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Black Lightning (TV series)
Black Lightning is a CW superhero drama (2018–2021) created by Salim Akil, starring Cress Williams as retired hero Jefferson Pierce, father to Thunder and Lightning.
Black Mesa Research Facility
The Black Mesa Research Facility, colloquially Black Mesa, is the fictional New Mexico desert complex where a disastrous resonance cascade triggers the Black Mesa Incident in Valve's 1998 game Half-Life.
Black Mirror
Black Mirror is a British dystopian science-fiction anthology series created by Charlie Brooker, first aired on Channel 4 in 2011 and later a Netflix original, with standalone episodes about technology and society, including the interactive film Bandersnatch and a seventh season in 2025.
Black Monday (TV series)
Black Monday is a Showtime dark comedy series (2019–2021, 30 episodes) created by David Caspe and Jordan Cahan, starring Don Cheadle, Andrew Rannells, and Regina Hall as 1980s Wall Street outsiders who cause the October 19, 1987 stock market crash; cancelled in 2022, later on Netflix.
Black Out (TV series)
Black Out (백설공주에게 죽음을, Snow White Must Die) is a 2024 MBC Korean crime thriller starring Byun Yo-han and Go Joon, adapting Nele Neuhaus's German novel; 14 episodes aired August 16 to October 4, 2024, rising from 2.8% to 6.4% Nielsen ratings.
Black Panther (TV series)
Black Panther (TV series): 2010 BET motion-comic miniseries adapting Reginald Hudlin's 'Who is the Black Panther?' comic in six TV-14 episodes; stars Djimon Hounsou as T'Challa and introduced Shuri, predating the 2018 film.
Black Pearl
Black Pearl covers three main uses: the Pirates of the Caribbean pirate ship formerly the Wicked Wench captained by Jack Sparrow; the Turkish series Siyah İnci (2017–2018) on Star TV; and the Argentine telenovela Perla negra (1994–1995) starring Andrea Del Boca.
Black Phone (film series)
Black Phone film series: Blumhouse/Universal horror franchise begun with The Black Phone (2022), adapted from Joe Hill's short story, starring Ethan Hawke as the Grabber; continued by Black Phone 2 (2025), which makes the villain supernatural.
Black Rabbit
Black Rabbit is a 2025 Netflix crime thriller limited series created by Zach Baylin and Kate Susman, starring Jude Law as restaurateur Jake Friedken and Jason Bateman as his debt-ridden brother Vince; eight episodes, 7 Emmy nominations.
Black Rock Shooter
Black Rock Shooter is a Japanese media franchise created by huke. It began as an original illustration in 2007 and grew into an anime, game, and music series.
Black Sails (TV series)
Black Sails, Starz pirate drama (2014-2017) by Jonathan E. Steinberg and Robert Levine, a Treasure Island prequel set in Nassau in 1715, mixing historical pirates with Stevenson's characters.
Black Snow
Black Snow is an Australian Stan crime mystery series (premiered 1 January 2023) in which Travis Fimmel's cold-case detective James Cormack investigates the 1994 murder of Isabel Baker in a North Queensland town, centered on its Australian South Sea Islander community; seasons 2 and 3 followed.
Black Souls (video game series)
Black Souls (BLACK SOULS; Kuro no Douwa to Go-Mahime) is an RPG Maker dark-fantasy eroge series by doujin circle Eeny, Meeny, Miny, Moe?/Sushi Yuusha Toro, first released on DLsite in 2017 with a 2018 sequel, Souls-inspired turn-based combat, fairy-tale heroines, and 2025 Steam releases.
Black Summer (TV series)
Black Summer is a Netflix zombie horror series (2019-2021), created by Karl Schaefer and John Hyams as a darker prequel to Z Nation, starring Jaime King as Rose; two seasons, 16 episodes, canceled after weak viewership.
Black Vulcan
Black Vulcan: Hanna-Barbera-created electric superhero of the Super Friends (1977 onward), voiced by Buster Jones, built as a royalty-avoiding substitute for DC's Black Lightning.
Black Warrant (TV series)
Black Warrant (ब्लैक वॉरंट) is a 2025 Hindi-language Netflix crime drama, seven episodes, created by Vikramaditya Motwane and Satyanshu Singh, based on Sunil Gupta and Sunetra Choudhury's 2019 memoir about Tihar Jail in the 1980s, starring Zahan Kapoor; season 2 was announced then postponed in 2025.
