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ITV’s Victoria: Seasons 4-6

This era focuses on the monarch in middle age.

FX’s Love Story: Christopher and Dana Reeve

On this season of Love Story, the romance between Christopher Reeve and his wife Dana will be explored in 14 episodes. This season will showcase the enduring bond the two had during the 12 year marriage, which included the tough times, when Christopher was paralysed from the neck down after a horrific horse riding accident, and how Dana helped him live again despite his disability. It will also showcase how the couple helped create a foundation that still helps physically disabled people to this day, and remind people that sometimes, heroes don’t wear capes or have superpowers.

FX’s Love Story: The Many Loves of Taylor Swift

On this season, Taylor Swift’s many romances will receive the Ryan Murphy treatment. It will explore her rocky relationship history against the backdrop of her rising music career, and her struggles to define herself as a singer. It will also delve into her feuds, from Kanye West to Katy Perry, and focus on how she used her autobiographical songwriting to inform her art. It also focuses on her struggles with weight control, her sexual harassment case, and how she handled media attention and criticism with grace as well as grit. A non liner narrative, told in 16 episodes.

Star Wars: The Thrawn Trilogy (1984)

Five years after the glorious rebel victory against the second Death Star, Luke Skywalker remains the last of the Jedi! Han Solo and Princess Leia are married and have taken on many of the burdens of stabilizing the fledgling New Republic. But the galaxy is not yet safe. Far, far away, something festers. One lingering faction of the Empire - near death, but all the more dangerous for it. And the discovery of a long-lost force could spark it back into life! The last of the Emperor's military masterminds, Grand Admiral Thrawn, is ready to seize his chance to control the remaining Empire - and the galaxy!

Doctor Who: The War Doctor (1963-2013)

The "War Doctor" was the disgraced ninth incarnation of the Doctor. He was an incarnation specifically chosen to be that of a warrior who would fight in the Last Great Time War. The regeneration into this incarnation was aided by the Sisterhood of Karn. Although being a warrior and showing anger if he was referred by his former name, he still showed charm and compassion like his earlier selves. Due to the belief that he had destroyed Gallifrey, he was treated with shame and contempt by his future incarnations. His eleventh incarnation stated that his actions broke "the promise" of the "name of the Doctor". This assessment changed somewhat once the real end of the Time War was revealed and was described after that as being the Doctor most of all by his future selves.

FX’s Love Story: The Three Husbands of Jane Fonda

Released one year after Jane’s 100th birthday, this instalment of the anthology series takes a look at Hanoi Jane’s three marriages and her struggles to be her own woman in the public eye. Based on her memoir My Life So Far, this 18 episode series is told in a non linear style, going backwards and forwards to showcase the scope of her life from contract player to divisive character to iconic actress. Central to this story are the three men who loved her. It will showcase the pain she went through when the men in her life cheated on her, as well as her weight struggles and subsequent physical health improvements, while showing how she continuously changed with the times throughout her life.

FX’s Love Story: Michael Jackson and Lisa Marie Presley

A 10 episode exploration into the oddest marriage in Showbiz: the Union of The King of Pop and The King of Rock and Roll’s Daughter. It will explore the romance against the questions about it’s validity, from the private moments where they truly had a connection to the soul crushing public eye that couldn’t decide if it was real. It will also have elements of American Crime Story and Monster, in that it will dissect the timing of their marriage against the backdrop of Michael’s child molestation allegations and also take one of the most disturbing chapters from Lisa’s posthumous autobiography as fact. This season is about the question of if a celebrity marriage is actually real, which side people are on in trying to judge what they see, and how some unorthodox relationships are more nuanced than people think.

Torchwood: Among Us

Torchwood are on the run. As the world puts itself back together, Torchwood are there to pick up the pieces. And they find something nasty hiding in them. A housing estate where everyone's gone mad, an industrial estate interrogation facility, a lighthouse in Iceland, the comments section of a newspaper. Trouble is everywhere. And so are Torchwood.

Torchwood: God Among Us

When a God comes to Cardiff, the world goes to Hell.

