top tv of 2008

I always think that doing a top ten tv is a tough at the end of the year because the tv season is still rolling into midseason shows, but here’s what critics and folks have got so far for 2008. 

• Architecture School – JP
• Battlestar Gallactica – JP, TG
• Big Bang Theory – MR
• Boston Legal – DB, PGA
• Breaking Bad – AFI, JP, TG
• Brotherhood – SA
• Californication – GG
• The Colbert Report – SA
• Chuck – JP
• Cranford – PE, SA*
• Curb Your Enthusiasm – PGA
• Daily Show with Jon Stewart – DB
• Damages – PGA
• Dancing With the Stars – NYT
• Dexter – GG, DB, MR, PGA, SA*, TG
• Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog – DB, JP, PE
• Entourage – GG, PGA
• Friday Night Lights – DB, MR
• Fringe – NYT, PE
• Generation Kill – MR, TG
• Gossip Girl – NYT
• House – GG
• In Treatment – AFI, GG, NYT, PE, SA
• It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – SA
• John Adams – AFI, MR, SA
• The Last Enemy – SA
• Life – AFI
• Life on Mars – SA
• Lost – AFI, JP, MR, PE, PGA, TG
• Mad Men – AFI, DB, GG, JP, MR*, NYT, PGA, SA, TG*
• Masterpiece – MR
• Morning Joe – NYT
• NCIS – NYT
• The Office – AFI, GG, PGA
• Olympics – MR
• Primeval – SA
• Pushing Daisies – DB, SA
• Real Housewives of NYC – PE
• Recount – AFI, NYT
• Saturday Night Live – MR, PE
• The Shield – AFI, DB, JP*, MR, PE, TG
• 60 Minutes – DB
• Skins – SA
• Sons of Anarchy – TG
• State of the Union – SA*
• Swingtown – PE
• 30 Rock – DB, GG, MR, NYT, PGA, SA, TG
• True Blood – GG
• Weeds – GG, PE, PGA
• The Wire – AFI, JP, MR, NYT, TG

AFI – American Film Institute, DB – David Bianculli/NPR, GG – Golden Globes, JP – James Poniewozik/Time, MR – Matt Roush/TVGuide, PE – People Magazine, PGA – Producer’s Guild of America, SA – Satellite Awards, NYT – New York Times, TG – Tim Goodman at SF Chron

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