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The Big Comfy Couch
The Big Comfy Couch is a Canadian preschool TV series starring Alyson Court as Loonette the clown with her doll Molly, solving problems around a large couch; seven seasons, aired on U.S. public television, 100 episodes released on DVD via Genius Products in 2006.
The Big Door Prize
The Big Door Prize is an Apple TV+ comedy-drama created by David West Read, adapted from M.O. Walsh's 2020 novel. Set in Deerfield, it follows residents whose lives change when the Morpho machine reveals their life potential; two seasons, 2023–2024, then cancelled.
The Big Fat Quiz of the Year
The Big Fat Quiz of the Year is Channel 4's annual topical comedy panel show, hosted by Jimmy Carr since 2004, airing around Boxing Day with comedian teams quizzed on the year's news; spin-offs include Big Fat Quiz of Everything.
The Big Flower Fight
The Big Flower Fight is a 2020 Netflix British reality competition in which ten pairs of florists, sculptors, and garden designers build giant floral sculptures, hosted by Vic Reeves and Natasia Demetriou, judged by Kristen Griffith-VanderYacht, won by Andrew and Ryan.
The Big Lez Show
The Big Lez Show is an Australian adult animated comedy web series by Jarrad Wright, Izak Whear, and Tom Hollis, drawn in MS Paint and streamed on YouTube from July 16, 2012 to January 26, 2019, following alien Lezly Mackerel in Brown Town with sasquatches Sassy and Donny and the Choomah war.
The Big O
The Big O (THE ビッグオー) is a 1999 Sunrise mecha anime directed by Kazuyoshi Katayama, set in amnesia-stricken Paradigm City where negotiator Roger Smith controls the Megadeus Big O; cancelled at 13 episodes, revived by Cartoon Network for a 2003 second season.
The Big Show Show
The Big Show Show is a 2020 Netflix family sitcom starring WWE wrestler Paul Wight (Big Show) as a fictionalized version of himself raising three daughters in Florida; created by Jason Berger and Josh Bycel, it ran one season plus a Christmas special before cancellation.
The Big Valley
The Big Valley (ABC, 1965–1969) is a 112-episode American Western about the Barkley ranching family of Stockton, California, starring Barbara Stanwyck as matriarch Victoria Barkley and launching Lee Majors and Linda Evans.
The Biggest Loser (American TV series)
The Biggest Loser was an NBC weight-loss reality competition (2004–2016, plus a 2020 USA Network revival) awarding $250,000 to the contestant losing the most weight; a 2016 NIH study found lasting metabolic slowing and weight regain among contestants.
The Biggest Loser (Australian TV series)
The Biggest Loser Australia, the Network Ten reality weight-loss competition (2006–2017, 11 seasons) with trainers Michelle Bridges, Shannan Ponton, Steve Willis, and Tiffiny Hall; distinct from the American original.
The Bill
The Bill: British ITV police procedural (1984–2010) set at fictional Sun Hill station, created by Geoff McQueen from the 1983 play Woodentop; over 2,400 episodes, peak audience above 16 million.
The Bill Engvall Show
The Bill Engvall Show is a TBS family sitcom (2007–2009, 3 seasons, 30 episodes) created by Bill Engvall and Michael Leeson, starring Engvall as family counselor Bill Pearson, with Nancy Travis and a young Jennifer Lawrence.
The Billion Dollar Code
The Billion Dollar Code is a 2021 German Netflix four-episode limited series by Oliver Ziegenbalg and Robert Thalheim dramatizing ART+COM's real patent suit against Google over the Terravision/Google Earth algorithm, which the developers ultimately lost.
The Bionic Woman
The Bionic Woman is the American science-fiction TV series (1976-1978), a spin-off of The Six Million Dollar Man starring Lindsay Wagner as Jaime Sommers, rebuilt with bionic legs, right arm, and right ear after a skydiving accident; distinct from the 2007 remake.
The birds and the bees
The birds and the bees: English idiom for the informal sex-and-reproduction talk given to children, using bee pollination and bird egg imagery. Origin uncertain; Coleridge 1825, Burroughs 1875, Cole Porter 1928; first explicit print use 1939.
The Black Adder
The Black Adder is the 1983 first series of BBC1's Blackadder sitcom: six episodes written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, Atkinson as Edmund, £1 million budget, Alnwick Castle filming, International Emmy, near cancellation.
