What is your Top Ten US TV Shows? (Season 06/07) *Results! (See Post #121)* [Archive]

TonyG

20-05-2007, 22:05

That time of year again to vote for your favourite US TV shows.

Last year's Top Ten was....

1. 24
2. Lost
3. Battlestar Galactica
4. The Shield
5. Prison Break
6. The West Wing
7. House
8. Veronica Mars
9. My Name is Earl
10. The Sopranos

How will they fare this year? .. Will 24 still reign supreme despite an up 'n down season? ... Can Lost keep up the momentum despite a poor beginning to S3? ..... Did Prison Break get too silly? .... Are you tired of House testing for Lupus every week?

And what about this season's new shows? .... Heroes, Ugly Betty, 30 Rock, Brotherhood, Dexter, Dirt, Friday Night Lights, Jericho, Studio 60, Shark & many others.

Same format as before, vote for your top ten & i'll keep score. Your no.1 choice scores 10pts & so forth.... I'll publish my findings at the end of May.

To start things off, here is my Top 10...

1. The Office
2. Rome
3. Heroes
4. House
5. Friday Night Lights
6. Lost
7. The Shield
8. Ugly Betty
9. Dexter
10. 30 Rock

Honourable mention to Entourage, 24, Boston Legal, Jericho, Medium, Rescue Me, Brotherhood, Studio 60, The Sopranos, Veronica Mars & Weeds.

NicolaUK

20-05-2007, 22:23

Mine will be

1 - Heroes
2 - The Office
3 - Lost
4 - Dexter
5 - Entourage
6 - Ugly Betty
7 - My Name Is Earl
8 - The Riches
9 - Desperate Housewives
10 - Prison Break

24, Studio 60, Smallville I'm still watching and enjoying :)

swanny

20-05-2007, 22:24

1. Rome
2. The Shield
3. Heroes
4. 24
5. Prison Break
6. Lost
7. Sopranos
8. ER
9. House
10. Jericho

Phayze

20-05-2007, 22:30

1. Heroes
2. Friday Night Lights
3. Lost
4. Studio 60
5. Veronica Mars
6. Supernatural
7. Battlestar Galactica
8. 24
9. House
10. The Wire

Professor Abronsius

20-05-2007, 22:30

My Top 8 are...

1. The Shield :notworthy
2. Dexter
3. 24
4. Lost
5. Heroes
6. Smallville
7. Veronica Mars
8. Prison Break

Got BSG, Grey's and Kidnapped all still to watch and am sure BSG would feature in my list.

Cheers. :)

uk_mez

20-05-2007, 22:34

1. Heroes
2. The Office
3. Battlestar Galactica
4. Studio 60
5. Veronica Mars
6. Entourage
7. 24
8. Lost
9. Criminal Minds
10. Rome

Ono

20-05-2007, 22:38

1. Survivor
2. The Amazing Race
3. The Apprentice :(
4. erm ....

Quincunx

20-05-2007, 22:40

Having just finished watching various series finales I've edited this to change my positions. Heroes, I'm looking at you.

1. The Wire
2. Lost
3. Dexter
4. Veronica Mars
5. The Shield
6. Supernatural
7. Heroes
8. Boston Legal
9. Battlestar Galactica
10. 24

Really tough deciding what order to put these in.

statto

20-05-2007, 23:32

kerzo

20-05-2007, 23:44

I can only manage a Top 5 but here it is anyway!

1. Lost (despite a crap start to the season)
2. BSG (would have been top if it weren't for some very weak episodes)
3. House
4. Heroes
5. Scrubs

Spooky_uk

21-05-2007, 00:19

1 - Heroes
2 - The Office
3 - BSG
4 - 24
5 - Prison Break
6 - Lost
7 - My Name Is Earl
8 - Everybody Hates Chris
9 - Supernatural
10 - The Unit

unrealnils

21-05-2007, 00:29

1 - Heroes
2 - Heroes
3 - Heroes
4 - Heroes
5 - Heroes
6 - Heroes
7 - Heroes
8 - Heroes
9 - Heroes
10 - Heroes

:p

Vulcan101

21-05-2007, 00:35

1) Heroes
2) House
3) BSG
4) Supernatural
5) Stargate SG1
6) Veronica Mars
7) Jericho
8) Day Break
9) Dexter
10) NCIS

pompeyfan

21-05-2007, 00:49

1. Stargate SG1
2. Stargate Atlantis
3. The Dresden Files
4. NCIS
5. The Unit
6. Supernatural
7. Rome
8. Blade
9. Battlestar Galactica
10. Heroes

