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Welcome to Earth

Welcome to Earth is a six-part National Geographic documentary series on Disney+, premiered December 8, 2021, hosted by Will Smith and produced by Darren Aronofsky's Protozoa, Nutopia, and Westbrook Studios, themed on sound, smell, speed, color, swarm, and pattern.

Welcome to Samdal-ri (웰컴투 삼달리)

Welcome to Samdal-ri (웰컴투 삼달리, Welkeomtu Samdalri) is a 2023 JTBC romantic comedy-drama, 16 episodes, starring Ji Chang-wook and Shin Hye-sun, set in Samdal-ri village on Jeju Island and centered on haenyeo culture; it streams on Netflix.

Welcome to Sweden (2014 TV series)

Welcome to Sweden is a Swedish-American romantic comedy series created by Greg Poehler, following an American accountant who moves to Stockholm for love, airing 2014 to 2015.

Welcome to the Wayne

Welcome to the Wayne is a Nickelodeon animated mystery-comedy created by Billy Lopez, first a 2014 web series, then a 2017-2019 TV series about Team Timbers exploring Wayne Phenomena.

Welcome to Waikiki (으라차차 와이키이)

Welcome to Waikiki (으라차차 와이키키, Eulachacha Waikiki) is a 2018 JTBC Korean youth comedy about three men running a failing guesthouse to fund a film; 20 episodes, season 2 in 2019 with a mostly new cast led by Lee Yi-kyung.

Welcome to Waikiki 2

Welcome to Waikiki 2 (으라차차 와이키키 2), also Eulachacha Waikiki 2, is a 2019 JTBC Korean comedy series, 16 episodes aired March 25 to May 14, 2019, with Lee Yi-kyung the only returning season 1 cast member alongside Kim Seon-ho, Shin Hyun-soo, Moon Ga-young, Ahn So-hee, and Kim Ye-won.

Welcome to Wedding Hell (結婚白書)

Welcome to Wedding Hell (결혼백서, Marriage White Paper, 結婚白書) is a 2022 South Korean KakaoTV romance streaming series, 12 half-hour episodes airing May 23 to June 15, 2022, starring Lee Jin-wook and Lee Yeon-hee as a couple in their 30s whose wedding planning exposes practical conflicts, later streamed on Netflix and rerun on Channel A.

Welcome to Wrexham

Welcome to Wrexham is an FX docuseries on Hulu/FXX in the US and Disney+ internationally, following Ryan Reynolds and Rob McElhenney's $2.5 million 2021 takeover of Wrexham AFC and its rise to the Championship.

Well-Intended Love (奈何BOSS要娶我)

Well-Intended Love is a 2019 Chinese youth romance web drama starring Xu Kaicheng and Wang Shuang, about an actress in a contract marriage with a CEO.

Wellington Paranormal

Wellington Paranormal is a New Zealand mockumentary comedy horror series by Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, a What We Do in the Shadows spinoff following Officers Minogue and O'Leary investigating supernatural cases, aired on TVNZ 2 in four seasons, 2018-2022.

Wendy Richard

Wendy Richard (Wendy Emerton, 1943-2009), English actress, played Miss Brahms in Are You Being Served? and Pauline Fowler in EastEnders from 1985 to 2006; MBE 2000.

Wentworth (TV series)

Wentworth, also known as Wentworth Prison, is an Australian television drama series first broadcast in 2013 on Foxtel's Showcase, reimagining the 1979–1986 prison drama Prisoner in a modern women's prison.

Wentworth: Halfway Home

Wentworth: Halfway Home (also styled Halfway House, working title The Next Chapter) is a 2026 BINGE/Foxtel Australian crime drama spin-off of Wentworth following paroled Boomer Jenkins at Sal's Halfway House, filmed in Melbourne with Rachel Griffiths joining returning stars.

Werewolf by Night (TV special)

Werewolf by Night is Marvel Studios' first Special Presentation, a 54-minute black-and-white horror special directed and scored by Michael Giacchino, released on Disney+ October 7, 2022, starring Gael García Bernal as Jack Russell with Elsa Bloodstone and Man-Thing.

Wesley Crusher

Wesley Crusher: fictional Star Trek character played by Wil Wheaton in The Next Generation, son of Beverly and Jack Crusher, acting ensign on stardate 41263.4, later a Traveler in Picard and Prodigy.

