Literary Inspired TV Shows (
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Predominantly found in web series, TV shows with this trope are based on a pre-existing work. Like every single bloody Sherlock Holmes series ever made by network TV.

Panic

47 graduates participate in the annual Panic competition, hoping to win $50,000 and leave their small Texas town of Carp. After the rules change, they must decide what risks they will take in order to escape.

Network:
Airdates: 2021

Paper Girls

A few hours after 1988 Halloween night, four 12-year old girls have to face a mission. Trapped in a complicated conflict, they will travel in time to save the world.

Network:
Airdates: 2022

Para – Wir Sind King

Sometimes, disaster is just one decision away from delight as four women in the Berlin-Wedding are searching for happiness in a world, in which light and darkness lie close together.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2021 - 2023

Paradise Kiss

ParaKiss ParaKiss ParaKiss.

Network:
Airdates: 2005

Penguin Musume Heart

A total otaku becomes class president. Everything goes weird after that.

Network:
Airdates: 2008

Perry Mason

In booming 1932 Los Angeles, a down-and-out defense attorney takes on the case of a lifetime.

Network:
Airdates: 2020 - 2023

Picnic at Hanging Rock

Three Australian boarding school girls who inexplicably vanish on a field trip to a remote and historic landmark, the Hanging Rock.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2018

Pinecone & Pony

The series follows the adventures of Pinecone and her pony as they face trolls, giants, dragons and a dangerous rope bridge atop a valley.

Network:
Airdates: 2022 - 2023

Play for Today

A British television anthology drama series.

Network:
Airdates: 1970 - 1984

Poirot

The cases of eccentric, but sharp, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot.

Network:
Airdates: 1989 - 2014

Portrait of Marriage

A British television miniseries detailing the real-life love affair between Vita Sackville-West and Violet Keppel

Network:
Airdates: 1990

Postcards From Buster

Join Buster Baxter as he travels around the world with his family.

Network:
Airdates: 2004 - 2012