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The Bay (TV series)
The Bay (TV series) names two shows: Gregori J. Martin's American soap (2010–, 23 Daytime Emmy wins) and ITV's Morecambe-set crime drama (2019–, Tall Story Pictures, Daragh Carville).
The Bay (web series)
The Bay (The Bay The Series) is an American web soap opera created by Gregori J. Martin, premiering September 15, 2010 on Blip.tv. It follows the Garrett family in Bay City and has won 23 Daytime Emmys, including Outstanding Digital Drama Series in 2016, 2017, 2018, and 2020.
The Beachcombers
The Beachcombers, Canadian CBC comedy-drama series (1972–1990, 387 episodes) about log salvagers in Gibsons, B.C., starring Bruno Gerussi, Pat John, and Robert Clothier; longest-running English-Canadian TV drama.
The Bear (TV series)
The Bear is a Christopher Storer-created FX/Hulu comedy-drama (2022–2026, five seasons) about chef Carmy Berzatto running his late brother's Chicago sandwich shop; Emmy-winning series ending June 2026.
The Beast (2009 TV series)
The Beast is a 2009 A&E crime drama, Patrick Swayze's final TV role, starring him as FBI agent Charles Barker training rookie partner Ellis Dove (Travis Fimmel) in Chicago; 13 episodes, canceled June 2009 after averaging 1.3 million viewers.
The Beast in Me (TV series)
The Beast in Me is an eight-episode Netflix psychological thriller released November 13, 2025, created by Gabe Rotter, showrun by Howard Gordon, starring Claire Danes as author Aggie Wiggs and Matthew Rhys as neighbor Nile Jarvis.
The Beast Must Die
The Beast Must Die is a 2021 BritBox/AMC revenge thriller adapted by Gaby Chiappe from Nicholas Blake's 1938 novel, starring Cush Jumbo, Billy Howle, and Jared Harris, set on the Isle of Wight.
The Beatles Anthology
The Beatles Anthology is Apple Corps' Grammy-winning 1995 documentary series, told in the Beatles' own words, with Anthology 1-3 albums, a 2000 book, and the 2025 Disney+ restoration with new Episode Nine and Anthology 4.
The Beatles: Get Back
The Beatles: Get Back is a three-part 2021 Disney+ docuseries directed by Peter Jackson, edited by Jabez Olssen from 60+ hours of 1969 film and 150+ hours of audio, ending with the full Savile Row rooftop concert, and a multiple Emmy winner.
The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star
The Beautiful World of Jeffree Star is Shane Dawson's 2019 YouTube docuseries (8 episodes, October 2019 to January 2020) documenting the Shane x Jeffree Conspiracy Collection makeup collaboration with Jeffree Star Cosmetics, which launched November 1, 2019 and crashed retailer websites.
The Beauty (TV series)
The Beauty is a 2026 FX/Hulu body-horror thriller created by Ryan Murphy and Matthew Hodgson, adapted from Jeremy Haun and Jason A. Hurley's Image Comics series, starring Evan Peters, Rebecca Hall, Ashton Kutcher, Anthony Ramos, and Jeremy Pope in an 11-episode season about a deadly beauty-transmitting virus.
The Beauty Inside (TV series)
The Beauty Inside (뷰티 인사이드) is a 2018 JTBC Korean romantic comedy drama, 16 episodes, starring Seo Hyun-Jin and Lee Min-Ki; based on the 2012 American social film, distinct from the 2015 Korean film.
The Beggar King's Bride (归来凤栖处)
The Beggar King's Bride (归来凤栖处) is a 2025 Maiya Media Chinese vertical short drama, 60 episodes, in which reborn sisters swap fates and the heroine unknowingly marries the disguised emperor Qi Yu, later becoming empress; not the 2026 Mango TV series 凤栖.
The Beiderbecke Affair
The Beiderbecke Affair is a 1985 six-part ITV comedy drama by Alan Plater for Yorkshire Television, starring James Bolam and Barbara Flynn as Leeds schoolteachers, with a Frank Ricotti jazz score and two sequels.
The Believers (สาธุ)
The Believers (สาธุ, Sathu) is a Thai Netflix crime drama series premiering March 27, 2024, in which three indebted entrepreneurs monetize a rundown Buddhist temple, exploring phuttha phanit, the commercialization of faith in Thailand; season 2 followed on December 4, 2025.
