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.

The Misselthwaite Archives

Mary hates her new home, where it rains constantly and strange noises echo from the basement, but she soon takes an interest in finding the hidden forest glade where her aunt passed away several years ago.

Network:
Airdates: 2015

The Morning Show

The cutthroat world of morning news and the lives of the people who help America wake up in the morning.

Network:
Airdates: 2019 - current

The Mrs Bradley Mysteries

Paired with her reliable and devoted chauffeur, Mrs Bradley’s finely honed skills of investigation seek out the truth behind the mysteries surrounding a death at the opera, crimes of passion at a circus, poisoning and family secrets.

Network:
Airdates: 1998 - 2000

The One

One quick DNA test is all it takes to find your perfect partner, the one you’re genetically made for.

Network:
Airdates: 2021 - 2022

The Originals

Vampire/Werewolf hybrids, vampires, werewolves, witches, immortals, and a big war down in the Big Easy.

Network:
Airdates: 2013 - 2018

The Other Black Girl

Nella, an editorial assistant, is tired of being the only Black girl at her company, so she’s excited when Hazel is hired; but as Hazel’s star begins to rise, Nella spirals out and discovers something sinister is going on at the company.

Network:
Airdates: 2023

The Power

When girls and women everywhere develop the ability to produce electricity, the world as we know it is changed as woman fight the imbalance they were born into.

Network:
Airdates: 2023

The Qwaser of Stigmata

At St. Mihailov Academy, a series of serial murders have taken place with all the victims being young women. Who is this rampant culprit? And which beautiful maiden will fall prey to his evil next?

Network: , , , , ,
Airdates: 2010 - 2011

The Rook

A young woman is pursued by shadowy paranormal adversaries while grappling with extraordinary abilities of her own.

Network:
Airdates: 2019

The Rose of Versailles

What if the captain of the Musketeers was a woman named Oscar?

Network:
Airdates: 1979 - 1980

The Sandman

Upon escaping after decades of imprisonment by a mortal wizard, Dream, the personification of dreams, sets about to reclaim his lost equipment.

Network:
Airdates: 2022 - current

The Secret Diaries of Miss Anne Lister

A drama telling the story of Anne Lister, 1791-1840, a Yorkshire landowner, industrialist, traveller and diarist who kept her orientation secret from society at large but in private defied convention by living with her female lover.

Network:
Airdates: 2010