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

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.

My updated ballot (stuff that ain't gonna show up in bold):

1. xxx
2. xxx
3. Deadwood
4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
5. Peep Show
6. Gilmore Girls
7. xxx
8. xxx
9. Six Feet Under
10. xxx
11. Angel
12. Strangers With Candy
13. Reno 911!
14. The Soup
15. xxx
16. Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!
17. Look Around You
18. Eastbound and Down
19. Party Down
20. How I Met Your Mother
21. Stella
22. That Mitchell And Webb Look
23. Big Love
24. South Park
25. Wonderfalls

I'm positive that all of my 'xxx'-es are gonna place.

Aww, I guess I have to accept that Sex & The City (my #4) didn't make it. I'm already at peace with the notion that SYTYCD (my #1) didn't make it. The rest of my picks have either showed up or will, I'm quite sure...

Best seasons of the decade, anyone? I know for a fact that I've trumpeted these elsewhere (and possibly in this thread), but Buffy season 5, The Wire season 4, and Deadwood season 3 constitute maybe the most engrossing television I've ever seen.

xxxp Maybe there's a lot of people like me, who basically thought Gilmore Girls was sorta fun but way way way too irritatingly cutesy and smug and untrustworthy in the way it tried to pack so many words striving for clever knowingness into the mom-and-daughter dialogue all the time. (Or maybe I'm alone in that, though I doubt it. Still liked it enough to rank it #15 regardless.)

I'll bet Sex And The City fell just below 50. I'm a little puzzled that it didn't make it, honestly.

My list:

1. xxx
2. Deadwood
3. Frontline
4. xxx
5. Planet Earth
6. xxx
7. xxx
8. Chappelle's Show
9. xxx
10. xxx
11. Jackass
12. Battlestar Galactica
13. xxx
14. Strangers With Candy
15. Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job!
16. The Soup
17. xxx
18. xxx
19. Generation Kill
20. Project Runway
21. Wonder Showzen
22. Rock Of Love
23. Home Movies
24. Stella
25. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia

You clearly have good taste, polyphonic. :)

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?

basically cool leather guy quit after one season like a fule but the upshot was that they could get a "sexier" younger to replace him and do the companion romance thing (altho this actually turned out pretty stupid thanks to bad writing). they were both great for totally different reasons tho.

you can watch all of the best Doctor Who episode 'Blink' on youtube

You clearly have good taste, polyphonic. :)

Yay!

Buffy season 5, The Wire season 4, Futurama season 4, Arrested Development first 2 seasons, first season of 30 Rock, season 2 of HIMYM, first season of Veronica Mars, Freaks and Geeks, current season of Mad Men, the Amstell years on Nevermind the Buzzcocks <--- one of them.

can't argue with any of those. Mad Men Season 2 over the current one, but maybe I should wait for the finale to make a judgment.

My list without possible placing shows:

Gilmore Girls
Buffy
xxx
The West Wing
xxx
Never Mind The Buzzcocks
xxx
MOTD2
xxx
Gilette Soccer Saturday
South Park
Futurama
xxx
Angel
Jackass
Veronica Mars
Nathan Barley
Skins
Have I Got News For You
xxx
The O.C.
xxx
masterchef goes large
Ideal
Charlie Brooker's Screenwipe

InBetweeners beating Skins is kind of a shame.

Just catching up with the last half of the Party Down season (which I never got around to before), and I'm suddenly getting all the Caplan love.

couldn't really pick one season of gilmore girls because all the episodes have kind of mashed into 1 in my head- 3rd maybe? and ditto sorkin-era west wing.

Yeah, there are some shows like Gilmore Girls that don't utilize seasons quite so much like new chapters/acts as other shows do.

second season of West Wing

enjoying the list but totally ridic that 24 and (presumably, altho i can see it in place of F&G maybe) The Shield aren't here

haha voting 24 out is a referendum on the Bush regime.

S2 of Breaking Bad is pretty high up there.

hmm, i may have to download it then. i was kind of scared that after the last episode of season one it would kind of become BALD SCARFACE.

Based on the low thread activity, I think it is safe to assume that we Shield stans are an enlightened minority. I'll totally go to bat for it as being on par w/ The Sopranos, Deadwood, Mad Men, Lost & The Wire (& I'd say Breaking Bad) as one of the best serial dramas of the 00s. Esp. the last season, but that is a thing unto itself. Then again, I forgot to vote in this, so I can't really complain too much.

pretty sure 24 is going to place

i was kind of scared that after the last episode of season one it would kind of become BALD SCARFACE.

Well that's not too far off, but it does that in a very patient and convincing way. As I've said before, it's a good couple of notches up on S1.

current season of Mad Men

I feel this has been the weakest season actually - it's a tad tonally inconsistent, and maybe the charm of the sluggish, tangential storytelling is wearing off a bit. It would have benefited from a larger time jump between seasons I think. Still love it though.

I think 'leisurely' would be a better adjective than 'sluggish' there, actually.

Shield is another show I tried to watch a few times, but always turned it off at some point.

Same here.

I haven't watched either of the previous two seasons of Mad Men (I did watch episodes 1-3 of season 1 and decided to skip ahead for various reasons), but still voted for it in this poll based on what I've seen of S3. Really enjoying it a lot.

1. xxx
2. The West Wing
3. xxx
4. How I Met Your Mother
5. The Venture Bros
6. The Soup
7. xxx
8. xxx
9. Planet Earth
10. American Idol
11. Home Movies
12. xxx
13. Veronica Mars
14. Saturday Night Live
15. Chappelle's Show
16. Futurama
17. Two And A Half Men
18. CSI
19. Late Night with Conan O'Brien
20. Pushing Daisies
21. Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends
22. Meerkat Manor
23. Party Down
24. True Blood
25. Damages

The Shield does slog here and there, but if you are willing to stick it out until the end, it does pay off in spades.

Bummed about no Damages.

no Soup sux too.

The Shield, 24, Damages, Sex And The City, Strangers With Candy, The Soup, SNL, and Eastbound And Down are probably all residing somewhere just below #50.

No The O.C. either, but I guess I'm less surprised about that.

lots of stuff i voted for didn't make it. i wonder if i'm the only person who voted for once & again. that was my number three, i think. what can i say, i'm a girl. i wish i could afford complete gilmore girls boxed sets. even on sale across the street the whole series would cost me 100+.

top 10 today imo

Britishers be sleepin'.

isn't it only like 8pm there?

9pm (daylight savings). Britishers are burning the effigies of a Catholic at the mo.