Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiit! It's the ILX Decade-End TV Poll!!!!!

ilx must be quiet tonight, no one's popped in to make fun of me yet. here's my excruciatingly middlebrow list, should've posted it on the other thread but didn't. further ammunition.

Arrested Development
The Wire
Mad Men
The Thick of It
30 Rock
Screenwipe
Veronica Mars
The Daily Show/ Colbert Report
Doctor Who
then I'll divide the rest of my points among Futurama, Chapelle's Show, Peep Show, Snuff Box, and Project Runway. And Spongebob, why not.

hey. don't want to be an arse but three things: i asked you to email them to me because if everyone reveals their ballots before the poll it kind of takes the fun out of it, and I'm only doing the 250 - 10 thing because it is super easy for me to calculate everyones votes, instead of dividing remaining votes etc. I can do so if you want, I'll just resent you for making me do so.

Third thing: thank you for joining in! :) And thanks to everyone, turnout is looking good for the first day, I think.

ha, ok, just got your email. should check these things before i type.

sorry there, a hoy hoy, don't mean to dump all over your well-intentioned thread. will try better next time. (honestly though, my list is so freakin' obvious it could hardly spoil anything.)

No Ice Road Truckers, no cred.

It's cool, it turned out I haven't forgotten simple maths. I gave yr 10th place to futurama and then 120 points each to the others you mentioned. And now to carry on per normal.

Britishers- you've just to work and can't bothered doing what you are paid for or moaning about the daily mail? VOTE!

Should Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares (UK) and Kitchen Nightmares (US) count as separate shows? Or are they so exactly the same show that it should only count once? (I only ask because I prefer the BBC version.)

in that case i think they should count as separate, since the UK version was that much better

bbc one? wow, just all british telly goes on bbc america, huh? I dunno, I was counting them as one because they are basically the same show with same presenter but different accents.

He swears more in the British one, and it doesn't have those excruciating music cues the Americans slap all over their reality shows.

Well we can just pretend the other doesn't exist.

Shameless bump #2: So hey, Inbetweeners huh? He's all a bit lou jags, if you know what I mean?

i'm american and i just voted

let's ensure that American cultural imperialism triumphs yet again!

Exactly half of all shows have got a vote so far btw.

do you prefer to receive the lists numbered, or just ordered but not numbered?

you can number if you want but considering i haven't been sent a list in alphabetical order yet, i'm just assuming all unnumbered lists have been ranked top-down.

Hey, there's Australian shows in here, good work! Was there some nomination thread I missed. I'm just happy I can vote for Frontline and The Micallef P(r)ogram(me).

If you vote for Frontline, your vote will probably be applying to some US current affairs show or something – the Australian satire was made in like 94-97.

Shameless bump #2: So hey, Inbetweeners huh? He's all a bit lou jags, if you know what I mean?

Saw a screener of the first ep last week and thought “it’s lucky we’re probably not buying this, KBP would explode”

Can we use all our 25 votes to vote for The Wire?

No need, everyone knows it's going to win.

Shit good point sic.

Shameless bump #3: Remember when The O.C. went mental and Julie became a pimp daddy? Best wtf moment on 2000s telly this side of Kanye's Katrina speech?

we forgot the white rapper show!

http://literacy.calumet.purdue.edu/student/haddadm2/Gilmore%20Girls.jpg

Not listed are a couple of Animal Planet channel shows that I'm addicted too: Animal Cops and Animal Armageddon. The latter is kind of a miniseries (about massive extinction events!!!!) rather than a show. Also, as was already mentioned, Nip/Tuck, a guilty pleasure. I haven't watched True Blood, but I will and I have a feeling it would be on my list. Can you list something that you anticipate liking? History of Britain is on my Netflix queue. Maybe I should do some serious cramming in order to cast a more comprehensive vote.

Jon Stewart vs The Wire, etc is such an apples/oranges sticky wicket.

There's also a show I like called "Brotherhood," about corrupt politicians and mobsters in Providence, RI.

Sheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeiit!

Is this a South Park reference?

xp I thought it was Clay Davis from The Wire

BTW I vote for The Wire

A vote for Family Guy is a vote for Satan. (and not in the good way)

yeah, clay davis. and "hey dummy" from the noms thread was a denis duffy ref.

Shameless bump #4: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFGlE44xuTs

how many ballots do you have?

20 so far.

oh come on guys

11 different #1s.

To be fair, it's open for over another month.

And I haven't voted yet.

i'm gonna vote

pimping the heart attack waiting to happen called Let's Paint TV

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x4J4vfUsC2g

Can you list something that you anticipate liking? History of Britain is on my Netflix queue. Maybe I should do some serious cramming in order to cast a more comprehensive vote.

Yeah my ballot is more or less done, but since I'm going to be home with a newborn for much of October I'm going to see how many shows I can check out on Netflix before voting. I think it's a terrible idea to vote for something you haven't seen but think you'd like, though.

Well I didn't do it.

I'm staying impartial but I'm all for people making recommendations. I was bored enough to start the poll, I'm sure as hell bored enough to discover new TV.

My ballot's almost ready, but I did want to say a little something about my options. Would you prefer to receive the ballot and the comments separately?

As I've been sent barely any comments, I'm not sure. Whatever works best for you.

Shameless bump #5: Takeshi's Castle huh? Mix mental japanese... umm... things with a crack addict narrator and you get gold, right?

wait i gotta mail you with 7 votes, is that right?

One person only voted for 4 shows, so go for it.

that instruction has confused me. i mail you with how many votes? in order, with explanations?

Email (you can use the ilx webmail if you want, it's the same address) me with up to 25 votes. Preferably in order. Explanations aren't mandatory.

ok, i have now seen those instructions in the first post.

I sort of forgot to nominate Dead Set because I sort of assumed someone else must have done it. The sight of According To Bex at the top end of the list somehow makes this oversight even worse.