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Blade Runner Black Out 2022 (ブラックアウト 2022)

Blade Runner Black Out 2022 (ブレードランナー ブラックアウト2022) is a 2017 15-minute anime short by Shinichirō Watanabe, music by Flying Lotus, prequel to Blade Runner 2049 depicting the 2022 EMP blackout that ends replicant production.

Blade Runner: Black Lotus

Blade Runner: Black Lotus is a 13-episode 2021–22 CG anime series on Adult Swim and Crunchyroll, set in 2032 Los Angeles between the Blade Runner films, following the amnesiac replicant Elle against the Wallace Corporation.

Blade: The Series

Blade: The Series is a 2006 American live-action television series based on Marvel's vampire hunter Blade, starring Kirk "Sticky Fingaz" Jones and airing 13 episodes on Spike TV.

Blaine Anderson

Blaine Anderson is a fictional gay character on Fox's Glee, portrayed by Darren Criss; lead Warbler at Dalton Academy introduced in season 2 with "Teenage Dream," and Kurt Hummel's partner, one of TV's first same-sex couples with lead-couple weight.

Blair Waldorf

Blair Waldorf (Blair Cornelia Waldorf) is the scheming Upper East Side heroine Cecily von Ziegesar created for the 2002 Gossip Girl novels, played by Leighton Meester in the 2007–2012 TV series; a 2027 sequel novel was announced.

Blake's 7

Blake's 7 (also Blake's Seven) is a BBC1 science fiction series created by Terry Nation, 52 episodes 1978–1981, about rebels against the Federation aboard the Liberator, ending with the notorious finale 'Blake'.

Blame the Hero

Blame the Hero is a 2019 American post-apocalyptic sci-fi dark comedy YouTube miniseries by Brandon Rogers, 7 episodes, March 2 to July 1, 2019, starring Rogers as Blame and other characters; it won two Streamy Awards.

Blanche Devereaux

Blanche Devereaux is the Southern belle widow of NBC's The Golden Girls (1985-1992), played by Rue McClanahan, owner of the Miami house, Emmy-winning role, later in The Golden Palace.

Blankety Blank

Blankety Blank: British comedy panel game show adapted from Match Game, first broadcast on BBC One on 18 January 1979. Hosted by Terry Wogan, Les Dawson, Lily Savage, and Bradley Walsh; famous for cheap prizes, the chequebook-and-pen consolation, and cancellation by the BBC in July 2026.

Blast of Tempest

Blast of Tempest (絶園のテンペスト, Zetsuen no Tempest, The Civilization Blaster) is a 2009-2013 shōnen manga by Kyo Shirodaira, Arihide Sano, and Ren Saizaki in 10 volumes, plus a 24-episode 2012-2013 Bones anime, about Mahiro Fuwa's revenge for his murdered sister Aika with the exiled sorceress Hakaze Kusaribe.

Blaze and the Monster Machines

Blaze and the Monster Machines (also marketed as Blaze y los Monster Machines) is a Nickelodeon CGI preschool series (2014-2025) by Jeff Borkin and Ellen Martin about monster truck Blaze and driver AJ solving problems with STEM in Axle City.

Bleach (TV series)

Bleach (TV series): Studio Pierrot anime adaptation of Tite Kubo's manga, 366 episodes 2004-2012 with about 45% filler, followed by the filler-free Thousand-Year Blood War sequel from 2022.

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (BLEACH 千年血戦篇)

Bleach: Thousand-Year Blood War (BLEACH 千年血戦篇) is the four-cour Studio Pierrot anime adapting the final arc of Tite Kubo's Bleach manga, aired 2022-2026 with Tomohisa Taguchi directing and expanded anime-original content.

Bleached (漂白_)

Bleached (漂白, international title Bleaching) is a 2025 iQIYI Mist Theatre crime series directed by Cao Kai, written by Chen Ping from her novel, starring Guo Jingfei, Wang Qianyuan, and Zhao Jinmai, adapted from the Yang Shubin gang case and hit by plagiarism claims.

Bleak House (2005 TV serial)

Bleak House (2005 TV serial), BBC1 adaptation of Dickens's novel by Andrew Davies, produced by Nigel Stafford-Clark; 15 episodes after EastEnders, first major British drama shot in HD, Peabody Award, about six million viewers.

