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Cream Lemon (クリームレモン)

Cream Lemon (くりいむレモン) is a Japanese pornographic OVA anthology series first released August 10, 1984 by Fairy Dust with APPP and AIC; 38 episodes to 1993, over 2 million sales, Lemon Angel TV spinoff, 2004 live-action film, and 2006 New Generation OVAs.

Creamerie

Creamerie is a New Zealand dystopian black comedy series (2021-2023, TVNZ, Hulu, SBS) created by Roseanne Liang, JJ Fong, Perlina Lau, and Ally Xue, in which three dairy farmers find the last man alive after a plague kills the male population.

Creative Galaxy

Creative Galaxy is an Amazon Studios animated preschool series created by Angela Santomero (Blue's Clues), premiering June 27, 2014 on Prime Instant Video; alien artist Arty and Epiphany solve problems with art across three seasons.

Creature Commandos (TV series)

Creature Commandos is a 2024 Max adult animated DC series written by James Gunn, the first DCU project, following Amanda Waller's team of monstrous prisoners including Rick Flag Sr., the Bride, and Frankenstein; renewed for season 2.

Creep (franchise)

Creep franchise: American found-footage horror series by Patrick Brice and Mark Duplass, comprising Creep (2014), Creep 2 (2017), the Shudder series The Creep Tapes (2024), and a planned Creep 3, centered on the wolf-masked serial killer Peachfuzz.

Creepshow (TV series)

Creepshow is an American horror anthology TV series based on the 1982 Stephen King and George A. Romero film. Showrun by Greg Nicotero, it premiered on Shudder in 2019 and ran for four seasons.

Crew Girl

Crew Girl (掌舵少女) is a 2026 Canadian Netflix teen drama from showrunner Vivian Lin: rower Teagan Tao (Miku Martineau) coxes a boys' crew at Easton Prep after a family scandal; eight episodes, Season 2 announced.

Cricket Green

Cricket Green (Cricket Ernest Green) is the 10-year-old protagonist of Disney's Big City Greens, voiced by co-creator Chris Houghton; a mischievous country boy in Big City with Tilly, Bill, and Gramma Alice.

Crime (2021 TV series)

Crime (Irvine Welsh's Crime) is a 2021 BritBox UK psychological crime thriller adapted by Irvine Welsh and Dean Cavanagh from Welsh's 2008 novel, starring Dougray Scott as Edinburgh DI Ray Lennox; two six-episode series aired 2021 and 2023 on BritBox and ITVX.

Crime Beat

Crime Beat (2025) is a Hindi ZEE5 crime thriller series directed by Sudhir Mishra and Sanjeev Kaul, adapted from Somnath Batabyal's novel The Price You Pay, starring Saqib Saleem as a rookie Delhi crime journalist; distinct from the 2020 Canadian true crime series of the same name.

Crime Patrol (TV series)

Crime Patrol is a long-running Indian true-crime anthology series on Sony Entertainment Television and SonyLIV, premiered May 9, 2003, created by Subramanian S. Iyer, dramatizing real cases; Anup Soni was its signature host, and Ajay Devgn hosts the 2026 Crime Ka Current Season as special host.

Crime Scene Cleaner

Crime Scene Cleaner (Der Tatortreiniger) is a German NDR comedy series (2011-2018, 31 episodes, 7 seasons) starring Bjarne Mädel as cleaner "Schotty", written by Mizzi Meyer (Ingrid Lausund), directed by Arne Feldhusen, a multiple Grimme-Preis winner.

Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel

Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel is a four-part 2021 Netflix docuseries by Joe Berlinger about Elisa Lam's 2013 death at the Cecil Hotel, its dark history, and internet sleuths; 45 million households watched in 28 days.

Criminal (TV series)

Criminal is a 2019 Netflix anthology series in which each episode is a one-hour interrogation, created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith in UK, French, German, and Spanish versions.

Criminal Justice (Indian TV series)

Criminal Justice (क्रिमिनल जस्टिस) is a Hindi-language Indian legal crime drama on Hotstar/JioHotstar, adapting the 2008 BBC series; four seasons (2019–2025, 34 episodes) starring Pankaj Tripathi as lawyer Madhav Mishra.

