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A fresh look at Hartley High over 20 years on. With her new friends - outsiders Quinni and Darren - Amerie must repair her reputation, while navigating love, sex, and heartbreak.

At a predominantly white Ivy League college, a group of black students navigate various forms of racial and other types of discrimination.

A New York City grad student moonlighting as a dominatrix enlists her gay BFF from high school to be her assistant. Tiff is a grad student in New York City who is moonlighting as a dominatrix. For Tiff, her sexually explicit job is a business, not a pleasure. When she reconnects with former high school BFF Pete, a recently out gay man, she recruits the cash-strapped man to be her assistant -- performing such tasks as cleaning up after her clients and serving as her bodyguard. This dark comedy follows the unlikely pair as Tiff and Peter's new professional relationship redefines their friendship. More importantly, though, it helps them find themselves.

The show follows the development of George and Mae's romance in contemporary London. Mae, a Canadian comedian (a version of Mae Martin's own persona) meets George, a repressed middle-class English woman, at the comedy club where she performs. The pair begin dating, and George learns that Mae is a former drug addict. George encourages Mae to attend a Narcotics Anonymous meeting, where she meets fellow recovering addicts like Maggie, a quirky middle-aged woman who takes Mae under her wing. As the series progresses, George struggles to tell friends and family about her relationship with Mae, to Mae's frustration.

Written by and featuring Phoebe Waller-Bridge, this comedy follows the lives of six characters in their 20s. A motley crew become housemates during a time where property prices and high-rent costs are difficult to afford. Using a Property Guardian scheme, the group is banded together in a disused hospital based in the city, for not much more than £25 a week. Each individual crashes into their adult life as they realise that they are no longer students, and need to take more responsibility. The group coasts through life, love and work in a big city as well as dealing with the quirks of living in a derelict hospital with strangers.

A young gay man with cerebral palsy branches out from his insular existence, hoping to go after the life he wants finally. Special is "a distinctive and uplifting new series about a gay man, Ryan, with mild cerebral palsy who decides to rewrite his identity and finally go after the life he wants."

Special is a distinctive and uplifting new series about a gay man, Ryan, with mild cerebral palsy, who decides to rewrite his identity and finally go after the life he wants. The offbeat comedy is based on series creator and star Ryan O’Connell’s memoir, “I’m Special: And Other Lies We Tell Ourselves.” after years of dead-end internships, working in his pajamas as a blogger, and communicating primarily via text, Ryan eventually figured out how to take his life from bleak to chic and began limping toward adulthood. O'Connell also serves as executive producer alongside Jim Parsons.

A grieving teenager finds an unexpected connection with two classmates at her new high school when they all land in the same Shoplifters Anonymous group.