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The Proud Family

The Proud Family is Disney Channel's first Black animated series (2001–2005), created by Bruce W. Smith, following 14-year-old Penny Proud; revived on Disney+ as Louder and Prouder in 2022.

The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder

The Proud Family: Louder and Prouder is a Disney+ animated revival of The Proud Family (2001–05), created by Bruce W. Smith with Ralph Farquhar, starring Kyla Pratt as Penny Proud. It ran four seasons from February 23, 2022 to its final season on July 29, 2026, plus the stop-motion special A Proud Family Wizmas.

The Punisher (TV series)

Marvel's The Punisher, also called The Punisher TV series, is a Netflix Marvel Television show (2017–2019) starring Jon Bernthal as Frank Castle, created by Steve Lightfoot, two 13-episode seasons, later continued via Daredevil: Born Again and One Last Kill.

The Puppy Episode

The Puppy Episode is the two-part April 30, 1997 Ellen episode in which Ellen DeGeneres's character comes out as a lesbian, the first gay lead in prime-time network TV, watched by 42 million viewers and winning a Peabody and two Emmys.

The Purge (TV series)

The Purge (TV series): American dystopian horror drama on USA Network, 2018-2019, created by James DeMonaco from his film franchise; Blumhouse/UCP co-production, two seasons and 20 episodes, canceled May 2020 after season 2 ratings decline.

The Pursuit of Love (TV series)

The Pursuit of Love (2021) is a three-part BBC One romantic comedy-drama written and directed by Emily Mortimer, adapting Nancy Mitford's 1945 novel; it stars Lily James and Emily Beecham as cousins Linda Radlett and Fanny Logan in interwar Europe, co-produced with Amazon.

The Pyramid Scheme

The Pyramid Scheme (द पिरामिड स्कीम) is a 2026 TVF Hindi comedy-drama on Prime Video, 7 episodes from 5 June 2026, starring Paramvir Cheema as Goldy and Ranvir Shorey as Manoj in an MLM scam story set in Haridwar; IMDb 6.5/10.

The Qin Empire II (大秦帝国之纵横)

The Qin Empire II (大秦帝国之纵横, 大秦帝国2) is a 2013 Chinese historical drama directed by Ding Hei, adapted from part two of Sun Haohui's novel, starring Fu Dalong as King Huiwen and Yu Entai as Zhang Yi; 51 episodes, Douban 9.3, Golden Eagle and Flying Apsaras award winner.

The Quatermass Experiment

The Quatermass Experiment: 1953 BBC live six-part science-fiction serial by Nigel Kneale, produced by Rudolph Cartier, starring Reginald Tate; only two episodes survive; spawned Hammer films and Doctor Who's lineage.

The Queen of News (新闻女王)

The Queen of News (新聞女王) is a 2023 TVB–Youku Hong Kong workplace drama about rival news anchors at fictional SNK News, starring Charmaine Sheh and Kenneth Ma; Hong Kong's most watched 2023 drama, with a sequel in 2025 and a planned third season.

The Queen of News 2

The Queen of News 2 (新聞女王2) is a 2025 25-episode TVB–Youku Hong Kong workplace drama, direct sequel to The Queen of News, starring Charmaine Sheh and Bosco Wong, premiered 5 November 2025 on Youku.

The Queen of Villains (極悪女王)

The Queen of Villains (極悪女王, Gokuaku Joou) is a 2024 Netflix Japanese drama, five episodes, about 1980s heel wrestler Dump Matsumoto, starring Yuriyan Retriever, with Chigusa Nagayo as wrestling supervisor.

The Queen Who Crowns (원경)

The Queen Who Crowns (원경, Wongyeong), 2025 tvN/TVING Korean historical melodrama directed by Kim Sang-ho, starring Cha Joo-young and Lee Hyun-wook as Queen Wongyeong and King Taejong; 12 broadcast episodes, dual 15/19-rated versions, finale rated 6.6%.

The Queen's Gambit (miniseries)

The Queen's Gambit is a 2020 American limited series on Netflix, seven episodes written and directed by Scott Frank, starring Anya Taylor-Joy and adapted from Walter Tevis's 1983 novel.

