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The Haunting (TV series)

The Haunting is Mike Flanagan's Netflix horror anthology: season 1, The Haunting of Hill House (2018, 10 episodes, from Shirley Jackson), and season 2, The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020, 9 episodes, from Henry James), with a returning cast in new roles.

The Haunting of Bly Manor

The Haunting of Bly Manor (2020) is Mike Flanagan's nine-episode Netflix gothic romance, the second Haunting anthology entry, adapting Henry James's The Turn of the Screw plus other James stories, set in 1987 England with Victoria Pedretti as au pair Dani Clayton.

The Haunting of Hill House (TV series)

The Haunting of Hill House is Mike Flanagan's 2018 ten-episode Netflix horror limited series, loosely adapting Shirley Jackson's 1959 novel about the Crain family; Netflix's first original horror series, praised by critics and followed by Bly Manor.

The Haves and the Have Nots (TV series)

The Haves and the Have Nots: Tyler Perry's primetime soap for OWN (2013–2021, 8 seasons, 196 episodes) about the wealthy Cryer and Harrington families versus the Young family; OWN's first scripted drama, averaging nearly 3 million viewers.

The Hawk (TV series)

The Hawk is an American comedy television series starring Will Ferrell as Lonnie "The Hawk" Hawkins, a washed-up professional golfer who aims for a major comeback on Netflix in 2026.

The Head

The Head is a Spanish-produced English-language survival thriller series (2020-2025) created by the Pastor brothers and Ran Tellem for The Mediapro Studio with Hulu Japan and HBO Asia, following murders among scientists isolated at the Polaris VI Antarctic station across three anthology seasons.

The Healing Powers of Dude

The Healing Powers of Dude is a 2020 Netflix family comedy, 8 TV-G episodes, about 11-year-old Noah Ferris, whose social anxiety disorder is eased by Dude, a sarcastic emotional support dog voiced by Steve Zahn; created by Erica Spates and Sam Littenberg-Weisberg, ghost canceled after one season.

The Heart Killers (เขาจ้างเราเขย่าชีวิตเขา)

The Heart Killers (เขาจ้างให้ผมจีบนักฆ่า) is a 2024 Thai BL action-romantic-comedy series by GMMTV, directed by Jojo Tichakorn Phukhaotong, airing 12 episodes on GMM25 from November 20, 2024 to February 12, 2025; a loose Taming of the Shrew adaptation starring First Kanaphan, Khaotung Thanawat, Joong Archen, and Dunk Natachai.

The Heike Story (平家物語)

The Heike Story (平家物語, Heike Monogatari) is an 11-episode 2021–2022 anime by Science SARU and director Naoko Yamada, adapting Hideo Furukawa's modern translation of The Tale of the Heike; first TV series adaptation of the classic, with Aoi Yuki as the future-seeing Biwa.

The Heir to the Throne

The Heir to the Throne (家族榮耀之繼承者, also Family Glory: The Successor) is a 2024 30-episode Youku–Media Asia Hong Kong drama, spin-off of Modern Dynasty, starring Charmaine Sheh, Raymond Lam, Him Law and Gallen Lo in a family succession battle.

The Heirs

The Heirs (상속자들, The Inheritors) is a 2013 SBS Korean teen romance drama written by Kim Eun-sook, starring Lee Min-ho, Park Shin-hye, and Kim Woo-bin in a chaebol heir class drama at Jeguk High School.

The Helicopter Heist (miniseries)

The Helicopter Heist (Helikopterrånet) is a 2024 Swedish Netflix miniseries, 8 episodes, created by Ronnie Sandahl, dramatizing the 2009 Västberga G4S helicopter robbery of 39 million kronor, based on Jonas Bonnier's 2017 novel.

The Helpful Fox Senko-san (世話やきキツネの仙狐さん)

The Helpful Fox Senko-san (Sewayaki Kitsune no Senko-san) is a Japanese comedy manga by Rimukoro, serialized from 2017, about an 800-year-old fox demigoddess who pampers an exhausted office worker.

The Herculoids

The Herculoids is a Hanna-Barbera Saturday-morning science-fiction cartoon created and designed by Alex Toth, debuting on CBS September 9, 1967. Zandor, Tara, Dorno, and five creatures defend planet Amzot; revived in Space Stars 1981-1982.

