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The One Show

The One Show is a BBC One live topical magazine programme airing weeknights at 7pm since its 14 August 2006 trial, hosted over the years by Adrian Chiles, Christine Bleakley, Alex Jones and Matt Baker, with celebrity guests and specialist films.

The One with the Prom Video

"The One with the Prom Video" is Friends season 2, episode 14 (NBC, February 1, 1996), written by Alexa Junge, directed by James Burrows. The gang watches Monica and Rachel's prom video, revealing Ross's devotion; Rachel kisses him, and a 2004 USA Today poll of 1.6 million votes named it the show's best episode.

The One with the Rumor

The One with the Rumor, also known as the Brad Pitt Friends episode, is season 8 episode 9 (November 22, 2001), a Thanksgiving installment in which Pitt's Will Colbert and Ross reveal their I Hate Rachel Green club and its intersex rumor.

The Onedin Line

The Onedin Line, BBC One drama (1971-1980) created by Cyril Abraham; eight series, 91 episodes; follows Captain James Onedin's Liverpool shipping line, 1860-1886, through the sail-to-steam transition, starring Peter Gilmore with the Khachaturian Spartacus theme.

The Only Way Is Essex

The Only Way Is Essex (TOWIE) is a British structured reality series set in Brentwood, Essex, created by Ruth Wrigley and Tony Wood, on ITV2 from 10 October 2010 and later ITVBe; BAFTA Audience Award 2011, real people in planned but unscripted situations.

The Oprah Winfrey Show

The Oprah Winfrey Show (奥普拉脱口秀) was Oprah Winfrey's syndicated daytime talk show, nationally broadcast from Chicago 1986–2011 over 25 seasons; the highest-rated daytime talk show in US TV history, drawing 12–13 million daily viewers at its peak.

The Orbital Children (地球外少年少女)

The Orbital Children (地球外少年少女, Extra-Terrestrial Boys & Girls) is a 2022 six-episode original anime by Mitsuo Iso, set in 2045 on the Japanese space station Anshin, streamed on Netflix and screened in Japan as two theatrical films.

The Order (TV series)

The Order (TV series): Netflix supernatural horror drama created by Dennis Heaton, 2019-2020, two seasons, 20 episodes, set at Belgrave University, werewolves versus the Hermetic Order of the Blue Rose; canceled November 2020. Distinct from the 2024 film The Order.

The Ordinary Jackpot

The Ordinary Jackpot (로또 1등도 출근합니다) is a 2026 TVING/tvN Korean workplace drama, 10 episodes, adapted from Seo In-ha's web novel. Team leader Gong Eun-tae (Lee Jun-hyuk) wins a 1.3 billion won lottery but keeps working; finale hit 6.2% Nielsen.

The Originals (TV series)

The Originals is a CW supernatural drama (2013–2018), a Vampire Diaries spin-off by Julie Plec about the Mikaelson vampire siblings Klaus, Elijah, and Rebekah reclaiming New Orleans; five seasons, 92 episodes, followed by Legacies.

The Orville

The Orville: Seth MacFarlane's Star Trek-homage sci-fi comedy-drama about the Planetary Union starship U.S.S. Orville; Fox 2017-2018, Hulu season 3 (New Horizons) 2022; critics panned season 1 (31%), fans loved it (93%).

The Osbournes

The Osbournes was MTV's 2002–2005 reality sitcom following Ozzy Osbourne, Sharon, Jack, and Kelly at home, the network's highest-rated show of its time and the template for celebrity-family reality TV like The Kardashians.

The Other Bennet Sister

The Other Bennet Sister is a 2026 BBC One and BritBox period drama adapted from Janice Hadlow's 2020 novel, retelling Pride and Prejudice from overlooked middle sister Mary Bennet's perspective, starring Ella Bruccoleri, with a three-part Christmas special greenlit.

The Other Black Girl

The Other Black Girl: 2021 debut novel by Zakiya Dalila Harris (Atria, $1 million after 14-bidder auction) and its 10-episode Hulu series with Rashida Jones, premiered September 13, 2023, canceled May 2024.

The Other Two

The Other Two is an American comedy series created by Chris Kelly and Sarah Schneider about adult siblings Cary and Brooke Dubek whose teen brother Chase becomes an internet star; Comedy Central 2019, HBO Max 2021–2023, three seasons, Metascore 81.

