Empire Top 50 Meme

[selenak]

From buffyannotater. Empire Magazine has revealed its list of the "50 Greatest TV Shows" ever. Below is the list and here be the rules.

1. Bold the shows you've watched every episode of, or as near as makes no difference.
2. Italic the shows you've seen at least some episodes of.




50. Quantum Leap
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
46. Sex & The City

45. Farscape
44. Cracker
43. Star Trek
42. Only Fools and Horses
41. Band of Brothers

40. Life on Mars
39. Monty Python's Flying Circus
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
36. Father Ted

35. Alias
34. Frasier
33. CSI: Las Vegas
32. Babylon 5
31. Deadwood

30. Dexter
29. ER
28. Fawlty Towers
27. Six Feet Under
26. Red Dwarf

25. Futurama
24. Twin Peaks
23. The Office UK
22. The Shield
21. Angel

20. Blackadder
19. Scrubs
18. Arrested Development
17. South Park
16. Doctor Who [new one]
16a. Doctor Who [old one] (...am still catching up despite having started before New Who, due to size of canon...)

15. Heroes
14. Firefly
13. Battlestar Galactica [new one]
12. Family Guy
11. Seinfeld

10. Spaced
09. The X-Files
08. The Wire
07. Friends
06. 24

05. Lost
04. The West Wing
03. The Sopranos
02. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
01. The Simpsons

Comments

[gaspodex.livejournal.com]

Um - Is it wrong that if i do this list every entry is in bold ...

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

What could be wrong with that???

[greenpear.livejournal.com]

I'm glad that many of the shows I've invested time in made the list!

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

My dear, compared to me, your viewing habits are moderate. The count of shows on that list I haven't seen at least one episode of is below ten.

... I probably need a life.

[ruuger]

You haven't seen Futurama? *is shocked*

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Nope. Nor The Simpsons, which apparantly everyone else has watched.

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

The question would be how you managed to escape The Simpsons? (And believe me, I've tried, I'm most famously Not A Fan. But osmosis got the better of me, as in many cases.)

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I solidly refused to watch a single episode and always switched channels further when coming across one accidentally?

[wee-warrior.livejournal.com]

Good strategy, although not applicable in my case. The Valiant Roommate has probably told me the plot of every single Simpsons episode I haven't watched. For similar reasons, I know so much about old Star Wars, only in that case, it's moderately TVR's, and absolutely The Previous Not Quite So Valiant Roommate's fault. It's what you get for rooming with hardcore geeks I guess. [On the other hand, TVR probably gets more impromptu lectures on Feminism in Modern Times and the Media than he could ever wish for. So there. ;)]

[nolivingman.livejournal.com]

Finally, somebody else who's never seen an episode of that show. I really thought I was the only one.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Hail, comrade!

[swmbo.livejournal.com]

Oh man! I don't wanna see my results!

ALthough I think they need a third category to describe the "I watched this show religiously until suddenly at season xyz I could no longer take it"

That's a very special category of its OWN!

[buffyannotater.livejournal.com]

It's an interesting list, innit? I have no clue what Prison Break is doing on there. Or 24, really.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Not having watched Prison Break, I couldn't say. As for 24, they do get points for innovation - it's no mean feat, once they hit upon the basic idea, to pull off the concept in a suspenseful way - and maybe the audience at large didn't find the ideology behind it as off-putting as I did.