The Heroic Legend of Arslan (アルスラーン戦記) (TV series)

Arslan Senki (アルスラーン戦記), The Heroic Legend of Arslan TV anime: two seasons (25 episodes in 2015, 8 in 2016) adapting Hiromu Arakawa's manga of Yoshiki Tanaka's fantasy novels, produced by Liden Films for the MBS/TBS network.

The Heroine of the Yangs (穆桂英 (亚视电视剧))

The Heroine of the Yangs (穆桂英) is ATV's 1998 two-part, 60-episode Hong Kong costume drama on the Yang family legends, starring 陳秀雯 as Mu Guiying and 焦恩俊 as 楊宗保, produced by 楊紹鴻, premiering 18 May 1998.

The High Chaparral

The High Chaparral is an NBC Western (1967-1971, 4 seasons) created by Bonanza producer David Dortort, starring Leif Erickson and Linda Cristal as ranch families in 1870s Arizona, filmed at Old Tucson.

The High Fructose Adventures of the Annoying Orange

The High Fructose Adventures of the Annoying Orange is a 2012-2014 Cartoon Network live-action/animated series adapted from Dane Boedigheimer's YouTube hit, set in the grocery store Daneboe's, starring Toby Turner as Nerville, with a 2.1/10 IMDb rating.

The Hilarious House of Frightenstein

The Hilarious House of Frightenstein is a Canadian children's sketch-horror series created in 1971 at CHCH-TV, Hamilton, starring Billy Van in most roles, Fishka Rais as Igor, and Vincent Price as narrator.

The Hills (TV series)

The Hills was an MTV reality series (2006–2010), a Laguna Beach spinoff following Lauren Conrad, Heidi Montag, Audrina Patridge, and others in Los Angeles; six seasons, 102 episodes, famed for its scripted-reality ambiguity.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (H2G2) is Douglas Adams's comedy science fiction franchise that began as a 1978 BBC Radio 4 series, became a five-book "trilogy" from 1979, and spawned a 1981 BBC TV series, a 1984 game, and the 2005 film; its canceled 2019 Hulu adaptation died in 2026.

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (TV series)

The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is a six-episode BBC television series written by Douglas Adams and broadcast in 1981, with Simon Jones as Arthur Dent.

The Hogan Family

The Hogan Family (originally Valerie, then Valerie's Family) was an American NBC/CBS sitcom, 1986-1991, 110 episodes. Retitled after Valerie Harper was fired in a Lorimar contract dispute and her character was killed off, with Sandy Duncan joining Jason Bateman.

The Hollow Crown (TV series)

The Hollow Crown is a BBC Two series of filmed Shakespeare history plays: 2012's Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1-2, and Henry V, and 2016's The Wars of the Roses (Henry VI, Richard III), produced by Neal Street for the Cultural Olympiad.

The Honeymooners

The Honeymooners, also known as the Classic 39, is a 1955-1956 CBS sitcom created by Jackie Gleason about bus driver Ralph Kramden, wife Alice, and neighbors Ed and Trixie Norton, originating as a 1951 DuMont sketch.

The Honourable Woman

The Honourable Woman (2014) is a BBC2/SundanceTV eight-part miniseries written, directed and produced by Hugo Blick, starring Maggie Gyllenhaal as Baroness Nessa Stein, an Anglo-Israeli businesswoman converting an arms firm to fiber-optic telecoms; Peabody and BAFTA-winning spy thriller.

The Hook Up Plan

The Hook Up Plan (Plan Cœur) is a French Netflix romantic comedy series (2018–2022, 3 seasons, 20 episodes) created by Chris Lang, Noémie Saglio, and Julien Teisseire, about friends secretly hiring an escort for Elsa, played by Zita Hanrot.

The Horror of Dolores Roach

The Horror of Dolores Roach is a 2023 Prime Video horror-comedy series, a Sweeney Todd-inspired tale of a masseuse (Justina Machado) in gentrified Washington Heights, adapted from Aaron Mark's 2015 play Empanada Loca and 2018 Gimlet podcast; cancelled after eight episodes in November 2023.

The Hotwives

The Hotwives is a Hulu scripted comedy (2014-2015) parodying Bravo's Real Housewives, created by Dannah Phirman and Danielle Schneider, in two seasons set in Orlando and Las Vegas with Casey Wilson, Angela Kinsey, and Kristen Schaal.

The House of Flowers (TV series)

The House of Flowers (La casa de las flores) is a Mexican Netflix dark comedy-drama by Manolo Caro, 2018–2020, three seasons, about the de la Mora family's flower shop and cabaret; a noted "millennial telenovela".