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RuPaul's Drag Race UK
RuPaul's Drag Race UK: British reality drag competition on BBC Three from October 2019, made by World of Wonder; judges RuPaul, Visage, Norton, Carr; The Vivienne won series 1; left BBC for WOW Presents Plus in 2026.
RuPaul's Drag Race UK series 7
RuPaul's Drag Race UK series 7 (2025), seventh BBC Three season of the UK Drag Race franchise: 12 queens, 10 episodes from 25 September to 27 November 2025, the new Lucky Cow reprieve twist, and the final series on the BBC.
RuPaul's Drag Race UK series 8
RuPaul's Drag Race UK series 8 (2026) is the eighth season of the British drag competition, premiering 3 September 2026 on BBC Three with 12 queens, a £25,000 prize, and the BBC's final series before a move to WOW Presents Plus.
RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World series 1
First series (2022) of RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World, the BBC Three international All Stars spin-off; nine queens from UK, US, Canada, Thailand, and Holland franchises competed under elimination-lip-sync rules; Blu Hydrangea won.
RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World series 2
RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs. the World series 2, the 2024 BBC Three international All Stars season (8 episodes, 9 February to 29 March 2024), won by Tia Kofi over Hannah Conda, with a first £50,000 prize.
RuPaul's Drag Race: UK vs. the World series 3
RuPaul's Drag Race UK vs The World series 3 (2026): third international All Stars spin-off of Drag Race UK, 10 returning queens, 8 episodes, £50,000 prize, won by Gawdland of Drag Race Thailand.
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked!
RuPaul's Drag Race: Untucked! is the backstage after-show to RuPaul's Drag Race, begun as Under the Hood in 2009, airing after each episode on MTV and streaming on Paramount+, with 18 Emmy nominations.
RuPaul's Drag U
RuPaul's Drag U, a Logo reality spin-off of RuPaul's Drag Race (2010-2012, 26 episodes), had RuPaul and former contestants give drag makeovers to three women per episode competing for the highest Drag Point Average.
RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race
RuPaul's Secret Celebrity Drag Race, a VH1 spin-off of RuPaul's Drag Race (2020–2022), had celebrities compete incognito in drag for the America's Next Celebrity Drag Superstar title and a charity cash prize.
Rupert Boneham
Rupert Boneham (Rupert Fredrick Boneham, born 1964) is an American Survivor contestant and troubled-teens mentor who played four seasons, first to play consecutive seasons, and won a fan-voted $1 million prize without winning the game.
Rupert Everett
Rupert James Hector Everett (born 1959) is an English actor, writer, and director, star of Another Country and My Best Friend's Wedding, and writer-director-star of The Happy Prince (2018) about Oscar Wilde.
Rupert Friend
Rupert Friend (born 1981, Oxfordshire) is a British actor known for Pride & Prejudice, The Young Victoria, Homeland's Peter Quinn, Hitman: Agent 47, and Wes Anderson films including Asteroid City.
Rupert Giles
Rupert Giles, also Rupert Edmund Giles, is the fictional Watcher, Sunnydale High librarian, and mentor of Buffy Summers in Buffy the Vampire Slayer (1997–2003), played by Anthony Stewart Head; known for his Ripper past and unmade BBC spin-off.
Rupert Graves
Rupert Graves (Rupert Simeon Graves) is an English film, television, and theatre actor born 1963 in Weston-super-Mare, known for Freddy Honeychurch in A Room with a View, Alec Scudder in Maurice, and DI Greg Lestrade in BBC's Sherlock.
Rupert Grint
Rupert Grint (born 1988, Harlow, Essex) is the British actor who played Ron Weasley in all eight Harry Potter films (2001-2011), later starring in Servant, Knock at the Cabin, and returning as Ron in Broadway's Cursed Child in 2027.
Rupert Penry-Jones
Rupert William Penry-Jones is an English actor born in 1970, best known for playing MI5 officer Adam Carter in Spooks and DI Joseph Chandler in Whitechapel.
Rupert Sanders
Rupert Sanders (born 1971) is a British director from Westminster, London, formerly an award-winning commercial director, who directed Snow White and the Huntsman (2012), Ghost in the Shell (2017), and The Crow (2024).
