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The Undeclared War
The Undeclared War is a British Channel 4/Peacock cyber-thriller created by Peter Kosminsky and Colin Callender, set in 2024 as GCHQ analysts counter Russian cyber-attacks before a UK election; season 1 (2022, six episodes) starred Hannah Khalique-Brown and Simon Pegg, and a 2026 season 2 added a mole plot and Chinese threat.
The Underground Railroad (miniseries)
The Underground Railroad is a 2021 American limited series directed by Barry Jenkins for Amazon Prime Video, adapted from Colson Whitehead's Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, starring Thuso Mbedu and Joel Edgerton.
The Undertow (TV series)
The Undertow, retitled The Twin, is a British Netflix crime-noir series adapting Kristoffer Metcalfe's Norwegian show Twin, starring Jamie Dornan as twins Adam and Lee and Mackenzie Davis as Nicola, premiering January 1, 2027.
The Unfettered Shogun
The Unfettered Shogun (Abarenbō Shōgun, 暴れん坊将軍) is TV Asahi's long-running jidaigeki (1978–2003, 832 episodes) starring Ken Matsudaira as shogun Tokugawa Yoshimune, who fights Edo's evil disguised as commoner Tokuda Shinnosuke; revived in 2025 by Miike.
The Unicorn (TV series)
The Unicorn (CBS, 2019-2021) is a single-camera sitcom starring Walton Goggins as widower Wade Felton, a father of two who becomes a sought-after dater; cancelled May 2021 after two seasons.
The Unit
The Unit (2006-2009) is a CBS action drama created by David Mamet with Shawn Ryan, based on Eric Haney's Inside Delta Force, following a covert special forces team and their wives; four seasons, 69 episodes.
The Untamed (陈情令) (TV series)
The Untamed (陈情令) is a 2019 Chinese xianxia web drama adapted from Mo Xiang Tong Xiu's novel Mo Dao Zu Shi, starring Xiao Zhan and Wang Yibo, 50 episodes on Tencent Video, famous for its advance on-demand payments and overseas success.
The Untold History of the United States
The Untold History of the United States is Oliver Stone's ten-part 2012 Showtime documentary series and companion book with historian Peter Kuznick, reexamining American empire, the atomic bombings, and the Cold War from a revisionist perspective.
The Upshaws
The Upshaws is a Netflix multicamera sitcom created by Regina Y. Hicks and Wanda Sykes, starring Mike Epps, Kim Fields, and Sykes as an Indianapolis Black working-class family; it ran May 12, 2021 to January 15, 2026, ending with Part 7 and 60 total episodes.
The Valley (TV series)
The Valley is a Bravo reality series, a Vanderpump Rules spinoff, that premiered March 19, 2024, following Jax Taylor, Brittany Cartwright, Kristen Doute, and friends in suburban Los Angeles; three seasons have aired, with The Valley: Persian Style as a spinoff.
The Valley: Persian Style
The Valley: Persian Style is a 2026 Bravo reality series, a spinoff of The Valley, reuniting Shahs of Sunset alums Reza Farahan, Mercedeh Javid, and Golnesa Gharachedaghi in the San Fernando Valley; it premiered January 8, 2026, ran nine episodes, and was renewed for season 2.
The Vampire Diaries
The Vampire Diaries: American supernatural teen drama on The CW, 2009-2017, 8 seasons, 171 episodes, adapted from L.J. Smith's 1991 novels; developed by Kevin Williamson and Julie Plec; stars Nina Dobrev, Paul Wesley, Ian Somerhalder; spinoffs The Originals and Legacies.
The Veil
The Veil is a 2024 six-episode FX/Hulu spy thriller miniseries created by Steven Knight, starring Elisabeth Moss as MI6 agent Imogen Salter and Yumna Marwan as Adilah El Idrissi; Metascore 52, ended May 28, 2024.
The Veil (검은 태양) (South Korean TV series)
The Veil (검은 태양, Geomeun Taeyang) is a 2021 MBC Korean spy-action thriller, 12 episodes, starring Namgoong Min as NIS agent Han Ji-hyuk; Grand Prize winner with a Moebius spin-off.
The Venture Bros.
The Venture Bros. (also The Venture Brothers) is an Adult Swim animated series by Jackson Publick and Doc Hammer, a Jonny Quest parody running 2003-2018, cancelled 2020, concluded by the 2023 film Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart.
