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.

Apples Never Fall

The Delaney family seems happy but Joy disappears, forcing her husband and four adult children to reassess their family history.

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Airdates: 2024

Aria the Scarlet Ammo

Kinji, a student of an elite academy that produces highly skilled soldiers who fight crime in an anarchic society, gets attacked by a criminal. Aria, an elite soldier, saves him and they team up.

Armistead Maupin’s Tales of the City

The stories of several colorful characters living in San Francisco, inspired by the book series by Armistead Maupin

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Airdates: 2019

Arrow

After 5 years presumed dead, spoiled billionaire playboy Oliver Queen returns home a changed man determined to clean up the city as a hooded vigilante armed with a bow.

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Airdates: 2012 - 2020

Asobi Asobase

The story revolves around three classmates who play simple hand games.

Asteroid in Love

Mira and Ao promised to find an asteroid together.

Attack on Titan

After his hometown is destroyed and his mother is killed, young Eren Yeager vows to cleanse the earth of the giant humanoid Titans that have brought humanity to the brink of extinction.

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Airdates: 2013 - 2023

Away

Commander Emma Green leaves behind her husband and daughter to lead an international crew of astronauts on a perilous three-year mission to Mars.

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Airdates: 2020

Away From It All

A modern web series adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s ‘Far from the Madding Crowd’ told in a multimedia format.

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Airdates: 2016 - 2017

Azumanga Daioh

A humorous and highly unpredictable animated series following a group of high school girls and their teachers.

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Airdates: 2002

Backstrom

The Portland Police Bureau’s Elite Special Crimes Unit is led an alcoholic and smoker who is in failing health.

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Airdates: 2015

Bäckström (Sweden)

Unscrupulous and arrogant murder detective Evert Bäckström finds himself with the hardest case he ever had when a skull pierced with bullet holes is found on an uninhabited island in the archipelago.

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Airdates: 2020 - current