36Degrees

21-05-2007, 01:11

Difficult this:

1. The Office (I just loved this)
2. Dexter (Debated this over #2, but it just goes ahead)
3. Heroes (Second best new show but it was VERY close)
4. House (Brilliant as always)
5. Ugly Betty (Great soapy fun which is just fun, cliche, soap operay)
6. Greys Anatomy (Ambivalent towards this, I enjoy watching it for the other characters except for the main ones)
7. Lost (Would have been so much higher had the first half been decent)
8. How I Met Your Mother (Funny in parts, Slap Bet is probably in the top 5 of episodes this Season)
9. South Park (Oh Glen, we made it!)
10. Desperate Housewives (Bang, probably the best 42 minutes of television this Season)

Notable Absences:
* My Name Is Earl - It was enjoyable but not decent enough
* Studio 60 - Couldn't stand them concentrating on the love triangle
* 24 - Apart from 6x04 & 6x17, it's just a joke, great comic relief though
* Veronica Mars - Sorry just poor this season
* Smallville - See Veronica Mars
* Prison Break - Enjoyable but there was something wrong with it

Fatbloke

21-05-2007, 02:54

Mine would be

1. Rome
2. Heroes
3. BSG
4. CSI (Vegas)
5. 24
6. Tudors

That's all I've watched so far.

Robby

21-05-2007, 05:16

1. Friday Night Lights (By a Mile)

2 Heroes
3. Weeds
4. 30 Rock
5. Dexter
6. Day Break
7. Prison Break
8. BSG
9. Lost
10. My Name Is Earl

HowMuch

21-05-2007, 05:43

1. Rome
2. Battlestar Galactica
3. Boston Legal
4. Stargate Atlantis
5: CSI: LV
6: Scrubs
7: Stargate SG-1

Alan b

21-05-2007, 06:06

1. Heroes
2. Battlestar Galactica
3. Daybreak
4. The Dresden Files
5. Stargate Atlantis
6. Stargate SG-1
7. Cold Case

Nana

21-05-2007, 06:13

1) Heroes
2) Lost
3) Dexter
4) Bones
5) House
6) Medium
7) Ugly Betty
8) CSI Vegas
9) Supernatural
10)Prison Break

Bones has really improved this season and Prison Break has been disappointing.

gjkendall

21-05-2007, 06:20

I only watch two....

So i'll vote for

1) Supernatural
2) My Name Is Earl

Sam

21-05-2007, 06:49

I've only watched the stuff that has been on in the UK so my list is limited:

1. Ugly Betty
2. Shark
3. House
4. 24
5. Sopranoes
6. Prison Break

mattjhnprc

21-05-2007, 07:54

1. Friday Night Lights
2. Heroes
3. Dexter
4. 24
5. Veronica Mars
6. Supernatural
7. House
8. Entourage
9. Prison Break
10. Weeds

TonyG

21-05-2007, 07:56

1 - Heroes
2 - Heroes
3 - Heroes
4 - Heroes
5 - Heroes
6 - Heroes
7 - Heroes
8 - Heroes
9 - Heroes
10 - Heroes

:p
:lol: Behave! ... it's already in a comfortable lead without resorting to nawwty tactics. :p

Deron

21-05-2007, 08:22

Heroes
The Shield
The Wire
BSG
Lost
Prison Break
Smallville

H Dot

21-05-2007, 08:28

1- Heroes
2- The Wire
3- The Shield
4- 24
5- The Sopranos
6- House
7- Daybreak
8- Brotherhood
9- Entourage
10- Shark

Grandmaster

21-05-2007, 08:29

1. Dexter
2. Heroes
3. Jericho
4. Lost
5. The Office
6. Prison Break
7. Desperate Housewives
8. Battlestar Galactica
9. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
10. Smallville

I don't watch any other US stuff though I have Rome and Deadwood queued up.

21-05-2007, 08:31

1. The Sopranos
2. Entourage
3. The Shield
4. Rescue Me
5. Lost
6 Everybody Hates Chris
7. Heroes - only seen the first 6 so far and enjoying it
8. Prison Break - enjoyal, but incredibly daft. S3 - Good God,noooooo!!!

Only other thing I've watched is 24. S6 is so bloody awful, it's not worthy of a mention.

