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Dark Angel (American TV series)

Dark Angel, Fox sci-fi series (2000-2002) created by James Cameron and Charles H. Eglee, starring Jessica Alba as supersoldier Max Guevara in post-Pulse Seattle; 42 episodes, two seasons, canceled on a cliffhanger.

Dark City: The Cleaner

Dark City: The Cleaner is a 2024 New Zealand six-part crime series, also called The Cleaner adaptation, based on Paul Cleave's 2006 novel; Cohen Holloway plays Joe Middleton, a Christchurch police-station cleaner who is secretly the serial killer Christchurch Carver.

Dark Desire (TV series)

Dark Desire (Oscuro deseo) is a Mexican Netflix erotic thriller created by Leticia López Margalli, starring Maite Perroni and Alejandro Speitzer; two seasons, 33 episodes, 2020-2022, 35 million accounts in 77 countries.

Dark Hearts

Dark Hearts (Cœurs noirs) is a French action-war series created by Duong Dang-Thaï and Corinne Garfin about a special forces commando in 2016 Iraq; two seasons on Prime Video and France 2, distinct from other works of the same name.

Dark Matter (2024 TV series)

Dark Matter (2024 TV series) is an Apple TV sci-fi thriller adapted by Blake Crouch from his 2016 novel, starring Joel Edgerton as physicist Jason Dessen, abducted into an alternate life; season 1 premiered May 8, 2024 (9 episodes), season 2 (10 episodes) on August 28, 2026.

Dark Shadows

Dark Shadows (1966–1971) is the ABC gothic daytime soap opera created by Dan Curtis, set among the Collins family of Collinsport, Maine, whose 1,225 episodes introduced vampire Barnabas Collins and pioneered supernatural television drama.

Dark Tourist

Dark Tourist is a 2018 Netflix documentary series, New Zealand's first Netflix original, in which journalist David Farrier visits 28 dark tourism sites across eight region-themed episodes; it scored 70% on Rotten Tomatoes and was not renewed.

Dark Winds

Dark Winds is an AMC psychological thriller (2022–present) adapted from Tony Hillerman's Leaphorn & Chee novels, created by Graham Roland, starring Zahn McClarnon as Navajo Tribal Police Lt. Joe Leaphorn in the 1970s Southwest; five seasons, all-Native writers' room, 100% Rotten Tomatoes.

Darker than Black

Darker than Black (黒の契約者, Kuro no Keiyakusha) is a 2007 Bones original anime directed by Tensai Okamura, about Contractors with powers who pay remunerations; Hei, BK-201 the Black Reaper, works amid Tokyo's Hell's Gate; a 2009 sequel, Gemini of the Meteor, followed.

Darkwing Duck

Darkwing Duck is an American animated series produced by Disney Television Animation in 1991, following suburban citizen Drake Mallard as he fights crime in the fictional city of St. Canard.

Darling in the Franxx (ダーリン・イン・ザ・フランキス)

Darling in the Franxx (ダーリン・イン・ザ・フランキス) is a 2018 24-episode original TV anime co-produced by TRIGGER and CloverWorks, directed by Atsushi Nishigori, about child pilots fighting klaxosaurs in mecha called Franxx.

Darmaduman

Darmaduman, a 2022 Turkish youth drama on FOX Türkiye, is the local adaptation of Beverly Hills, 90210. Twins Kerem and Ece move from Eskişehir to Istanbul; produced by Ay Yapım, it ended after 9 episodes.

Darna (2022 TV series)

Mars Ravelo's Darna (ABS-CBN, 2022), the Philippine superhero TV series starring Jane De Leon as Narda/Darna with Janella Salvador's Valentina; premiered August 15, 2022 and ended February 10, 2023 after two seasons.

Darwin's Game (ダーウィンズゲーム)

Darwin's Game (ダーウィンズゲーム) is a Japanese thriller manga by FLIPFLOPs, serialized from 2012 to 2023 in 30 volumes and passing 10 million copies in circulation.

Daryl Dixon

Daryl Dixon is a fictional survivor in AMC's The Walking Dead, played by Norman Reedus. Created for TV by Frank Darabont after Reedus auditioned for Merle, absent from the comics, and lead of the Daryl Dixon spin-off ending in 2027.