The Ben Shapiro Show
The Ben Shapiro Show is The Daily Wire's weekday conservative political podcast hosted by Ben Shapiro, airing live at 11 AM ET, rated Right by AllSides and Hyper-Partisan Right by Ad Fontes, with about 25 million subscribers.
The Ben Stiller Show
The Ben Stiller Show: Fox sketch comedy series (September 1992 to January 1993) starring Ben Stiller with Janeane Garofalo, Andy Dick, and Bob Odenkirk, co-created by Judd Apatow; won a 1993 Emmy for writing after cancellation, following a 1990 MTV predecessor.
The Benny Hill Show
The Benny Hill Show, British burlesque sketch-comedy-variety series starring Benny Hill, ran on the BBC 1955–1968 and ITV's Thames Television 1969–1989, with chase finales set to Yakety Sax; 58 one-hour specials became 111 US half-hours, exported to over 140 countries.
The Bequeathed (선산)
The Bequeathed (선산, Seonsan) is a 2024 Netflix South Korean limited mystery thriller series, six episodes released January 19, 2024, directed by Min Hong-nam and created by Yeon Sang-ho, based on a Kakao webtoon, starring Kim Hyun-joo as a woman who inherits an ancestral burial ground.
The Bernie Mac Show
The Bernie Mac Show, Fox single-camera sitcom created by Larry Wilmore, ran 2001-2006, five seasons, 104 episodes. Bernie Mac as a comedian-guardian of his sister's three kids addressed 'America' to camera; won a Peabody and a writing Emmy.
The Best Man: The Final Chapters
The Best Man: The Final Chapters is an eight-episode Peacock limited series (December 22, 2022) by Malcolm D. Lee and Dayna Lynne North, concluding the Best Man film franchise with Harper, Lance, Jordan, Quentin, and friends in midlife.
The Best Thing (爱你) (TV series)
The Best Thing (爱你) is a 2025 Chinese urban romance drama, 28 episodes, adapted from Sheng Li's novel, directed by Che Liangyi, starring Zhang Linghe and Xu Ruohan as a TCM doctor and insomniac hotel manager, airing on iQiyi and Jiangsu TV from 25 February 2025.
The Better Sister
The Better Sister is an eight-episode Prime Video limited thriller series (2025) adapted from Alafair Burke's 2019 novel, starring Jessica Biel and Elizabeth Banks as estranged sisters reunited by a murder, with Corey Stoll and Kim Dickens.
The Beverly Hillbillies
The Beverly Hillbillies: CBS sitcom (1962–71) created by Paul Henning about the oil-rich Clampett family moving to Beverly Hills; number-one rated show in its first two seasons, canceled in the 1971 rural purge.
The Bicameral Mind
The bicameral mind is Julian Jaynes's 1976 theory that pre-conscious humans heard commands as hallucinated 'god' voices from the right hemisphere, with introspective consciousness emerging from metaphorical language roughly 3,000 years ago; it anchors Westworld's first-season finale and remains controversial.
The Big Band (乐队的夏天)
The Big Band (乐队的夏天) is a Chinese original music variety show by iQIYI and Miwei Media, hosted by Ma Dong, with three seasons (2019, 2020, 2023) in which bands compete for audience votes; season 1 scored 8.7 on Douban and made New Pants, Hedgehog, and Click#15 mainstream names.
The Big Bang Theory
The Big Bang Theory, CBS sitcom created by Chuck Lorre and Bill Prady (2007–2019), about Pasadena physicists Leonard Hofstadter and Sheldon Cooper; twelve seasons, longest-running multi-camera sitcom, 55 Emmy nominations and 10 wins.
The Big Breakfast
The Big Breakfast was Channel 4's live weekday morning show (28 September 1992 to 29 March 2002, 2,482 episodes), made by Planet 24 from converted lock-keepers' cottages in Bow, east London, hosted famously by Chris Evans and Gaby Roslin, later Johnny Vaughan and Denise van Outen, and revived in 2021-2022 with Mo Gilligan and AJ Odudu.
The Big C (TV series)
The Big C is a Showtime comedy-drama (2010-2013, 4 seasons, 40 episodes) created by Darlene Hunt, starring Laura Linney as teacher Cathy Jamison, diagnosed with terminal Stage IV melanoma; originally titled The C-Word.
The Big Cigar
The Big Cigar is a six-episode Apple TV+ limited series (2024) dramatizing Huey P. Newton's 1974 escape to Cuba, aided by producer Bert Schneider's fake film production, based on Joshuah Bearman's Playboy article, starring André Holland and Alessandro Nivola.