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Bigg Boss (பிக் பாஸ்) (Tamil TV series)

Bigg Boss Tamil (பிக் பாஸ்) is the Tamil edition of the Bigg Boss reality franchise on Star Vijay, launched 2017 with host Kamal Haasan, later Vijay Sethupathi; season 9 winner Divya Ganesh.

Bigg Boss (బిగ్ బాస్ తెలుగు) (Telugu TV series)

Bigg Boss Telugu (బిగ్ బాస్ తెలుగు) is an Indian Telugu-language reality competition series based on the Big Brother format, first aired in 2017 on Star Maa and hosted by Nagarjuna Akkineni.

Bigg Boss Agnipareeksha

Bigg Boss Agnipareeksha (Agnipariksha, Agniparikshe) is a Bigg Boss pre-show selecting commoner contestants, begun in Telugu in 2025 and extended in 2026 to Malayalam, Kannada, and Tamil editions.

Bigg Boss Agnipariksha

Bigg Boss Agnipariksha (Agnipareeksha) is the Telugu digital pre-show of Bigg Boss Telugu on JioHotstar that selects commoner contestants via multi-level auditions, tasks, and jury and audience voting; six Season 1 hopefuls entered the Bigg Boss Telugu 9 house.

Bigg Boss Halla Bol

Bigg Boss Halla Bol (बिग बॉस हल्ला बोल) was a four-week 2015 extension of Bigg Boss 8 (Hindi) on Colors, hosted by Farah Khan, pitting five Champions against five Challengers; Gautam Gulati won Rs 50 lakh.

Bigg Boss Kannada (ಬಿಗ್ ಬಾಸ್ ಕನ್ನಡ)

Bigg Boss Kannada (ಬಿಗ್ ಬಾಸ್ ಕನ್ನಡ), the Kannada Bigg Boss/Big Brother reality series, runs since 2013 on ETV, Suvarna, then Colors Kannada and JioHotstar, hosted every season by Kichcha Sudeep, with Season 13 premiering September 2026.

Bigg Boss Marathi (बिग बॉस मराठी)

Bigg Boss Marathi (बिग बॉस मराठी), the Marathi edition of Bigg Boss on Colors Marathi and JioHotstar, hosted by Mahesh Manjrekar then Riteish Deshmukh; six seasons 2018–2026, winners Megha Dhade through Tanvi Kolte, Marathi-only house rule.

Bigg Boss Non-Stop

Bigg Boss Non-Stop is the first OTT edition of Bigg Boss Telugu, streamed 24x7 on Disney+ Hotstar and hosted by Nagarjuna Akkineni. It ran 26 February to 21 May 2022; Bindu Madhavi won Rs 40 lakh, becoming the first female Bigg Boss Telugu winner.

Bigg Boss OTT

Bigg Boss OTT was the Hindi digital-only spin-off of Bigg Boss, launched on Voot on 8 August 2021, hosted by Karan Johar, Salman Khan, and Anil Kapoor across three seasons, won by Divya Agarwal, Elvish Yadav, and Sana Makbul, and scrapped in January 2026.

Bigg Boss The Common Man

Bigg Boss – The Common Man is the Tamil pre-show of Bigg Boss Tamil Season 10, premiering August 16, 2026 on Star Vijay and JioHotstar, hosted by Maya S. Krishnan, judged by Aari Arujunan, Raju Jeyamohan, and Oviya, selecting commoner contestants.

Bigg Boss Ultimate

Bigg Boss Ultimate is the 24x7 OTT spin-off of Bigg Boss Tamil, streaming on Disney+ Hotstar from January 30 to March 30, 2022, hosted first by Kamal Haasan, then Silambarasan, with 14 returning contestants.

Biker Mice from Mars

Biker Mice from Mars, also known as Biker Mice, is a 1993–1996 American animated series created by Rick Ungar about Martian mouse bikers Throttle, Modo, and Vinnie fighting the Plutarkians in Chicago, with a 2006 revival and Nacelle reboot announced in 2023.

Bill Nye Saves the World

Bill Nye Saves the World is a Netflix science talk show hosted by Bill Nye, premiering April 21, 2017, running three seasons (13, 6, and 6 episodes) with correspondents Karlie Kloss and Derek Muller, covering climate change, vaccines, and GMOs.

Bill Nye the Science Guy

Bill Nye the Science Guy is a 1993-1998 PBS KCTS-TV educational series hosted by engineer Bill Nye: 100 single-topic 25-minute episodes for eight-to-ten year olds, 19 Emmy Awards, NSF-funded, evaluated by Rockman et al.

