Alec Mapa

Alec Mapa

Alejandro "Alec" Mapa (born July 10, 1965) is an American actor, comedian and writer. He got his first professional break when he was cast to replace B.D. Wong for the role of Song Liling in the Broadwayproduction of M. Butterfly. He later gained notoriety for the roles of Adam Benet in Half & Half and Suzuki St. Pierre in Ugly Betty which are his best known roles. He is also known for his recurring role as Vern in Desperate Housewives. He co-hosted with Calpernia Addams the Logo network reality dating game show Transamerican Love Story. He is currently recurring in the role of Renzo in Switched at Birth.

  • Title: Alec Mapa
  • Popularity: 8.183
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1965-07-10
  • Place of Birth: San Francisco, California, USA
  • Homepage: http://www.alecmapa.com/
  • Also Known As: 알렉 마파
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Alec Mapa Movies

  • 1998
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    Playing by Heart

    Playing by Heart

    6.6 1998 HD

    In a vibrant tapestry of love and longing, nine interconnected souls navigate romance and heartbreak in L.A., where passions collide and truths...

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  • 2005
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    Hard Pill

    Hard Pill

    5.5 2005 HD

    A despondent gay man throws his life and relationships into turmoil when he volunteers for a controversial pharmaceutical study for a drug designed...

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  • 2006
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    Dirty Laundry

    Dirty Laundry

    5.4 2006 HD

    After ten years, Sheldon returns from New York City to Paris, Georgia. His mother Evelyn, a laundress who is stubborn, ornery, opinionated,...

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  • 1988
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    A New Life

    A New Life

    4 1988 HD

    Steve Giardino, an abrasive workaholic Wall Streeter, and his wife Jackie divorce after twenty-six years of marriage and find themselves thrust back...

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  • 2021
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    The Housewives of the North Pole

    The Housewives of the North Pole

    5 2021 HD

    The Christmas Queens of North Pole, Vermont, Trish and Diana, have won the Best Holiday House decorating competition every year for the past nine...

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  • 2011
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    Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure

    Sharpay's Fabulous Adventure

    6 2011 HD

    After a talent scout spots her performing with her dog Boi at a charity gala, Sharpay Evans sets off for the bright lights of NYC, convinced instant...

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  • 2022
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    Just Swipe

    Just Swipe

    5 2022 HD

    Vanessa has always had trouble in the dating world, never mind now being confined to her home. She soon discovers just how much you can get away with...

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  • 2024
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    ClearMind

    ClearMind

    5 2024 HD

    A grieving woman uses her virtual reality therapy to exact revenge on her former friends.

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  • 2023
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    Marriage of Inconvenience

    Marriage of Inconvenience

    1 2023 HD

    New names, new jobs, new lives, new husbands...? Two total strangers entering a witness protection program must pretend to be happily married to hide...

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  • 2011
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    Going Down in LA-LA Land

    Going Down in LA-LA Land

    5.8 2011 HD

    A fresh face comes to Hollywood to act in movies but only the gay porn studios are eager to provide him with work.

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  • 2023
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    Baby Steps

    Baby Steps

    2 2023 HD

    A year after the death of their beloved Lily, Beau and Caden learn that she froze some of her eggs and they must decide whether they are ready to...

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  • 2022
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    Another Coffee House Chronicles Movie

    Another Coffee House Chronicles Movie

    1 2022 HD

    Pulled from the second season of web series "Coffee House Chronicles," with new adventures of unlucky-in-love Eli, this movie continues to explore...

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  • 2022
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    My Favorite Girlfriend

    My Favorite Girlfriend

    5.6 2022 HD

    A man falls in love with a woman who has multiple personalities.

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  • 2023
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    Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas

    Ladies of the '80s: A Divas Christmas

    8.2 2023 HD

    Five soap opera divas as they reunite to shoot the final Christmas episode of their long-running sudser. The producer, Alex and director Nell, who...

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  • 2014
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    Beethoven's Treasure Tail

    Beethoven's Treasure Tail

    5.8 2014 HD

    After everyone's favorite St. Bernard gets fired from a movie, Beethoven begins the long journey home with his trainer, Eddie. On their way, they...

