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List Of Serial Drama Television Series
This is a list of serial drama television series. A serial is a television show which has a continuous plot that unfolds in sequential episode-by-episode fashion. Serials are, more often than not, shows that possess narrative complexity. They typically follow many story arcs that span entire television seasons, or even in some cases, the entire run of the series. # *'' 12 Monkeys'' (2015 – 2018) *''13 Reasons Why'' (2017 – 2020) *'' 24'' (2001 – 2010, 2014) *'' 24: Legacy'' (2017) *'' 2000 Malibu Road'' (1992) *'' 3%'' (2016 – 2020) *''The 4400'' (2004 – 2007) *'' 666 Park Avenue'' (2012 – 2013) *'' 90210'' (2008 – 2013) *''The 100'' (2014 – 2020) A *'' The Act'' (2019) *'' The Affair'' (2014 – 2019) *''Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.'' (2013 – 2020) *''Alcatraz'' (2012) *''Alex Rider'' (2020 – present) *'' Almost Human'' (2013 – 2014) *''Alias'' (2001 – 2006) *''The Alienist'' (2018 – present) *''Altered Carbon'' (2018 – 2020) *''Akame ga Kill!'' (2014) *'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Serial (radio And Television)
In television program, television and radio programming, a serial is a show that has a continuing plot that unfolds in a sequential episode-by-episode fashion. Serials typically follow main story arcs that span entire television seasons or even the complete run of the series, and sometimes spinoffs, which distinguishes them from episodic television that relies on more stand-alone episodes. Worldwide, the soap opera is the most prominent form of serial dramatic programming. In the UK the serial began as a direct adaptations of well known Serial (literature), literary works, usually consisting of a small number of episodes. Serials rely on keeping the full nature of the story hidden and revealing elements episode by episode, to encourage spectators to tune in to every episode to follow the plot. Often these shows employ recapping segments at the beginning and cliffhangers at the end of each episode. The invention of recording devices such as VCRs and Digital video recorder, DVRs ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Almost Human (TV Series)
''Almost Human'' is an American science fiction/crime drama that aired from November 17, 2013, through March 3, 2014, on Fox. The series was created by J. H. Wyman for Frequency Films, Bad Robot Productions and Warner Bros. Television. Wyman, Bryan Burk and J. J. Abrams are executive producers. After one season, Fox cancelled the series on April 29, 2014. Premise In 2048, the uncontrollable evolution of science and technology has caused crime rates to rise an astounding 400%. To combat this, the overwhelmed police force has implemented a new policy: every human police officer is paired with a lifelike combat-model android. John Kennex (Karl Urban), a troubled detective, has a reason to hate these new robot partners. Almost two years previously, Kennex and his squad were raiding the hideout of a violent gang known as InSyndicate, but ended up being ambushed and outgunned. Kennex tried to save his badly injured partner, but the accompanying logic-based android officer abandoned th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Another Life (2019 TV Series)
''Another Life'' is an American science fiction drama television series created by Aaron Martin, which premiered on Netflix on July 25, 2019. The series stars Katee Sackhoff, Selma Blair, Justin Chatwin, Samuel Anderson, Elizabeth Ludlow, Blu Hunt, A.J. Rivera, Alexander Eling, Alex Ozerov, Jake Abel, JayR Tinaco, Lina Renna, Jessica Camacho, Barbara Williams, Parveen Dosanjh, Greg Hovanessian, Chanelle Peloso and Tyler Hoechlin. In October 2019, the series was renewed for a second season, which was released on October 14, 2021. Netflix announced it had canceled the series in February 2022. Synopsis An unidentified flying object shaped like a large Möbius strip lands on Earth and grows a crystalline tower above it. Erik Wallace, a scientist employed by the United States Interstellar Command (USIC), attempts to communicate with the alien structure. Meanwhile, Wallace's wife, veteran Captain Niko Breckinridge, takes the spaceship ''Salvare'' (meaning 'to save' in Latin) and i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Flower We Saw That Day