BigDavie2000

21-05-2007, 08:43

1. heroes
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2. BSG
3. Criminal Minds
4. The Unit
5. The Sheild
6. 24
7. Stargate SG-1
8. CSI (Las Vegas)
9. Prison Break
10. NCIS

sparkyrob

21-05-2007, 08:44

1.) House
2.) Heroes
3.) Lost
4.) The Shield
5.) Prison Break
6.) Dexter
7.) Shark
8.) The Unit
9.) Studio 60
10.) The Riches

24 just didn't cut it this series. The fact that the Bingo board is almost full just shows how lacking in ideas the writers are.

Herbal

21-05-2007, 08:44

1 Heroes
2 The Sopranos
3 Entourage
4 Weeds
5 Prison Break
6 Studio 60
7 Greys

Thats all i watched of this seasons shows, still have The Shield, House and Rome to catch up on.

Edit - Forgot about S2 of Weeds

wong fei hong

21-05-2007, 08:49

1. Lost
2. Heroes
3. The Sopranos
4. 30Rock
5. Studio 60
6. 24
7. Supernatural
8. Saturday Night Live
9. Knights of Prosperity
10. Andy Barker PI

With all the cancellations and series ends above - and I also liked Day Break and Drive, only the return of Curb Your Enthusiasm is going to keep my eyes turning rectangular next year.

jan08

21-05-2007, 08:52

1 Heroes
2 Friday Night Lights
3 Dexter
4 Prison Break
5 Shield
6 Sopranos
7 24 - Absolutely rubbish this season. Only in the list as I still force myself to watch it.

I only watch/watched these 7 at the moment. Nothing between the top 3 and as usual I think its only fair to pass on my appeciation to the forum for bringing my attention to them - especially Dexter and FNL, that have zero exposure outside of this forum:thumbs:

TonyG

21-05-2007, 09:04

No surprises so far with who is in the lead, with more points than 2nd & 3rd places added together!

Already there has been votes for 53 different shows.

Keep them coming!

ryonhilluk

21-05-2007, 09:10

1) scrubs
2) south park
3) the office
4) desperate housewives
5) csi (any of them)
6) ugly betty

rh67

21-05-2007, 09:13

1) Heroes
2) South Park
3) The Shield
4) The Sopranos
5) Studio 60
6) Lost
7) House
8) Grey's Anatomy
9) Prison Break
10) 24

But then I think thats all this seasons shows I've watched so far. If I find time to watch some more I imagine that list would change quite a bit. The latter shows have been quite poor and have only really been watching them out of habit.

maddogsuk

21-05-2007, 09:19

1. Heroes
2. Jericho
3. SG Atlantis
4. Grey Anatomy
5. CSI
6. Stargate SG1
7. Desperate Housewives
8. Lost
9. Bones
10. My Name Is Earl

Scrubs would be on there somewhere, but I havent seen any of the latest season. 24 Just hasn't done it for me this year.

chrisns

21-05-2007, 09:57

1. Heroes
2. Battlestar Galactica
3. The Office
4. Rome
5. Studio 60

can't bring myself to even include Smallville...

Boink!

21-05-2007, 10:06

1. Heroes
2. Dexter
3. The Riches
4. Lost
5. Daybreak
6. Supernatural
7. South Park
8. My Name is Earl
9. Veronica Mars
10. Smallville

kanedaa

21-05-2007, 10:22

1. The Office
2. Dexter
3. Heroes
4. House
5. Lost
6. Boston Legal
7. South Park
8. The Shield
9. Supernatural
10. Medium

jackal

21-05-2007, 10:43

1. Lost
2. The Shield
3. Battlestar Galactica
4. Veronica Mars
5. CSI (vegas)
6. Boston Legal
7. Rescue Me
8. Heroes
9. 24
10. Prison Break

Haven't started on the new Sopranos eps yet, or else that would be in there somewhere.

Pablo_Escobar

21-05-2007, 10:45

1. Heroes
2. Entourage
3. House
4. BSG
5. 24
6. My name is earl
7. Prison break

ManxMuppet

21-05-2007, 10:51

1. Heroes
2. Lost
3. Jericho
4. Grey's Anatomy
5. Studio 60 (although still on the early stuff .. heard it goes off the rails a bit)
6. Veronica Mars (again, gone downhill but still enjoyable)
7. Scrubs
8. Prison Break
9. The Shield
10. 24. Bugger, thought I could get to 10 without having to include this - absolute garbage and stopped watching.

TonyG

21-05-2007, 11:10

Interesting :dork: Factoids so far:

Currently 41 forum members have voted...

Last year's winner, "24" has not appeared in the top 2 of anyone's list.

Last year's No. 3, "Battlestar Galactica" has also not appeared on top of anyone's list either.

Prison Break has also not appeared in the Top 3 of anyone's list.