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  • 2008
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    Marley & Me

    Marley & Me

    7.2 2008 HD

    A newly married couple, in the process of starting a family, learn many of life's important lessons from their trouble-loving retriever, Marley....

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  • 2011
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    Half-Share

    Half-Share

    1 2011 HD

    Fresh out of a long-term relationship, Mac leaves Oregon for a summer on Fire Island and must decide if he can handle his eccentric new housemates on...

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  • 1987
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    Supermom's Daughter

    Supermom's Daughter

    1 1987 HD

    A career driven mother and her daughter don't see eye to eye when it comes to the daughter's future plans.

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  • 2014
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    Such Good People

    Such Good People

    5.4 2014 HD

    A young couple discovers a secret room filled with cash while house-sitting for rich friends who die while out of the country.

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  • 2004
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    Connie and Carla

    Connie and Carla

    5.9 2004 HD

    After accidentally witnessing a mafia hit in the Windy City, gal pals Connie and Carla skip town for L.A., where they go way undercover as singers...

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  • 2014
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    Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy

    Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy

    4.9 2014 HD

    Actor and comedian Alec Mapa (America's Gaysian Sweetheart) shares hilarious and heartfelt stories about how his life has changed since he and his...

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  • 2019
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    Grand-Daddy Day Care

    Grand-Daddy Day Care

    6 2019 HD

    A man has to figure out a way to make extra money when his father-in-law moves in.

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  • 2017
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    A Very Sordid Wedding

    A Very Sordid Wedding

    5.2 2017 HD

    Del Shores' follow-up to "Sordid Lives" revisits Winters, Texas for a showdown between the gradually liberalizing locals and the new fundamentalist...

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  • 1988
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    Bright Lights, Big City

    Bright Lights, Big City

    5.7 1988 HD

    A disillusioned young writer living in New York City turns to drugs and drinking to block out the memories of his dead mother and estranged wife.

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  • 1994
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    Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart

    Hart to Hart: Crimes of the Hart

    6.2 1994 HD

    In their very last adventure, Jonathan and Jennifer Hart travel to The Big Apple, where a play she wrote in college is being produced on Broadway....

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  • 2024
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    Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution

    Outstanding: A Comedy Revolution

    5.9 2024 HD

    This rapturous documentary steps into the dynamic world of queer stand-up and examines the powerful cultural influence it has had on social change in...

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  • 2004
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    Who's Your Daddy?

    Who's Your Daddy?

    4.9 2004 HD

    An adopted Ohio high school senior discovers he is the inherited heir to a porn empire. Dropped into a bitter power struggle, his new flock of...

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  • 1970
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    Silver Fox

    Silver Fox

    1 1970 HD

    It’s minutes before curtain when America’s favorite “guncle” (gay uncle), standup comedian Joe Fox, finds himself cornered by...

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  • 1996
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    The Substance of Fire

    The Substance of Fire

    6.3 1996 HD

    Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the...

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  • 2008
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    You Don't Mess with the Zohan

    You Don't Mess with the Zohan

    5.712 2008 HD

    An Israeli counterterrorism soldier with a secretly fabulous ambition to become a Manhattan hairstylist. Zohan's desire runs so deep that he'll do...

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  • 2008
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    Tru Loved

    Tru Loved

    4.9 2008 HD

    Recently relocated from San Francisco to conservative suburbia by her lesbian mothers, Tru struggles like all teens to fit in and find love, but her...

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  • 2010
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    Pride: The Gay & Lesbian Comedy Slam

    Pride: The Gay & Lesbian Comedy Slam

    4.3 2010 HD

    Gay & Lesbian Comedy Show Hosted by the Oscars resident writer for the past 17 years and comedy satirist Bruce Villanch, "Pride" the Gay & Lesbian...

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  • 2000
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    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Winds of Change

    5.7 2000 HD

    Following World War I, Indy - now fluent in several languages - works as a translator at the controversial Paris Peace Conference, where he once more...

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  • 2018
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    The Year of Spectacular Men

    The Year of Spectacular Men

    5.7 2018 HD

    In the year after graduating college, Izzy struggles to navigate the seemingly incessant failures of adulthood, the reality of a substandard dating...