The Verdict - State vs Nanavati
The Verdict - State vs Nanavati is a 2019 ALTBalaji-ZEE5 ten-episode courtroom drama by Ekta Kapoor, directed by Shashant Shah, dramatizing the 1959 K.M. Nanavati murder trial that ended jury trials in India.
The Vicar of Dibley
The Vicar of Dibley is a BBC One sitcom by Richard Curtis and Paul Mayhew-Archer, starring Dawn French as Rev Geraldine Granger, a female vicar in the fictional Oxfordshire village of Dibley after the Church of England allowed women's ordination; it aired 1994 to 2007 with specials to 2020 and ranked third in the 2004 Britain's Best Sitcom poll.
The Victims' Game (谁是被害者)
The Victims' Game (誰是被害者) is a Taiwanese Netflix Mandarin crime thriller adapted from Endless Universe's novel The Fourth Victim, starring Joseph Chang as a forensic investigator with Asperger's syndrome; two seasons, 2020 and 2024, first Chinese-language Netflix renewal.
The Victims' Game: Season 2 (谁是被害者2)
The Victims' Game: Season 2 (誰是被害者2), Taiwanese Netflix crime thriller, second season, released June 21, 2024, 8 episodes; Joseph Chang's forensic investigator Fang Yi-jen becomes a prime suspect in murders tied to a 15-year-old case.
The Vietnam War (TV series)
The Vietnam War (2017) is a ten-part, 18-hour PBS documentary series by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick, made over ten years by Florentine Films and WETA, telling the war from American and Vietnamese perspectives with 79 on-screen witnesses.
The View
The View is ABC's daytime talk show created by Barbara Walters, premiering August 11, 1997, with a multigenerational women's panel discussing Hot Topics; current hosts Goldberg, Behar, Hostin, Haines, Griffin, and Navarro lead its 30th season.
The Village (2013 TV series)
The Village (2013–2014) is a BBC One drama series written by Peter Moffat, also compared to Heimat, following the Derbyshire Middleton family in Hayfield through the twentieth century across two six-episode series.
The Village (2019 TV series)
The Village (2019) is a one-season NBC drama created by Mike Daniels about residents of a Brooklyn apartment building forming a chosen family; canceled May 30, 2019 after averaging 4.12 million viewers and mixed-to-negative reviews.
The Village (2023 TV series)
The Village (தி வில்லேஜ்) is a 2023 Tamil Prime Video horror series, India's first graphic-novel adaptation for OTT, directed by Milind Rau, starring Arya as Gautham in the cursed village of Kattiyal.
The Village Barber (시골 이발사)
The Village Barber (보검 매직컬, Bogum Magical) is a 2026 tvN Korean reality-variety show in which licensed-barber actor Park Bo-gum, with Lee Sang-yi and Kwak Dong-yeon, runs a real barbershop in Muju County; season 2 was announced for late 2026.
The Vince Staples Show
The Vince Staples Show is a Netflix satirical comedy co-created by and starring rapper Vince Staples as a fictionalized himself in Long Beach. Two seasons (2024, 2025), 11 episodes, EP Kenya Barris; canceled January 2026 after weak viewership despite a 94% Rotten Tomatoes score.
The Viral Fever
The Viral Fever (TVF) is an Indian digital entertainment studio founded by Arunabh Kumar, known for Permanent Roommates, Pitchers, Kota Factory, Aspirants, and Panchayat, and for pioneering branded web series in India.
The Virgin Queen (TV serial)
The Virgin Queen (TV serial): 2005-2006 BBC1 four-part drama, also called Elizabeth: The Virgin Queen, written by Paula Milne, directed by Coky Giedroyc, starring Anne-Marie Duff as Elizabeth I with Tom Hardy as Robert Dudley, aired on PBS Masterpiece Theatre.
The Virginian (TV series)
The Virginian (TV series), also known as The Men from Shiloh, is an American Western series that aired from 1962 to 1971, known for being the first 90-minute Western.
The Virtues (TV series)
The Virtues is a 2019 four-part Channel 4 miniseries written and directed by Shane Meadows with Jack Thorne, starring Stephen Graham as Joseph, a recovering alcoholic confronting repressed memories of care-home abuse in Ireland.