Unopened Boxsets that I liked the look of from the Pilot: The ILX Television 51 Show Countdown Extravaganza!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Hard to imagine someone putting Curb yr Enthusiasm as #1 (even though I love it), so I'm guessing that for the next one.

I was totally fooled by that for a second. Good work, man.

total shocker, now i'm starting to question whether BattleBots will be in the top 10

I hope NCIS is #1.

#2 According to Jim

no way A2J is beating Wife Swap

still never seen Freaks & Greeks (voted for Popular tho)

12. Doctor Who (23 votes, 3960 points.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZLXOO9PnnMQ

the next show is the highest to place without any #1 votes

Doctor Who?

― modescalator (blueski), Thursday, 5 November 2009 18:13 (19 minutes ago) Bookmark

well done, have a biscuit.

Used to work when it was on, so I never really cared about Doctor Who. Kind of like the episodes where John Simms makes the doctor really freaking old and in a cage tho.

if i'd known there was gonna be biscuits i'd have been making more predictions

http://img11.imageshack.us/img11/117/vicilx.jpg

Dr Whovians, please explain how they plan to escape the regeneration limit as they chew through doctors? I asked someone this, and all I got were, "Oh, there are ways..."

so in the 21st century dr. who they got cool guy in leather who and then they went for harry potter looking whos. what's up with that?

The Master ran out of regenerations and came back somehow, right? Didn't Gallifrey do some thing that brought him back to fight in the Time War?

^^^ i would approve of a 50-post tangent about Dr. Who if they'd all be as delightfully confusing as this one

Ok, the last for today...

I was expecting that to be Top 10, easily. I thought it had a lot of ilx love. Is it the highest ranking British programme?

11. Deadwood (25 votes, 2 first place votes, 4460 points.)
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EsPYJIat0lo

My number 1.

Is it the highest ranking British programme?

Office still to come obviously

csi miami beating south Park is sort of boggling my mind.

DEADWOOD SCORED TOO LOW. PLEASE FIX. THANKS.

My #2. :/

I was hoping that Deadwood would get at least a Top 10 placing. Just missed out. But that's okay.

deadwood and gilmore girls making the list is sort of boggling my mind

csi miami beating south Park is sort of boggling my mind.

Read closer.

Office still to come obviously

Ah, yep, forgot about that.

I only saw a couple of Deadwood episodes, and didn't really get it. It's obviously been said before, but once you get over giggling at Lovejoy's inventive swearing it's just boring.

And I'm the other with Deadwood at 1.

I had Deadwood at #7, but am currently rewatching and would rate it higher. Such great characters.

"once you get over giggling at Lovejoy's inventive swearing"

how is this humanly possible?

Okie doke. Here's yr top ten, then:

The Office (UK)
The Wire
The Sopranos
Arrested Development
30 Rock
Lost
Mad Men
Freaks And Geeks
The Daily Show
Curb Your Enthusiasm

I figured Eastbound & Down and The Shield for the top 20, but definitely not the top 10.

Does anyone disagree with that list, though? At least 8 or so are an absolute lock.

deadwood and gilmore girls making the list is sort of boggling my mind

Spoken like someone who hasn't watched much of either. Some of the best television writing of the decade on those two shows.

I guess The Daily Show counts as a non-fiction programme, right? As we were told one was in the Top 10.

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Deadwood especially. The density of some of the writing totally boggled my mind.

The list so far:

51. The Inbetweeners (11 votes, 1140 points.)
50. Breaking Bad (7 votes, 1160 points.)
49. State of Play (8 votes, 1170 points.)
48. The Venture Bros (7 votes, 2 #1 votes, 1180 points.)
47. Da Ali G Show (12 votes, 1210 points.)
46. Q.I. (11 votes, 1220 points.)
45. Party Down (10 votes, 1230 points.)
44. Aqua Teen Hunger Force (10 votes, 1240 points.)
43. The Simpsons (15 votes, 1290 points.)
42. Angel (9 votes, 1310 points.)
41. Gilmore Girls (7 votes, 2 #1 votes, 1310 points.)
40. Wonder Showzen (11 votes, 1 #1 vote, 1350 points.)
39. Gillette Soccer Saturday (9 votes, 1360 points.)
38. Black Books (9 votes, 1440 points.)
37. Oz (11 votes, 1530 points.)
36. Dexter (12 votes, 1560 points.)
35. Friday Night Lights (11 votes, 1 #1 vote, 1630 points.)
34. Jackass (14 votes, 1640 points.)
33. Project Runway (15 votes, 1670 points.)
32. Family Guy (15 votes, 1735 points.)
31. House M.D. (16 votes, 1860 points.)
30. It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (14 votes, 1970 points.)
29. Planet Earth (15 votes, 1 #1 vote, 1980 points.)
28. How I Met Your Mother (16 votes, 2170 points.)
27. Chappelle's Show (17 votes, 2200 points.)
26. Firefly (17 votes, 2270 points.)
25. Battlestar Galactica (16 votes, 1 #1 vote, 2300 points.)
24. Futurama (20 votes, 2380 points.)
23. Flight Of The Conchords (20 votes, 1 #1 vote, 2580 points.)
22. The Thick of It (16 votes, 1 #1 vote, 2590 points.)
21. The West Wing (16 votes, 3 #1 votes, 2710 points.)
20. The Office U.S. (22 votes, 2840 points.)
19. Veronica Mars (22 votes, 2910 points.)
18. Peep Show (20 votes, 2 #1 votes, 3020 points.)
17. Spaced (22 votes, 3040 points.)
16. Buffy The Vampire Slayer (19 votes, 3080 points.)
15. Six Feet Under (17 votes, 3 #1 votes, 3110 points.)
14. The Colbert Report (25 votes, 3145 points.)
13. South Park (29 votes, 3560 points.)
12. Doctor Who (23 votes, 3960 points.)
11. Deadwood (25 votes, 2 #1 votes, 4460 points.)

Deadwood was my #4, Doc Who my #5.

If Come Dine With Me doesn't make the top ten everyone on ilx gets an sb. Everyone.

EVERYONE.

Probably deserved, if it doesn't make it. Even those who don't know it exists. And me, who can't stand it.

what the fuck is come dine with me

once you get over giggling at Lovejoy's inventive swearing it's just boring.

no, YOU'RE BORING. *sobs*

wtf is firefly

Looking over the list, the only thing I really have any problem with is Gilmore Girls scoring so low. Although some of the reactions in this thread would seem to suggest that the WB marketing team should have tried some different strategies in order to differentiate GG from the rest of their programming. Like a different name, for a start? Seems like a lot of people who probably would have liked the show were put off by thinking the show was something other than what it was.

Also a little surprised by Doctor Who scoring as high as it did. I watched the first two series of the revamp and enjoyed them, but not enough to put it on my ballot. Plus, I guess it's just hard for me to think of Who as a 2000s series.

I always thought Gilmore Girls and Smallville would be much improved by having writing teams switch.

Does anyone disagree with that list, though? At least 8 or so are an absolute lock.

Nope, I think you've got it. The several people rooting for American Idol made me think that that could sneak onto the list, but it's hard to imagine any of the shows you listed not placing at all.

Probably the correct placing for Dr. Who. It was in my top ten, but partly out of affection and having grown up with the old incarnation - it's probably been too patchy in the 00s to make an objective top ten (which is not to say that when it's good it's not very good).

I feel like Curb Your Enthusiasm could make it. I imagine it as the sort of show that a lot of people put in the 10th-best range, not a lot of top fives.

Could miss the list, rather.

I totally forgot to put Curb in my ballot! Probably would've been 20-10.