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
