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The Cleaner (British TV series)

The Cleaner is a BBC One sitcom (2021–2024, 19 episodes, 3 series) written by and starring Greg Davies as crime scene cleaner Wicky, adapted from the German series Der Tatortreiniger, produced by Studio Hamburg UK.

The Cleaning Lady (American TV series)

American Fox crime drama (2022–2025), developed by Miranda Kwok from the Argentine series La chica que limpia; Élodie Yung plays Thony, a doctor cleaning crime scenes to save her son. Four seasons, 46 episodes; canceled June 2025.

The Clearing (TV series)

The Clearing is an eight-part Australian psychological thriller miniseries, Disney+'s first scripted Australian Original, premiering 24 May 2023. Adapted from J.P. Pomare's novel In the Clearing and inspired by the cult The Family, it stars Teresa Palmer, Miranda Otto, and Guy Pearce.

The Cleveland Show

The Cleveland Show: Fox adult animated sitcom (2009-2013), Family Guy spin-off by Mike Henry, Richard Appel, Seth MacFarlane; Cleveland Brown's blended family in Stoolbend, Virginia; four seasons, 88 episodes.

The Client List (TV series)

The Client List is an American television drama series starring Jennifer Love Hewitt as Riley Parks, a Texas homemaker working at a day spa where some co-workers provide "extra" services.

The Closer

The Closer: TNT police procedural (2005–2012, 7 seasons, 109 episodes) created by James Duff, starring Kyra Sedgwick as LAPD Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson; Emmy-winning, spun off into Major Crimes with Mary McDonnell.

The Club (2021 TV series)

The Club (Kulüp) is a Turkish Netflix period drama (2021–2023) created by Zeynep Günay Tan, set in 1950s Istanbul, following ex-prisoner Matilda who works at a nightclub to reconnect with her daughter Raşel; 2 seasons, 20 episodes, O3 Medya production.

The Colbert Report

The Colbert Report was a Comedy Central satirical news show (2005-2014) spun off from The Daily Show, in which Stephen Colbert played a conservative pundit parodying Bill O'Reilly, coined "truthiness," and won seven Emmys.

The Collection (TV series)

The Collection (TV series) is a 2016 British-French period drama, eight episodes created by Oliver Goldstick, set in 1947 Paris haute couture at the House of Sabine, starring Richard Coyle and Tom Riley, on Amazon Prime Video, France 3, and PBS Masterpiece.

The Comeback (TV series)

The Comeback is an HBO mockumentary comedy created by Lisa Kudrow and Michael Patrick King, starring Kudrow as fading sitcom actress Valerie Cherish; three seasons aired in 2005, 2014, and 2026, satirizing reality TV, prestige drama, and AI-written television.

The Comey Rule

The Comey Rule is a 2020 two-part Showtime political drama miniseries written and directed by Billy Ray, adapted from James Comey's memoir A Higher Loyalty, starring Jeff Daniels as Comey and Brendan Gleeson as Trump, covering the 2016 election and Comey's 2017 firing.

The Comic Bang (开画!少女漫)

The Comic Bang (开画!少女漫, alias 月刊少女) is a 2025 iQiyi Chinese romantic comedy series adapted from Izumi Tsubaki's manga Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, directed by Zhong Qing, starring Shen Yue and Wang Jingxuan, 33 episodes, aired May 22 to June 2025 after a three-year delay.

The Commish

The Commish is an ABC police comedy-drama (1991–1996, 5 seasons, 94 episodes) created by Stephen J. Cannell and Stephen Kronish, starring Michael Chiklis as creative small-town commissioner Tony Scali in Eastbridge, New York.

The Company You Keep (TV series)

The Company You Keep is a 2023 ABC crime drama, an adaptation of the Korean series My Fellow Citizens, starring Milo Ventimiglia as con man Charlie and Catherine Haena Kim as CIA officer Emma; one 10-episode season, canceled May 2023.

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin

The Completely Made-Up Adventures of Dick Turpin is a six-episode Apple TV+ historical comedy starring Noel Fielding as the 18th-century highwayman, premiered March 1, 2024, renewed July 2024, then cancelled in January 2025 mid-shoot of season 2 after Fielding withdrew.

