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.

Sailor Moon

Pretty Soldier Sailor Moon SuperS. If you didn’t understand that, it’s okay.

Network:
Airdates: 1992 - 1997

Saki

A girl who hates mahjong joins the school team.

Network:
Airdates: 2016

Saki (Anime)

A girl who hates mahjong ends up joining the club.

Network:
Airdates: 2009 - 2014

Sakura Trick

A secret love in high school? What could go wrong!

Salón de té La Moderna

Set in 1930 in Madrid, the series follows young Matilde, who enters to work at the tearoom “La Moderna” in Puerta del Sol.

Network:
Airdates: 2023 - 2025

School Spirit: An Unlikely Webseries

An LGBT webseries adaptation of Noel Coward’s Blithe Spirit.

Network:
Airdates: 2017

Scott Pilgrim Takes Off

A 20-something Toronto indie rocker’s adventures in getting and keeping jobs, avoiding being kicked out of his apartment, and surviving encounters with the seven evil exes of the new girl in town on whom he has a crush.

Network:
Airdates: 2023

Scum’s Wish

A perfect couple are in love with other people.

Network:
Airdates: 2017

Secret Bridesmaids’ Business

The power of friendship comes to hand as three friends find this out through life and death situations.

Network:
Airdates: 2019

Self Made

The inspiring story of trailblazing African American entrepreneur Madam C.J. Walker who built a haircare empire that made her America’s first female self-made millionaire.

Network:
Airdates: 2020

Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story

The true story of a decorated officer’s legal challenge to her involuntary discharge when she admitted she was homosexual.

Network:
Airdates: 1995

Seven Mortal Sins

After Lucifer falls from Heaven and plans to become the Demon Lord, she must prove herself by defeating the Seven Deadly Sins.

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Airdates: 2017