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The First Night with the Duke

The First Night with the Duke (남주의 첫날밤을 가져버렸다, I Took the Male Lead's First Night) is a 2025 KBS2 fantasy-romance K-drama starring Seohyun and Ok Taecyeon, adapted from Hwang Dotol's web novel and webtoon, moved from a European setting to Joseon-era Korea, 12 episodes, June–July 2025.

The First Responders (소방서 옆 경찰서)

The First Responders (소방서 옆 경찰서, The First Responders) is a 2022-2023 SBS Friday-Saturday Korean drama by writer Min Ji-eun and director Shin Kyung-soo about joint police-fire emergency response, starring Kim Rae-won, Son Ho-jun, and Gong Seung-yeon; its 2023 second season adds the National Forensic Service and streams on Disney+.

The Five (TV series)

The Five is a 2016 ten-episode British Sky1 crime drama created by Harlan Coben as his first original TV story, written by Danny Brocklehurst, starring Tom Cullen, O.T. Fagbenle, Lee Ingleby, and Sarah Solemani; DNA of a boy missing 20 years reappears at a murder scene.

The Five-Star Weekend (TV series)

The Five-Star Weekend is a 2026 Peacock drama series, eight episodes, adapted by Bekah Brunstetter from Elin Hilderbrand's 2023 novel, starring Jennifer Garner as widowed food influencer Hollis Shaw; renewed for season 2 after 2.1 billion minutes viewed.

The Fix (2019 TV series)

The Fix (2019 TV series) is an ABC legal drama, March 18 to May 20, 2019, 10 episodes, created by Marcia Clark, Elizabeth Craft, and Sarah Fain, starring Robin Tunney as DA Maya Travis; cancelled after one season.

The Fixies (Фиксики)

The Fixies (Фиксики) is a Russian educational animated series by Aeroplan/Riki, premiered December 2010, based on Uspensky's Garantiynye chelovechki, about tiny repair-creatures Simka and Nolik living inside appliances and teaching children how technology works.

The Flame's Daughter (烈火如歌)

The Flame's Daughter (烈火如歌, Agni Cantabile) is a 2018 Chinese costume romance fantasy drama on Youku, adapted from Ming Xiao Xi's 2004 novel, starring Vic Chou and Dilraba Dilmurat in a jianghu love story, 52 episodes, over 6 billion views.

The Flaming Heart (你好,火焰蓝)

The Flaming Heart (你好,火焰蓝) is a 2021 Chinese rescue romance drama on Youku, directed by Zhang Lichuan, starring Gong Jun as firefighter Huo Yan and Zhang Huiwen as doctor Yan Lan, 24 episodes, adapted from real Nanjing fire cases.

The Flash

The Flash is DC Comics' Scarlet Speedster, a title held by Jay Garrick (1940), Barry Allen (1956), and Wally West (1986). Super-speed hero powered by the Speed Force, base Central City, member of the Justice Society and Justice League.

The Flash (1990 TV series)

The Flash (1990 TV series): CBS live-action superhero show, 1990–1991, one 22-episode season; John Wesley Shipp as Barry Allen, created by Danny Bilson and Paul De Meo, $6 million pilot, Mark Hamill's Trickster.

The Flash (2014 TV series)

The Flash (2014 TV series): CW superhero drama developed by Greg Berlanti, Andrew Kreisberg, and Geoff Johns, starring Grant Gustin as Barry Allen; ran nine seasons from October 7, 2014 to May 24, 2023 as an Arrow spin-off anchoring the Arrowverse.

The Flatshare

The Flatshare is a 2022 six-part Paramount+ British romantic comedy adapted from Beth O'Leary's 2019 novel, starring Jessica Brown Findlay and Anthony Welsh as strangers who timeshare a one-bed London flat, premiering 1 December 2022.

The Fledgling Demon Lord's Starter Shop

The Fledgling Demon Lord's Starter Shop (Sudachi no Maōjō, すだちの魔王城) is a fantasy comedy manga by Makoto Morishita, serialized in Monthly Shōnen Magazine since October 2021, about a failing item shop after the demon lord's defeat; 14 volumes, over 1.1 million copies, anime by project No.9 in January 2027.

The Flintstones

The Flintstones, Hanna-Barbera's animated sitcom created by William Hanna and Joseph Barbera, aired on ABC from September 30, 1960 as the first prime-time animated series, running 166 episodes and later spawning films and merchandising.

The Flip Wilson Show

The Flip Wilson Show, NBC comedy-variety series 1970–1974 hosted by Flip Wilson, first successful network variety show with a Black star; number-two rated show, Geraldine and Reverend Leroy characters, two Emmys and a Peabody.

