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Bionic Woman (2007 TV series)

Bionic Woman (2007) is NBC's short-lived reimagining of the 1976–78 Lindsay Wagner series, starring Michelle Ryan as rebuilt bartender Jaime Sommers. Eight episodes aired before the WGA strike; it premiered to 13.91 million viewers and was cancelled in spring 2008.

Birangana

Birangana (বীরাঙ্গনা) is a Bengali hoichoi crime thriller web series directed by Nirjhar Mitra, starring Sandipta Sen as Inspector Chitra Basu hunting serial killers; season 1 premiered 25 July 2025, season 2 on 15 October 2026, distinct from the Bangladeshi Birangona honorific.

Birdman and the Galaxy Trio

Birdman and the Galaxy Trio is a 1967 NBC Hanna-Barbera animated series designed by Alex Toth, pairing the sun-powered winged hero Birdman (Ray Randall) with the alien superhero team Vapor Man, Gravity Girl, and Meteor Man aboard Condor One.

Birds of a Feather (TV series)

Birds of a Feather is a British sitcom created by Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran about two sisters living together while their husbands serve prison terms for armed robbery.

Birds of Prey (TV series)

Birds of Prey (2002-2003) was a short-lived American WB live-action superhero series developed by Laeta Kalogridis, loosely based on the DC Comics team, starring Ashley Scott, Dina Meyer, and Rachel Skarsten; one season of 13 episodes, canceled after ratings fell from a 7.6-million-viewer premiere.

Birth of a Beauty (미녀의 탄생)

Birth of a Beauty (미녀의 탄생) is a 2014 SBS South Korean romantic-comedy revenge drama in which a mistreated housewife, Sa Geum Ran, transforms into Sara via full-body plastic surgery; 21 episodes, starring Joo Sang Wook, Han Ye Seul, Jung Gyu Woon, and Wang Ji Hye.

Bishōjo (美少女)

Bishōjo (美少女, bishoujo) is Japanese for a beautiful girl and, in English fandom, a genre of anime and manga depicting cute young girls; attested from 1686, central to otaku media, and borrowed into Chinese and Korean.

Bishōnen (美少年)

Bishōnen (美少年), literally "beautiful boy," is a Japanese term and aesthetic for slender, androgynously beautiful young men, rooted in Edo-period wakashu imagery and central to shōjo manga, male idols, and boys' love (BL) manga.

Bitch x Rich (청담국제고등학교)

Bitch x Rich (청담국제고등학교, Cheongdam International High School) is a 2023 South Korean teen mystery thriller web drama starring Lee Eun-saem and Red Velvet's Yeri, about a poor student who witnesses a murder and transfers to an elite school; season 2 aired July 2025.

Bitten (TV series)

Bitten is a Canadian supernatural drama TV series (2014–2016, 3 seasons, 33 episodes) on Space and Syfy, adapted from Kelley Armstrong's Women of the Otherworld novels, starring Laura Vandervoort as Elena Michaels, the world's only female werewolf.

Bix Caleen

Bix Caleen is a fictional mechanic and salvage-yard owner on Ferrix in the Star Wars series Andor, played by Adria Arjona; Cassian Andor's on-and-off partner, tortured by the ISB in Season 1, recovering from PTSD in Season 2, and last seen with their baby on Mina-Rau.

Bizaardvark

Bizaardvark is a Disney Channel live-action comedy (2016–2019, 3 seasons) created by Kyle Stegina and Josh Lehrman, starring Olivia Rodrigo and Madison Hu as teen vloggers Paige and Frankie on the fictional Vuuugle platform.

Bizim Hikaye

Bizim Hikaye (Our Story), 2017–2019 FOX Turkey family drama adapted from the American series Shameless, produced by Medyapım, starring Hazal Kaya, Burak Deniz, and Reha Özcan; not the 2015 Turkish film of the same title.

Black and White Forbidden Zone (黑白禁区)

Black and White Forbidden Zone (黑白禁区, The Penalty Zone) is a 2020 Chinese undercover narcotics-crime drama, 44 episodes on iQiyi/Tencent Video/Youku, directed by 赵浚凯, starring 欧豪 as amnesiac undercover cop 淦天雷; Douban 4.8.

Black Bird (miniseries)

Black Bird is a 2022 six-episode Apple TV+ true-crime limited series created by Dennis Lehane from James Keene's memoir In With the Devil, starring Taron Egerton, Paul Walter Hauser, and Ray Liotta; Hauser won a Golden Globe and an Emmy.

