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.

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.

Network: , ,
Airdates: 2017

Sex and the City

Based on Candace Bushnell’s 1997 book of the same name, the show follows the lives of four women in their mid-thirties forties whoremain inseparable and confide in each other.

Network:
Airdates: 1998 - 2004

Shadow and Bone

Dark forces conspire against orphan mapmaker Alina Starkov when she unleashes an extraordinary power that could change the fate of her war-torn world.

Network:
Airdates: 2021 - 2023

Shadowhunters

fter her mother disappears, Clary must venture into the dark world of demon hunting, and embrace her new role among the Shadowhunters.

Network:
Airdates: 2016 - 2019

Shangri-La

In the future, the carbon tax turns Tokyo into the world’s largest “jungle-polis” that absorbs carbon dioxide.

Shattered Angels

It’s a weird Romeo & Juliet mashup with Lost Girl, only not in an Emily Andras way.

Network:
Airdates: 2007