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.

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

She-Hulk: Attorney at Law

Jennifer Walters navigates the complicated life of a single, 30-something attorney who also happens to be a green 6-foot-7-inch superpowered Hulk.

Network:
Airdates: 2022

Sherlock

Yet another Sherlock Holmes story.

Network:
Airdates: 2010 - 2017

Shetland

DI Jimmy Perez and his team investigate crimes within the close knit island community of Shetland.

Network:
Airdates: 2013 - current

Slow Start

A girl starts school a year late and tries to hide it from everyone.

Network: , , , , ,
Airdates: 2018

Smallville

No tights and no flights, but a lot of freak of the weeks in Smallville.

Network:
Airdates: 2001 - 2011

Snowpiercer

Set over seven years after the world has become a frozen wasteland, Snowpiercer centers on the remnants of humanity, who inhabit a gigantic, perpetually-moving train that circles the globe.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2020 - 2024

So I’m a Spider, So What?

A girl is reincarnated as a spider, trying whatever she can to live.