Black Books

Black Books is a Channel 4 British sitcom (2000–2004, 18 episodes, 3 series) created by Dylan Moran and Graham Linehan, starring Moran as misanthropic bookseller Bernard Black with Bill Bailey and Tamsin Greig; it won BAFTA Situation Comedy awards in 2001 and 2005.

Black Butler (黒執事)

Black Butler (黒執事, Kuroshitsuji) is Yana Toboso's Victorian dark fantasy manga serialized in Square Enix's Monthly G Fantasy since 2006, following demon butler Sebastian Michaelis and twelve-year-old earl Ciel Phantomhive; over 36 million copies, six anime series, musicals, and a live-action film.

Black Cake (TV series)

Black Cake is a 2023 Hulu drama series, eight episodes, adapted by Marissa Jo Cerar from Charmaine Wilkerson's 2022 novel, produced by Harpo Films and Kapital Entertainment, starring Mia Isaac, Chipo Chung, Adrienne Warren, and Ashley Thomas; cancelled in 2024.

Black Cat (ブラックキャット) (manga)

Black Cat (ブラックキャット) is Kentaro Yabuki's 2000-2004 Weekly Shonen Jump manga in 20 volumes about assassin Train Heartnet, who leaves Chronos to become a bounty hunter; adapted into a 24-episode 2005 TBS anime.

Black Clover (ブラッククローバー)

Black Clover (ブラッククローバー) is Yūki Tabata's fantasy manga about Asta, a magicless boy with anti-magic aiming to become Wizard King. Serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump from February 2015, moved to quarterly Jump GIGA in 2023, ended with chapter 392 on May 1, 2026; 392 chapters, 38 volumes, 24 million copies.

Black Clover (ブラッククローバー) (TV series)

Black Clover (ブラッククローバー) is the TV anime of Yūki Tabata's Weekly Shōnen Jump manga about Asta and Yuno; 170 episodes aired 2017-2021 on TV Tokyo, with a film in 2023 and a second season set for October 2026.

Black Doves

Black Doves is a British Netflix spy thriller created by Joe Barton, starring Keira Knightley as Helen Webb and Ben Whishaw as Sam Young; Season 1 premiered December 5, 2024, and Season 2 arrives November 5, 2026.

Black Dynamite (TV series)

Black Dynamite is a two-season Adult Swim adult animated series (premiered July 15, 2012) adapting the 2009 blaxploitation parody film, with Michael Jai White, Byron Minns, Tommy Davidson, and Kym Whitley reprising voice roles, developed by Carl Jones.

Black Earth Rising

Black Earth Rising is a 2018 eight-part BBC Two/Netflix thriller written and directed by Hugo Blick, starring Michaela Coel as Rwandan genocide survivor Kate Ashby, exploring post-genocide justice, the ICC, and RPF reprisals.

Black Forceps (ブラックペアン)

Black Forceps (ブラックペアン) is a TBS Sunday Theater medical drama starring Kazunari Ninomiya, based on Takeru Kaidō's novels; season 1 aired April 2018, season 2 July-September 2024.

Black Ink Crew

Black Ink Crew (Black Ink Crew New York) is a VH1 reality series premiered January 7, 2013, following Ceaser Emanuel's African-American-owned Harlem tattoo shop staff across 10 seasons, with Chicago and Compton spin-offs.

Black Jack (ブラック・ジャック) (manga)

Black Jack (ブラック・ジャック) is Osamu Tezuka's medical manga serialized in Weekly Shonen Champion 1973–1983, 243 self-contained episodes about Hazama Kuroo, an unlicensed genius surgeon, distinguishable from the card game and other uses of the name.

Black Knight (South Korean TV series)

Black Knight (택배기사, Taekbaegisa) is a 2023 Netflix South Korean dystopian sci-fi series by Cho Ui-seok, based on Lee Yoon-gyun's webtoon Delivery Knight, starring Kim Woo-bin as courier 5-8 in 2071 Korea.

Black Knight: The Man Who Guards Me (흑기사)

Black Knight: The Man Who Guards Me (흑기사) is a 2017 KBS2 Korean fantasy romance drama, 20 episodes, starring Kim Rae-won and Shin Se-kyeong, about a CEO, a travel agent, and two 200-year-old witches; distinct from the 2023 Netflix series Black Knight.

Black Lagoon

Black Lagoon (ブラック・ラグーン) is a seinen manga by Rei Hiroe, serialized in Sunday GX since 2002, about salaryman Rock joining the Lagoon Company couriers in Roanapur; 14 volumes, 10 million copies, Madhouse anime.