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Candyman (film series)

Candyman is a four-film American horror series (1992-2021) adapted from Clive Barker's short story "The Forbidden" (Books of Blood, 1985), centered on a hook-handed ghost summoned by saying his name five times into a mirror, set at Chicago's Cabrini-Green.

Cape Fear (TV series)

Cape Fear (Apple TV, 2026) is a 10-episode limited series by Nick Antosca, the third adaptation of John D. MacDonald's The Executioners, starring Javier Bardem as Max Cady opposite Amy Adams and Patrick Wilson, with Scorsese and Spielberg as executive producers.

Capitol (TV series)

Capitol was a CBS daytime soap opera (1982–1987, 1,270 half-hour episodes) created by Stephen and Elinor Karpf and produced by John Conboy, about the feuding Clegg and McCandless political families in Washington, D.C. and fictional Jeffersonia, Virginia; canceled for low ratings and replaced by The Bold and the Beautiful.

Caprica

Caprica is a 2010 Syfy science fiction drama, the prequel to the re-imagined Battlestar Galactica, set 58 years before the Fall and following the Graystone and Adama families as the first Cylons are created; canceled after one season.

Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels

Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels is an American animated mystery comedy produced by Hanna-Barbera for ABC from 1977 to 1980, about three teenage detectives and their caveman superhero.

Captain Kangaroo

Captain Kangaroo is an American children's television series that aired weekday mornings on CBS from 1955, created by and starring Bob Keeshan as a grandfatherly character.

Captain N: The Game Master

Captain N: The Game Master is a 1989–1991 DIC Entertainment NBC cartoon (34 episodes) in which teenager Kevin Keene is pulled into Videoland to lead Mega Man, Kid Icarus, and Simon Belmont against Mother Brain; also known as Captain Nintendo.

Captain Planet and the Planeteers

Captain Planet and the Planeteers is a 1990–1996 Ted Turner and Barbara Pyle animated series in which five teenagers with Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, and Heart rings summon the superhero Captain Planet to fight eco-villains.

Captain Rex

Captain Rex (CT-7567) is a Star Wars clone trooper officer leading Torrent Company of the 501st Legion under Anakin Skywalker and Ahsoka Tano in The Clone Wars; freed from Order 66, he later fights with the Rebellion.

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons is a 1967-68 British Supermarionation series by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson's Century 21 for ITC: 32 episodes in which indestructible Captain Scarlet and Spectrum fight the Martian Mysterons' war of nerves in 2068.

Captivating the King

Captivating the King (세작, 매혹된 자들) is a 2024 Korean fusion sageuk drama, 16 episodes on tvN and Netflix, starring Jo Jung-suk as King Yi In and Shin Se-kyung as baduk-playing spy Kang Hee-soo.

Car 54, Where Are You?

Car 54, Where Are You? is an NBC sitcom (1961–1963, 60 episodes) created by Nat Hiken about Bronx patrol officers Gunther Toody (Joe E. Ross) and Francis Muldoon (Fred Gwynne) of the fictional 53rd Precinct.

Car Masters: Rust to Riches

Car Masters: Rust to Riches, also called the Gotham Garage show, is a Netflix car-restoration reality series (2018-2024, 6 seasons, 48 episodes) starring Mark Towle's crew, canceled in 2025 after declining viewership.

Car SOS

Car SOS (Car S.O.S.) is a British factual entertainment series on National Geographic since 2013, in which Tim Shaw and Fuzz Townshend secretly restore classic cars for deserving owners; 14 seasons, Renegade Pictures.

Car Wash Uncle (漂移吧洗车大叔)

漂移吧洗车大叔 (Drift, Car Wash Uncle) is a 2025 Chinese micro short drama by Maiya, 56 episodes, about retired racing champion Chen Wangzhou defending his village's mountain road in a drift race; it ranked 12th on DataEye's 2025 heat chart.