Black White Forest (黑白森林)
Black White Forest (黑白森林) is a 2024 Tencent Video Chinese crime-suspense web drama, 28 episodes, directed by Zhao Junkai, third in his Black & White series, starring Ding Yuxi, Ning Li, and Han Xue in a lost-pistol investigation.
Black-ish
Black-ish (black-ish) is an American ABC sitcom created by Kenya Barris, airing 2014-2022 over 8 seasons, following ad executive Dre Johnson (Anthony Anderson) and Rainbow (Tracee Ellis Ross) raising an upper-middle-class Black family; Peabody winner, 26 Emmy nominations, spun off Grown-ish and Mixed-ish. Not the Netflix show #blackAF.
Black, White & Gray - Love Kills
Black, White & Gray - Love Kills is a 2025 Hindi-language SonyLIV crime-thriller mockumentary in six episodes, directed by Pushkar Sunil Mahabal, starring Mayur More, Palak Jaiswal, Deven Bhojani, and Tigmanshu Dhulia, about a fictional Nagpur murder case investigated by journalist Daniel Gray.
Blackadder
Blackadder is a BBC1 British historical sitcom (1983–1989, plus specials) starring Rowan Atkinson as successive Edmund Blackadders and Tony Robinson as Baldrick, written by Richard Curtis, Ben Elton, and Atkinson, spanning medieval, Elizabethan, Regency, and First World War settings.
Blackadder Goes Forth
Blackadder Goes Forth, also called Blackadder 4, is the 1989 fourth and final BBC series of Blackadder by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, set in 1917 Western Front trenches, starring Rowan Atkinson, and famous for its poppy-field finale Goodbyeee.
Blackadder II
Blackadder II (1986) is the second series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, set at the Elizabethan court of Queen Elizabeth I, aired in six episodes on BBC One from 9 January to 20 February 1986.
Blackadder the Third
Blackadder the Third is the third series of the BBC sitcom Blackadder (also known as Blackadder III), set in the Regency era with Edmund Blackadder as butler to Prince George. Six episodes aired on BBC One in 1987; it won the 1988 BAFTA for Best Comedy Series.
BlackAF
#blackAF is a 2020 Netflix comedy series created by and starring Kenya Barris as a fictionalized version of himself, with Rashida Jones as his wife Joya. Eight episodes, mockumentary format, 46% critics score, renewed then cancelled in 2021.
Blackshore
Blackshore is a six-part Irish crime drama (RTÉ One, 2024) created by Kate O'Riordan, starring Lisa Dwan as DI Fia Lucey, a Dublin detective sent to fictional Blackwater to investigate a murder linked to her family's past.
Blade of the Immortal (無限の住人-IMMORTAL-)
Blade of the Immortal (無限の住人-IMMORTAL-, Mugen no Junin: Immortal) is a 2019 Liden Films ONA adapting Hiroaki Samura's samurai manga in 24 Amazon Prime Video episodes about the immortal ronin Manji and Rin's revenge on the Ittō-ryū.
Blade of the Immortal (無限の住人)
Blade of the Immortal (無限の住人, Mugen no Jūnin) is Hiroaki Samura's samurai manga serialized in Monthly Afternoon 1993–2012, complete in 30 volumes; Rin Asano hires the immortal ronin Manji for revenge against the Ittō-ryū, with anime, a 2017 Miike film, and a Bakumatsu-era sequel.
Blade of Vengeance (白衣公卿)
Blade of Vengeance (白衣公卿, aka Jin Yi Xing 锦衣行) is a Chinese Yongle-era wuxia series adapted from Fu Lan's novel, directed by Lin Shui Jing and Li Cai, starring Gong Jun and Wang Yuwen, filmed 2025, slated for CCTV/Tencent Video in 2026.
Blade Runner (franchise)
Blade Runner (franchise): science fiction media franchise from Ridley Scott's 1982 film, adapted from Philip K. Dick's 1968 novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?, spanning Blade Runner 2049, Black Lotus, Titan Comics, the 1997 Westwood game, and the Prime Video series Blade Runner 2099.
Blade Runner 2099
Blade Runner 2099 is an eight-episode Prime Video limited series premiering November 25, 2026, set 50 years after Blade Runner 2049, where replicants rule Los Angeles. Showrunner Silka Luisa; stars Michelle Yeoh and Hunter Schafer; filmed in Prague.