Bill Potts (Doctor Who)

Bill Potts is a Doctor Who companion played by Pearl Mackie, the Twelfth Doctor's Series 10 (2017) companion and the show's first openly gay one, introduced in "The Pilot" and leaving in "Twice Upon a Time" after Cyber-conversion and rescue by Heather.

Bill Treacher

Bill Treacher (William Charles Treacher, 1930–2022), English actor, first cast member of EastEnders, played Arthur Fowler 1985–1996; later ataxia; died of pneumonia and Covid-19.

Billionaires' Bunker

Billionaires' Bunker (El refugio atómico) is a Spanish Netflix thriller by Money Heist creators Álex Pina and Esther Martínez Lobato: billionaires in a luxury bunker, 8 episodes, premiered September 19, 2025, canceled December 2025 after one season.

Billions (TV series)

Billions is a Showtime drama (2016–2023, 7 seasons, 84 episodes) created by Koppelman, Levien, and Sorkin, starring Paul Giamatti and Damian Lewis as a U.S. Attorney and hedge fund manager; loosely inspired by Preet Bharara, ending in 2023 with spin-offs announced.

Billy Abbott

Billy Abbott (William Abbott) is a fictional character on CBS's The Young and the Restless, son of Jill and John Abbott, originated by David Tom in 1999 and played by Jason Thompson since January 2016, who won the 2020 Daytime Emmy for the role.

Billy Cranston

Billy Cranston is the original Blue Ranger of Mighty Morphin Power Rangers (1993), played by David Yost, named per Bryan Cranston; last original Ranger in Zeo, later Cranston Tech founder in Once & Always and Cosmic Fury.

Billy Miller (actor)

Billy Miller (William John Miller II, 1979–2023) was an American soap actor who won three Daytime Emmys as Billy Abbott on The Young and the Restless (2008–2014) and played Jason Morgan/Drew Cain on General Hospital (2014–2019); he died by suicide in Austin, Texas.

Billy Mitchell (EastEnders)

Billy Mitchell (William Mitchell), EastEnders soap character played by Perry Fenwick since 2 November 1998; a downtrodden Mitchell relative, 2,248 episodes, married Little Mo and Honey, foster father of Jay Brown.

Billy the Exterminator

Billy the Exterminator, originally The Exterminators, is an A&E reality series (2009–2017) following Billy Bretherton and his family running the Vexcon pest-control company in Benton, Louisiana, later continued as Billy Goes North on CMT Canada.

Billy the Kid (TV series)

Billy the Kid is an MGM+/Epix Western drama TV series (2022) created by Michael Hirst, starring Tom Blyth as the outlaw William H. Bonney across three seasons covering his Irish immigrant roots and the Lincoln County War.

Binbir Gece

Binbir Gece (One Thousand and One Nights), Turkish drama on Kanal D 2006-2009, TMC Film, directed by Kudret Sabancı, starring Halit Ergenç and Bergüzar Korel; a loose modern adaptation of the Scheherazade frame story that launched Turkish TV's global exports.

Binddii

Binddii is an Indian Hindi-language drama on JioHotstar about a girl born in prison in Mathura who dreams of freeing her mother Kajal; relaunched after a 15-year leap, it ended in January 2026.

Bindiya Ke Bahubali

Bindiya Ke Bahubali is a 2025 Hindi comedy-drama web series by Raj Amit Kumar on Amazon MX Player, set in fictional Bindiya, Bihar, where the Davan gangster family fights over power after patriarch Bada Davan (Saurabh Shukla) is jailed and son Chhote Davan (Ranvir Shorey) seizes control; two six-episode seasons, IMDb 6.7.

Bing (TV series)

Bing is a British CGI-animated CBeebies preschool series (premiered June 2014) based on Ted Dewan's Bing Bunny books, produced by Acamar Films, Brown Bag Films, and Tandem Films, following toddler bunny Bing and carer Flop, an Emmy winner licensed to 141 territories.

Bio Booster Armor Guyver (強殖装甲ガイバー)

Bio Booster Armor Guyver (Kyōshoku Sōkō Gaibā) is a Japanese science fiction manga by Yoshiki Takaya in which a student becomes the armored bio-weapon Guyver, fighting the organization Chronos.

Biohackers

Biohackers: people applying DIY biology, self-measurement, and technology to their own bodies, from community labs to longevity entrepreneurs like Bryan Johnson; also a cancelled German Netflix thriller series (2020-2021).