Wesley Eure

Wesley Eure (Wesley Eure Loper, born 1951) is an American actor known as Will Marshall on Land of the Lost (1974–76) and Mike Horton on Days of Our Lives (1974–81), later co-creator of PBS's Dragon Tales.

West Side Story

West Side Story: 1957 Broadway musical adapting Romeo and Juliet to Manhattan gang rivalry between the Jets and Puerto Rican Sharks; music by Bernstein, lyrics by Sondheim, book by Laurents, choreographed by Robbins; landmark 1961 Oscar-winning film and 2021 Spielberg remake.

Westworld

Westworld: HBO science-fiction drama series created by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, based on Michael Crichton's 1973 film about an android theme park; ran 2016-2022, four seasons, 54 Emmy nominations, 9 wins, cancelled November 2022.

Westworld (TV series)

Westworld is an American HBO science fiction series developed by Jonathan Nolan and Lisa Joy, adapted from Michael Crichton's 1973 film and running four seasons from 2016 to 2022.

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp

Wet Hot American Summer: First Day of Camp is an eight-episode 2015 Netflix prequel to the 2001 cult film, reuniting Paul Rudd, Amy Poehler, Bradley Cooper, and the original cast at Camp Firewood, 1981.

Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later

Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later is an eight-episode 2017 Netflix limited comedy series by David Wain and Michael Showalter, a sequel to the 2001 cult film set at the Camp Firewood ten-year reunion in 1991, with the original cast returning.

Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid (TV series)

Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid (고래별), upcoming 2027 tvN historical romance drama adapted from Na Yoon-hee's Naver webtoon, set in 1926 colonial Gyeongseong, starring Choi Woo-shik and Moon Ga-young, directed by Hur Jin-ho and Yoo Beom-sang.

Whale Store xoxo

Whale Store xoxo (คุณวาฬร้านชำ, Khun Wan Ran Cham) is a 2025 Thai romance series directed by Golf Sakon Wongsinwiset, airing ten episodes on GMM 25 with Netflix streaming.

Whale Wars

Whale Wars is an Animal Planet reality-documentary series (2008-2015, seven seasons) following Paul Watson's Sea Shepherd Conservation Society confronting the Japanese whaling fleet in the Southern Ocean; Emmy-nominated, theme by Billy Corgan.

What a Cartoon!

What a Cartoon! (World Premiere Toons) was a 1995 Hanna-Barbera/Cartoon Network anthology of 48 shorts from 5,000 pitches, created by Fred Seibert, launching Dexter's Laboratory, Powerpuff Girls, Johnny Bravo, Cow and Chicken, I Am Weasel, and Courage the Cowardly Dog.

What Comes After (The Walking Dead)

"What Comes After" (season 9, episode 5 of The Walking Dead, AMC, November 4, 2018) is Andrew Lincoln's final episode as Rick Grimes, ending with Rick surviving a bridge explosion and being taken away by the CRM, leading to spinoffs and The Ones Who Live.

What Comes After Love (사랑 후에 오는 것들)

What Comes After Love (사랑 후에 오는 것들) is a 2024 six-episode Coupang Play Korean-Japanese romance drama starring Lee Se-young and Sakaguchi Kentaro, based on the 2005 joint novel by Gong Ji-young and Tsuji Hitonari, about ex-lovers reuniting in Korea.

What Happened and What's Going On

"What Happened and What's Going On" is The Walking Dead season 5 episode 9 (February 8, 2015), written by Scott Gimple and directed by Greg Nicotero, depicting Tyreese's death via hallucinations after a walker bite at Shirewilt Estates.

What Happens to My Family? (가족끼리 왜 이래)

What Happens to My Family? (가족끼리 왜 이래) is a 2014–2015 KBS2 Korean weekend family drama, 53 episodes, written by Kang Eun-kyung, in which a widower sues his selfish adult children; it peaked at 43.3% ratings and won the 2014 KBS Daesang.

What I Like About You (TV series)

What I Like About You: WB sitcom (2002–2006, 86 episodes, 4 seasons) created by Wil Calhoun and Dan Schneider, starring Amanda Bynes as Holly Tyler and Jennie Garth as sister Valerie in New York City.