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Each of these clues is a river. When you figure out all the rivers you'll be able to know what TV show this is.

  1. Failed to cross
  2. Gold, Solitaire, Island
  3. Three times I'm delayed yet I still make the journey
  4. I once made a trek through New Granada
  5. Look at
  6. CCLMTV
  7. Beginning from a great state of red
  8. I feed a tiger
  9. Native American Chief
  10. Oy rats have learned to adapt
  11. From black, red, and gold to black
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Based on all the other answers:

  1. Failed to cross

    Rubicon (Caesar crossing several times the Rubicon)

  2. Gold, Solitaire, Island

    Yukon (Klondike gold rush)

  3. Three times I'm delayed yet I still make the journey

    Yangtzee Kiang

  4. I once made a trek through New Granada

    Orinoco

  5. Look at

    Gander (means a goose or a glance i.e. look at).

  6. CCLMTV

    Mekong (crossing the countries with this initials)

  7. Beginning from a great state of red

    Rio Grande - "great river" originating in Colorado ("colored red")

  8. I feed a tiger

    Ganges (flows into the Bay of Bengal - Bengal tiger)

  9. Native American Chief

    Shenandoah (not sure but it might be an anglicised version of a Native American name)

  10. Oy rats have learned to adapt

    Volga river Which the Oirat name for means adaptation river

  11. From black, red, and gold to black

    Danube

And the show is

Star Trek: Deep Space 9
Danube is a class of shuttlecraft and the rivers are all names of shuttlecrafts.

Credit goes to @DanielSchepler, @NetJohn, @CJDennis, @CharlesTrotter, @Veskah, @DaveP

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  • $\begingroup$ Close... I think i'll modify the clue slightly to make it a bit more exacting $\endgroup$
    – user47403
    Apr 10, 2018 at 4:56
  • $\begingroup$ #7 and #10 are flipped $\endgroup$
    – user47403
    Apr 10, 2018 at 14:04
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    $\begingroup$ @Buildstarted I can swap them but this will void the reasoning. $\endgroup$
    – rhsquared
    Apr 10, 2018 at 14:06
  • $\begingroup$ That's the right reasoning now :) $\endgroup$
    – user47403
    Apr 10, 2018 at 14:12
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    $\begingroup$ @Chris My bad, I just fixed it. $\endgroup$
    – rhsquared
    Apr 10, 2018 at 21:17
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  1. Three times I'm delayed yet I still make the journey

Mississippi? ("Three times I'm delayed" -> the three sets of double letters, "I still make the journey" maybe referring to its role in Huckleberry Finn?)

  1. I once made a trek through New Granada.

Orinoco? It's a major river of present-day Colombia, and for wordplay, it looks like "I once" shares a lot of letters with it.

  1. Beginning from a state of red

Makes me think of the Missouri River which starts in Montana, which voted for Trump - though I'm not at all sure of this one.

  1. Native American Chief

Probably a stretch, but - Ganges? (Chief river of India.)

  1. Oy rats have learned to adapt

Another stretch - rot13 "oy rats" and you get "bl engf". "Adapt" it by changing F to A and anagramming, and you get Bengal? (Though looking it up on Wikipedia gives the official name as Hooghly River...)

  1. From black, red, and gold to black

Guessing this is the Danube - which flows from Germany (with the black, red and gold flag, as Veskah already observed) to the Black Sea.

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  • $\begingroup$ 4, 11 are correct :) $\endgroup$
    – user47403
    Apr 10, 2018 at 4:51
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  1. Gold, Solitaire, Island

Klondike (not sure on the Island part)

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  • $\begingroup$ Very close... :) $\endgroup$
    – user47403
    Apr 10, 2018 at 4:53
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  1. CCLMTV

Mekong - flows through China (C), Cambodia (C), Laos (L), Malaysia (M), Taiwan (T) and Vietnam (V)

  1. Beginning from a great state of red

Rio Grande - "great river" originating in Colorado ("colored red")

  1. I feed a tiger

Ganges - flows into the Bay of Bengal

  1. From black, red, and gold to black

Danube - begins in Germany (German flag is black, red, and gold) and empties into the Black Sea

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  • $\begingroup$ 6, 8, 11 are all correct $\endgroup$
    – user47403
    Apr 10, 2018 at 5:43
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    $\begingroup$ Can't flow through Taiwan, it's an island. Thailand, maybe? $\endgroup$
    – NetJohn
    Apr 10, 2018 at 14:09
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The rivers are:

  1. Failed to cross

    ?