Dash & Lily

Dash & Lily is a 2020 Netflix holiday romantic comedy series, 8 episodes, created by Joe Tracz from Rachel Cohn and David Levithan's novel, starring Austin Abrams and Midori Francis; canceled after one season in October 2021.

Dashing Youth (少年白马醉春风)

Dashing Youth (少年白马醉春风, The Young Brewmaster's Adventure) is Zhou Munan's wuxia novel and its adaptations: a 2022 Mango TV/Youku animation and a 2024 Youku live-action drama starring Hou Minghao, a prequel to The Blood of Youth set twenty years earlier.

Data (Star Trek)

Data (Star Trek): Soong-type android with a positronic brain, created by Dr. Noonian Soong, activated 2335 at Omicron Theta; portrayed by Brent Spiner in TNG and films; sought humanity, won personhood in "The Measure of a Man," died in Nemesis, returned in Picard.

Dateline NBC

Dateline NBC is NBC News's primetime newsmagazine, premiered March 31, 1992 with Jane Pauley and Stone Phillips; longest-running NBC primetime series, known for To Catch a Predator, true crime, and podcasts.

Dating Naked

Dating Naked is a VH1 reality dating series (2014-2016, 3 seasons, 33 episodes) in which contestants date nude, hosted by Amy Paffrath and Rocsi Diaz; the format was revived as Dating Naked UK on Paramount+ in 2024 with host Rylan Clark and a £50,000 prize.

Dating Naked UK

Dating Naked UK is a Paramount+ and MTV British reality dating series (2024–) hosted by Rylan Clark, in which ten singles date nude in a tropical villa for a £50,000 prize, shown unblurred unlike the US version.

Daughter from Another Mother

Daughter from Another Mother (Madre solo hay dos) is a Mexican Netflix comedy-drama created by Carolina Rivera and Fernando Sariñana, about two women raising babies switched at birth; three seasons, 27 episodes, 2021-2022.

Daughter of The Secret Tycoon

Daughter of The Secret Tycoon: 2025 Hindi vertical microdrama (45 episodes, 110M+ views) on Kuku TV, with a Bangla localisation and a Kuku FM audio variant; secret-identity billionaire romance, not a Malayalam or Kannada serial.

Daughters of the Cult

Daughters of the Cult is a 2024 five-part ABC News Studios true-crime docuseries on Hulu, directed by Sara Mast, in which Anna and Celia LeBaron recount their father Ervil LeBaron's polygamous Mormon fundamentalist cult, its murders, and their escapes.

Dave (TV series)

Dave (TV series), FXX comedy (2020–2023) created by Dave Burd (Lil Dicky) and Jeff Schaffer, a semi-autobiographical show about a white Jewish rapper; FX's most-watched comedy until The Bear, on hiatus since February 2024.

Dave the Barbarian

Dave the Barbarian is a Disney Channel animated comedy created by Doug Langdale, premiering January 23, 2004. It follows cowardly, gourmet-cooking barbarian Dave, sisters Candy and Fang, and Udrogoth's odd foes, with meta humor and narrator Jeff Bennett.

Davey & Jonesie's Locker

Davey & Jonesie's Locker is a Canadian teen sci-fi comedy created by Evany Rosen, premiering March 22, 2024 on Hulu and Prime Video; ten 28-minute episodes about best friends whose locker portals them through the multiverse.

Davey and Goliath

Davey and Goliath: Lutheran-funded stop-motion clay-animated children's series by Gumby creators Art and Ruth Clokey, 65 episodes and six specials, 1961-1975, distributed free to nearly 200 TV markets.

David Attenborough filmography

David Attenborough filmography: the natural history documentaries presented, produced, or narrated by Sir David Attenborough from 1952 to the present, including Zoo Quest (1954), the Life series from Life on Earth (1979), Planet Earth (2006), Blue Planet II (2017), and Ocean (2025).

David Croft (TV producer)

David Croft (1922-2011), born David John Sharland, was a British comedy writer and producer who co-created BBC sitcoms Dad's Army, Are You Being Served?, It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Hi-de-Hi! and 'Allo 'Allo! with partners Jimmy Perry and Jeremy Lloyd; OBE 1978, BAFTA Special Award 2008. Not the Sky Sports F1 commentator of the same name.