Torchwood: Aliens Among Us

Captain Jack and Gwen Cooper have restarted Torchwood. But it's in a very different Cardiff. Something terrible has happened to the city. With every day getting darker, will Torchwood need to adopt a whole new approach?

The Perfect Earth-789 Batman Franchise

Note. canon characters must be from the Burton movies, characters based on their appearances in the Batman ‘89 comics, and John Jackson Miller’s books between Batman and Batman Returns.

Wonder Woman Season Four (1979-1980)

Imagining the Wonder Woman ‘77 comic book stories as a theoretical fourth season, shorter in amount of episodes but bigger in budget.

FX’s Love Story: Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver

While Arnold is given top billing in the title, the story of the union between the Austrian Oak and JFK Sr’s niece is mostly based on Maria’s book I Am Maria and is mostly told from her perspective. A 19 episode season.

Blade Runner 2039 Trilogy

The astonishing saga of Ash concludes as she faces her greatest challenge yet. 20 years have passed since Ash helped a young girl and her Replicant mother escape from the clutches of her sadistic father - the business tycoon, ALEXANDER SELWYN – to an Off-world colony. Now the heir apparent to the old Tyrell empire, NIANDER WALLACE has ordered the capture of Cleo believing that her DNA holds the secret to Replicant fertility. Now former Blade Runner AAHNA ‘ASH’ ASHINA must once again return to Los Angeles and fight to save the city she loves from the insane machinations of Niander Wallace and his personal Replicant assistant, LUV, the first Replicant Blade Runner, and fulfill a pact she made years ago to protect those she loves most. The future itself of all Replicants is at stake.

Blade Runner 2029 Trilogy

Set ten years after the first year’s critically acclaimed series, this omnibus sees Blade Runner Ash return to hunt down renegade Replicants. But this time ASH now has a new agenda that, if discovered, will make her the enemy of humanity. When Ash is drawn into a deadly cat-and-mouse game with a Replicant called YOTUN, one unlike any she has ever faced before – a NEXUS 6 Replicant who has outlived his four-year lifespan. she finds herself in a deadly fight for survival. The head of a guerrilla army of fanatical Replicants, Yotun leads a revolt to take control of the Los Angeles and only Ash can stop him.

Blade Runner 2019 Trilogy

Los Angeles, 2019 and LAPD’s best Blade Runner and detective, Aahna ‘Ash’ Ashina, has been assigned to investigate the mysterious disappearance of Isobel and Cleo Selwyn, the wife and daughter of business tycoon, Alexander Selwyn, a close personal friend of Eldon Tyrell. Ash’s search will take her on a journey from the crime-ridden underbelly of a rain-soaked, environmentally damaged Los Angeles to the promised land of the Off-World Colonies and back home again as she uncovers a terrible secret and a desperate conspiracy that forces her to confront her own hatred for Replicants – the synthetic humans that she hunts with such vengeance.

Wonder Woman ‘77 Meets The Bionic Woman (1980)

Wonder Woman and the Bionic Woman, the most beloved female icons of 1970s television, come together for globe-trotting action against their worst enemies! Diana Prince and Jaime Sommers team up to fight a rogue cabal bent on wreaking havoc and stealing deadly weapons. Can CASTRA be stopped before their real targets are revealed and lives are lost? And what three familiar villains threaten the unbeatable combination of bracelets and bionics?

FX’s Love Story: Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger

The insane love story of one of the 1990s’ most famous couples, from meeting on the set of a strangely titled movie called The Marrying Man to the custody battle over their daughter that lasted equally as long as their marriage. A 16-episode season for the anthology series.

Doctor Who Recast Doctors

Imagining new actors playing the main incarnations of the Doctor in future multi-doctor stories across the next decade.

Whovian

Similar to The Crown, Whovian follows the making of Britain’s greatest tv show and TV’s most beloved character from 1963 to the present day. It dramatises the trials, tribulations and joys of making Doctor Who over the years, from it’s Cold War Era low budget days, then onto the wilderness years, then it’s 21st Century iteration. It also follows the show as it became a franchise, with books, audios, comics and toys expanding the convoluted canon of the show, and how people sometimes get too invested into a mythology.