Rupert Vansittart
Rupert Vansittart (Rupert Nicholas Vansittart, b. 1958, Cranleigh, Surrey) is an English character actor known for Lord Ashfordly in Heartbeat, Yohn Royce in Game of Thrones, Mr Hurst in Pride and Prejudice, and Braveheart's Lord Bottoms.
Rural purge
The rural purge was the mass cancellation of rural-themed television series, chiefly by CBS in 1971, to make way for shows aimed at younger, urban viewers.
Rurouni Kenshin (2023 TV series)
Rurouni Kenshin (るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚-) 2023 TV series: Liden Films reboot of Watsuki's manga, 24 episodes from July 6, 2023 on Fuji TV noitamina, new cast led by Soma Saito, followed by Kyoto Disturbance in 2024.
Rurouni Kenshin (るろうに剣心)
Rurouni Kenshin (るろうに剣心 -明治剣客浪漫譚-) is Nobuhiro Watsuki's 1994–1999 Weekly Shōnen Jump manga about reverse-blade swordsman Himura Kenshin, with 72 million copies sold, a 94-episode 1996 anime, 2023 remake, and 19.3-billion-yen live-action films.
Rurouni Kenshin (るろうに剣心) (film)
Rurouni Kenshin (るろうに剣心), the 2012 live-action film of Watsuki's manga directed by Keishi Otomo, starring Takeru Satoh as the non-killing ex-assassin Kenshin; earned about 3.0 billion yen and launched a five-film series.
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (るろうに剣心 京都大火編)
Rurouni Kenshin: Kyoto Inferno (るろうに剣心 京都大火編) is the 2014 live-action film directed by Keishi Otomo, first half of the Kyoto arc two-parter, starring Takeru Satoh and Tatsuya Fujiwara; it grossed 5.22 billion yen in Japan.
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (るろうに剣心 最終章 The Beginning)
Rurouni Kenshin: The Beginning (るろうに剣心 最終章 The Beginning) is a 2021 Japanese live-action film, fifth in the series, directed by Keishi Otomo, starring Takeru Satoh and Kasumi Arimura, adapting the manga's Remembrance arc about Kenshin's cross-shaped scar and Tomoe.
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final
Rurouni Kenshin: The Final (るろうに剣心 最終章 The Final) is a 2021 Japanese live-action film directed by Keishi Ōtomo, the fourth and penultimate series entry, adapting the manga's Jinchū arc with Mackenyu as Enishi; released April 23, 2021, 138 minutes, followed by The Beginning.
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends
Rurouni Kenshin: The Legend Ends (るろうに剣心 伝説の最期編) is a 2014 Japanese live-action action film directed by Keishi Ōtomo, the second half of the Kyoto arc two-parter, in which Kenshin trains with Hiko Seijūrō to defeat Shishio Makoto.
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal
Rurouni Kenshin: Trust & Betrayal (Tsuioku-hen) is a 1999 four-episode Studio Deen OVA prequel directed by Kazuhiro Furuhashi, depicting Kenshin Himura's assassin past, his scar, and Tomoe Yukishiro, released in English as Samurai X by ADV Films.
Rusameekae Fagerlund (รุศเมฆ)
Rusameekae Fagerlund (รุศเมฆ), also James Rusameekae Fagerlund, is a Thai-Swedish actor, host, and former pro volleyball player born 1986 in Phuket; known for Why R U?, The Cheery Lee, and Netflix's Physical: Asia.
Rush (1991 film)
Rush (1991) is Lili Fini Zanuck's directing debut, a crime drama starring Jason Patric and Jennifer Jason Leigh as Texas narcotics officers who become addicts, based on Kim Wozencraft's novel, released by MGM in December 1991.
Rush (2013 film)
Rush (2013) is Ron Howard's action-drama, written by Peter Morgan, dramatizing the 1976 Formula 1 rivalry between James Hunt (Chris Hemsworth) and Niki Lauda (Daniel Brühl), with a 74 Metascore and fabricated scenes noted.