The Quintessential Quintuplets (五等分の花嫁)

The Quintessential Quintuplets (五等分の花嫁) is Negi Haruba's romance-comedy manga, serialized in Weekly Shonen Magazine 2017-2020 in 14 volumes, about tutor Futaro Uesugi and the Nakano quintuplets; adapted into anime, a 2022 film, specials, and a stage play.

The Quiz with Balls

The Quiz with Balls is a Fox quiz show hosted by Jay Pharoah, adapted from the Dutch series De kwis met ballen, with a $100,000 grand prize.

The Qwaser of Stigmata

The Qwaser of Stigmata, also known as Seikon No Qwaser, is a Japanese manga series about a Qwaser named Sasha who manipulates iron, adapted into a 2010 anime.

The Raccoons

The Raccoons is a Canadian animated series created by Kevin Gillis, set in the Evergreen Forest, running 1985–1992 with 60 episodes over 5 seasons after four 1980s specials, featuring Bert Raccoon versus tycoon Cyril Sneer and the theme song "Run With Us."

The Rachel Incident

The Rachel Incident is a 2023 novel by Caroline O'Donoghue about Rachel Murray and James Devlin in Cork, Ireland, after the 2008 financial crash, adapted as an eight-part Channel 4 series starring Máiréad Tyers and Ellis Howard, produced by UCP, Element Pictures, and Pageboy.

The Raikar Case

The Raikar Case is a 2020 Hindi thriller web series on Voot Select, directed by Aditya Sarpotdar, starring Atul Kulkarni, Neil Bhoopalam, and Parul Gulati; seven episodes about a Goa family's murder mystery.

The Railway Men

The Railway Men: The Untold Story of Bhopal 1984 is a four-episode Netflix Hindi limited series (November 18, 2023), YRF Entertainment's first, directed by Shiv Rawail, starring Kay Kay Menon, R. Madhavan, Divyenndu, and Babil Khan as railway workers saving lives in the 1984 Bhopal gas tragedy.

The Rain (TV series)

The Rain is a Danish post-apocalyptic Netflix drama (2018-2020), the first Danish Netflix original, created by Jannik Tai Mosholt, Esben Toft Jacobsen, and Christian Potalivo for Miso Film. Three seasons, 20 episodes, about siblings surviving a rain-borne virus in Scandinavia.

The Rainmaker (TV series)

The Rainmaker (TV series) is a 2025 USA Network legal drama adapted from John Grisham's 1995 novel, produced by Lionsgate Television and Blumhouse Atomic Monster, starring Milo Callaghan as Rudy Baylor; renewed for a second season premiering October 16, 2026.

The Ranch

The Ranch (2016-2020) is Netflix's first original comedy series, a multi-camera sitcom by Don Reo and Jim Patterson starring Ashton Kutcher, Sam Elliott, and Debra Winger as the Colorado Bennett family, 80 episodes, three Emmys.

The Rap of China (中国有嘻哈)

The Rap of China (中国有嘻哈) is iQiyi's 2017 hip-hop talent show, China's first, with producers Kris Wu, MC HotDog, and Will Pan; winners GAI and PG One; over 3 billion views; rebranded 中国新说唱 after 2018 censorship.

The Rapture (TV series)

The Rapture is a five-part British psychological thriller broadcast on BBC One and iPlayer in 2026, adapted from Liz Jensen's 2010 novel and starring Ruth Madeley and India Amarteifio.

The Rat Patrol

The Rat Patrol (1966–68) was ABC's half-hour WWII action series about three Americans and a Brit in jeeps battling Rommel's Afrika Korps, loosely based on the British LRDG and SAS, starring Christopher George and Eric Braeden, pulled by the BBC after six episodes.

The Ready Room

The Ready Room is the Star Trek aftershow on CBS All Access and Paramount+, hosted by Naomi Kyle (2019) then Wil Wheaton (2020-2024), covering Discovery, Picard, Lower Decks, Prodigy, and Strange New Worlds; it ended December 19, 2024.

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest

The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest is a 1996-1997 Hanna-Barbera animated revival of Jonny Quest on Cartoon Network, adding Jessie and the CGI QuestWorld, with a troubled, over-budget production and two stylistically different seasons.

The Real Bros of Simi Valley

The Real Bros of Simi Valley is a scripted comedy web series parodying reality TV, created by Jimmy Tatro and Christian A. Pierce. It ran on YouTube (2017) and Facebook Watch (2018–2020) for three seasons, then continued as a 2024 Roku Channel film.