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Dear White People (TV series)

Dear White People: Netflix comedy-drama series (2017-2021) by Justin Simien, adapted from his 2014 film, following Black students at fictional Winchester University across four ten-episode volumes.

Dear X (친애하는) (TV series)

Dear X (친애하는 X, Chinaehaneun X) is a 2025 TVING Korean melodrama thriller, 12 episodes aired Nov 6 to Dec 4, 2025, adapted from Vanziun's webtoon, starring Kim You-jung as manipulative actress Baek Ah-jin, directed by Lee Eung-bok, TVING's first global project.

Dear. M (디어엠)

Dear.M (디어엠) is a 12-episode South Korean campus romance drama, a Love Playlist spin-off starring Park Hye Soo and NCT's Jaehyun, delayed from 2021 over bullying allegations and finally aired on KBS Joy in April 2025.

Death and Other Details

Death and Other Details (formerly Career Opportunities in Murder and Mayhem) is a 2024 Hulu whodunit series by Mike Weiss and Heidi Cole McAdams, starring Violett Beane and Mandy Patinkin aboard a Mediterranean ocean liner; canceled after one 10-episode season.

Death Battle

Death Battle (DEATH BATTLE!) is Ben Singer's web series pitting fictional characters in researched fights to the death. Created 2010 at ScrewAttack, later Rooster Teeth, independent under Party Up Media since 2024.

Death by Lightning

Death by Lightning is a 2025 Netflix four-part historical drama, created by Mike Makowsky and directed by Matt Ross, based on Candice Millard's Destiny of the Republic, starring Michael Shannon as President James A. Garfield and Matthew Macfadyen as his assassin Charles Guiteau.

Death by Magic

Death by Magic is a 2018 Netflix reality series, also called Todesursache: Magie, in which British magician Drummond Money-Coutts (DMC) recreates stunts that killed other magicians across eight episodes.

Death Comes to Pemberley (TV series)

Death Comes to Pemberley: three-part 2013 BBC One drama adapted from P.D. James's 2011 sequel novel to Pride and Prejudice, starring Matthew Rhys and Anna Maxwell Martin as the Darcys investigating a murder at Pemberley.

Death Has a Shadow

"Death Has a Shadow" is the January 31, 1999 series premiere of Family Guy, written by Seth MacFarlane, directed by Peter Shin, aired after Super Bowl XXXIII; Peter loses his job and collects excess welfare.

Death in Apartment 603: What Happened to Ellen Greenberg?

Death in Apartment 603: What Happened to Ellen Greenberg? is a 2025 three-part ABC News Studios Hulu docuseries, directed by Nancy Schwartzman, about Philadelphia teacher Ellen Greenberg, found with 20 stab wounds in 2011, whose death was ruled homicide then suicide.

Death in Paradise (TV series)

Death in Paradise is a BBC One crime comedy-drama created by Robert Thorogood, airing since 2011, set on fictional Caribbean island Saint Marie and filmed in Guadeloupe, with five lead detectives and spin-offs Beyond Paradise and Return to Paradise.

Death Inc.

Death Inc. (Muertos S.L.) is a Spanish dark comedy series about the Torregrosa funeral home, created by Alberto and Laura Caballero for Movistar Plus+ (2024) and released globally on Netflix (2025–2026) in four seasons.

Death Note (デスノート)

Death Note (デスノート) is a shōnen manga by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata, serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump 2003–2006 in 12 volumes, in which Light Yagami kills criminals with a death god's notebook while detective L hunts him; adapted into a 37-episode Madhouse anime (2006) and a 2017 Netflix film.

Death Note (デスノート) (2015 TV series)

Death Note (デスノート) is Nippon TV's 2015 live-action drama adaptation of Ohba and Obata's manga, 11 episodes, July 5 to September 13, 2015, starring Masataka Kubota as Light and Kento Yamazaki as L, with a rewritten story and new ending.

Death Note: New Generation (デスノート NEW GENERATION)

Death Note: New Generation (デスノート NEW GENERATION) is a 2016 three-episode Hulu Japan web miniseries directed by Shinsuke Sato, bridging the Death Note films and Light Up the NEW World via Mishima, Ryuzaki, and Shien.