The Black Box (黑盒子)
The Black Box (黑盒子) is a 2025 Taiwanese anthology series directed by Charles Lee, adapted from Pony's LINE WEBTOON manhua. Twelve episodes in four dark-fable units about trading future time for desires, aired on LINE TV and Netflix, topping Netflix Taiwan's weekly chart.
The Blacklist
The Blacklist is an NBC crime thriller (2013–2023, 10 seasons, 218 episodes) created by Jon Bokenkamp, starring James Spader as fugitive informant Raymond Reddington and Megan Boone as Elizabeth Keen; ended 2023 with a divisive finale.
The Blacklist: Redemption
The Blacklist: Redemption is NBC's 2017 spin-off of The Blacklist: Tom Keen (Ryan Eggold) joins covert mercenary chief Scottie Hargrave (Famke Janssen) at Halcyon Aegis. Eight episodes, February–April 2017, canceled after one season on low ratings.
The Blame (TV series)
The Blame is a 2026 six-part ITV crime drama adapted from Charlotte Langley's 2023 novel, created by Megan Gallagher, starring Michelle Keegan and Douglas Booth as detectives investigating a teenage skater's murder amid police misogyny.
The Bletchley Circle
The Bletchley Circle: British ITV crime drama (2012–14), written by Guy Burt, two seasons, in which four fictional 1950s women codebreakers from Bletchley Park reunite to solve murders; spun off as San Francisco (2018).
The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco
The Bletchley Circle: San Francisco (2018) is a British-Canadian crime drama, BritBox's first original series and a spin-off of The Bletchley Circle, following Jean and Millie joining American code-breakers Iris and Hailey to solve 1956 San Francisco murders.
The Blip
The Blip is the MCU in-universe term, coined in Spider-Man: Far From Home, for the return of half of all life in Avengers: Endgame; Kevin Feige distinguishes it from the Snap, Thanos's 2018 disappearance event.
The Block (Australian TV series)
The Block (Australian TV series), Nine Network reality renovation show since 2003; couples renovate houses sold at auction above reserve. Hosted by Scott Cam and Shelley Craft; 22 seasons, format sold to 170 territories.
The Blood of Youth (少年歌行)
The Blood of Youth (少年歌行, Shao Nian Ge Xing) is a Chinese wuxia franchise from Zhou Munan's novel: a 2018 3D donghua and a 40-episode 2022 Youku live-action drama about young heroes and a golden coffin, directed by Yin Tao.
The Blooms at Ruyi Pavilion (如意芳霏)
The Blooms at Ruyi Pavilion (如意芳霏, Ru Yi Fang Fei) is a 2020 iQIYI Chinese costume romance drama adapted from Xiao Jia Ren's novel Chong Hou Zhi Lu, starring Ju Jingyi and Zhang Zhehan in 40 episodes about a prophetic-dreaming noblewoman and Prince Xu Jin.
The Blossoming Love (千朵桃花一世开)
The Blossoming Love (千朵桃花一世开) is a 2025 Chinese xianxia romance drama on Youku, adapted from Sui Yu Er An's novel, starring Zhang Binbin and Sun Zhenni as reincarnated lovers Xie Xuechen and Mu Xuanling; 40 episodes, directed by He Shupei.
The Blue Planet
The Blue Planet is a 2001 BBC Natural History Unit and Discovery Channel eight-part ocean documentary narrated by David Attenborough, produced by Alastair Fothergill, the first comprehensive natural history of the oceans, later followed by Blue Planet II (2017) and Blue Planet III.
The Blue Whisper (驭鲛记之与君初相识·恰似故人归)
The Blue Whisper (驭鲛记之与君初相识·恰似故人归, Yu Jiao Ji) is a 2022 Youku Chinese xianxia romance drama adapted from Jiu Lu Fei Xiang's novel, starring Dilraba Dilmurat and Ren Jialun as spirit master Ji Yunhe and merman Changyi; first Youku drama to break a heat score of 10,000.
The Bob Newhart Show
The Bob Newhart Show is an American sitcom starring Bob Newhart as Chicago psychologist Dr. Robert Hartley, airing on CBS from 1972 to 1978 for six seasons and 142 episodes.