History Series / ChannelZero

Season Two stars Amy Forsyth, Aisha Dee, Jeff Ward, Seamus Patterson, Sebastian Pigott, Jess Salgueiro, Melanie Nicholls-King and John Carroll Lynch.

Season Three stars Olivia Luccardi, Holland Roden, Rutger Hauer, Brandon Scott and Krisha Fairchild

Season Four stars Brandon Scott, Maria Stern, Barbara Crampton, Steven Robertson, and Steven Weber.

* FiveManBand: With [[spoiler: the Pestilent God]] acting as a GreaterScopeVillain, the Peaches form into one of these:
** BigBad: Joseph Peach, the patriarch who seems to have the final say on everything.
** TheDragon: Smart Mouth, who rarely leaves Joseph's side. But when he does, his tiny stature in no way hinders the various killings and kidnappings Joseph sends him to do.
** TheBrute: Robert Peach, who regularly goes downstairs to kill and cannibalize at random just because it amuses him.
** The EvilGenius: Aldous Peach, who is the only member to take the family's situation seriously and constantly implores the others to do so.
** The DarkChick: All of the female family members to some degree, but Edie does it the most vocally and prominently.

* ImaginationBasedSuperpower / SummonMagic: [[spoiler: What the dream doors essentially are. Anyone who can use them are able to bring creations from their imaginations into the real world. Jill and Ian can use them, and the ending implies that the ability has also been passed down to Jill’s child.]]

* CursedWithAwesome: Let’s be honest, Pretzel Jack exists because of a lack of imagination. The characters that can manifest these things are effectively a Summoner / Warlock RPG class. Since they can actually control their minion, once they have sufficient command of their power, they can manifest a loyal servant in practically any form. If this wasn’t intentionally played for horror, it could easily become a fantasy / super hero origin story.

The first such season began airing in October of 2016 with the creepypasta ''DarthWiki/CandleCove'' as its basis. In ''Channel Zero's'' version of the story, famous child psychologist Mike Painter begins having nightmares about a show he watched on television as a child. The show had a brief run of only two months, but these two months also saw a series of bizarre and disturbing events befall the young Mike which culminated in the abduction and murder of his brother and several other local children. Seeking answers, he returns to his hometown of Iron Hill only to discover that the show he remembers, ''Candle Cove'', has returned to the airwaves and a new generation of children are seeing it for the first time...

* ForgottenFallenFriend: Zigzagged. [[spoiler: After escaping the House, Jules and Margot make absolutely no mention of the death of their lifelong friend JD, let alone what they'll tell his family and the authorities about his disappearance. Jules, however, does experience a brief hallucination of him, indicating that he is weighing heavily on her mind.]]

-->[[spoiler: '''Joseph''']]: Sick fuck.

* FiveBadBand: With [[spoiler: the Pestilent God]] acting as a GreaterScopeVillain, the Peaches form into one of these:

* CursedWithAwesome: Let’s be honest, Pretzel Jack exists because of a lack of imagination. The characters that can manifest these things are effectively a Summoner / Warlock RPG class. Since they can actually control their minion, once they have sufficient command of their power, they can manifest a loyal servant in practically any form.

The fourth season, based on the story "[[https://www.reddit.com/r/nosleep/comments/593yys/i_found_a_hidden_door_in_my_cellar_and_i_think/ I Found a Hidden Door in my cellar, and I think I made a huge mistake]]," starts airing late 2018. The Dream Door installment follows Tom Hodgson and his wife, Jillian, seemingly happy newlyweds who hide dark secrets from one another. When one of them discovers a hidden door in the basement of their new home, they unleash a dark force that threatens their marriage - and their lives.

* IncestIsRelative: [[spoiler:The way Ian kisses Jill reveals that he is interested in far more than a brother/sister relationship with her.]]

* DoesThisRemindYouOfAnything: The season is ''filled'' with them.

** [[spoiler: Ditto with horror-star Barbara Crampton, who is set up as a major character in the first episode but gets fatally attacked in the very next episode, ultimately dying before the title card of episode three.]]

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: [[spoiler: Jill is horrified to discover Ian based the dog he made for her on one of her favorite childhood toys, and this isn't helped by finding several other copies of the dog devouring her father's corpse. But what actually becomes of her dog isn't revealed.]]

* CastFromHitPoints: [[spoiler:Ian]]'s use of the power leaves him in agony and physically incapacitated, and requires him to ingest massive amounts of calories just so he can barely stay standing. Curiously, Jill does not seem to have this weakness, but then again is not seen using her abilities as indiscriminately as Ian.

** Played straight with [[spoiler:Ian.]]

* BigEater: Ian's use of the power leaves him constantly, ravenously hungry, which he sates with huge fast food meals. The scene where he devours a pile of cheeseburgers borders on [[HorrorHunger Horror Hunger.]]

* BodyHorror: When the power works, it really, really works. But if even the summoner gets even the slightest thing wrong, they'll get a horrific, half-formed version of the creature that they wanted which dies in agony shortly after emerging from its door. [[spoiler: This is most tragically seen with the limbless, disfigured infant that Jillian and Tom accidentally create while trying to conceive a baby.]]

* CastFromHitPoints: Ian's use of the power leaves him in agony and physically incapacitated, and requires him to ingest massive amounts of calories just so he can barely stay standing. Curiously, Jill does not seem to have this weakness, but then again is not seen using her abilities as indiscriminately as Ian.
[[spoiler:* DeadStarWalking: Unlike in previous season's, this season's advertised special guest star - Steven Weber - has his character offed before the end of the third episode.]]