The Floor (American game show)

The Floor is a Fox trivia game show hosted by Rob Lowe, adapted from John de Mol's Dutch format, where contestants duel neighbors on an LED grid of category squares for a $250,000 prize.

The Floor (Australian game show)

The Floor (Australian game show), Nine Network adaptation of John de Mol's Dutch trivia format, premiered 28 April 2025, hosted by Rodger Corser, 81 contestants on a 9x9 LED grid, $200,000 prize, first champion Patrick Neasey, season 2 from April 2026.

The Floor (British game show)

The Floor (British game show): ITV1 quiz hosted by Rob Brydon, 2026, South Shore adaptation of Talpa's Dutch format; 81 contestants duel on an LED floor for £50,000.

The Flowers of Evil (manga)

The Flowers of Evil (Aku no Hana, 惡の華) is Shuzo Oshimi's 2009–2014 psychological manga in Bessatsu Shonen Magazine, 11 volumes about Kasuga, Saeki, and Nakamura, adapted as a rotoscoped 2013 anime, 2019 film, and 2026 TV Tokyo drama.

The Fly (film series)

The Fly is a science fiction horror film series of five films, begun with The Fly (1958) and including David Cronenberg's acclaimed 1986 remake with Jeff Goldblum.

The Flying Nun

The Flying Nun is an ABC Screen Gems fantasy sitcom (1967–1970) starring Sally Field as Sister Bertrille, a 90-pound novice at Puerto Rico's Convent San Tanco whose starched cornette lets her fly in stiff winds, based on Tere Ríos's 1965 novel The Fifteenth Pelican.

The Following

The Following: American Fox crime thriller (2013-2015) created by Kevin Williamson, starring Kevin Bacon as ex-FBI agent Ryan Hardy and James Purefoy as Poe-obsessed serial killer Joe Carroll, 3 seasons, 45 episodes, canceled 2015.

The Forgotten Army - Azaadi Ke Liye

The Forgotten Army – Azaadi Ke Liye is a 2020 Hindi Amazon Prime Video miniseries, five episodes directed by Kabir Khan, dramatizing Subhas Chandra Bose's Indian National Army through soldier Sodhi across 1940s and 1996 timelines.

The Forsytes

The Forsytes: Mammoth Screen/MASTERPIECE PBS and Channel 5 reimagining of Galsworthy's Forsyte novels by Debbie Horsfield; six 1887-set episodes; seasons two and three follow, distinct from the 1967 BBC and 2002 Forsyte Saga serials.

The Fortune (TV series)

The Fortune is a 2026 four-part British Channel 5 drama thriller starring Eleanor Tomlinson as Amanda Blakefield, whose life falls apart after an inheritance from a stranger; directed by Andy De Emmony, written by Aschlin Ditta, rated 5.2/10 on IMDb.

The Fosters (American TV series)

The Fosters is an American family drama (2013-2018, ABC Family/Freeform, 5 seasons, 104 episodes) created by Bradley Bredeweg and Peter Paige with Jennifer Lopez executive producing, about lesbian couple Stef Foster and Lena Adams raising biological, adopted, and foster children in San Diego; it spawned Good Trouble.

The Four Seasons (TV series)

The Four Seasons is a Netflix comedy-drama created by Tina Fey, Lang Fisher, and Tracey Wigfield, adapting Alan Alda's 1981 film; three couples' seasonal vacations unravel after a divorce, with 24.4 million first-two-week views and three seasons ordered.

The Four: Battle for Stardom

The Four: Battle for Stardom was a Fox singing competition (2018, two seasons, 14 episodes) hosted by Fergie with judges Sean Combs, DJ Khaled, Meghan Trainor, and Charlie Walk, in which challengers took champions' seats; winners got a Republic Records contract and iHeartRadio On the Verge status.

The Fox's Summer (狐狸的夏天)

The Fox's Summer (狐狸的夏天, Hu Li De Xia Tian; also Lying Girlfriend) is a 2017 Chinese romantic comedy web series directed by Yu Zhongzhong, adapted from Shen Cangmei's novel When the President Falls in Love, starring Tan Songyun and Jiang Chao in two Tencent Video seasons (21 + 23 episodes) that topped 1.5 billion views.

The Frankenstein Chronicles

The Frankenstein Chronicles: British two-season period detective drama (2015–2017, ITV Encore, Netflix) created by Benjamin Ross and Barry Langford, starring Sean Bean as Inspector John Marlott investigating re-animation experiments in 1827 London.