is a 2011 Japanese anime television series created by , an artist collective consisting of director Tatsuyuki Nagai, screenwriter Mari Okada, and character designer Masayoshi Tanaka. The anime was produced by A-1 Pictures and aired in Fuji TV's noitamina block between April and June 2011. It is currently licensed in North America by Aniplex of America. A novelization by Mari Okada was serialized in Media Factory's ''Da Vinci'' magazine from March to July 2011. A manga adaptation illustrated by Mitsu Izumi began serialization in the May 2012 issue of Shueisha's ''Jump Square'' magazine. A visual novel adaptation for the PlayStation Portable was released by 5pb. in August 2012. An anime film sequel was released in Japanese theaters on August 31, 2013. A live action television drama film adaptation premiered on September 21, 2015 on Fuji TV. Plot In Chichibu, Saitama, a group of six sixth-grade-age childhood friends drift apart after one of them, Meiko "Menma" Honma, dies i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andromeda (TV Series)
''Andromeda'' (formally titled ''Gene Roddenberry's Andromeda'') is a space opera television series, based on unused material by Gene Roddenberry, developed by Robert Hewitt Wolfe, and produced by Roddenberry's widow, Majel Barrett. It starred Kevin Sorbo as High Guard Captain Dylan Hunt. The series premiered on October 2, 2000, and ended on May 13, 2005. ''Andromeda'' was filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and produced by Andromeda Productions, Tribune Entertainment, Fireworks Entertainment and MBR Productions. In Canada, the show aired on Global Television Network (Fireworks' parent company) and ran in first-run broadcast syndication in the United States. ''Andromeda'' is one of two television series (alongside '' Earth: Final Conflict'') produced after Roddenberry's death based on concepts he had created as early as the 1960s and 1970s; Roddenberry died in 1991, nine years prior to the series premiere. The name Dylan Hunt had previously been used for the hero of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Americans
''The Americans'' is an American historical drama, period spy fiction, spy drama television series created by Joe Weisberg that aired on the FX (TV channel), FX television network for six seasons from January 30, 2013, to May 30, 2018. Weisberg and Joel Fields also serve as showrunners and are executive producers. Set during the Cold War, the show follows the story of Elizabeth Jennings (The Americans), Elizabeth (Keri Russell) and Philip Jennings (The Americans), Philip Jennings (Matthew Rhys), two Soviet KGB intelligence officers posing as an American married couple living in Falls Church, Virginia, Falls Church, a Virginia suburb of Washington, D.C., with their children, Paige (Holly Taylor) and Henry (Keidrich Sellati). It also explores the conflict between Washington's Federal Bureau of Investigation, FBI office and the KGB ''Resident spy, Rezidentura'' there, by following the perspectives of agents on both sides, including the Jennings' neighbor Stan Beeman (Noah Emmerich), ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Vandal
''American Vandal'' is an American mockumentary television series created by Dan Perrault and Tony Yacenda that premiered on September 15, 2017, on Netflix. The series is a parody of true crime documentaries such as ''Making a Murderer'' and ''Serial (podcast), Serial''. On October 26, 2018, it was announced that Netflix had canceled the series after two seasons; however, it was also reported that producers intend to shop the program to other venues. It received mostly positive critical reviews, was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Awards, Primetime Emmy Award, and won a Peabody Awards, Peabody Award. Premise The first season follows the aftermath of a costly high school prank that left 27 faculty cars vandalized with phallus, phallic images. Senior class clown Dylan Maxwell is accused of the crime by the school. He is expelled, but an investigation into the incident is launched by sophomore Peter Maldonado, with help from his friend Sam Ecklund, to uncover whether Dylan was the on ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Soul
''American Soul'' is an American musical drama television series, created by Jonathan Prince and Devon Greggory, that premiered on February 5, 2019, on BET. The series tells the story of Don Cornelius and the creation of his legendary music and dance program ''Soul Train'' and it stars an ensemble cast including Sinqua Walls, Jason Dirden, Iantha Richardson, Christopher Jefferson, Katlyn Nichol, Jelani Winston, and Kelly Price. In April 2019, it was renewed for a second season, which premiered on May 27, 2020. Premise ''American Soul'' tells the story of Don Cornelius, "his ''Soul Train'' dancers, crew and musicians in a cutthroat Hollywood in the 1970s and how they worked, played, rose and fell against the backdrop of the show that was most responsible for the way African-American culture was perceived by the world then." The first season takes place between the first two seasons of ''Soul Train'' between 1971 and 1973. The second season jumps ahead two years later in 1975. Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Horror Story
