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Butterfly (2025 TV series)

Butterfly is a 2025 Prime Video spy thriller adapted from the BOOM! Studios graphic novel by Arash Amel, starring Daniel Dae Kim as David Jung, a former operative in South Korea hunted by his assassin daughter Rebecca (Reina Hardesty); six episodes, canceled October 2025.

Butters Stotch

Leopold "Butters" Stotch is a South Park character voiced by Matt Stone, based on co-producer Eric Stough, debuting in "Two Guys Naked in a Hot Tub" (1999); briefly the fourth boy in season 6, later Professor Chaos, known for naivety and harsh grounding by his parents.

BuyBust: The Undesirables

BuyBust: The Undesirables (also Buy Bust 2) is a 2026 nine-episode Netflix Filipino dystopian action-thriller series directed by Erik Matti, a sequel to the 2018 film BuyBust, starring Anne Curtis as Nina Manigan and Gerald Anderson.

Buying Beverly Hills

Buying Beverly Hills: Netflix reality occu-soap (2022-2024) following Mauricio Umansky's luxury brokerage The Agency and his daughters Farrah, Alexia, and Sophia; canceled after two seasons and 18 episodes.

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command

Buzz Lightyear of Star Command is a 2000 traditionally animated Disney series spun off from Toy Story, with 65 episodes on UPN and ABC, piloted by the direct-to-video film The Adventure Begins, starring Patrick Warburton as Buzz fighting Emperor Zurg, plus a Traveller's Tales video game.

BuzzFeed Unsolved

BuzzFeed Unsolved (Unsolved) was a BuzzFeed web documentary series (2016-2021) created by Ryan Bergara and co-hosted by Shane Madej, split into True Crime and Supernatural sub-series, ending after 120-plus episodes.

Byker Grove

Byker Grove: BBC children's and teen drama (1989–2006, 18 series, 344 episodes) set in a Newcastle youth club, created by Adele Rose, famous for the PJ paintball blinding, the first gay kiss on British children's TV, and launching Ant and Dec.

C. J. Cregg

C.J. Cregg, full name Claudia Jean Cregg, is the fictional White House Press Secretary and later Chief of Staff on The West Wing (1999–2006), played by Allison Janney, who won four Emmys for the role.

Cabbage Your Life

Cabbage Your Life (심우면 연리리) is a 2026 KBS2 Korean family comedy-drama, 12 episodes aired March 26 to June 11, 2026, starring Park Sung-woong as a Seoul executive exiled with his family to the rural village of Yeonriri.

Cable Girls

Cable Girls (Las chicas del cable) is Netflix's first Spanish original series, a Bambú Producciones period drama created by Ramón Campos and Gema Neira about four women telephone operators in 1928 Madrid, running five seasons, 2017–2020.

Cad Bane

Cad Bane is a fictional Duros bounty hunter in Star Wars, created for The Clone Wars in 2009 and considered the top bounty hunter of his era.

Cadfael (TV series)

Cadfael is a British ITV mystery series (1994–1998, 13 episodes) starring Derek Jacobi as a 12th-century monk-detective, adapted from Ellis Peters' Brother Cadfael novels and filmed in Hungary.

Café Minamdang (미남당)

Café Minamdang (미남당) is a 2022 KBS2 comedy-mystery series, 18 episodes, starring Seo In-guk as a profiler-turned-shaman, adapted from Jung Jae-han's novel, later charting on Netflix in 10 countries.

Cagney & Lacey

Cagney & Lacey, the CBS female buddy cop drama (1982–1988) starring Sharon Gless and Tyne Daly as NYPD detectives, twice Emmy winner for Best Drama Series, revived in 1984 after a viewer letter campaign.

Caillou

Caillou: Canadian animated preschool series (Teletoon, 1997; PBS Kids, 2000) based on Chouette books by L'Heureux and Desputeaux, about a bald four-year-old; retired by PBS in 2021, rebooted on Peacock in 2024.

Cain Dingle

Cain Dingle is a fictional hardman in the ITV soap Emmerdale, played by Jeff Hordley since 2000. Illegitimate son of Zak and Faith Dingle, husband of Moira, head of the Dingle family since 2015.