The Conners

The Conners is ABC's spin-off of Roseanne (2018-2025, seven seasons, 112 episodes), continuing the Lanford, Illinois Conner family after Roseanne Barr's firing; her character dies of an opioid overdose.

The Consultant (TV series)

The Consultant is a 2023 Prime Video darkly comedic workplace thriller created by Tony Basgallop from Bentley Little's 2015 novel, starring Christoph Waltz as sinister consultant Regus Patoff at the gaming company CompWare, with Nat Wolff and Brittany O'Grady; eight 33-minute episodes, 80% on Rotten Tomatoes.

The Contest

The Contest is a 1992 Seinfeld episode (season 4, episode 11) written by Larry David, in which Jerry, George, Elaine, and Kramer bet on who can abstain longest from masturbation, never named on screen; it won a 1993 writing Emmy and drew 18.5 million viewers.

The Continental: From the World of John Wick

The Continental: From the World of John Wick is a 2023 three-episode Peacock prequel miniseries, created by Greg Coolidge, Shawn Simmons, and Kirk Ward, showing how young Winston Scott (Colin Woodell) took over the assassins' hotel in 1970s New York; no second season was made.

The Convict

The Convict (Skazana) is a 2021 Polish prison drama directed by Bartosz Konopka, starring Agata Kulesza as a judge imprisoned for a murder she denies.

The Cook of Castamar

The Cook of Castamar (La cocinera de Castamar) is a 2021 Spanish period drama series on Antena 3, adapted from Fernando J. Múñez's 2019 novel, starring Michelle Jenner and Roberto Enríquez in 1720 Madrid.

The Cool Kids (TV series)

The Cool Kids is a Fox multi-camera sitcom (2018–2019, 22 episodes) created by Charlie Day and Paul Fruchbom, starring David Alan Grier, Martin Mull, Leslie Jordan, and Vicki Lawrence as rule-breaking retirees at Shady Meadows; canceled May 10, 2019 after one season.

The Copenhagen Test

The Copenhagen Test is a Peacock sci-fi espionage thriller created by Thomas Brandon, starring Simu Liu and Melissa Barrera. Eight episodes premiered December 27, 2025; Peacock cancelled it April 16, 2026 after one season.

The Corner

The Corner: 1997 nonfiction book by David Simon and Ed Burns on a West Baltimore drug corner (Fayette and Monroe), following the McCullough family; adapted into a 2000 Emmy-winning HBO miniseries that preceded The Wire.

The Coroner

The Coroner is a British crime drama created by Sally Abbott for BBC One. It aired from 2015 to 2017, following Jane Kennedy in the fictional South Devon town of Lighthaven.

The Cosby Show

The Cosby Show: NBC sitcom (1984–1992) about the Huxtables, an upper-middle-class Black family in Brooklyn Heights; top-rated for four seasons, revived the sitcom genre, saved NBC, later shadowed by Cosby allegations.

The Couple Next Door

The Couple Next Door is a British psychological drama thriller from Eagle Eye Drama for Channel 4 and STARZ, first aired 27 November 2023, starring Sam Heughan and Eleanor Tomlinson; series 2 (2025) is a new-cast anthology chapter, not based on the Lapena novel.

The Court

The Court is a 2002 American legal drama created by Dee Johnson for ABC, starring Sally Field as Justice Kate Nolan and canceled after three episodes.

The Courtship of Eddie's Father (TV series)

American ABC family sitcom (1969–1972, 73 episodes) starring Bill Bixby as widower Tom Corbett, Brandon Cruz as matchmaking son Eddie, Miyoshi Umeki as Mrs. Livingston; adapted from the 1963 Minnelli film, with Harry Nilsson's theme 'Best Friend'.

The Cowboy Way

The Cowboy Way (The Cowboy Way: Alabama) is an INSP reality series (2016-2020, seven seasons) following cowboys Bubba Thompson, Cody Harris, and Chris "Booger" Brown of Faith Cattle Company in South Alabama; distinct from the 1994 Harrelson-Sutherland film.