iPlayer? What's an iPlayer? ILX's top 50 TV shows of the 90s!

were we? if i'd voted i'd have only voted for like 2 uk shows. america has like the best 5 or 6 until you hit 'the thick of it'

forgot to vote but I really wish I had. was expecting Have I Got News For You to place due to british contingent but I'm not so sure now.

I dont recall seeing the 00's TV poll FWIW, where is the results?

Bit like CNNNN/Have I got News for You/half a dozen other news satires (maybr it was first tho)

Nothing like HIGNFY, except for being news related - it's painstakingly constructed skits rather than freewheeling riffs, and it satires the format and conventions of news programmes rather than topical stuff. Very beloved in this country, rightly so I think.

Trayce:

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

and it satires

Gah, 'satirises'. 'Satires' isn't a word. I am tipsy.

satires is a word. its the plural for satire.

'Satires' isn't the past simple form of 'satirise' is what I meant, DAMMIT.

Probably time for bed.

3rd person present indicative

UK shit at 00s TV? what, is there no second prize?

'00s poll had 12 Brit shows, 8 of which showed up before the top 20. in this poll so far there's 11, so definitely going to be more in the '90s, but still a pretty significant chunk for the '00s.

i bet like uh france or japan is ahead of us in terms of 00's quality

We're less good at massively impressive multi-stranded dramas, which is what 00s telly has been about. Better at zany comedy, which is what 90s telly was about.

shit forgot to vote in this, the results so far are pretty much guaranteeing there won't be any nickelodeon shows thta place? what the hell guys

i bet like uh france or japan is ahead of us in terms of 00's quality

L. O. L.

Rugrats has to place, right?

poor k3vin k

Don't freak, Kev. Stimpy's right around the corner, I'm sure.

my younger brother was landed with 'pinky' as a nickname for 6 years of secondary education simnply because he sat next to a guy looked exactly like "the brain" on the first day of school. life lessons.

so, i kinda hope that shows up.

yeah Ren & Stimpy'll definitely make it, and I'm still pulling for The Adventures of Pete & Pete. what thread have you been reading, kells? this poll has had so many cartoons and kids' shows so far, if no Nickelodeon per se.

havent been reading it, that's the thing. just gonna be kinda disappointed if there's no classic nick shows, though, but i'm biased cuz that's what i grew up on

Loving the idea that two series as radically different as Friends and Spaced placed so high, where the attraction is purely about the tight writing and Swift-ian puns and not just because they was unfunny bollocks with characters that their respective audiences thought was role models.

yeah sure grandad ross was my role model. did you only get up to use the bathroom?

Dude I never named manes.

Still laugh at that ep where Raymond plays Crash Bandicoot cos he's missing Billie Piper tho.

we've all crashed after a little pipe in our time, right?

I don't want control of yeuch

I am drinking again
I'm on my seventh cold glass of gin

Life is a tribute to you
And so is dying
And drinking in this way
To die is what I'm trying
I also try to keep my looks
In case an angel loves me
And lifts me up with angel hooks
To someplace high above

all because Freinds charted in this list? chill, dude...

Friends doesn't bother me, it's some well-crafted shit that I never watch. I was just precising my last night commentalia.

MY GOD I'VE TIPPED HIM OVER TH'EDGE

COMING FOR YOU LETTS

noodle vaguely threatening

Ah I'm just worried that Inspector Morse isn't gonna make the cut.

Damn! I mis-read the closing date on this poll.

Oh well. My #1 was MST3K.

can't you do something? you're the president!

20 - The X-Files (Fox, 1993-2002)
-2040 points, 18 votes

http://www.wired.com/images_blogs/underwire/images/2007/04/24/042407xfiles.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIJSQKS1R3Y

probably most dated/out of fashion show here. easy to forget how huge/popular it was for a while.

i think people will be shook it's that low

man those last few seasons tho... i don't think i could watch any of it ever again

I thought it was terrible at the time. Not giving a shit about either of the two main characters didn't help.

Cancer Man was my favourite TV villain until Ben Linus tho - and his final death scene has still probably not been matched for glorious OTT-ness

Quite liked it when they did monster of the week, no patience at all for the overarching alien conspiracy bullshit.

in a TV series at least xp

Quite liked it when they did monster of the week, no patience at all for the overarching alien conspiracy bullshit

other way round for me

i lost track of the show while at college because it was hard to see anything on Sky at that point. the video releases of the last 8 or so alien conspiracy episodes (up to Mulder's own abduction) ended up being the last VHS tapes i ever rented out, watched it all on a tiny TV at home over a weekend and it was strangely awesome.

also seemed like unprecedented production values for a US drama back then - looked and felt like a movie quite often. its success surely paved the way for subsequent big expensive dramas, even the non-sci-fi ones, so its an important TV milestone imo.

Wow! I thought for sure it'd end up in the top ten, but it ended up pretty much where it should have. As everyone says: dated, not as good as was once hyped, etc.

and his final death scene has still probably not been matched for glorious OTT-ness

^^^This. Rarely does filmed entertainment go to such lengths to declare, "Yes, this character is irrevocably deceased!"

Quite liked it when they did monster of the week, no patience at all for the overarching alien conspiracy bullshit.

I was way more into the bullshit at the time because I thought it was going somewhere. But at a certain point it became clear that they were making it up as they went along, and they weren't even doing that good a job of making it up. So upon rewatching the series, the standalone eps most definitely took the cake.

its worth going back and watching seasons 2-4 or 5. there was a really great run that just sort of collapsed under its on weight