Based on a True Story TV Shows (
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While fictionalized and sensationalized, these shows are based on real things that happened to real people in the real world. Who knew!?

195 Lewis

A close-knit group of Black queer women navigate relationships in Bed-Stuy.

Network:
Airdates: 2017

30 30

The lives of two platonic lesbian roommates living in modern day Las Vegas.

Network:
Airdates: 2017 - 2018

A Girl Like Me: The Gwen Araujo Story

The film dramatizes the events surrounding the 2002 murder of Gwen Araujo, a transgender teenager who was murdered after acquaintances discovered that she had external genitalia.

Network:
Airdates: 2006

A League of Their Own

An adaptation of the 1992 film of the same name with new characters and story lines, about the formation of a World War II era women’s professional baseball.

Network:
Airdates: 2022

A Question of Love

A lesbian attempts to gain custody of her children following a divorce.

Network:
Airdates: 1978

Agatha and the Truth of Murder

Agatha Christie goes missing for 11 days and solves a cold case about a lesbian nurse.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2018

All American

When a star high school football player from South Central is recruited to play for Beverly Hills High School, two separate worlds collide.

Network:
Airdates: 2018 - current

Awkwafina is Nora From Queens

With help from her dad and grandmother, Nora Lum navigates young adulthood in Flushing, New York with her cousin.

Network: ,
Airdates: 2020 - 2023

Bessie

The story of legendary blues performer Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and ’30s.

Network:
Airdates: 2015

Betty

A spin-off of the independent film, Skate Kitchen (2018), Betty follows a group of girls who skateboard in New York City.

Network:
Airdates: 2020 - 2021

Bonding

A New York City grad student moonlighting as a dominatrix enlists her gay BFF from high school to be her assistant.

Network:
Airdates: 2019 - 2021

Club Friday To Be Continued

More true stories of people from Thailand.

Network:
Airdates: 2016 - 2017