Criminal Justice: A Family Matter

Criminal Justice: A Family Matter is the fourth season (2025) of the Hindi legal drama Criminal Justice on JioHotstar, directed by Rohan Sippy, starring Pankaj Tripathi as Madhav Mishra defending Raj Nagpal in the Roshni Saluja murder case.

Criminal Justice: Adhura Sach

Criminal Justice: Adhura Sach is the third season of Disney+ Hotstar's Hindi legal drama Criminal Justice, released 26 August 2022. Rohan Sippy directs Pankaj Tripathi's Madhav Mishra in a juvenile-justice murder case, opposite prosecutor Shweta Basu Prasad.

Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors

Criminal Justice: Behind Closed Doors is the 2020 second season of India's Criminal Justice series on Disney+ Hotstar: Anuradha Chandra confesses to stabbing her lawyer husband, and Madhav Mishra uncovers the domestic abuse behind the crime.

Criminal Minds

Criminal Minds is an American CBS crime procedural (2005–2020, 16 seasons, 300+ episodes) about FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit profilers, revived on Paramount+ as Criminal Minds: Evolution in 2022 with Joe Mantegna, reaching a greenlit 20th season.

Criminal Minds (franchise)

Criminal Minds franchise: American crime-drama series about the FBI's BAU profilers. Includes the original CBS series (2005–2020, 15 seasons), spin-offs Suspect Behavior and Beyond Borders, and the Paramount+ revival Criminal Minds: Evolution.

Criminal Minds (크리미널 마인드) (South Korean TV series)

Criminal Minds (크리미널 마인드, Criminal Minds: Korea) is a 2017 tvN South Korean crime drama, the first worldwide remake of the American CBS series, starring Lee Joon-gi, Son Hyun-joo, and Moon Chae-won as NCI profilers in 20 episodes.

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders

Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders is a CBS police procedural spin-off of Criminal Minds (2016-2017, 2 seasons, 26 episodes) starring Gary Sinise as FBI International Response Team chief Jack Garrett; cancelled after low ratings and criticism for xenophobic portrayals of foreign countries.

Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior

Criminal Minds: Suspect Behavior, a 2011 CBS police procedural and the first Criminal Minds spin-off, followed Forest Whitaker's FBI Red Cell BAU team; canceled after 13 episodes due to declining ratings.

Criminal Record (2024 TV series)

Criminal Record is a British Apple TV+ crime thriller created by Paul Rutman, starring Peter Capaldi as DCI Daniel Hegarty and Cush Jumbo as DS June Lenker; season 1 premiered January 10, 2024, and season 2 on April 22, 2026.

Criminal: France

Criminal: France is the 2019 French-language installment of Netflix's Criminal interrogation-room anthology, three episodes (Émilie, Caroline, Jérôme) directed by Frédéric Mermoud, created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith, starring Margot Bancilhon with guests Nathalie Baye, Jérémie Renier, and Sara Giraudeau.

Criminal: Germany

Criminal: Germany (Criminal: Deutschland) is the 2019 German chapter of Netflix's Criminal interrogation-room anthology: three roughly 45-minute episodes (Jochen, Yilmaz, Claudia) directed by Oliver Hirschbiegel, starring Eva Meckbach, Sylvester Groth, and Florence Kasumba, released 20 September 2019.

Criminal: UK

Criminal: UK is the British branch of Netflix's 2019 Criminal interrogation anthology: three-plus-four episodes set entirely in a police interview suite, created by George Kay and Jim Field Smith, starring Katherine Kelly, Lee Ingleby, and guest suspects like David Tennant, canceled after two seasons.

Cringe comedy

Cringe comedy, also called cringe humor, is a TV and film comedy genre evoking amusement plus vicarious embarrassment, exemplified by The Office, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Peep Show, and Nathan for You, typically in mockumentary form.

Crisis in Six Scenes

Crisis in Six Scenes is a 2016 six-episode Amazon Prime Video comedy miniseries written, directed by, and starring Woody Allen, with Elaine May, Miley Cyrus, John Magaro, and Rachel Brosnahan, set in a late-1960s Connecticut suburb.

Crisis on Earth-X

Crisis on Earth-X is the fourth annual Arrowverse crossover (2017), a four-part story across Supergirl, Arrow, The Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow in which heroes fight Nazi doppelgangers from Earth-X, a world where the Nazis won World War II.