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.

Psycho-Pass

Believing in humanity and order, policewoman Akane Tsunemori obeys the ruling, computerized, precognitive Sibyl System. But when she faces a criminal mastermind who can elude this “perfect” system, she questions both Sibyl and herself.

Network:
Airdates: 2012 - 2014

Puppy Place

Follows the adventures of dog-loving siblings and the pups they foster.

Network:
Airdates: 2021 - 2022

Queen Sugar

Estranged siblings with very different personalities, try to put aside their differences to save the family farm in Louisiana after their father’s death.

Network:
Airdates: 2016 - 2022

R-15

An erotic fiction genius attends a school for geniuses.

R.J. Decker

Ex-con photographer RJ Decker becomes a PI in South Florida, solving strange cases with help from his journalist ex, her cop wife, and an enigmatic woman from his past who may help or destroy him.

Network:
Airdates: 2026 - current

Ragdoll

Detectives look to untangle the case of someone who has killed six people and sewn their bodies into the shape of one grotesque body nicknamed the Ragdoll.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2021

Raising Dion

A widowed single mom discovers that her son has super powers and tries to figure out how to raise him safely and responsibly.

Network:
Airdates: 2019 - 2022

Ramen Daisuki Koizumi San

Koizumi, a cool, beautiful university student of few words, is in fact a ramen expert who seeks and tries out delicious ramen with gusto every day.

Network:
Airdates: 2015 - 2016

Ratched

In 1947, Mildred Ratched begins working as a nurse at a leading psychiatric hospital. But beneath her stylish exterior lurks a dark ulterior motive.

Network:
Airdates: 2020

Rational Creatures

A modern, queer, telling of Persuasion.

Network:
Airdates: 2019 - 2022

Recipes for Love and Murder

Tannie Maria sees food as “medicine for the body and heart”. She envies romance as much as she enjoys cooking and eating. But it’s death that shakes up Tannie Maria’s life, when one of the correspondents to her column is brutally murdered.

Network:
Airdates: 2022 - current

Red Garden

Kate, Claire, Rose, and Rachel once explored the streets of New York with the promise of limitless futures unfolding before them. But now, murdered and resurrected as killers, they must hunt demonic beasts no ordinary weapon can destroy.

Network:
Airdates: 2006 - 2007