The Outer Limits (1963 TV series)

The Outer Limits (1963 TV series): American black-and-white ABC science-fiction anthology, 49 episodes, 1963–65, created by Leslie Stevens, produced by Joseph Stefano, famous for the Control Voice opening.

The Outer Limits (1995 TV series)

The Outer Limits (1995–2002), a Canadian-American sci-fi anthology revival of the 1963–1965 ABC series, aired on Showtime then the Sci-Fi Channel; premiered with "Sandkings," narrated by Kevin Conway's Control Voice, won one Emmy.

The Outlaws (2021 TV series)

The Outlaws (2021 TV series), originally titled The Offenders, is a BBC One and Amazon Prime Video comedy thriller created by Stephen Merchant and Elgin James. Seven Bristol community-payback offenders, including Christopher Walken's Frank, find a bag of cash across three series, 2021–2024.

The Outpost (TV series)

The Outpost (TV series), American fantasy drama on The CW 2018-2021, created by Jason Faller and Kynan Griffin; 49 episodes in 4 seasons; Jessica Green as Talon, the last Blackblood.

The Outsider (miniseries)

The Outsider is a 10-episode HBO miniseries (premiered January 12, 2020) developed by Richard Price from Stephen King's 2018 novel, starring Ben Mendelsohn and Cynthia Erivo, with Jason Bateman directing the first two episodes and playing Terry Maitland.

The Owl House

The Owl House is an American animated fantasy-comedy series created by Dana Terrace, running on Disney Channel from 2020 to 2023 and featuring Disney's first bisexual lead character.

The Pacific (miniseries)

The Pacific is a 2010 HBO ten-part World War II miniseries by Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks, and Gary Goetzman, companion to Band of Brothers, following Marines Robert Leckie, Eugene Sledge, and John Basilone; it won eight Emmys including Outstanding Miniseries.

The Package (더 패키지) (TV series)

The Package (더 패키지) is a 2017 JTBC Korean drama, 12 episodes aired 13 October to 18 November 2017, starring Lee Yeon Hee and Jung Yong Hwa as a France-based tour guide and traveler; mostly filmed in France, distinct from the 2018 American film of the same name.

The Paper (2025 TV series)

The Paper (2025 TV series), Peacock mockumentary comedy spinoff of The Office by Greg Daniels and Michael Koman, set at the fictional Toledo Truth Teller newspaper in Ohio, starring Domhnall Gleeson, Sabrina Impacciatore, and Oscar Nuñez; premiered September 4, 2025.

The Paradise (TV series)

The Paradise is a BBC period drama (2012-2013, two eight-episode series) created by Bill Gallagher, loosely adapting Zola's 1883 novel Au Bonheur des Dames and set in England's first department store in the 1870s, starring Joanna Vanderham and Emun Elliott.

The Parkers

The Parkers is a UPN sitcom (1999-2004), a Moesha spin-off created by Ralph Farquhar, Sara Finney, and Vida Spears, starring Mo'Nique and Countess Vaughn as a mother and daughter attending the same college.

The Partridge Family

The Partridge Family, ABC sitcom 1970–1974, 96 episodes, created by Bernard Slade, inspired by the Cowsills. Widowed mom Shirley Jones and five kids form a pop band; "I Think I Love You" sold four million copies; David Cassidy became a teen idol.

The Passage (TV series)

The Passage (TV series) is a 2019 Fox science fiction drama created by Liz Heldens, based on Justin Cronin's vampire-apocalypse trilogy, starring Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Saniyya Sidney, canceled after one 10-episode season.

The Path (TV series)

The Path is a Hulu drama series (2016–2018, 3 seasons, 36 episodes) created by Jessica Goldberg, starring Aaron Paul, Michelle Monaghan, and Hugh Dancy as members of the fictional Meyerist movement in upstate New York.

The Patient

The Patient is a 2022 FX on Hulu psychological thriller limited series by Joel Fields and Joe Weisberg (The Americans), in which Steve Carell's therapist Alan Strauss is kidnapped by serial-killer patient Sam Fortner (Domhnall Gleeson) and forced to cure him.