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fatal_logic, Empire magazine's greatest 50 TV shows. Bold for those I've watched regularly, italic for those I've seen at least one episode of, strikethrough for pants.
50. Quantum Leap (Scott Bakula wears a dress way too often, but carries it off.)
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars (Never really grabbed me)
47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Watched a lot of episodes but never really in sequence. Lost track of it over the last couple of seasons.)
46. Sex & The City
45. Farscape (I liked this one, but again never really got into the habit of keeping up. Confusion reigned.)
44. Cracker
43. Star Trek (TOS)
42. Only Fools and Horses
41. Band of Brothers
40. Life on Mars (Particularly the Camberwick Green intro episode)
39. Monty Python's Flying Circus (Formative, obviously)
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
36. Father Ted
35. Alias
34. Frasier (Not as funny as it should be, but watchable)
33. CSI: Las Vegas (No interest at all)
32. Babylon 5 (Despite myself, and with all the complaints about acting, I liked it)
31. Deadwood
30. Dexter
29. ER (Why is this still going? Best days long passed)
28. Fawlty Towers (short run but seminal)
27. Six Feet Under
26.Red Dwarf (I can't understand its popularity)
25. Futurama (I keep meaning to watch more of this.)
24. Twin Peaks (Disappointing wrap-up doesn't take away from the original brilliance)
23. The Office (Not interested in comedy of embarrassment/humiliation, so never bothered)
22. The Shield
21. Angel (Second rate compared to Buffy, but occasionally fun)
20. Blackadder (Which season? I liked the Elizabethan one best.)
19. Scrubs
18. Arrested Development
17. South Park (I hardly ever watch this any more. Occasionally brilliant.)
16. Doctor Who (Since early Tom Baker, not religious about it though, unlike some)
15. Heroes (First season in parts, but gave up and didn't see much in Season 2 to bring me back.)
14. Firefly (Can't take the sky from me)
13. Battlestar Galactica (I hear it's gone all mystical and unappealing)
12. Family Guy
11.Seinfeld
10. Spaced
09. The X-Files (Never really compelling TV)
08. The Wire (must see what the fuss is about)
07. Friends (Lots and lots of this, despite downhill trend)
06.24
05.Lost (Lordy, it sounds dreadful)
04. The West Wing (working way through the boxed set now)
03. The Sopranos (missed the boat on this)
02. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Quasi-religious watching after a certain point, but disillusionment set in round season 5)
01. The Simpsons (Mmm, donuts.)
(edited to correct my glaring Life on Mars error.)
fatal_logic, Empire magazine's greatest 50 TV shows. Bold for those I've watched regularly, italic for those I've seen at least one episode of, 50. Quantum Leap (Scott Bakula wears a dress way too often, but carries it off.)
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars (Never really grabbed me)
47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine (Watched a lot of episodes but never really in sequence. Lost track of it over the last couple of seasons.)
46. Sex & The City
45. Farscape (I liked this one, but again never really got into the habit of keeping up. Confusion reigned.)
44. Cracker
43. Star Trek (TOS)
42. Only Fools and Horses
41. Band of Brothers
40. Life on Mars (Particularly the Camberwick Green intro episode)
39. Monty Python's Flying Circus (Formative, obviously)
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
36. Father Ted
35. Alias
34. Frasier (Not as funny as it should be, but watchable)
33. CSI: Las Vegas (No interest at all)
32. Babylon 5 (Despite myself, and with all the complaints about acting, I liked it)
31. Deadwood
30. Dexter
29. ER (Why is this still going? Best days long passed)
28. Fawlty Towers (short run but seminal)
27. Six Feet Under
26.
25. Futurama (I keep meaning to watch more of this.)
24. Twin Peaks (Disappointing wrap-up doesn't take away from the original brilliance)
23. The Office (Not interested in comedy of embarrassment/humiliation, so never bothered)
22. The Shield
21. Angel (Second rate compared to Buffy, but occasionally fun)
20. Blackadder (Which season? I liked the Elizabethan one best.)
19. Scrubs
18. Arrested Development
17. South Park (I hardly ever watch this any more. Occasionally brilliant.)
16. Doctor Who (Since early Tom Baker, not religious about it though, unlike some)
15. Heroes (First season in parts, but gave up and didn't see much in Season 2 to bring me back.)
14. Firefly (Can't take the sky from me)
13. Battlestar Galactica (I hear it's gone all mystical and unappealing)
12. Family Guy
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10. Spaced
09. The X-Files (Never really compelling TV)
08. The Wire (must see what the fuss is about)
07. Friends (Lots and lots of this, despite downhill trend)
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04. The West Wing (working way through the boxed set now)
03. The Sopranos (missed the boat on this)
02. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Quasi-religious watching after a certain point, but disillusionment set in round season 5)
01. The Simpsons (Mmm, donuts.)
(edited to correct my glaring Life on Mars error.)
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Having said that, later episodes were rather weak, right up to the execrable Hong Kong special. I thought form was regained for 9/11, though.
The problem with Cracker, though, surely, is that the real-life bloke he's modelled on has been so thoroughly discredited.
Oh, and that you keep expecting Harry Potter to arrive to sort things out.
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I prefer the earlier Cracker episodes and didn't find the later arc much cop.
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There are also torrents, of course
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(Mercifully, I have not yet reached the stage that
I would send you my DVDs but there is already a queue for my Season 1.
You should also watch Arrested Development, because it is very, very funny.
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I should know, I've been watching a lot of Camberwick Green recently.
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See, it never pays to take the easy out.
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Admittedly the last time I was at a DVD rental place in Japan was in suburban Aichi in 2003, but I rapidly gave up trying to find anything non-blockbuster and European...
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Really? I find this strange. The first series was essential viewing, and the whole thing was fantastic, er, up until A Certain Thing Happened that I can't tell you about (someone dies). After that it was shite.
LOST is great, I don't care what any of you say. I don't care!
Do I need to add my voice to the chorus of approval for The Wire? I bet I don't.
I also disagree about ER. I still watch it religiously, and although it goes through phases of being not so great (hey, it has been running for 14 years now), it is currently brilliant. Of course, it is currently on its final season.
Heroes is completely terrible in every way, and the awfulness of the second season makes me wonder if I wasn't under some spell that made the first season seem good for a while. I wouldn't watch ten minutes of it now.
Also, any list with no Gilmore Girls on it is not a list of the 50 greatest TV shows, in my book.
U.S. Office much better than the British one. There, I've said it.
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That's if it's to be considered SF at all: the panel on Lost at the '05 Worldcon spent a lot of time discussing this, and coming to little in the way of conclusion. I do have a lingering anxiety that the final wrap-up will end up being _so_ cheesy (or, not much of a wrap-up at all!) that I'll retroactively repent of ever having watched any of it at all. The whole time travel angle is definitely a bit of an alarm bell...
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You knew it was me really.
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