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Television franchises

  • DC Universe (franchise)The DC Universe, known as the DCU, is an American media franchise and shared universe built from characters in DC Comics publications. It was created by James Gunn and Peter Safran, who were announced as co-chairs and co-CEOs of the newly…
  • Yellowstone (franchise)The Yellowstone franchise, also called the Duttonverse, began with a pitch that Taylor Sheridan summed up as "The Godfather in Montana". HBO heard the idea and declined. That rejection did not end it. The idea grew into an American media…
  • Star TrekStar Trek's creator privately modeled it on Gulliver's Travels. Publicly he pitched a Wagon Train to the stars.
  • 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…
  • Saturday Night LiveSaturday Night Live began because Johnny Carson wanted weeknights off. NBC needed a new Saturday show.
  • The Walking Dead (TV series)Daryl Dixon, one of The Walking Dead's most popular characters, was invented for the TV series.
  • ArrowverseThe Arrowverse is a shared universe of DC Comics superhero television series, most of them broadcast on The CW. It began in October 2012 with a single hooded vigilante in a show called Arrow. Over the next decade it grew to six live-action…
  • The Boys (franchise)The Boys is an American media franchise set in a world where superpowered people, called Supes, are cheered as heroes by the public. Behind the cheering sits Vought International, a powerful corporation. It markets the Supes, monetizes…
  • DC Animated UniverseThe DC Animated Universe, which fans also call the Timmverse or the Diniverse, is a shared fictional world built from DC Comics characters and produced by Warner Bros. Animation. Its first story arrived in 1992 with Batman: The Animated…
  • Power RangersPower Rangers owes its existence to a hotel television in Japan. Haim Saban was on a business trip there in the 1980s. The only thing his hotel set would show was a series about five masked people in spandex suits fighting monsters. He was…
  • StargateStargate is a military science fiction franchise that began when Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Carolco released a film of that name on the 28th of October 1994. Today the franchise belongs to Amazon MGM Studios. As of January 2020, its main…
  • Ben 10Ben 10 starts with a boy and a wristwatch that was never made on Earth. The boy is Ben Tennyson. The watch is the Omnitrix, a high-tech device of extraterrestrial origin. Inside it is stored the DNA of many alien species, and Ben can turn…
  • The Walking Dead (franchise)The Walking Dead franchise begins with a sheriff's deputy named Rick Grimes waking from a coma into a world overrun by the undead. That single awakening has since multiplied into something far larger than one man's fight to protect his…

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