Blend S (ブレンド・S)

Blend S (ブレンド・S) is a four-panel manga by Miyuki Nakayama, serialized 2013–2022 in Manga Time Kirara Carat (8 volumes), and a 12-episode 2017 A-1 Pictures anime set at Café Stile, where waitresses play assigned anime-attribute roles.

Bless the Harts

Bless the Harts is an American animated sitcom created by Emily Spivey for Fox, airing September 29, 2019 to June 20, 2021 (2 seasons, 34 episodes), about a broke Southern family in Greenpoint, North Carolina, voiced by Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jillian Bell, and Ike Barinholtz, canceled after low ratings.

Bless This Mess (TV series)

Bless This Mess is an ABC single-camera sitcom (2019–2020, 26 episodes) co-created by Lake Bell and Elizabeth Meriwether, starring Bell and Dax Shepard as New York newlyweds farming in Bucksnort, Nebraska; Metacritic 60, IMDb 7.0.

Blindspot (TV series)

Blindspot is an American crime drama created by Martin Gero that aired on NBC from 2015 to 2020, following an amnesiac, tattooed woman known as Jane Doe.

Bling Empire

Bling Empire is a Netflix reality series (2021-2023) about wealthy Asian and Asian American socialites in Los Angeles, inspired by Crazy Rich Asians; three seasons plus a Bling Empire: New York spin-off before April 2023 cancellation.

Blink (character)

Blink (Clarice Ferguson) is a Marvel Comics mutant teleporter created in 1994's Phalanx Covenant; her Age of Apocalypse counterpart led the Exiles and appeared in Days of Future Past and The Gifted.

Bliss (The Powerpuff Girls)

Bliss, full name Blisstina Francesca Francia Mariam Alicia Utonium, is the fourth Powerpuff Girl and older sister added to the 2016 reboot in the 2017 "Power of Four" special, created with Chemical W, voiced regionally by Olivia Olson, Toya Delazy, and others.

Blockbuster (TV series)

Blockbuster is a 2022 Netflix workplace sitcom created by Vanessa Ramos, starring Randall Park and Melissa Fumero as staff of the last Blockbuster Video store; 10 episodes, cancelled after one season.

Blood & Oil

Blood & Oil (working title Oil) was a 2015 ABC prime-time soap opera starring Don Johnson, Chace Crawford, and Rebecca Rittenhouse, set in the Bakken oil boom; cut from 13 to 10 episodes and canceled after one season.

Blood & Treasure

Blood & Treasure is an American action-adventure TV series (2019–2022) created by Matthew Federman and Stephen Scaia, starring Matt Barr and Sofia Pernas as an antiquities expert and art thief chasing terrorist Karim Farouk; season 1 on CBS, season 2 on Paramount+, 26 episodes.

Blood & Water (South African TV series)

Blood & Water is a South African Netflix coming-of-age mystery drama (2020-2024, four seasons) in which Cape Town teen Puleng Khumalo investigates whether private-school swimming star Fikile Bhele is her sister abducted at birth; Netflix's second African original after Queen Sono.

Blood Cruise

Blood Cruise (Färjan) is a 2025 Swedish horror series directed by Jonas Alexander Arnby, which won the 2026 Creative Courage Award for its story of vampires on a ferry.

Blood Drive (TV series)

Blood Drive is a 2017 Syfy TV series, 13 episodes, created by James Roland, set in post-apocalyptic 1999 where a cross-country death race uses cars fueled by human blood; cancelled after one season.

Blood Free (지배종)

Blood Free (지배종, Jibaejong, Dominant Species) is a 2024 Disney+ South Korean sci-fi thriller, 10 episodes, written by Lee Soo-yeon, starring Han Hyo-joo as cultured-meat CEO Yun Ja-yoo and Ju Ji-hoon as bodyguard Woo Chae-woon.

Blood Lad (ブラッドラッド)

Blood Lad (ブラッドラッド) is a completed vampire action-comedy manga by Yuuki Kodama, serialized in Young Ace 2009-2016 in 17 volumes, about the otaku vampire Staz reviving the ghost girl Fuyumi; adapted into a 2013 Brains Base TV anime and published in English by Yen Press.