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The Real CSI: Miami

The Real CSI: Miami is a CBS true-crime docuseries, also called The Real CSI Miami, premiering June 26, 2024. Created by Jerry Bruckheimer and Anthony Zuiker, its 10-episode first season profiles real South Florida homicide cases and the forensic science behind them.

The Real Ghostbusters

The Real Ghostbusters is the 1986-1991 DIC/Columbia animated sequel series to the 1984 Ghostbusters film, retitled to avoid confusion with Filmation's cartoon; 140 episodes, ABC and syndication, voices including Lorenzo Music and Maurice LaMarche.

The Real Has Come! (진짜가 나타났다!)

The Real Has Come! (진짜가 나타났다!) is a 2023 KBS2 Korean weekend family drama, 50 episodes, starring Baek Jin-hee and Ahn Jae-hyun as a single mother and obstetrician in a fake contract marriage, peaking at 23.9% Nielsen rating.

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills (RHOBH) is Bravo's sixth Real Housewives edition, premiered October 14, 2010. Thirteen-plus seasons, 22 main cast members, spin-off Vanderpump Rules; season 15 began December 2025 with Rachel Zoe joining.

The Real Housewives of London

The Real Housewives of London is the 30th Real Housewives installment and Hayu's first original series, following six London socialites including Juliet Angus and Amanda Cronin; season 1 aired in 2025, with Bravo airing it in 2026.

The Real Housewives of Miami

The Real Housewives of Miami is an American reality series following affluent women in Miami, premiering on Bravo in 2011 and revived by Peacock in 2021.

The Real Housewives of New Jersey

The Real Housewives of New Jersey (RHONJ), Bravo reality series premiered May 12, 2009, fourth U.S. Housewives installment. 14 seasons on Peacock; defined by Teresa Giudice's 2009 table flip, the Giudice fraud sentences, and the 2026 Season 15 return.

The Real Housewives of New York City

The Real Housewives of New York City (RHONY) is a Bravo reality series that premiered March 4, 2008, the second Real Housewives show after Orange County. It ran 13 seasons with its original cast before a 2023 reboot; season 16 premiered September 8, 2026.

The Real Housewives of Orange County

The Real Housewives of Orange County (RHOC), the first Real Housewives series, premiered on Bravo March 21, 2006; developed by Scott Dunlop in Coto de Caza, it reached Season 20 in 2026 and launched a 12-city franchise.

The Real Housewives of Potomac

The Real Housewives of Potomac (RHOP) is a Bravo reality series that premiered January 17, 2016, the franchise's eighth installment, following a predominantly Black cast in affluent Potomac, Maryland; now in season 11 (2026).

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City

The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City (RHOSLC) is a Bravo reality series, the tenth US Housewives franchise, premiering November 11, 2020, set among Mormon and ex-Mormon women in Utah, known for Jen Shah's wire-fraud arrest and the Monica Garcia Reality Von Tease reveal.

The Real McCoys

The Real McCoys, an American rural sitcom 1957–1963 on ABC then CBS, starring Walter Brennan as Grandpa Amos McCoy; a West Virginia family farms a San Fernando Valley ranch and launched the 1960s rural comedy trend.

The Real O'Neals

The Real O'Neals is an American family sitcom that aired on ABC from 2016 to 2017, following an Irish Catholic family after son Kenny comes out as gay.

The Real World (TV series)

The Real World is MTV's reality series premiered May 21, 1992, created by Mary-Ellis Bunim and Jonathan Murray, placing seven strangers aged 18-25 in a house; 33 seasons, over 640 episodes, and the model for modern reality TV.

The Rebel (South Korean TV series)

The Rebel (역적: 백성을 훔친 도적) is a 2017 MBC Monday-Tuesday historical drama, 30 episodes, reimagining outlaw Hong Gil-dong against King Yeonsan; highest rating 14.4%, ABU Prize winner, 2017 MBC Drama Awards Daesang for Kim Sang-joong.

The Recruit (American TV series)

The Recruit is an American Netflix spy-adventure series (2022-2025) created by Alexi Hawley, starring Noah Centineo as rookie CIA lawyer Owen Hendricks; two seasons, 14 episodes, canceled March 2025; distinct from the 2003 film of the same name.

