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.

Valeria

Valeria is a writer who’s hit a dead end with both her writing and her husband. She finds solace in her three friends Carmen, Lola and Nerea.

Network:
Airdates: 2020 - 2023

Valkyrie Drive: Mermaid

A virgin gets special powers when she has sex with other girls, and needs that to fight them.

Vampire Academy

n a world of privilege and glamour, two young women’s friendship transcends their strikingly different classes as they prepare to complete their education and enter royal vampire society.

Network:
Airdates: 2022

Van der Valk

A Dutch detective takes on criminal cases in Amsterdam using insightful human observation and his natural street smarts.

Network:
Airdates: 2020 - 2021

Van Helsing

Vampires, lady leads, girl kissing, and it’s still kinda boring.

Network:
Airdates: 2016 - 2021

Vernon Subutex

After a night with rock star Alex Bleach, Vernon becomes a wanted man when Bleach winds up dead of an overdose, leaving behind three mysterious video tapes.

Network:
Airdates: 2019

Vida

A series about two Mexican-American sisters written entirely by a group of Latina writers, half of whom are queer.

Network:
Airdates: 2018 - 2020

W.I.T.C.H.

Five teenage girls learn that they have been chosen to guard the walls between parallel universes. For this purpose, they have been given the powers of the elements.

Network:
Airdates: 2004 - 2006

WandaVision

Blends the style of classic sitcoms with the MCU, in which Wanda Maximoff and Vision – two super-powered beings living their ideal suburban lives – begin to suspect that everything is not as it seems.

Network:
Airdates: 2021

Warrior Nun

A 19-year-old paraplegic becomes the latest in the line of chosen warrior nuns. And all hell breaks loose.

Network:
Airdates: 2020 - 2022

Wataten! An Angel Flew Down to Me

A sketch comedy all about trying to get along with the super cute girl.

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Airdates: 2019

Watson

A year after the death of his friend and partner Sherlock Holmes, Dr. John Watson resumes his medical career at a clinic dedicated to the treatment of rare diseases. However, he soon finds that his old life is not done with him yet.

Network:
Airdates: 2025 - 2026