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The PeripheralThe Peripheral
Prime Video, 2022 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi | ► Trailer
4.4


The Peripheral revolves around Flynne Fisher, a woman in a near-future America in which technology has started to subtly alter society. Flynne discovers a hidden connection to a very different reality - and the dark future of her own.


ColonyColony
USA, 2016 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | ► Trailer
4.1


This show is set in the very near future - 2015 - in Los Angeles, which is occupied by aliens with whom some humans collaborate and benefit from the new order, while others rebel and suffer the consequences.


How I Met Your FatherHow I Met Your Father
Hulu, 2022 Cancelled/Ended | Comedy, Drama | ► Trailer
2.8


Sequel to How I Met Your Mother. In the near future, Sophie tells her son the story of how she met his father: a story that catapults us back to the year 2021 where Sophie and her close-knit group of friends are in the midst of figuring out who they are, what they want out of life, and how to fall in love in the age of dating apps and limitless options.


Orphan Black: EchoesOrphan Black: Echoes
AMC+, 2023 Cancelled/Ended | Drama | ► Trailer
4.0


Set in the near future, Echoes takes a deep dive into the exploration of the scientific manipulation of human existence. It follows a group of women as they weave their way into each other's lives and embark on a thrilling journey, unravelling the mystery of their identity and uncovering a wrenching story of love and betrayal. Spinoff of Orphan Black.


DMZDMZ
HBO Max, 2022 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | ► Trailer
2.8


The show is set in the near future and centers on a young man trapped in Manhattan, which has been turned into a demilitarized zone (DMZ) after a second American civil war.


Years and YearsYears and Years
BBC One, 2019 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Sci-Fi | ► Trailer
4.2


Years and Years will follow a busy family from Manchester with their lives converging on one crucial night in 2019. The story will then accelerate into the future, following the lives and loves of the Lyons over the next 15 years as Britain withdraws from Europe, America becomes a lone wolf, China asserts itself, and a new world begins to form. Politicians Vivienne Rook then begins her rise to power - that new breed of politician, an entertainer, a rebel, a trickster and a terror, leading the family into an unknown future that they must navigate through.


ClevermanCleverman
Sundance, 2016 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Sci-Fi, Fantasy | ► Trailer
3.8


The six-episode series is set in the near future where a group of non-humans battle for survival in a world where humans feel increasingly inferior to them and want to silence, exploit and kill them. The central story revolves around two estranged indigenous brothers who are forced together to fight for their own survival. Otherworldly dreamtime creatures also emerge into this real world dystopian landscape.


Blood DriveBlood Drive
SyFy, 2017 Cancelled/Ended | Comedy, Action, Adventure, Crime | ► Trailer
3.5


Set in a near-apocalyptic future in Los Angeles, Blood Drive centers on Arthur Bailey, a former cop who is now working for a private security company. He partners with a dangerous femme fatale who has an agenda of her own.Arthur deplores the violence that is encouraged among his peers. Bailey sincerely wants to help make this arid, quake-ravaged and dystopian world a better place, but during an investigation, he is forced to join the Blood Drive, an underground death race in which the cars run on human blood.


OasisOasis
Prime Video, 2017 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Sci-Fi
4.1


Set in the near future, Oasis tells the story of priest Peter Leigh, who is called to a remote planet where a mysterious multinational company is building the first permanent off-Earth human colony. The planet, Oasis, is humanity's last chance to escape from Earth's impending collapse, but it quickly becomes apparent that it may not be as hospitable to humanity as it seems...


OmniscientOmniscient
Netflix, 2020 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Thriller, Sci-Fi | ► Trailer
4.5


Omniscient 'is set in the near future, where every citizen is constantly followed by a small (almost imperceptible) drone. The machine feeds a supercomputer with data, to which nobody has access. Crime rates are almost zero, since criminals know for certain that they will be captured. The Omniscient System seems perfect until a young woman named Nina discovers a murder, but the crime is not reported by the System. Now it's up to her to find out what he's trying to hide.


The FeedThe Feed
Prime Video, 2019 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Sci-Fi | ► Trailer
3.1


In the near future, people's brains are directly connected to The Feed. Every interaction, every emotion, every memory can be shared instantly. Tom and Kate, a millennial couple, are trying to resist their addiction to The Feed. Tom’s father invented The Feed, but Tom fears it, especially when he learns of his father's plans to expand it. Then, something – or someone – starts accessing people's minds through The Feed and "taking" them over. People's loved ones wake up as someone else, someone who wants to kill them.


Code 404Code 404
Sky 1, 2020 Cancelled/Ended | Comedy, Action, Crime, Thriller | ► Trailer
3.5


Set in the near future, Code 404 revolves around two Detective Inspectors, DI John Major and DI Roy Carver, who are the top crime fighting duo in the Unit. But when an undercover sting goes horribly wrong, Major is gunned down on the job and killed. How will the SIU function without Major? It doesn't have to. As an 'asset' considered too valuable to lose, Major's body is fast-tracked into an experimental Artifical Intelligence project to bring him back from the dead. The only problem is, Major 2.0 may look like and sound like the original, but something has been lost in translation - quite a lot actually. His arrogant demeanour and gung-ho approach remain but his crimefighting instincts have completely deserted him. Somehow, Major's error-strewn hunches and Carver's scrambling to make good allows them to just about scrape by. But while the experiment might be hailed as a success, on the front line Roy Carver is left dealing with an increasingly deluded partner.