There are four new entries in the Top Ten currently, three of which are brand new shows.

Smi1er

21-05-2007, 11:27

1/ Prison Break
2/ Lost
3/ The Amazing Race

theDaddy UK

21-05-2007, 11:48

1. Heroes
2. The Office
3. The Shield
4. Friday Night Lights
5. The Sopranos
6. Lost
7. South Park
8. Daybreak
9. Supernatural
10. Prison Break

SIMON ADEBISI

21-05-2007, 11:50

In no particular order

1) E.R.
2) The Shield
3) The Sopranos
4) Sleeper Cell
5) Prison Break
6) Rome
7) The Wire
8) Scrubs
9) 24
10) Studio 60

Wooglie

21-05-2007, 11:55

1 Heroes
2 BSG
3 Weeds
4 The Wire
5 My Name Is Earl
6 Veronica Mars
7 Day Break
8 Lost
9 24
10 Grey's Anatomy

Can't believe Weeds isn't getting any love.

deftones_030603

21-05-2007, 11:58

1) Entourage
2) Heroes
3) Lost
4) South Park
5) Battlestar Galactica
6) Prison Break
7) Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip
8) 24
9) My Name Is Earl
10) Scrubs

Art Vanderlay

21-05-2007, 12:03

1. Entourage
2. Heroes
3. Friday Night Lights
4. Lost
5. Dexter
6. Studio 60
7. Gilmore Girls
8. Galactica
9. Jericho
10.24

Not got around to Shield/Sopranos/Wire/Rome yet, but I suspect all of those would make it into the top 10 if I had.

dunkrag

21-05-2007, 12:20

1. The Shield
2. The Sopranos
3. Lost
4. 24
5. Prison Break
6. Rome
7. Grey's Anatomy
8. Veronica Mars
9. Smallville
10. South Park

LeftHandedGuitarist

21-05-2007, 12:30

1. Heroes
2. ER
3. Stargate Atlantis
4. Scrubs
5. Battlestar Galactica
6. Lost
7. Veronica Mars
8. Prison Break
9. Stargate SG-1
10. 24

Littc

21-05-2007, 12:37

1. Studio 60
2. Boston Legal
3. Scrubs
4. 24
5. Smallville
6. Battlestar Galactica
7. Grey's Anatomy
8. The Shield
9. The OC
10. Desperate Housewives

Conor

21-05-2007, 12:42

Heroes
Friday Night Lights
The Wire
Entourage
The Sopranos
Rescue Me
24
Lost

Have DVDs of but still havent watched Sleeper Cell, BSG, Brotherhood and The Shield.

mr starface

21-05-2007, 13:12

Heroes
Supernatural
Lost
Battlestar Galactica
Medium
Jericho
South Park
Simpsons

Little_Dragon

21-05-2007, 13:17

1. The Office
2. Battlestar Galactica
3. Lost
4. House
5. South Park
6. Studio 60
7. My Name is Earl
8. Scrubs

Fraid thats it as its all US TV I watch

playaslaya

21-05-2007, 13:29

1. The Office US
2. Heroes
3. Prison Break
4. Entourage
5. Lost
6. Monk
7. Family Guy
8. Everybody Hates Chris
9. American Dad!
10. Sleeper Cell

Lots of great US TV right now!

Snoopy

21-05-2007, 13:31

1. Heroes
2. Jerico
3. House
4. Veronica Mars
5. Greys Anatomy
6. My name is Earl
7. Lost (if it hadn't of improved over the last few episodes it wouldn't have made the top 10)
8. Studio 60
9. BSG
10. Stargate Atlantis.

philbw

21-05-2007, 13:39

AndrewP

21-05-2007, 13:46

1) Heroes
2) Prison Break
3) Survivor
4) 24
5) Battlestar Galactica
6) My Name is Earl
7) Veronica Mars

Pretty much all I watch, Veronica Mars was poor in her final season (so far).

24 is way down on it's usual standard (expcept first 4 episodes). Battlestar dragged. Heroes by far the best though.

TonyG

21-05-2007, 13:47

1) Heroes
2) Entourage
3) Degrassi: The Next Generation
4) Prison Break
5) NCIS
6) Criminal Minds
7) Law & Order: Criminal Intent
8) Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
9) CSI Miami
10) Extreme Makeover: Home Edition

Five shows that no-one else has voted for?!? :suspect:

Glad to see there is at least one David Caruso fan. :p

Soprano

21-05-2007, 13:57

1 - The Shield - By two country miles

2 - Dexter
3 - Heroes
4 - Prison Break
5 - Entourage
6 - Rome

Um…..