Cara Dune

Cara Dune (Carasynthia Dune), Star Wars character in The Mandalorian: Alderaanian Rebel shock trooper turned mercenary and Marshal of Nevarro, played by Gina Carano; written out after Carano's 2021 firing and settled lawsuit.

Cardassian

Cardassians are a fictional Star Trek species introduced in The Next Generation in 1991, rulers of the Cardassian Union and occupiers of Bajor, central to Deep Space Nine through Gul Dukat, Garak, and the Obsidian Order; unrelatedly, a Cardassian cosmology model exists.

Cardcaptor Sakura (カードキャプターさくら)

Cardcaptor Sakura (カードキャプターさくら) is CLAMP's magical girl manga serialized in Nakayoshi 1996-2000 (12 volumes), about Sakura Kinomoto capturing the Clow Cards; NHK anime 1998-2000 in 70 episodes, Clear Card sequel 2016-2024, over 22 million copies printed.

Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card (カードキャプターさくら クリアカード編)

Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card (カードキャプターさくら クリアカード編) is CLAMP's 2016–2024 shojo manga sequel to Cardcaptor Sakura, serialized in Nakayoshi for 80 chapters across 16 volumes, following junior-high Sakura and transparent cards; it received an NHK anime in 2018 and an announced sequel.

Cardinal (TV series)

Cardinal is a Canadian CTV crime drama (2017–2020), four six-episode seasons adapting Giles Blunt's John Cardinal novels, starring Billy Campbell and Karine Vanasse as Algonquin Bay detectives; 2020 Canadian Screen Award winner for Best Drama Series.

Care Bears

Care Bears: American Greetings greeting-card characters from 1981, developed by Those Characters From Cleveland, turned into Kenner plush and 1980s animated series set in Care-a-Lot, with belly badges, Cousins, films, reboots, and over $12 billion in retail sales.

Careless (TV series)

Careless is an upcoming four-part Australian-British psychological thriller, a Stan Original with Channel 4, created by Helen Fitzgerald and Louise Fox, starring Solly McLeod, Richard Roxburgh and Robyn Malcolm, filmed in Sydney and Glasgow.

Carême (TV series)

Carême is a French-language Apple TV+ biographical drama (2025) about chef Antonin Carême, the "first celebrity chef," turned spy for Talleyrand in Napoleonic France. Created by Ian Kelly and Davide Serino, starring Benjamin Voisin; renewed for a second season in 2026.

Cariba Heine

Cariba Heine is a South African-born Australian actress and dancer. She trained professionally in dance before gaining fame for playing Rikki Chadwick in H2O: Just Add Water (2006–2009).

Carl Grimes

Carl Grimes is the son of Rick Grimes and a main protagonist of The Walking Dead in Image Comics and on AMC TV, played by Chandler Riggs. He survives into adulthood in the comics but dies of a walker bite in the show's season 8.

Carl the Collector

Carl the Collector is a PBS KIDS animated series premiering November 14, 2024, created by Zachariah OHora. It follows Carl, an autistic raccoon collector in Fuzzytown, the network's first autistic lead, with autistic friends Lotta and Paolo.

Carla Connor

Carla Connor, later Carla Connor-Swain, is a fictional Coronation Street character played by Alison King since 2006; Underworld factory owner, née Donovan, known for the rape and psychosis storylines and her marriage to Lisa Swain.

Carley Stenson

Carley Stenson, born in 1986, is an English actress and singer best known for playing Steph in the Channel 4 soap opera Hollyoaks from about 2000 to 2011.

Carly Corinthos

Carly Corinthos, now Carly Spencer (Caroline Leigh Benson), fictional General Hospital character since 1996, daughter of Bobbie Spencer, ex-wife of Sonny Corinthos, played by Laura Wright since 2005.

Carmela Soprano

Carmela Soprano, née Carmela DeAngelis, is Tony Soprano's wife in HBO's The Sopranos, played by Edie Falco in seasons 1–6: a Catholic mother of Meadow and A.J. defined by complicity in her husband's crimes.