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📺 Best TV anthology series
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Different characters and stories based on a similar theme in a TV series. Here is a selection of binge worthy anthology shows released in the 21st century.


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TV Show: The Leftovers ( 2014 )
Three years after millions of people—some 2% of the world's population—vanished into thin air, residents of Mapleton, NY weigh the pros and cons of a "Heroes Day" tribute to the local "Departed". Attempting to maintain a sense of normalcy in his strained community, police chief Kevin Garvey faces additional challenges at home with his daughter, Jill, who's lost in a cloud of apathy with her friend Aimee, and son, Tom, who has gravitated to a cult led by the charismatic Holy Wayne. Also of concern is a silent, white-clad group of chain-smoking men and women called the Guilty Remnant, who team up in pairs to stake out people and places around town. As tension in Mapleton escalates, the lives of Laurie, an unexpected member of the Guilty Remnant, and Meg, a recently engaged young woman, converge.
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TV Show: Fargo ( 2014 )
Fargo is a seasonal anthology crime drama with some dark comical elements, inspired by the film Fargo written by the Coen brothers. Each season follows a new case and new characters, all entrenched in the trademark humor, murder and "Minnesota nice" that has made the film an enduring classic.
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TV Show: Inside No. 9 ( 2014 )
An anthology of darkly comic twisted tales by Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith, each one taking place behind a door marked 'number 9'.
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TV Show: True Detective ( 2014 )
Touch darkness and darkness touches you back. True Detective centers on troubled cops and the investigations that drive them to the edge. Each season features a new cast and a new case.True Detective is an American anthology crime drama television series created and written by Nic Pizzolatto. 
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TV Show: Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories ( 2013 )
Akin to TV Tokyo's Folktales from Japan, Yamishibai: Japanese Ghost Stories takes a narrative format to explore the rich occult history from Japan, moreover, the storytelling techniques in this brand new series will mimic kamishibai – a traditional storytelling technique inspired by the artistic usage of paper figures and scrolls. "Yamishibai is a picture-story style of animation whose motif is surrounded and based off the rumors, and urban legends throughout the history of Japan".
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TV Show: Deadtime Stories ( 2012 )
Based on the popular eponymous children's book series written by Annette and Gina Cascone, Deadtime Stories stars Jennifer Stone as "The Babysitter", who shares stories from her collection with children every week, chronicling kids' eerie encounters, from hauntings to monsters to supernatural occurrences. In each episode kids embark on different thrilling adventures with ghostly tales, including a grave with something unusual buried inside, a wishing game gone awry and a magic kit with irreversible tricks.
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TV Show: Metal Hurlant Chronicles ( 2012 )
Based on the popular French comics anthology Métal Hurlant (known as Heavy Metal in the United States) each of the 12 episodes take place on a different planet with a different cast, linked together by the presence of an asteroid, which plays a vital role in their lives--and the future of their civilization. This is an originally French series, although all of the episodes are spoken in English (in France they were dubbed or subtitled) except season 1 episode 3 which is in French.
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TV Show: Playhouse Presents ( 2012 )
This Sky Arts series presents a new play each week, showcasing the best of British talent in writing, acting, and directing.
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TV Show: Black Mirror ( 2011 )
Over the last ten years, technology has transformed almost every aspect of our lives before we've had time to stop and question it. In every home; on every desk; in every palm - a plasma screen; a monitor; a smartphone--a black mirror of our 21st Century existence. Black Mirror is a contemporary British re-working of The Twilight Zone with stories that tap into the collective unease about our modern world.
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TV Show: American Horror Story ( 2011 )
American Horror Story is an horror television anthology series. Each season is conceived as a self-contained miniseries, following a disparate set of characters and settings, and a storyline with its own beginning, middle, and end. While some actors appear for more than one year, they play completely different roles in each season.
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TV Show: Skins ( 2011 )
Skins is about the lives and loves of teenagers and the obligations of friendship. The drama series features an ensemble cast of unknown teenage actors as they navigate complex relationships, the politics of friendship and difficulties of daily life in their formative years.
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TV Show: R.L. Stine's The Haunting Hour ( 2010 )
R. L. Stine's The Haunting Hour is a Canadian-American original anthology horror-fantasy television series which is based on the 2007 movie R.L Stine's The Haunting Hour: Don't Think About It and the anthologies The Haunting Hour and Nightmare Hour by R.L. Stine.
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TV Show: KBS Drama Special ( 2010 )
KBS Drama Special is an anthology series that features different stories, cast members and production teams each week, and is presented single episodes.
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TV Show: Strike Back ( 2010 )
Strike Back is a British/American action and military television series, based on a novel of the same name by novelist and former Special Air Service (SAS) soldier Chris Ryan. The series follows the actions of Section 20, a secretive branch of the British Defence Intelligence service (DI), who operate several high risk, priority missions throughout the globe.
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TV Show: Moving On ( 2009 )
Series of dramas linked by a central theme: how to 'move on' and pass turning points in life.
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TV Show: Harper's Island ( 2009 )
Harper's Island is about a group of family and friends who travel to a secluded island for a destination wedding. They've come to laugh... to love... and, though they don't know it... to die. As the wedding festivities begin, friendships are tested and secrets exposed as a murderer claims victims, one by one, transforming the wedding week of fun and celebration into a terrifying struggle for survival. In every episode, someone is killed and every person is a suspect, from the wedding party to the island locals. By the end of the 13 episodes, all questions will be answered, the killer will be revealed and only a few will survive.
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TV Show: Fear Itself ( 2008 )
Fear Itself is a provocative suspense and horror anthology series pushing the boundaries of this classic genre through a host of provocative talent, both in front of and behind the camera.