24, Lost and BGS all dropped this year. Soprano's doesn't deserve to be in my top anything tv right now. Still have The Wire to watch.

cockbongo

21-05-2007, 14:56

Can't resist..but so tricky

1. The Office - not just the best comedy but the best thing on TV
2. House - consistently brilliant
3. Lost - to hell with the critics, still a fantastic TV show
4. South Park - at the height of its powers
5. Heroes - overrated but damn good telly
6. Battlestar Galactica - for the first half of the season at least and *that* season finale
7. Veronica Mars - hell i'm going to miss this
8. Entourage - for Jeremy Piven
9. Weeds - for yummy mummies
8. Prison Break - a load of bow locks but so much fun

George vader

21-05-2007, 17:21

1. The Office (just get's better and better)
2. Heroes
3. My Name Is Earl (2nd series every bit as good as #1)
4. American Dad
5. Family Guy (last few episodes have been very patchy)

Paul C

21-05-2007, 17:31

1. Heroes
2. Battlestar
3. Lost
4. Supernatural

That's all I've watched so far, still got Rome, My Name Is Earl & 24 to go.

arrowst

21-05-2007, 17:47

1. The Wire (Can't believe this doesn't get more attention on this forum!!)
2. Heroes
3. The Sopranos
4. Veronica Mars
5. ER
6. Prison Break
7. 24
8. Lost

Top two are runaway leaders. Bottom 3 are only there, as I can't think of any others, despite their ridiculous plots!

dali

21-05-2007, 19:07

1. Heroes
2. Prison Break
3. Dexter
4. Lost
5. CSI
6. The Unit
7. Rome
8. Ugly Betty
9. Desperate Housewives
10.Bones

gap

21-05-2007, 19:33

1. Ugly Betty
2. Weeds
3. Prison Break
4. 24
5. Lost
6. Shark
7. CSI Miami
8. CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
9. Heroes

Don't really watch much else, except The Sopranos, but haven't started watching the final nine episodes yet so have left it out.

caygs

21-05-2007, 20:06

1. Stargate Atlantis
2. The Sopranos
3. Heroes
4. The Unit
5. Boston Legal
6. NCIS
7. CSI: New York
8. Battlestar Galactica
9. Lost
10. 24

raymondlin

21-05-2007, 21:10

1) Heroes
2) House MD
3) Grey's Anatomy
4) The OC
5) Boston Legal
6) Prison Break
7) Stargate Atlantis
8) Stargate SG1
9) Desperate Housewives
10) Veronica Mars

poissony

21-05-2007, 23:39

1) The Wire
2) Rome
3) Sopranos
4) Heroes
5) The Shield
6) Battlestar Galactica
7) Veronica Mars
8) Lost
9) Criminal Minds
10) Studio 60

Illyria

22-05-2007, 00:08

1. Veronica Mars
2. Dexter
3. The Office US
4. Weeds
5. The Wire

dvds2000

22-05-2007, 01:47

1. Heroes
2. Jericho
3. Shark
4. Vanished
5. Kidnapped
6. The Class
7. Prison Break
8. NCIS
9. The Unit
10. Daybreak

and mentions for

Six degrees
Drive

that would have been in if they hadn't been cancelled mid season :(

and October Road that just missed out. Can't believe I didn't even consider 24, just shows how far it has dropped in a year :(

Disappearer

22-05-2007, 10:08

1. The Sopranos
2. The Shield
3. Heroes
4. The Office
5. Lost
6. Rome
7. 24
8. Battlestar Galactica
9. Prison Break
10. My Name Is Earl

I would imagine The Wire would be in there if I was up to date but I'm on on Series 2 at the mo.

degeneration

22-05-2007, 10:13

1. Heroes
2. Battlestar Galatica
3. South Park
4. Prison Break
5. Lost
6. 24
7. Family Guy
8. The 4400

ShakeyJake

22-05-2007, 10:50

1. Lost
2. The Office
3. The Sopranos
4. The Venture Bros.
5. Knights of Prosperity
6. 30 Rock
7. House
8. South Park
9. Entourage
10. Prison Break

I would have liked to have fit Ugly Betty on there too as it's a bit of a guilty pleasure.

grounded_dreams

22-05-2007, 11:23

1. Heroes
2. Friday Night Lights
3. Dexter
4. Entourage
5. Studio 60
6. Battlestar Galactica
7. Rome
8. House
9. 24
10. Family Guy

Hgm04

22-05-2007, 12:32

1) Heroes
2) Prison Break
3) Lost
4) The Shield
5) Entourage
6) 24
7) Rescue Me
8) Supernatural
9) Scrubs
10) Jericho

TonyG

22-05-2007, 13:01

:dork: Update:

74 Members have now cast their votes between 71 different shows.

The obvious leader is romping away with it, 62 of the 74 voters have given it an average of 8.82 outta 10! :eek:

The next three places are settling in but 5th to 9th placed shows are swapping around all the time.

