History FinalGirl / LiveActionTV

** Ripper: Verdi Botticelli. She starts out as the traditional and virginal WhiteSheep of the Botticelli sisters, only for [[CorruptTheCutie the Widow to convince her to join their murder spree in the last episodes]]. She ultimately accepts their offer, murdering one of her {{Big Sister Bull|y}}ies in the penultimate episode and framing the other one for everything in the SeasonFinale.

* Emma Duval in the TV adaptation of ''Series/{{Scream|TVSeries}}''. While Sidney Prescott, her counterpart from [[Film/{{Scream}} the films]], is listed below as a {{deconstruct|edCharacterArchetype}}ion, Emma is a straighter example, though not perfectly so. In the first season, she's one of several characters who survives, and most of the credit for defeating the killer goes to Audrey, a bicurious punk chick who seems to have been working with the killer all along, though the end of season two reveals that she was innocent. Season two also shows that Emma has been traumatized by the experience, her mental state not at all helped by a new killer running around.

** Guilty Party: Dawn Duguin and Keira. Dawn is guilty of helping the camp counselors kill her best friend and framed another counselor to get away with it. She barely survives her fatal encounter with the killer and decides to own up to her actions, turning herself in to the police. Keira is guilty of accidentally killing a patient during her time as a nurse and becomes a DamselInDistress in the season finale, only spared when Peter sacrifices himself to save her. Ironically, Judith Berry also survives, but revealed to be the killer with sympathetic motives, [[MamaBear taking revenge on the counselors for what they did to her son]], who was the counselor they framed.

** Flesh & Blood: Liv Vogel. She is more of an {{enforced|Trope}} example of this, since she [[ActionGirl served in the military, thus is able to fight off the Gentleman's attempts to kill her]]. After the Gentleman dies, she has sex with one of the survivors and remains the only one left standing after the surviving members end up killing each other over the family inheritance.

* ''Series/StrangerThings'', while not exactly a slasher movie (although elements of the genre are there), has its own take on the Final Girl with Nancy Wheeler, named after the ''Nightmare on Elm Street'' character. She subverts DeathBySex mainly due to her first time indirectly making it happen to someone else (Barb), has more sex, and also drinks. She ends up as a full ActionGirl as the series progresses and despite some close calls, is still alive as of the end of Season 4.

!Straight examples
* In murder mystery ''Series/HarpersIsland'', protagonist Abby Mills is female, beautiful, clean-living, and is strongly implied to be a virgin. She has a DarkAndTroubledPast and only picks up the IdiotBall towards the last few episodes. Also, she is the object of affection of one of the murderers. She survives along with her love interest (and a little girl with ImprobableInfantSurvival and by extension the girl's mother), and is the one to kill the murderer.
* {{Gender Inverted|Trope}} in ''Series/{{Psychoville}}'' where at the end of Series Two, Mr. Jelly is the lone survivor who calls out Grace for the murders. David Sowerbutts also survives, but is not present at Andrews Nanotech.
* Emma Duval in the TV adaptation of ''Series/{{Scream|TVSeries}}''. While Sidney Prescott, her counterpart from [[Film/{{Scream}} the films]], is listed below as a {{deconstruct|edCharacterArchetype}}ion, Emma is a straighter example, though not perfectly so. In the first season, she's one of several characters who survives, and most of the credit for defeating the killer goes to Audrey, a bicurious punk chick who seems to have been working with the killer all along, though the end of season two reveals that she was innocent. Season two shows that Emma has been traumatized by the experience, her mental state not at all helped by a new killer running around.
** The third season, ''Series/ScreamResurrection'', plays with this. A boy named Deion Elliot is actually Ghostface's primary target, with his girlfriend Liv Reynolds being a supporting role. Ironically, she and Deion are not the ones who defeats the killer despite Ghostface outright invoking Liv as the Final Girl, as another supporting girl is the one who finishes the job.
* ''Series/StrangerThings'', while not exactly a slasher movie (although elements of the genre are there), has its own take on the Final Girl with Nancy Wheeler, named after the ''Nightmare on Elm Street'' character. She subverts DeathBySex mainly due to her first time indirectly making it happen to someone else (Barb), has more sex, and also drinks. She ends up a full ActionGirl as the series progresses and despite some close calls, is still alive as of the end of Season 4.