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TV Show: Underbelly ( 2008 )
Underbelly is part review, part exposé, and part skit comedy. We delve into the seedy underbelly of gaming, movies, comics, and the internets and attack its vulnerable underbelly for massive damage.
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TV Show: Masters of Science Fiction ( 2007 )
Six thought-provoking tales of present and future Earth are brought to life in the all-new anthology series, featuring a stellar lineup of actors and directors, and narrated by acclaimed physicist Professor Stephen Hawking. Masters of Science Fiction, from Starz Media in association with Industry Entertainment and its Vancouver partner, Reunion Pictures, is based on some of the genre's most popular and highly regarded short stories.
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TV Show: Skins ( 2007 )
Irreverent comedy drama from the makers of Shameless, which follows the messy lives, loves, delirious highs and inevitable lows of a group of raucous teenage friends in Bristol.
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TV Show: Nightmares & Dreamscapes ( 2006 )
This anthology series of eight one-hour episodes adapted from King's short stories will feature such notable performers as Emmy winner and Oscar® nominee William H. Macy(Fargo, TNT's Door to Door and The Wool Cap) and Jacqueline McKenzie (The 4400, Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood), who star in Umney's Last Case; Emmy winner Kim Delaney (NYPD Blue, CSI: Miami) and Steven Weber (The Shining, Wings), who star in You Know They Got a Hell of a Band; Samantha Mathis (TNT's The Mists of Avalon and Salem's Lot) and Jeremy Sisto (Six Feet Under, TNT's Julius Caesar), who headline The Fifth Quarter; Golden Globe nominee Ron Livingston (Band of Brothers, The Cooler) and Golden Globe nominee Henry Thomas (E. T. The Extra-Terrestrial, Legends of the Fall), who star in The End of the Whole Mess; Oscar® nominee Tom Berenger(Platoon, TNT's Into the West) and Oscar® nominee and Golden Globe winner Marsha Mason (The Goodbye Girl, Frasier), who star in The Road Virus Heads North; and Oscar® winner William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Village), who headlines Battleground.
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TV Show: The Street ( 2006 )
Prolific television writer Jimmy McGovern is the creative force behind this award-winning drama, which first aired on the BBC. Each season consists of six one-hour episodes that tell stand-alone stories about the residents who live on the same street in Manchester, England. Timothy Spall, Jim Broadbent, Gina McKee, Jane Horrocks and David Thewlis are among the all-star cast who have appeared on The Street.
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TV Show: Robot Chicken ( 2005 )
Robot Chicken uses stop-motion animation to bring pop-culture parodies to life in a modern take on the variety/sketch show format.
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TV Show: Agatha Christie's Marple ( 2004 )
Agatha Christie's crime thrillers featuring the author's much-loved spinster sleuth Miss Jane Marple.
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TV Show: Spine Chillers ( 2003 )
Anthology series of black comedies, which sets out to deliver excellent stories with a darkly comic twist. A second installment aired under the title, Twisted Tales.
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TV Show: The Afternoon Play ( 2003 )
Series of one-off dramas.
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TV Show: The Wire ( 2002 )
The first season of The Wire (2002) concentrated on the often-futile efforts of police to infiltrate a West Baltimore drug ring headed by Avon Barksdale and his lieutenant, Stringer Bell. In Seasons Two and Three, as the Barksdale investigation escalated, new storylines involving pressures on the working class and the city's political leadership were introduced. Season Four focused on the stories of several young boys in the public school system, struggling with problems at home and the lure of the corner - set against the rise of a new drug empire in West Baltimore and a new Mayor in City Hall. The fifth and final season of The Wire centers on the media's role in addressing - or failing to address - the fundamental political, economic and social realities depicted over the course of the series, while also resolving storylines of the numerous characters woven throughout the narrative arc of the show.
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TV Show: Icons ( 2002 )
Icons is G4's documentary show that gives viewers the total run-down on the world of video games. The show provides in-depth coverage on topics ranging from behind the scenes looks at game developers, to profiles of industry giants and notorious figures in gaming, to a retrospective on the history of famous games. a/k/a Game Makers
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TV Show: Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible ( 2001 )
Six horror themed spoofs introduced by Steve Coogan as the evil Dr. Terrible. The stories look at vampires, Fu Manchu, mad scientists, a voodoo curse and witchcraft.
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TV Show: The Nightmare Room ( 2001 )
From the mind of R.L Stine, the creator of Goosebumps, comes this Twilight Zone for a younger generation. The Nightmare Room, an anthology series for a younger audience, took place in a strange reality where anything could happen. With spooky stories, and some of the hottest actors guest-staring in the episodes, this series was hip, edgy and fresh. Unfortunately due to low ratings, it was cancelled after one season.
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TV Show: Night Visions ( 2001 )
In this hour-long anthology series, Henry Rollins is the host, introducing and closing out two 30-minute tales of horror, science fiction, and the supernatural.
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TV Show: Dark Realm ( 2001 )
Dark Realm is a horror/sci-fi anthology series hosted by Eric Roberts. It aired for one season in 2001.
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TV Show: Human Remains ( 2000 )
Black comedy documenting the relationships of six unusual couples in the style of a fly-on-the-wall documentary.
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TV Show: Urban Gothic ( 2000 )
Behind the facade of London's shiny dockside developments, its designer boutiques and coffee bars lie forgotten dark corners and darker secrets. It's a city where anything can happen and being young and pretty won't always save you. This cult smash hit follows scary stories and chilling episodes, from vampire documentaries to alien-infested supermarkets, from teenage necromancy to ghostly East End gangsters.