Good shows that are surprisingly struggling include....

Studio 60 (13th)
Rome (14th)
Boston Legal (23rd)
Ugly Betty (26th)
30 Rock (33rd) :eek:

I guess that because most of the above are not shown in the UK yet, explains why they are lower down. I'm sure if the BBC had pulled their finger out & had aired S2 of Rome, it would feature strongly in the top 10.

degeneration

22-05-2007, 13:12

Am I only person to include the 4400? Does no one else rate it?

poissony

22-05-2007, 13:20

Am I only person to include the 4400? Does no one else rate it?

I watch it on Sky and it's OK but nothing great, I've never been gripped by it and I may not bother with the next series because of that. I note that you put it at the bottom of your list..

What really surprises me is the lack of Wire votes :eek:

TonyG

22-05-2007, 13:31

It's also very noticeable that shows that are not usually shown during the normal US "season" are scoring poorly.

These include:

The 4400, Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck, Weeds & Brotherhood.

dvds2000

22-05-2007, 13:35

It's also very noticeable that shows that are not usually shown during the normal US "season" are scoring poorly.

These include:

The 4400, Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck, Weeds & Brotherhood.

TBH I presumed 06/07 season would be meaning from about sept-august, and didn't include the 4400 as this season hasn't aired yet so can't really give a judgement on it - it would have been in my top 3 if I included stuff from mid last year

TonyG

22-05-2007, 13:53

Yeah, it should really cover everything from June '06 to May '07. Not that it matters too much.

Frazer

22-05-2007, 13:57

1) The Shield
2) The Sopranos
3) 24
4) Lost
5) Greys Anatomy
6) Ugly Betty
7) Scrubs
8) 2 & Half Men
9) The Apprentice
10) Weeds

Have Started watching these but only a couple of episodes so can't include them:

Heroes
The Unit
Sleeper Cell
CSI:LV
CSI:NY
Nip/Tuck

Saving these up for summer time viewing.

FRazer

clockity

22-05-2007, 14:21

1) The Office
2) Heroes
3) Boston Legal
4) Battlestar Galactica
5) Ugly Betty
6) Scrubs

Deano

22-05-2007, 14:51

) The Shield
2) The Wire
3) Battlestar Galactica
4) Studio 60
5) Dexter
6) Entourage
7) Brotherhood
8) Boston Legal
9) Stargate

I watch a whole bunch of other stuff too but none good enough to make the cut IMHO. Where's the love for The Wire?

Pummra

22-05-2007, 15:05

1) Heroes
2) The Office
3) Lost
4) Prison Break
5) Sopranos

unrealnils

22-05-2007, 15:17

okay heres my proper list :p

1. Heroes (no suprise)
2. Wire (come on forumites more people need to watch this!)
3. The Shield
4. Dexter
5. BSG
6. House
(those tops 6 were very good/awesome )

7. Friday night lights
8. Bones
9. Supernatural
10. 4400

Also enjoyed both sg1's Lost, Prison Break,Veronica Mars (how the mighty has fallen!!), rome (how did it not make the top ten :eek: ), Entourage, Jericho, Grey's, 4400, brotherhood, rescue me, closer, how i met youre mother, ncis, sleeper cell, weed, brothers and sisters, my name is earl, criminal minds, dresden files nip tuck.............

I think some stuff like 4400, brotherhood and both sg1's didnt do as well as it finished like months ago.

Say what ya like about the americans but they make some awesome tv, I've gone from a big movie fan espically world cinema to a tv show nut.A few years back i would watch a film a day now its like one every 2 weeks as im too busy watching tv shows :lol:

Robby

22-05-2007, 16:05

Yeah, it should really cover everything from June '06 to May '07. Not that it matters too much.

I could have included Big Love then (I forgot really) as that starts up again next month.

I think this is one of the many lists on these forums where i could easily fill 20 spaces.