The Red Green Show

The Red Green Show is a Canadian sitcom-sketch comedy hybrid created by Steve Smith, set at Possum Lodge in Possum Lake; it ran 15 seasons and 300 episodes from 1991 to 2006 on CHCH, Global, and CBC, and became a PBS cult hit in the United States.

The Red King (TV series)

The Red King is a 2024 British six-part crime thriller and folk-horror series created by Toby Whithouse, starring Anjli Mohindra as Sergeant Grace Narayan investigating a missing-boy cold case on the fictional Welsh island of St. Jory, home to the pagan cult of the True Way; aired on Alibi, later AMC+.

The Red Line (TV series)

The Red Line is a 2019 CBS eight-episode limited drama, also called a miniseries, created by Caitlin Parrish and Erica Weiss with Ava DuVernay and Greg Berlanti producing; it follows three Chicago families after a police shooting, starred Noah Wyle, and was cancelled after low ratings.

The Red Road (TV series)

The Red Road is a SundanceTV crime drama created by Aaron Guzikowski, airing 2014-2015 in two six-episode seasons. It stars Martin Henderson, Jason Momoa, and Julianne Nicholson in a New Jersey story about a sheriff's pact with a Lenape ex-con.

The Red Sleeve (옷소매 붉은 끝동)

The Red Sleeve (옷소매 붉은 끝동) is a 2021-2022 MBC Korean historical romance drama, 17 episodes, based on Kang Mikang's novel about King Jeongjo and Royal Noble Consort Uibin Seong, starring Lee Jun-ho and Lee Se-young, peaking at 17.4% ratings.

The Regime (miniseries)

The Regime is a 2024 HBO six-episode political satire miniseries created by Will Tracy, starring Kate Winslet as mold-obsessed dictator Chancellor Elena Vernham and Matthias Schoenaerts as Herbert Zubak, set in a fictional Central European country.

The Rehearsal (TV series)

The Rehearsal is an HBO docu-comedy series created by and starring Nathan Fielder, premiering July 15, 2022, in which people rehearse difficult life events in elaborate replica sets with actors; season 2 (2025) focused on aviation safety and won a Peabody Award.

The Reluctant Traveler

The Reluctant Traveler (full title The Reluctant Traveler with Eugene Levy) is an Apple TV+ travel documentary-comedy series hosted by Eugene Levy, a self-described non-traveler. Three seasons since February 2023; season 4 announced June 2026; produced by Twofour; Emmy-nominated.

The Reluctant Vampire

The Reluctant Vampire is a 2026 BBC One family sitcom, 6 x 30 minutes, adapting Eric Morecambe's 1982 children's novel and its sequel. Written by Neil and Rob Gibbons, it stars Lenny Rush as Val, a human raised in a vampire family, premiered 4 October 2026 at 6:40pm.

The Remarried Empress (재혼 황후)

The Remarried Empress (재혼 황후, Jaehon Hwanghu) is a Korean romance fantasy web novel by Alphatart about Empress Navier, who demands remarriage approval when Emperor Sovieshu divorces her; it became a 2.97-billion-view webtoon and a Disney+ drama premiering November 4, 2026.

The Ren & Stimpy Show

The Ren & Stimpy Show (1991–1995) is a Nickelodeon Nicktoons cartoon by John Kricfalusi about a temperamental Chihuahua and a dimwitted cat, famous for gross-out humor, the 1992 firing of its creator, and later abuse allegations.

The Repair Shop

The Repair Shop is a BBC television series produced by Ricochet since March 2017, in which craftspeople led by presenter Jay Blades restore family heirlooms of sentimental rather than monetary value, without competition elements.

The Replacements (TV series)

The Replacements is a Disney Channel animated series (2006-2009) created by Dan Santat about orphans Todd and Riley, who use the Fleemco phone to replace adults, gaining spy mom Agent K and daredevil dad Dick Daring; 52 episodes, two seasons.

The Residence (TV series)

The Residence is a 2025 Netflix Shondaland murder-mystery comedy series created by Paul William Davies, starring Uzo Aduba as Detective Cordelia Cupp investigating a White House state-dinner death; eight episodes, cancelled July 2025.