Death Parade (デス・パレード)

Death Parade (デス・パレード) is a 2015 Madhouse anime, 12 episodes on Nippon TV, created and directed by Yuzuru Tachikawa. It grew from the 2013 short Death Billiards: dead souls play games at bar Quindecim while arbiter Decim judges them to reincarnation or the void.

Death Race (franchise)

Death Race franchise: dystopian racing media starting with Death Race 2000 (1975, Roger Corman/Paul Bartel), Exidy's controversial 1976 arcade game, Paul W.S. Anderson's 2008 remake with Jason Statham, and the prequels, Death Race 2050, and comic Death Race 2020.

Death Valley (British TV series)

Death Valley is a BBC One comedy crime drama created by Paul Doolan, starring Timothy Spall as retired TV-detective actor John Chapel and Gwyneth Keyworth as DS Janie Mallowan, solving murders in Wales; series 1 premiered 25 May 2025 to 2.9 million viewers.

Death Valley Days

Death Valley Days: American Western anthology series created by Ruth Woodman in 1930, sponsored by Pacific Coast Borax (20 Mule Team Borax); ran on radio from 1930 and on syndicated television 1952-1970, hosted by Stanley Andrews, Ronald Reagan, Robert Taylor, and Dale Robertson.

Death's Game (이제 곧 죽습니다)

Death's Game (이제 곧 죽습니다), 2023 TVING original K-drama adapted from the 2019 Naver webtoon by Lee Won-sik and Ggulchan; 8 episodes, Seo In-guk and Park So-dam, written and directed by Ha Byung-hoon, Part 2 on Prime Video in 240 countries.

Deathbird

Deathbird (Cal'syee Neramani) is a Marvel Comics Shi'ar royal, exiled for murdering her mother and sister, recurring X-Men and Captain Marvel foe, throne usurper, Kree viceroy, and Horseman of Apocalypse, debuting in Ms. Marvel #9 (1977).

Deathclaw

Deathclaw: the giant reptilian bipedal apex predator of the Fallout games, engineered pre-war by the US government from chameleon stock, with variants from hairy to intelligent, and a live-action debut in Fallout season 2.

Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons

Deathstroke: Knights & Dragons is a 2020 DC animated project, planned as a 12-episode CW Seed series but released as an R-rated direct-to-video movie starring Michael Chiklis as Slade Wilson, directed by Sung Jin Ahn and written by J.M. DeMatteis.

Debbie Dingle

Debbie Dingle (Deborah Dingle, née Jones) is a fictional Emmerdale character played by Charley Webb 2002-2021, daughter of Charity and Cain Dingle, mother of Sarah and Jack, later written out to Australia.

Debbie Downer

Debbie Downer is slang for a person who dampens a group's mood with negative comments, popularized by Rachel Dratch's SNL character debuting May 1, 2004 at Disney World, written with Paula Pell, with sad trombone.

Debbie Fiderer

Deborah "Debbie" Fiderer, formerly DeLaGuardia, is the fictional executive secretary to President Bartlet on NBC's The West Wing, played by Lily Tomlin from 2002 to 2006; she was hired after being fired for recommending Charlie Young.

Debbie Grayson

Debbie Grayson (Deborah Grayson) is Invincible's mother and Omni-Man's wife in Robert Kirkman and Cory Walker's Image Comics series, a powerless human real estate agent; first seen in 2002, she is voiced by Sandra Oh in the expanded TV adaptation.

Debra Morgan

Debra Morgan (Deb), fictional Miami Metro PD detective in Showtime's Dexter (2006-2013), played by Jennifer Carpenter; Dexter Morgan's adoptive sister who discovers his secret, kills LaGuerta, and dies in the series finale.

Debris (TV series)

Debris (NBC, 2021) is a science fiction drama created by Fringe showrunner J.H. Wyman, starring Jonathan Tucker and Riann Steele as CIA and MI6 agents recovering alien spacecraft wreckage; cancelled after one 13-episode season.

Debut's Plan

Debut's Plan (데뷔스 플랜) was Starship Entertainment's 2025 YouTube boy group survival show; 33 trainees, 21 finalists, eight-member debut lineup forming the group IDID, which debuted September 15, 2025.