday SF action manga by Takashige Hiroshi (story) and Minagawa Ryoji (art), 11 volumes, about ARCAM agent Ominae Yu protecting ancient-civilization OOPArts; adapted as a 1998 film and 2022 Netflix anime.
Spring of the Blade (一瓯春)
Spring of the Blade (一瓯春, Yi Ou Chun) is a 2026 Chinese historical revenge drama, 30 episodes, directed by Pan Anzi, starring Xu Kai and Zhou Ye, adapted from You Sijie's Jinjiang novel, set in Southern Song Qiantang, airing on iQiyi and Youku.
Spring of Youth (사계의 봄) (TV series)
Spring of Youth (사계의 봄, Sagyeui Bom; Spring of the Four Seasons) is a 2025 SBS Korean youth music romance drama, 10 episodes, May 6 to July 2, 2025, starring Ha Yoo-joon, Park Ji-hu, and N.Flying's Lee Seung-hyub, about an ousted K-pop band star forming a college band, noted for its record-low ratings.
Springfield (The Simpsons)
Springfield is the fictional, state-unnamed town setting of The Simpsons, home of the Simpson family at 742 Evergreen Terrace since 1989; Matt Groening named it after Springfield, Oregon, though he later said the show is not set there.
Sprung
Sprung (2022) is an Amazon Freevee single-camera comedy created by Greg Garcia. Former inmate Jack (Garret Dillahunt), freed early in the pandemic, joins Rooster, Barb (Martha Plimpton), and Gloria in heists for good; one 9-episode season.