History NoCelebritiesWereHarmed / LiveActionTV

* Practically the entire premise of the short lived FX series ''Series/{{Dirt}}''. Amongst some of the more notable ripoffs was a gold-digging blonde drug addict (Anna-Nicole Smith), an actor couple with a blended nickname (who bore resemblance to Jennifer Garner/Ben Affleck), and a cast of actors working on an insanely successful sitcom (the cast of ''Friends'').

** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters "Love & Monsters"]]: Victor Kennedy/the Abzorbaloff is based on Ian Levine, a FandomVIP who served as an unofficial consultant to the series in the '80s and was instrumental in finding many lost episodes. He's also fairly notorious in fandom circles.
** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums "The Sound of Drums"]]: American President Winters, who was strikingly reminiscent of UsefulNotes/GeorgeWBush, tries to take over the situation and eventually gets vaporized by the BigBad. After the ResetButton gets hit on the villain's epic evil, this is the one thing to not be undone.

* Deepak Chopra guest starred on an episode of ''Series/{{Angel}}''... in a manner of speaking. In "I Fall to Pieces", Angel tracks down a thinly-disguised motivational guru who served as inspiration to a killer [[PsychicSurgery Psychic Surgeon]]. He explains that he quit teaching after his pupil mastered the [[QuantumMechanicsCanDoAnything quantum-cellular control]] theorized in his book. In other words, the guru never believed in his own wild theories and was severely traumatized when they came true.

* ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}'' has Flabber the phasm who, according to the producers, was based on Music/ElvisPresley but to some resembled ''Series/TheTonightShow'' host Jay Leno, but has the mannerisms of Creator/JimCarrey. In one episode of ''The Tonight Show with Jay Leno'', a picture of Flabber was sent to Leno during the Monday headlines segment. It got laughs from the audience, but Leno was not too pleased.
* ''Series/BlackMirror''

** One episode features a flashback to the '70s, and slayer who seems heavily modeled after Pam Grier.

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For children's shows, see NoCelebritiesWereHarmed/ChildrensShow.

* ''Series/BeakmansWorld'' based a few of its Famous Dead Guys on celebrities. A few that stick out are Ben Franklin as either a clean Andrew Dice Clay or Rodney Dangerfield, and Charles Goodyear as Jim Backus as Thurston Howell from ''Series/GilligansIsland'', complete with calling the female assistant "Lovey". (Not coincidentally, they also show clips from old Mr. Magoo cartoons.)

* ''Series/LazyTown'' villain Robbie Rotten is clearly based on Creator/JimCarrey in some way, right down to his mannerisms.

* An episode of ''Series/ANTFarm'' has an obvious one of Music/LadyGaga called "Madame [=GooGoo=]".

* ''Series/ICarly'':
** "iFix a Popstar" with Ginger Fox, who is a rather obvious parody of Music/BritneySpears.
** "iCook" has Ricky Flame, a parody of Bobby Flay.
** Terry Dingo is a parody of Walt Disney.
* On ''Series/{{Jessie}}'', the Ross family is a clear parody of Creator/BradPitt and Creator/AngelinaJolie's family. The Rosses have 3 adopted children, two of which are adopted from foreign countries and one biological one. All they need is biological twins.

* The Creator/DisneyChannel show ''Series/KickinIt'' has Ricky Weaver, who's a very obvious parody of Bieber. He also probably counts as a TakeThat to Justin Bieber, since he turns out to secretly be a jerk.

* On ''Series/ShakeItUp'' in the episode "Age It Up", the 16-year-old pop sensation Justin Starr is an obvious {{Expy}} of Music/JustinBieber.

* ''Series/ShiningTimeStation'': The mayor's opponent in "The Mayor Runs for Re-Election" is a parody of Richard Nixon.
-->'''Mr. Conductor:''' I just wish I knew more about the mayor's opponent. He's a very mysterious figure.\\
'''Stacy:''' I know. I've seen his picture, [[LampshadeHanging and he looks awfully familiar]]…

* ''Series/TheSunnySideUpShow'': Queen Bee, played by host Kaitlin Becker, is a parody of Music/{{Beyonce}}.

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* ''Series/LeverageRedemption'': In "[[LeverageRedemptionS1E2ThePanamanianMonkeyJob The Panamanian Monkey Job]]", [=COM4R4T=], the DJ who performs in a rat mask, is an obvious {{Expy}} of Music/{{Deadmau5}}.

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** [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E10LoveAndMonsters "Love & Monsters"]]: Victor Kennedy/the Abzorbaloff is based on Ian Levine, a BigNameFan who served as an unofficial consultant to the series in the '80s and was instrumental in finding many lost episodes. He's also fairly notorious in fandom circles.

** The negative reaction to Neuman's anti-Vought stances also mirrors some incidents involving Ocasio-Cortez, though they also resemble the backlash to the ideologically-similar Representative Ilhan Omar, for instance calls to "Send her back" by the anti-immigration protesters (despite Ocasio-Cortez being a native-born US citizen, while Omar is naturalized).

* Spike from ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' owes a lot to Music/BillyIdol; or as Buffy said in one episode "Actually Billy Idol stole his look from...nevermind." There's a flashback sequence to the last slayer Spike killed set in 1977 where it's a lot more blatant.

* ''Series/MadamSecretary'''s title character Elizabeth [=McCord=] has a number of similarities with UsefulNotes/HillaryRodhamClinton (both middle-aged blonde professional women, serving as Secretary of State in a Democratic administration), though she comes off as somewhat more personable and populist. She also very clearly [[HappilyMarried has a very strong relationship with her husband Henry]], whereas Hillary's relationship with UsefulNotes/BillClinton is... [[Administrivia/RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment questionable]]. {{Reconstruction}}, perhaps?

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}''

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'' has a couple of examples, the most blatant being in "Pretty Dead" with a rich beauty pageant organizer with a comb over that looks suspiciously like Creator/DonaldTrump.

* In the episode “The Bard” of the original ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'', a playwright encounters an actor who wears a tight T-shirt, slouches to the point where it seems he physically can’t hold his head up--and, to make sure we all get the point, the character refers to having appeared in ''Theatre/CatOnAHotTinRoof'' and ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire''. To make it funnier, the Marlon Brando knockoff was played by a young actor named Burt Reynolds.

* ''Series/LawAndOrder''