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  • 2012
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    Black Briefs

    Black Briefs

    3.8 2012 HD

    Six dark-themed gay short films, including: SPRING: A young man meets a stranger for S&M sex, an experience that will change his life forever. ...

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  • 2009
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    Annul Victory

    Annul Victory

    1 2009 HD

    Annul Victory is a documentary on the fight for marriage equality and the Proposition 8 election battle. The film documents the roller coaster ride...

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  • 2011
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    Winner Takes All

    Winner Takes All

    4 2011 HD

    A self-involved but seductive beauty engineers his two lovers to fight over him. And we mean, really fight.

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  • 2021
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    Queen Bees

    Queen Bees

    6.087 2021 HD

    Helen is an independent widow who moves into the Pine Grove Senior Community and discovers it’s just like high school – full of cliques...

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  • 2020
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    Chick Fight

    Chick Fight

    5.8 2020 HD

    When Anna Wyncomb is introduced to an underground, all-female fight club in order to turn the mess of her life around, she discovers she is much more...

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  • 2014
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    Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy

    Alec Mapa: Baby Daddy

    4.9 2014 HD

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  • 1989
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    Seinfeld

    Seinfeld

    8.3 1989 HD

    A stand-up comedian and his three offbeat friends weather the pitfalls and payoffs of life in New York City in the '90s. It's a show about nothing.

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  • 2003
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    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show

    5.8 2003 HD

    The Ellen DeGeneres Show, often shortened to just Ellen, is an American television talk show hosted by comedian/actress Ellen DeGeneres.

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  • 2005
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    Numb3rs

    Numb3rs

    7.048 2005 HD

    Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his...

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  • 2002
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    Half & Half

    Half & Half

    8.3 2002 HD

    Half & Half is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from September 23, 2002, to May 15, 2006. The show focuses on the lives of two paternal...

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  • 2004
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    Desperate Housewives

    Desperate Housewives

    7.9 2004 HD

    Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of death. One day, in her perfect house, in the...

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  • 2006
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    Help Me Help You

    Help Me Help You

    4.5 2006 HD

    A collection of eccentric individuals are in group therapy with a respected therapist—who may quite possibly have more problems than his...

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  • 1984
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    The Cosby Show

    The Cosby Show

    7.004 1984 HD

    The Cosby Show is an American television situation comedy starring Bill Cosby, which aired for eight seasons on NBC from September 20, 1984 until...

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  • 1996
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    The Jamie Foxx Show

    The Jamie Foxx Show

    6.8 1996 HD

    Texas native Jamie King is an aspiring actor who heads to Hollywood in hopes to find fame and fortune in the entertainment industry. To support...

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  • 1995
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    Murder One

    Murder One

    7.8 1995 HD

    Theodore 'Teddy' Hoffman is a highly-regarded defense attorney in a prestigious Los Angeles law firm. Having successfully defended the wealthy but...

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  • 2007
    imgS1 E10

    Heartland

    Heartland

    6.5 2007 HD

    Dr. Nathaniel Grant is a pioneering organ-transplant surgeon who takes risks that other doctors would not in order to save the lives of his patients....

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  • 2003
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    I'm with Her

    I'm with Her

    6.6 2003 HD

    When everyman Patrick Owen is bitten by the easily-excited puppy of movie star Alexandra Young, he becomes an overnight sensation. His anonymity and...

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  • 1992
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    Melrose Place

    Melrose Place

    5.8 1992 HD

    Follow the lives of a group of young adults living in a brownstone apartment complex on Melrose Place, in Los Angeles, California.

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  • 2006
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    Ugly Betty

    Ugly Betty

    6.3 2006 HD

    Betty Suarez is smart, tough and tenacious, but also sensitive and loving. She hopes these skills will help her to get a job within the Meade...

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  • 2008
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    Transamerican Love Story

    Transamerican Love Story

    1 2008 HD

    Transamerican Love Story is an American reality television program in which suitors wooed transgender woman Calpernia Addams. Addams chose a suitor...

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  • 2005
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    Wisecrack

    Wisecrack

    1 2005 HD

    Wisecrack is a 2005 stand-up comedy series from the LGBT television network Logo. The show was taped at the West Hollywood, California gay club The...