* ''{{Series/Charmed|1998}}'' had an episode called "Chick Flick" featuring psycho killers being released from horror movies. Prue becomes the Final Girl when her sisters get trapped in the movie, but she saves them. The in-universe "Kill It Before It Dies" features a teen couple surviving.
* The first season of ''Series/{{Chucky}}'' has an interesting example in Lexy Cross, as she is a preteen AlphaBitch who bullies the gay protagonist. She also has an unchildlike promiscuous streak but is ProperlyParanoid about the titular doll. After some BreakTheHaughty moments, along with her younger sister being targeted courtesy of Chucky, [[EnemyMine she finds herself teaming up with her bullying victim to stop Chucky]] to protect their families. Ultimately, she survives the season with a change of heart, but at the cost of her boyfriend and father's lives.

* ''The Final Girls'' was a series proposed to Creator/ABCFamily (now Freeform) in 2013 in which Jamie Lee Curtis would play the Charlie to a team of Angels consisting of girls who were Final Girls and use that experience to become monster hunters.
* In the ''Series/MurdochMysteries'' slasher pastiche "I Know What You Did Last Autumn", Andrea Porter is the Final Girl (although it's Dr Ogden who actually stops the slasher), but an intentionally unsympathetic one; rather than being the TokenWholesome, her distaste for the activities of the other "teeners" mark her as a judgemental prude ''by Edwardian standards''.
* ''Series/{{Scream Queens|2015}}'', a show that ''did'' wind up starring Jamie Lee Curtis, had two possible candidates for the Final Girl in the first season. Grace Gardner is the traditional kind, the blonde, virginal [[TheIngenue ingenue]] with a hint of Literature/NancyDrew to her. Chanel Oberlin is... not. While she fought off the Red Devil twice, she's also an [[RichBitch elitist]] and [[PoliticallyIncorrectVillain bigoted]] AlphaBitch who is guilty of the murder of Ms. Bean and later tries to kill Hester, along with all manner of lesser crimes, to the point where she can be considered a VillainProtagonist even though she's not the Red Devil killer. To be fair, though, she didn't mean to kill Ms. Bean. Her trying to kill Hester, though, is an entirely different matter. Even though Hester is later revealed to be one of the Red Devil killers, Chanel didn't know this when she pushed Hester down a flight of stairs. Both Grace and Chanel survive, but neither of them is fully alright at the end of the season; Grace is revealed in the second season to have been [[BreakTheCutie institutionalized due to the trauma of what she went through]][[note]]In reality, this was because her actress Creator/SkylerSamuels had returned to college, forcing the writers to [[PutOnABus write out her character]].[[/note]], while Chanel and her GirlPosse get served a major dose of LaserGuidedKarma when they are framed for the murders. The real killers remain TheUnfought, with their last surviving member, Hester, [[TheBadGuyWins getting away with everything]], and the other two Red Devils, Gigi and Boone, both dying at Hester's hands.

** The Executioner: Sarah Bennet, despite being the star from the beginning of the season, is actually made to be less than the typical archetype and more Nancy Drew like. However, despite still being the one to defeat the Executioner, she becomes a DamselInDistress to the killer for her sin of {{pride}} in the penultimate episode and is only spared when the original Executioner sacrifices himself to save her.

** Solstice: Saadia Jalalzai. She subverts her reputation of goodness, because she is [[CreateYourOwnVillain directly responsible]] for the Druid's StartOfDarkness. She's still {{invoked|Trope}} as the Final Girl by the killer to become TheAlibi, and after the Druid dies, she saves herself and Dan from the accomplice, another girl named Jen Rijkers, who became the Druid along with her brother Connor out of revenge against their neighbors for their mother's suicide. Saadia tearfully confesses what she did to Jen as the latter dies.