  2. Gold, Solitaire, Island

    ?

  3. Three times I'm delayed yet I still make the journey

    Yangtzee Kiang

  4. I once made a trek through New Granada

    Orinoco

  5. Look at

    ?

  6. CCLMTV

    Mekong

  7. Beginning from a great state of red

    ?

  8. I feed a tiger

    Ganges

  9. Native American Chief

    ?

  10. Oy rats have learned to adapt

    ?

  11. From black, red, and gold to black

    Danube

And the show is

Star Trek: Deep Space 9

The rivers are all names of shuttlecraft.

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  1. Three times I'm delayed yet I still make the journey

Yangtze River? It's blocked by the Three Gorges Dam and makes it to the East China Sea

  1. I feed a tiger

Tigris is Greek for Tiger and I don't really see a river tributary for it.

  1. From black, red, and gold to black

The Rhine? Black, Red and Gold seems to be Germany and I guess you can say the North sea is black but that doesn't seem very good.

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  • $\begingroup$ Welcome to Puzzling! $\endgroup$
    – NetJohn
    Apr 9, 2018 at 23:06
  • $\begingroup$ #3 is correct :) $\endgroup$
    – user47403
    Apr 10, 2018 at 4:53
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gander

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Volga flowing through Russia 1)rubicon the river that ceaser crossed

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  1. Oy rats have learned to adapt

Volga River - Which the Oirat name for means adaptation river

A long shot at 5. Look at

River Soar - if you look at it you saw(Soar) it

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1 Failed to cross

Rubicon

2 Gold, Solitaire, Island

Yukon

3 Three times I'm delayed yet I still make the journey

Yangtze

4 I once made a trek through New Granada

Orinoco

5 Look at

Gander

6 CCLMTV

Mekong

7 Beginning from a great state of red

Volga

8 I feed a tiger

Ganges

9 Native American Chief

Shenandoah

10 Oy rats have learned to adapt

Rio Grande

11 From black, red, and gold to black

Danube

And the show is:

Star Trek: Deep Space 9. Runabouts are all named after rivers. However, the Yellowstone comes from an episode of Star Trek: Voyager.

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  • $\begingroup$ Hello and welcome to PSE. Because most of the answers were already published, it is only polite to credit the authors of the previous answers. Otherwise this will be a duplicated answer which doesn't add value to the topic. $\endgroup$
    – rhsquared
    Apr 10, 2018 at 9:45
  • $\begingroup$ @rhsquared I didn't read any other answers. I recognized a few of them, got the TV show, and realized the rest. When I have time, I can look at the previous answers and try to determine who had them first. I believe this is the first answer to provide a complete (and likely correct) solution, though. $\endgroup$
    – Thomas Owens
    Apr 10, 2018 at 9:48
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    $\begingroup$ (Independent work doesn't redeem a duplicative answer; it's still duplicative. You should always look at existing answers before providing one of your own, to ensure you are not just adding a duplicate. There is value in a collected-answers post, as rhsquared did here, but credit should always be given to the posters who got there first. If there is no part of the answer that wasn't already provided elsewhere, and no credit is given to the first providers of the answer, a collected answer that isn't CW looks suspiciously like a rep grab.) $\endgroup$
    – Rubio ♦
    Apr 10, 2018 at 17:28
  • $\begingroup$ Also, it'd be best to include some sort of explanation as to how each answer fits each clue, instead of just giving the end result :) $\endgroup$
    – Mithical
    Apr 10, 2018 at 17:46

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