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  • 2009
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    The Great Debate

    The Great Debate

    1 2009 HD

    The Great Debate is a VH1 program that debates about pop culture. It premiered July 6, 2009 and is "emceed" by boxing ring announcer Michael Buffer.

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  • 2022
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    Dr. Jackie

    Dr. Jackie

    4.5 2022 HD

    Failed actress Jackie Beat has finally become a psychotherapist. Using role-playing, primal scream therapy, ink-blot tests and even puppets, she is...

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  • 2002
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    Half & Half

    Half & Half

    8.3 2002 HD

    Half & Half is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from September 23, 2002, to May 15, 2006. The show focuses on the lives of two paternal...

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  • 2011
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    Switched at Birth

    Switched at Birth

    7.5 2011 HD

    The story of two teenage girls who discover they were accidentally switched as newborns in the hospital. Bay Kennish grew up in a wealthy family with...

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  • 2021
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    The Sherry Vine Variety Show

    The Sherry Vine Variety Show

    1 2021 HD

    Re-imagining the classic tv variety show standard with some of the best known drag superstars and queer entertainers on the scene.

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  • 2011
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    2 Broke Girls

    2 Broke Girls

    7.2 2011 HD

    Comedy about the unlikely friendship that develops between two very different young women who meet waitressing at a diner in trendy Williamsburg,...

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  • 2012
    imgS6 E11

    Baby Daddy

    Baby Daddy

    7.1 2012 HD

    Baby Daddy follows Ben, a young man in his early 20s living the life of a bachelor in New York City with his buddy, Tucker, and his brother, Danny....

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  • 2013
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    Mom

    Mom

    7.3 2013 HD

    Aan irreverent and outrageous take on true family love‐and dysfunction. Newly sober single mom Christy struggles to raise two children in a world...

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  • 1994
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    Friends

    Friends

    8.437 1994 HD

    Six young people from New York City, on their own and struggling to survive in the real world, find the companionship, comfort and support they get...

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  • 2011
    imgS15 E6

    Bob's Burgers

    Bob's Burgers

    7.8 2011 HD

    Bob's Burgers follows a third-generation restaurateur, Bob, as he runs Bob's Burgers with the help of his wife and their three kids. Bob and his...

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  • 2022
    imgS1 E6

    Inventions That Changed History

    Inventions That Changed History

    7 2022 HD

    The wild and often unbelievable stories behind the world's most important inventions.

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  • 1990
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    Law & Order

    Law & Order

    7.4 1990 HD

    In cases ripped from the headlines, police investigate serious and often deadly crimes, weighing the evidence and questioning the suspects until...

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  • 2014
    imgS5 E19

    Jane the Virgin

    Jane the Virgin

    7.9 2014 HD

    A comedy-drama following a chaste young woman who is accidentally impregnated via artificial insemination as she struggles to inform her devoutly...

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  • 2023
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    Marriage of Inconvenience

    Marriage of Inconvenience

    1 2023 HD

    New names, new jobs, new lives, new husbands...? Two total strangers entering a witness protection program must pretend to be happily married to hide...

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  • 2022
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    The Villains of Valley View

    The Villains of Valley View

    7.2 2022 HD

    A family of raucous supervillains who recently ran afoul of the League of Villains and now must somehow beat a path to normalcy in a small Texas town.

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  • 2012
    imgS9 E12

    RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars

    RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars

    7.4 2012 HD

    The most celebrated competitors from RuPaul's Drag Race vie for a second chance to enter Drag Race herstory. This drag queen showdown is filled with...

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  • 2021
    imgS3 E10

    NCIS: Hawai'i

    NCIS: Hawai'i

    7.896 2021 HD

    Jane Tennant, the first female Special Agent in Charge of NCIS Pearl Harbor, and her unwavering team of specialists balance duty to family and...

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  • 2019
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    Doom Patrol

    Doom Patrol

    7.6 2019 HD

    The Doom Patrol’s members each suffered horrible accidents that gave them superhuman abilities — but also left them scarred and...

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  • 2002
    imgS1 E22

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones

    The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones

    7 2002 HD

    The boyhood adventures of the greatest action hero of all time: Indiana Jones. Young Indy travels the world, meeting some of the greatest figures of...

