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Apostrophes(1975-1990)

1h 10min per episode | Talk-Show
4.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.

Hyouka(2012)

26min per episode | Animation, Drama, Mystery, Comedy
4.1/5 (with 150 votes)

Oreki Houtarou is a minimalistic high school boy. One day, he joins the Classic Literature Club at his elder sister's request. There he meets Chitanda Eru, Fukube Satoshi, and Ibara Mayaka. Chitanda is a calm beautiful girl but she turns into an embodiment of curiosity once she says, "I'm curious." Fukube is a smiling boy with a fantastic memory who calls himself a database. Ibara is a short girl and is strict with others and herself. They begin to investigate a case that occurred 45 years ago. Hints of the mystery are buried in an old collection of works of the former members of Classics Club. The collection is titled "Hyouka."

Bungo Stray Dogs(2016-)

Atsushi Nakajima was kicked out of his orphanage, and now he has no place to go and no food. While he is standing by a river, on the brink of starvation, he rescues a man whimsically attempting suicide. That man is Osamu Dazai, and he and his partner Kunikida are members of a very special detective agency. They have supernatural powers and deal with cases that are too dangerous for the police or the military. They're tracking down a tiger that has appeared in the area recently, around the time Atsushi came to the area. The tiger seems to have a connection to Atsushi, and by the time the case is solved, it is clear that Atsushi's future will involve much more of Dazai and the rest of the detectives!

The Great Passage(2016)

23min per episode | Animation, Drama
3.8/5 (with 10 votes)

The publication of a new dictionary titled The Great Passage progresses. Mitsuya Majime, originally from publisher Genbu Shobo's sales department, has been recruited by Kouhei Araki, a veteran editor of the dictionary department who is looking to retire soon. The dictionary department is known internally as the "money-eating insect," but Mitsuya uses his perseverance and attachment to the words in order to become a great editor. Mitsuya, who has poor social skills, finds himself working with another man named Masashi Nishioka, who is able to express himself better.

Una belleza nueva(2006-2014)

1h per episode | Talk-Show
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Was It Something I Said?(2013)

24min per episode | Comedy
3.3/5 (with 7 votes)

Was It Something I Said? is a British comedy panel show broadcast on Channel 4, presented by David Mitchell and featuring team captains Richard Ayoade and Micky Flanagan.

Book Girl: Memoire(2010)

24min per episode | Animation, Drama, Mystery
3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

Based on the light novel series by Nomura Mizuki.

O Maidens in Your Savage Season(2019)

24min per episode | Animation, Comedy, Drama
4.1/5 (with 62 votes)

The girls in a high school literature club do a little icebreaker to get to know each other: answering the question, "What's one thing you want to do before you die?" One of the girls blurts out, "Sex." Little do they know, the whirlwind unleashed by that word pushes each of these girls, with different backgrounds and personalities, onto their own clumsy, funny, painful, and emotional paths toward adulthood.

What the Dickens?(2008-2009)

30min per episode | Comedy

What the Dickens is a television panel game hosted by Sandi Toksvig. Team captains were Dave Gorman and Tim Brooke-Taylor for the first series and Sue Perkins and Chris Addison for the second and third. It is recorded at Sky Studios in West London.

The Water Margin(1998)

46min per episode | Drama
4.7/5 (with 7 votes)

The trials and tribulations of 108 outlaws during the mid Song Dynasty.

Directed by Zhang Shaolin - With Li Xuejian, Zang Jinsheng

Senryu Girl(2019)

13min per episode | Animation, Comedy
3.7/5 (with 17 votes)

At first glance Yukishiro Nanako seems like a normal high school girl, but she has a notable eccentricity: instead of speaking, she communicates only through written senryu poetry! This means she expresses herself only in 5-7-5 syllables. To most this might seem like an inconvenience, but for Nanako and her ex-delinquent bestie, Busujima Eiji, it adds to the experience of their high school lives as they run the Literature Club.

Wishbone(1995-1997)

4.0/5 (with 15 votes)

Wishbone is a children's television show. The show's title character is a Jack Russell Terrier of the same name. Wishbone lives with his owner Joe Talbot in the fictional modern town of Oakdale, Texas. He daydreams about being the lead character of stories from classic literature He was known as "the little dog with a big imagination". Only the viewers and the characters in his daydreams can hear Wishbone speak. The characters from his daydreams see Wishbone as whatever famous character he is currently portraying and not as a dog.

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Miss Bernard Said.(2016)

4min per episode | Animation, Comedy
3.4/5 (with 5 votes)

"Miss Bernard" herself, Machida Sawako, and her book-loving friends live their literary days in the library. This gag series glorifying famous literature is filled with love for books of all sorts, as well as the kinds of things that all readers experience!

O Maidens in Your Savage Season(2020)

24min per episode | Drama, Comedy
3.2/5 (with 5 votes)

When Kazusa enters high school, she joins the Literature Club, where she leaps from reading innocent fiction to diving into the literary classics. But these novels are a bit more...adult than she was prepared for. Between euphemisms like fresh dewy grass and pork stew, crushing on the boy next door, and knowing you want to do that one thing before you die--discovering your budding sexuality is no easy feat! As if puberty wasn't awkward enough, the club consists of a brooding writer, the prettiest girl in school, an agreeable comrade, and an outspoken prude. Fumbling over their own discomforts, these five teens get thrown into chaos over three little letters: S...E...X...!

Bungo and Alchemist -Gears of Judgement-(2020)

3.1/5 (with 3 votes)

Based on the popular mobile game of the same name. Bungo and Alchemist -Gears of Judgement- is set in a fantasy world with famous and handsome historical figures from the field of literature, who must call upon their magical abilities to save books that have been tainted by evil forces.

Just So Stories(2008)

13min per episode | Kids & Family, Kids & Family, Animation
3.5/5 (with 1 vote)

- No description / details available yet. -

Wonderland(2022-)

An extraordinary range of writers turned to a form of writing where they created “Wonderlands”, “Neverlands” – places of happiness in which children were portrayed as living in a happy world, where sorrow and the difficulties and tragedies of adult life were simply removed. But the authors of these magical stories had lives that consisted of great unhappiness, often using their creativity to overcome terrible adversities.

Capitu(2008)

46min per episode | Crime, Drama, Mystery
4.6/5 (with 2 votes)

A melancholy Dom Casmurro, who writes a book to tell his vision of his own story and also to restore, in old age, the moments lived in adolescence alongside the great love of his life, Capitu, a girl who seduced him with her "hangover eyes".

Crash Course Literature(2012-)

12min per episode | Documentary
1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

John Green teaches you literature in an exciting, entertaining, and endlessly informative manner.

Üzgünüm Leyla(2000-2001)

- No description / details available yet. -

Tincho Fierro(2022-)

1.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Tincho is a teen vlogger who dreams of becoming Argentinian rock's next big star in this adaptation of "The Gaucho Martín Fierro" by José Hernández.