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Serial drama television series

  • Daredevil: Born AgainMarvel largely set aside six filmed episodes of Daredevil: Born Again.
  • Mad MenHBO passed on Mad Men, and its CEO later called that his biggest regret. AMC made it its first original series.
  • Stranger ThingsAbout 15 cable networks rejected Stranger Things because its leads were children.
  • True BloodAlan Ball found True Blood's source novel by accident. He wandered into a bookstore before a dental appointment.
  • Twin PeaksSheryl Lee was hired to play Twin Peaks' dead girl, Laura Palmer. Lynch saw her in a picnic scene and kept her on.
  • Grey's AnatomyGrey's Anatomy began with nine star-billed actors, and by its 19th season only three were left: Ellen Pompeo, Chandra Wilson and James Pickens Jr. The medical drama follows surgical interns, residents and attendings at a fictional Seattle…
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of PowerThe Rings of Power title sequence was built from sand shaped by sound. It took seven months to complete.
  • The SopranosThe Sopranos aired on HBO from the 10th of January 1999 to the 10th of June 2007. It ran for six seasons and 86 episodes. At its center is Tony Soprano, played by James Gandolfini, a New Jersey Mafia boss who suffers panic attacks.…
  • The Walking Dead (TV series)Daryl Dixon, one of The Walking Dead's most popular characters, was invented for the TV series.
  • Breaking BadBreaking Bad began as a joke about two unemployed writers cooking meth in an RV.
  • Peaky Blinders (TV series)Peaky Blinders, Steven Knight's British crime drama, left a mark that the Office for National Statistics could measure in baby names. In 2018, the name Arthur entered the top 10 boys' names for the first time since the 1920s. Ada jumped…
  • Game of ThronesHBO made the Game of Thrones pilot redo about 90 percent of its footage. The re-shoot changed cast and directors.
  • Fallout (American TV series)The television series Fallout opens with a young woman named Lucy leaving Vault 33 to search for her kidnapped father. Amazon Prime Video released it as a drama based on the role-playing video game franchise created by Tim Cain and Leonard…
  • The Boys (TV series)The Boys is an American satirical superhero series that Hollywood spent years refusing to make. Director Adam McKay carried the idea to every studio and financing house in town, along with a pre-visualization reel of superheroes doing…
  • House of the DragonHouse of the Dragon premiered on the 21st of August 2022, and an estimated 9.99 million viewers in the United States watched its first episode on opening night. HBO said no series debut on its streaming service had ever drawn a bigger…
  • For All Mankind (TV series)In the TV series For All Mankind, a Soviet cosmonaut lands on the Moon first.
  • Euphoria (American TV series)Euphoria, the HBO drama created by Sam Levinson, began with an instruction in June 2017. Levinson had been invited to meet Francesca Orsi, HBO's head of drama, about adapting an Israeli series. The two ended up talking about life and the…

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