TonyG

23-05-2007, 13:44

After yesterday's lacklustre finales of 24 & Heroes .... feel free to amend your scoring downwards, not that it'll influence Heroes position much.

jonthomas83

24-05-2007, 14:40

1. Heroes
2. Lost
3. 24
4. Prison Break

Can I vote for DVD's of sereis' I'm watching now? lol! Buffy's awesome!

statto

24-05-2007, 15:53

1. Heroes (by a country mile)
2. House
3. Studio 60
4. Boston Legal
5. Lost
6. 30 Rock
7. Battlestar Galactica
8. 24
9. Smallville
10. CSI (Vegas)

Placing 3rd to 6th was very hard. I'll probably look at the list tomorrow and change my mind.

Seeing as you've given me a chance to adjust my positioning, here's the final one:

1. Heroes
2. House
3. Lost
4. Studio 60
5. Boston Legal
6. 30 Rock
7. Battlestar Galactica
8. 24
9. Smallville
10. The Apprentice UK

I promise I won't change it again :D

sweetmate

24-05-2007, 16:06

Heroes
Sopranos
The Office
Lost
The Shield
BSG
My Name is Earl
24
Studio 60
Prison Break

In 11th and 12th I'd put ER and Entourage.

2 shows I previously enjoyed but have now lost the desire to keep up with - Smallville and Scrubs.

fivebyfive

24-05-2007, 16:07

1. The Office (US)
2. Heroes
3. Battlestar Galactica
4. South Park
5. Ugly Betty
6. Veronica Mars
7. Jericho
8. Blade

scrubs and smallvile are two shows that I have not made a effort to watch but use to watch scrubs all the time and enjoyed some of smallville

mistershow

24-05-2007, 19:56

1. The Office
2. Rome
3. Heroes
4. House
5. My Name is Earl
6. Scrubs
7. Family Guy
8. Criminal Minds
9. The Riches
10. The Closer

Ogbyte

24-05-2007, 20:09

1. Heroes
2. Smallville
3. CSI
4.
5.
6.
7.
8.
9.
10

have only watched these series, never watched any of the others - although did watch S1 My Name is Earl.

Gary

TonyG

24-05-2007, 20:19

Aaaarrrgghh! ... tempted to revise my top 10 & move Lost up a few places after that stunning finale & punish Heroes for having such a disappointing one.

sleepy67

24-05-2007, 20:25

1. Wire
2. Friday Night Lights
3. Lost
4. Battlestar Galactica
5. Heroes
6. Weeds
7. Veronica Mars
8. Dexter
9. 30 Rock
10. CSI Original, accept no smug pontificating sunglass wearing posers

Mr Flibble

25-05-2007, 09:21

1. The Office
2. Heroes
3. Ugly Betty
4. Lost
5. 24
6. Greys Anatomy
7. ER
8. Day Break

erm, that's it!

unrealnils

25-05-2007, 22:59

What really surprises me is the lack of Wire votes :eek:
i just dont get it :shrug:

Its one of the few shows thats consistently brillant season in season out :notworthy yet doesnt get anywhere near the viewers ( on here) other shows do.

Be intresting to see if tony does a position on score againts number of votes as i bet those that did vote put it in there top 3 (sounds like a lot of hassle though lol)

Unclegrump

25-05-2007, 23:18

1. Prison Break
2. Lost
3. Deadwood
4. Boston Legal
5. House
6. Bones
7. Ugly Betty
8. My Name Is Earl
9. Heroes
10. Without A Trace

statto

25-05-2007, 23:20

i just dont get it :shrug:

Its one of the few shows thats consistently brillant season in season out :notworthy yet doesnt get anywhere near the viewers ( on here) other shows do.

Be intresting to see if tony does a position on score againts number of votes as i bet those that did vote put it in there top 3 (sounds like a lot of hassle though lol)

The downside to that is that if a show really polarises opinion then it will do very well under that scenario as the people who place it in their top ten will no doubt place it very high. By that method I could put a program at number 1 that I know nobody else would pick and it would come top (Celebrity Wife Swap? :nuts:)

I've never seen a single episode of the wire. Has it ever been shown on a terrestrial channel?

There's another show I was trying to remember the other day that followed a mafia family and the fbi team trying to take it down. It was on late nights on C4 and I watched a couple of those but missed a couple and never got round to catching up. It was probably aired 2004/05 and I can't even remember what it was called now. My roundabout point is that most people I know don't watch nearly as much tv as I do but there's loads that passes me by. I would probably love the wire (if I ever got around to watching it).