''American Horror Story'' is an American anthology horror television series created by Ryan Murphy and Brad Falchuk for the cable network FX. The first installment in the '' American Story'' media franchise, each season is conceived as a self-contained miniseries, following a different set of characters and settings in the same fictional universe, and a storyline with its own "beginning, middle, and end." Some plot elements of each season are loosely inspired by true events. Many actors appear in more than one season, often playing a new character. Evan Peters, Sarah Paulson, and Lily Rabe have returned most frequently, with each appearing in at least nine of the first eleven seasons, followed by Frances Conroy, who appears in eight, and Denis O'Hare appearing in seven. Other notable actors such as Jessica Lange, Kathy Bates, Angela Bassett, Emma Roberts, Adina Porter, Finn Wittrock, Jamie Brewer, Billie Lourd, and Leslie Grossman appear in five of the eleven seasons. Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Gods (TV Series)
''American Gods'' is an American fantasy drama television series based on Neil Gaiman's 2001 novel of the same name and developed by Bryan Fuller and Michael Green for the premium cable network Starz. Produced by Fremantle North America and distributed by Lionsgate Television, the first season premiered on April 30, 2017. Fuller and Green served as the showrunners for the first season and were replaced by Jesse Alexander for the second season. Charles H. Eglee served as showrunner for the third season. Gaiman served as an executive producer. Ricky Whittle plays the series' lead Shadow Moon, who meets a strange man named Mr. Wednesday (Ian McShane) after being released from prison and soon becomes embroiled in a large-scale conflict between the Old Gods and the New Gods, who grow stronger each day. In May 2017, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on March 10, 2019. The following week, Starz renewed ''American Gods'' for the third season, which premier ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American Crime Story
''American Crime Story'' is an American anthology true crime television series developed by Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, who are also executive producers, alongside Brad Falchuk, Nina Jacobson, Ryan Murphy, and Brad Simpson. The series is the second installment in the '' American Story'' media franchise, following ''American Horror Story.'' Each season is presented as a self-contained miniseries and is independent of the events in other seasons. Alexander and Karaszewski did not return after the first season, but retain executive-producer credits. In the United States, the series is broadcast on FX. The first season, subtitled '' The People v. O. J. Simpson'', chronicled the murder trial of O. J. Simpson, and was based on the book ''The Run of His Life: The People v. O. J. Simpson'' by Jeffrey Toobin. It premiered on February 2, 2016. The second season, subtitled '' The Assassination of Gianni Versace'', chronicled the murder of designer Gianni Versace by spree-kill ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Akame Ga Kill!
is a Japanese manga series written by Takahiro and illustrated by Tetsuya Tashiro. It was serialized in Square Enix's '' Monthly Gangan Joker'' from March 2010 to December 2016, with its chapters collected in 15 ''tankōbon'' volumes. The story focuses on Tatsumi, a young villager who travels to the Capital to raise money for his home only to discover strong corruption in the area. The assassin group known as Night Raid recruits the young man to help them in their fight against the corrupt Empire. Plot Tatsumi is a fighter who is accompanied by his two childhood friends, Iyeyasu and Sayo, and sets off into the Capital to search of a way to make money in order to assist his poverty-stricken village. After being separated from his friends in a bandit attack, Tatsumi unsuccessfully attempts to enlist in the army and is swindled out of his money in the Capital. He is taken in by a noble family, but when an assassin group called Night Raid attacks, he learns that his noble hos ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