Caitlin Stasey

Caitlin Stasey (Caitlin Jean Stasey), Australian actress born 1990 in Melbourne; known for Rachel Kinski in Neighbours, Lady Kenna in Reign, Ada Hamilton in APB, and Laura Weaver in Smile; also founded the feminist site Herself.com in 2015.

Caitlin Todd

Caitlin "Kate" Todd, played by Sasha Alexander, is an NCIS fictional character: a former Secret Service agent recruited by Gibbs in "Yankee White", killed by Ari Haswari in the Season 2 finale "Twilight" and replaced by Ziva David.

Caleb (Buffy the Vampire Slayer)

Caleb is the defrocked-preacher villain of Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 7, played by Nathan Fillion; the First Evil's misogynistic enforcer, introduced in "Dirty Girls" and killed by Buffy with the Scythe in "Chosen."

California Avenue (TV series)

California Avenue: BBC One and iPlayer six-part 1975-set drama created, written and directed by Hugo Blick, starring Bill Nighy, Helena Bonham Carter, Erin Doherty and Tom Burke in a canal-side caravan park; closed Canneseries Season 9 out of competition.

California Dreams

California Dreams (1992–1996) is an NBC Saturday morning teen sitcom created by Brett Dewey and Ronald B. Solomon and produced by Peter Engel, about high schoolers forming a rock band; 5 seasons, 78 episodes.

Californication (TV series)

Californication, Showtime comedy-drama created by Tom Kapinos, 2007-2014, 7 seasons, 84 episodes. David Duchovny plays novelist Hank Moody opposite Natascha McElhone's Karen; distinct from the Red Hot Chili Peppers song.

Caliphate (TV series)

Caliphate (Kalifat) is an eight-episode 2020 Swedish SVT thriller by Wilhelm Behrman and Goran Kapetanovic, distributed on Netflix, about an Säpo agent and an ISIS plot against Sweden; distinct from the NYT podcast.

Çalıkuşu (TV series)

Çalıkuşu (The Wren) is a 1986 TRT 1 Turkish miniseries, Osman F. Seden's seven-episode adaptation of Reşat Nuri Güntekin's 1922 novel, starring Aydan Şener as teacher Feride, with Kenan Kalav and Sadri Alışık.

Call It Love (사랑이라 말해요)

Call It Love (사랑이라 말해요) is a 2023 South Korean Disney+ romantic melodrama, 16 episodes, starring Lee Sung-kyung as Sim Woo-joo and Kim Young-kwang as Han Dong-jin, in which a revenge plot against her father's mistress's son becomes love; directed by Lee Kwang-young, written by Kim Ga-eun.

Call Me Bae

Call Me Bae: Indian Hindi-language comedy-drama Prime Video series (2024), also called CMB, starring Ananya Panday as disowned heiress Bella Chowdhary; directed by Collin D'Cunha, created by Ishita Moitra, renewed for a second season with Shruti Haasan.

Call Me by Fire (披荆斩棘的哥哥)

Call Me by Fire (披荆斩棘的哥哥) is a Mango TV panoramic music competition reality show, male counterpart to Sisters Who Make Waves, premiering August 12, 2021 with 33 male celebrities competing in themed concerts toward a 17-member debut group; later seasons ran through 2026 with a full open-mic live format.

Call Me Kat

Call Me Kat, Fox sitcom (2021–2023) starring Mayim Bialik, a US remake of the BBC series Miranda; a 39-year-old math professor opens a Louisville cat café, with Jim Parsons producing and poor critical reception.

Call My Agent!

Call My Agent! (Dix pour cent) is a 2015–2020 French comedy-drama created by Fanny Herrero for France 2, set at the Paris talent agency ASK, with celebrity guest stars playing themselves; a Netflix global hit spawning remakes.

Call of the Night (よふかしのうた)

Call of the Night (よふかしのうた, Yofukashi no Uta) is a completed shōnen manga by Kotoyama, serialized in Weekly Shonen Sunday 2019–2024 in 20 volumes, about insomniac middle schooler Ko Yamori and the vampire Nazuna Nanakusa; adapted into anime by LIDENFILMS.