Defying GravityDefying Gravity
ABC, 2009 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Sci-Fi | ► Trailer
3.3


This show takes place in the near future and focuses on the lives of eight astronauts from five different countries on a six-year mission through the solar system. The team is on a mysterious mission that is closely being followed by ground personnel.


Better Than UsBetter Than Us
RT, 2018 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Sci-Fi | ► Trailer
4.4


Moscow in a not so distant future where human beings share their daily lives with robots. Georgy, a forensic who has a robot assistant, suddenly finds himself caught up in the first murder committed by a new kind of experimental humanoid.


OccupiedOccupied
TV2, 2015 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Action, Thriller | ► Trailer
4.4


Set in Norway in the near future. The show explores what happens in an occupied country when life apparently goes on as normal on the surface. If everyone can continue their lives, keep their material possessions and still feel secure will they rebel? Will they fight?


Psycho-PassPsycho-Pass
Fuji TV, 2012 Cancelled/Ended | Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | ► Trailer
4.4


The series takes place in the near future, when it is possible to instantaneously measure and quantify a person's state of mind and personality. This information is recorded and processed, and the term "Psycho-Pass" in the anime's title refers to a standard used to measure an individual's being. The story centers around the "enforcement officer" Shinya Kougami, who is tasked with managing crime in such a world.


OsmosisOsmosis
Netflix, 2019 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Sci-Fi, Romance | ► Trailer
3.1


Paris, in the near future. Technology has conquered the last frontier: decoding true love. Digging deep into its user's brain data, the new dating app "Osmosis" can find a perfect match with 100% accuracy, turning the concept of absolute soulmate into a reality. But is there a price to pay when letting an algorithm decide who you will love, forever and ever? When in exchange for this undying, ageless love, technology can access the innermost recesses of your mind - and the best kept secrets of your heart...


Don't Look DeeperDon't Look Deeper
Quibi, 2020 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Sci-Fi | ► Trailer
4.6


Don't Look Deeper follows a high school senior in Merced, CA, in a world fifteen minutes into the future, who can't seem to shake the feeling she's not human, with the revelation setting into motion events that puts her life in jeopardy.


Section ZéroSection Zéro
Canal+, 2016 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Adventure, Crime, Thriller



Set in the near future, multi-national corporations are Europe's new leaders. One of the most powerful, Promethee, wishes to further secure their growing dominance by replacing the police force with their own private militias, the Black Squad, led by Henry Munro. Following the shooting of his daughter, his life in shambles and darkest secrets exposed, an idealistic law enforcement officer, Sirius, with nowhere to turn, aligns himself with an old cop Franck Varnove. Sirius takes charge of Franck's clandestine, elite squadron, Section Z?ro, to battle these dark, violent militias, promising a return to traditional law enforcement before the world they've known disappears forever.


EndlingsEndlings
CBC, 2020 Cancelled/Ended | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | ► Trailer
2.5


Set in the near future, Endlings is an action adventure series that tells the story of four foster kids who encounter an alien being that travels the galaxy collecting the last animal of any species before they become extinct. After saving the final elephant, an accident causes the alien ship to crash into the foster kids' farm. Now its up to Johnny, Tabby, Finn and Julia to fix the alien's ship and get it and its invaluable cargo off of Earth before government agents find and capture them all.


Assault Lily BouquetAssault Lily Bouquet
TBS(Japan), 2020 Cancelled/Ended | Action, Fantasy, Anime, Animation | ► Trailer
5.0


In the near future, humanity faces imminent destruction from mysterious creatures known as "Huge." The world wages war against the Huge, and develops the anti-weapon "CHARM" (Counter Huge Arms) by combining science and magic.CHARM works more effectively when used by teenage girls, and those who use the weapons are revered as "Lilies."


DearSDearS
CTC (JA), 2004 Cancelled/Ended | Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi, Romance



This series mixes love story and comedy in a near future campus life setting, describing the first contact between earthians and aliens from a new viewpoint. An unprecedented "first contact"...Alongside the love story between a beautiful transfer student from space and the boy who happens to meet her, and the communication problems between people living on different planets, the mysterious aim of the aliens gradually unfolds...


Schoolgirl Strikers: Animation ChannelSchoolgirl Strikers: Animation Channel
Tokyo MX, 2017 Cancelled/Ended | Anime, Animation



It's the near future. The newly established girls' private school Goryoukan Academy has another face. This school has a special unit, Fifth force, who is assembled and selected from the school's student body in order to fight an enemy called Oburi. This is a story about love, courage and friendship about the girls called Strikers.


Star CopsStar Cops
BBC Two, 1987 Cancelled/Ended | Drama, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi



Star Cops follows Nathan Spring and the rest of his multinational team of the International Space Police (Star Cops) as they work to establish the Star Cops and solve whatever crimes come their way. Operating in a relatively accurately realised hard SF, near-future, space environment, many of the cases that the Star Cops investigate arise from opportunities for new crimes presented by the technologically advanced future society the series depicts and from the hostile frontier nature of the environment that the Star Cops live in.


BorealisBorealis
Space, 2013 Cancelled/Ended | Action, Sci-Fi



The show takes place in the near future, 2045, in the not so near Arctic, in the International Arctic Free Zone. The central character is Vic Carboneau who owns the tavern/hotel/brothel and is the Customs Officer. Meanwhile, a number of different international interests are vying for control of the area and the valuable mining and oil rights. It's a movie available in the Movies section!


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