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The Sticky

The Sticky is a 2024 Canadian Prime Video dark comedy series, created by Brian Donovan and Ed Herro, starring Margo Martindale, inspired by the 2011-12 Great Canadian Maple Syrup Heist; six episodes, cancelled February 2025.

The Stig

The Stig is the anonymous helmeted racing driver of BBC's Top Gear (since 2002), created by Jeremy Clarkson and Andy Wilman. Played by Perry McCarthy, Ben Collins, and finally Phil Keen (revealed 2024); Collins's 2010 autobiography ended the BBC's secrecy fight.

The Stillborn

The Stillborn is a 1984 novel by Nigerian writer Zaynab Alkali about three village women in Northern Nigeria, which won the Association of Nigerian Authors prose prize in 1985.

The Sting

The Sting (1973) is a George Roy Hill comedy-drama written by David S. Ward, starring Paul Newman, Robert Redford, and Robert Shaw as 1930s Chicago con men. It won 7 of 10 Oscars including Best Picture and was the second and last Newman-Redford teaming.

The Stinky & Dirty Show

The Stinky & Dirty Show is an American animated preschool series (2015-2019) on Prime Video, based on Jim and Kate McMullan's I Stink! books, following a garbage truck and backhoe solving problems in Go City.

The Stolen Earth

The Stolen Earth (2008) is the Doctor Who Series 4 finale part one, written by Russell T Davies, directed by Graeme Harper; 8.78m viewers, Davros's return, and a regeneration cliffhanger resolved in Journey's End.

The Stone Angel

The Stone Angel is a 1964 novel by the Canadian writer Margaret Laurence, following ninety-year-old Hagar Shipley as she resists a nursing home and recalls her life in Manawaka, Manitoba.

The Stone Breakers

The Stone Breakers (Les Casseurs de pierres) is an 1849 painting by Gustave Courbet showing two poor laborers breaking stones; a founding work of Realism destroyed in Dresden in 1945.

The Stone Cross

The Stone Cross («Камінний хрест») is an 1900 novella by Ukrainian writer Vasyl Stefanyk about an elderly Galician peasant who leaves his land to emigrate to Canada.

The Stone Guest

The Stone Guest (Каменный гость) is a short drama in blank verse by Alexander Pushkin, written in 1830 as one of his four Little Tragedies and based on the Don Juan legend.

The Stone Host

The Stone Host (Камінний господар) is a 1912 drama in five acts by Lesia Ukrainka, retelling the Don Juan legend and first staged in Kyiv in 1914.

The Stone of Laughter

The Stone of Laughter (Hajar al-Dahik) is a 1990 novel by the Lebanese writer Hoda Barakat, set in Beirut during the Lebanese Civil War and centered on a young man named Khalil.

The Stone on the Road

The Stone on the Road (Robo no ishi) is an unfinished novel by the Japanese writer Yamamoto Yuzo, serialized in the Asahi Shimbun in 1937.

The Stone Roses

The Stone Roses: Manchester rock band formed 1985 (Brown, Squire, Mani, Reni) whose 1989 debut fused 1960s psychedelia with acid house, anchoring Madchester and shaping Britpop; disbanded 1996 after a five-year Silvertone lawsuit and Second Coming (1994), re-formed 2011.

The Stone Roses (album)

The Stone Roses (1989) is the English band's debut album, produced by John Leckie, recorded at Battery, Rockfield, and The Manor studios, entered the UK chart at No 32, and became the defining Madchester record.

The Stone Sky

The Stone Sky (2017) is the concluding novel of N.K. Jemisin's Broken Earth trilogy, published by Orbit. It won the 2018 Hugo Award for Best Novel, completing the first three-year consecutive Hugo sweep.

The Stone Sleeper

The Stone Sleeper (Kameni spavač) is a 1966 poetry collection by the Bosnian poet Mak Dizdar, his most important work, built from a poetic dialogue with medieval tombstones called stećci.

The Stone Virgins

The Stone Virgins is a 2002 novel by the Zimbabwean author Yvonne Vera, her fifth and final, and the first to confront the Gukurahundi massacres in Matabeleland.

The Stoning of Soraya M.

The Stoning of Soraya M. (also La Femme Lapidée) is a 2008 American drama directed by Cyrus Nowrasteh, adapted from Freidoune Sahebjam's 1994 book, dramatizing the 1986 stoning of an Iranian woman falsely accused of adultery; starring Shohreh Aghdashloo, Mozhan Marnò, and Jim Caviezel.

The Stooges

The Stooges, Ann Arbor rock band formed in 1967 by Iggy Pop and the Asheton brothers, made three commercially failed albums that became proto-punk landmarks and led to 2010 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction.

The Stooges (album)

The Stooges is the Stooges' self-titled debut album, released August 5, 1969 on Elektra, produced by John Cale; includes "I Wanna Be Your Dog" and "1969"; a proto-punk landmark that initially sold poorly.

The Stool Pigeon (线人)

The Stool Pigeon (线人, Xian Ren) is a 2010 Hong Kong crime film by Dante Lam, reuniting Nick Cheung and Nicholas Tse from The Beast Stalker; it won Tse the 30th Hong Kong Film Award for Best Actor.

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry

The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry: Gabrielle Zevin's 2014 novel about widowed bookseller A.J. Fikry of Island Books on Alice Island, and its 2022 Hans Canosa film adaptation starring Kunal Nayyar and Lucy Hale.

The Stories of John Cheever

The Stories of John Cheever is a 1978 collection of 61 short stories by the American writer John Cheever, spanning 1946 to 1975 and including "The Swimmer".

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee

The Storm on the Sea of Galilee (Christ in the Storm on the Sea of Galilee) is Rembrandt's 1633 oil on canvas, 160 x 128 cm, his only painted seascape, bought by Isabella Stewart Gardner in 1898 and stolen unsolved from her Boston museum on 18 March 1990.

The Storm Riders (风云:雄霸天下)

The Storm Riders (風雲雄霸天下, Fung Wan) is Andrew Lau's 1998 Hong Kong wuxia fantasy adapted from Ma Wing-shing's comic, starring Aaron Kwok, Ekin Cheng, and Sonny Chiba; top HK film of 1998 and a CGI milestone.

The Stormlight Archive

The Stormlight Archive is a fantasy novel series by Brandon Sanderson, beginning with The Way of Kings in 2010. Set on the storm-battered world of Roshar, it combines large-scale conflict with the.

The Story (stage play)

The Story is a 2003 drama by American playwright Tracey Scott Wilson about a Black reporter's fabricated scoop, inspired by the Janet Cooke scandal; premiered at The Public Theater, revived at London's National Theatre in 2026 with Letitia Wright.

The Story & the Engine

The Story & the Engine is Doctor Who Series 15, Episode 5 (2025), written by Inua Ellams, set in a Lagos, Nigeria barber shop in 2019 where the Barber traps men to fuel the story-powered spider Noctis Inknid; stars Ncuti Gatwa, Varada Sethu, Ariyon Bakare, with a Jo Martin Fugitive Doctor cameo.

The Story Makers

The Story Makers is a British CBeebies pre-school series (2002–2004) set in a children's library where, at midnight, puppets Jelly and Jackson and Wordsworth presenters make stories with a story machine, in 245 episodes across four series.