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  • 2016
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    Kocktails With Khloé

    Kocktails With Khloé

    7.045 2016 HD

    Kocktails with Khloé raises the bar on the fun, surprising and real conversation that happens when friends get together at home to dish on...

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  • 2009
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    JONAS L.A.

    JONAS L.A.

    7.5 2009 HD

    The show follows the Jonas Brothers through fun and unusual situations as they try to live ordinary lives.

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  • 2017
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    Falling for Angels

    Falling for Angels

    6 2017 HD

    In this riveting anthology series, modern-day relationships are explored through the lens of each distinct neighborhood in Los Angeles including...

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  • 2020
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    Stars in the House

    Stars in the House

    1 2020 HD

    In the wake of the Coronavirus pandemic and theatres across the world closing their curtains indefinitely, SiriusXM host Seth Rudetsky and his...

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  • 2014
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    black-ish

    black-ish

    7.3 2014 HD

    A family man struggles to gain a sense of cultural identity while raising his kids in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class neighborhood.

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  • 2009
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    RuPaul's Drag Race

    RuPaul's Drag Race

    7.5 2009 HD

    Join RuPaul, the world's most famous drag queen, as the host, mentor and judge for the ultimate in drag queen competitions. The top drag queens in...

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  • 2009
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    RuPaul's Drag Race

    RuPaul's Drag Race

    7.5 2009 HD

    Join RuPaul, the world's most famous drag queen, as the host, mentor and judge for the ultimate in drag queen competitions. The top drag queens in...

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  • 2014
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    Henry Danger

    Henry Danger

    8.3 2014 HD

    When 13-year-old Henry Hart lands a job as Danger, the sidekick-in-training to superhero Captain Man, he must learn to navigate a double life...

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  • 2016
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    Successful People

    Successful People

    3.3 2016 HD

    Chet & Laura, a songwriting duo in their tenth year of trying to make it, start to realize their chances of success may have already passed them by.

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  • 2012
    imgS9 E12

    RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars

    RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars

    7.4 2012 HD

    The most celebrated competitors from RuPaul's Drag Race vie for a second chance to enter Drag Race herstory. This drag queen showdown is filled with...

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  • 2012
    imgS6 E12

    RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: UNTUCKED

    RuPaul's Drag Race All Stars: UNTUCKED

    5.7 2012 HD

    An access-all-areas pass to the drama that you didn't see on the runway. See what happens behind the scenes when the queens let their tucks...

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  • 2017
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    Raven's Home

    Raven's Home

    7.9 2017 HD

    Best friends Raven and Chelsea, now both divorced mothers, are raising their children in a house together. Their house is turned upside down when...

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  • 2007
    imgS7 E13

    Rules of Engagement

    Rules of Engagement

    7.165 2007 HD

    Rules of Engagement is a comedy about the different phases of male/female relationships, as seen through the eyes of a newly engaged couple, Adam and...

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  • 2001
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    Some of My Best Friends

    Some of My Best Friends

    6.2 2001 HD

    Some of My Best Friends is an American sitcom shown on CBS from February 28 until April 11, 2001. The series was inspired by the film Kiss Me, Guido.

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  • 2020
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    Danger Force

    Danger Force

    7.9 2020 HD

    Captain Man has a new crew of superhero sidekicks - Danger Force. Captain Man and Schwoz create a fake school to train the kids to harness their...

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  • 2007
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    Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World

    Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World

    8 2007 HD

    Rick & Steve: The Happiest Gay Couple in All the World is an American-Canadian stop motion animated sitcom created by Q. Allan Brocka, who also acts...

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  • 2013
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    Devious Maids

    Devious Maids

    7.1 2013 HD

    The series centers on four Latina maids working in the homes of Beverly Hills’ wealthiest and most powerful families, and a newcomer who made...

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  • 2016
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    Not Today, Bianca

    Not Today, Bianca

    5.5 2016 HD

    Drag queen Bianca Del Rio has arrived in Los Angeles from her home state of Louisiana. But, will she be able to launch a new career in Hollywood?

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  • 1970
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    Not Today, Bianca

    Not Today, Bianca

    8.3 1970 HD

    Half & Half is an American sitcom that aired on UPN from September 23, 2002, to May 15, 2006. The show focuses on the lives of two paternal...

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