Kashni

25-05-2007, 23:37

1) Lost (only just by a whisker- had the better FINALE)
2) Heroes
3) BSG
4) The Wire
5) The Shield
6) Prison Break
7) Smallville
8) CSI: Las Vegas
9) The Office
10) Veronica Mars

36Degrees

25-05-2007, 23:42

After yesterday's lacklustre finales of 24 & Heroes .... feel free to amend your scoring downwards, not that it'll influence Heroes position much. I'd personally boost Lost for the finale, best Season finale I've watched this year I think. However, that doesn't excuse it for the first half being absolute rubbish, had you done this poll at the end of March, I guess Lost wouldn't feature that highly, but it really picked up, but it deserves to be punished!

If 22/23 episodes of Heroes was good, but the finale wasn't that good, then it doesn't deserve to be dampened too much (I haven't seen the last five, watching them shortly). I didn't think The Office finale was that good (compared to the others)... but I still rated the show highly (number 1 infact)

If there was a rating on Season Finales, then my list would be drastically different..

Art Vanderlay

26-05-2007, 06:22

Perhaps there are quite a few people (like me) who are waiting until the summer to watch The Wire once everything else has finished.

The other problem with The Wire is that it is so difficult to jump in if you have not seen the whole lot. So those who have not followed it from the start have to make a big commitment if they want to start watching it now, to catch up.

But going on the quality of previous series, The Wire would get into my top 3, and maybe even number 1.

threeshoulders

02-06-2007, 21:45

1- Heroes
2- The Wire
3- Dexter
4- The Unit
5- Prison Break
6- Entourage
7- BSG
8- Ugly Betty
9- Day Break
10-Shark

Talking of The Wire, anyone who hasnt watched it just give it a go. Can be slow but is well worth it. Simply excellent writing and excellent tv.

sleep4ever

02-06-2007, 22:00

1 - Dexter (not really a difficult choice, absolutely blew me away)
2 - Supernatural
3 - Heroes
4 - Prison Break (not as good as one, but still fairly watchable)
5 - 24 (dammit, the weakest season so far, but it's still Jack)
6 - Lost (Barnstorming beginning, weak middle, redeemed by the end - so same as season 2 then)
7 - Blade (better than you'd think)
8 - My Name is Earl (weaker second season as with Prison Break, but worth it for Catalina episodes and the Burt Reynold's impersonator
9 - Deadwood (unfairly cancelled)
10 - The Simpsons (more out of habit than preference, but this season was an improvement on the last)

Gave up on the Soprano's after that very slow first half, from what I've read the second half makes up for it, but the first half was perhaps the worst of the six.
Also gave up on BSG, might pick it up later
Didnt get 'Ugly Betty' at all, waiting for DVD to catch up with The Shield.

TonyG

02-06-2007, 22:41

I'll close this off at midnight tomorrow (Sunday) & publish the results on Monday morning as the spreadsheet is on my Work PC. Top three are well out in front but 4th to 10th are still up for grabs.

Keep those votes flowing!

gertrude

03-06-2007, 08:28

1) Heroes
2) NCIS
3) CSI (The proper one)
4) House
5) Scrubs
6) SG:1
7) Bones
8) Ugly Betty

rampant

03-06-2007, 08:59

for me

1. heroes
2. lost
3. Stargate Atlantis
4.. erm struggling as i dont watch that much tv :) - so i'll say Desparate housewives as thats the only other thing that i watch :)

DeadKenny

03-06-2007, 09:00

1) Battlestar Galactica
2) Family Guy
3) American Dad
4) The Simpsons

There's nothing else I'd list really as I can stand any of the rest of the current stuff out there. Beats me why anyone watches stuff like Lost but anyway.

Mr M0by

03-06-2007, 09:04

1) Heroes
2) Lost (I really think the pacing for this will benefit from having 16 episode seasons - the final run of eps was better than the climax of Heroes)
3) 24
4) Ugly Betty

I don't watch much tv. The only other shows i've watched every week have been Dr Who, Dragons Den & The Apprentice and the first 3 on my voting list are way more 'must-watch' tv than those anyway.

03-06-2007, 10:04

Have been saving a few series for the off-season, so of those I have been watching...

1. Heroes
2. Dexter
3. Lost
4. Entourage
5. Veronica Mars
6. How I Met Your Mother
7. Prison Break
8. 24
9. Studio 60

Very close between the top 3, and could quite easily be switched around on another day. Same with the bottom 3 really, disappointed by 24 and Prison Break but they ranked slightly higher as they're old favourites.

Concrete Donkey

03-06-2007, 10:13

This vote has come to early for me to give an accurate vote. I’ve only seen half of some shows (h) and others I havn’t seen at all yet, hence the absence of Veronica Mars from my top ten. Shows I’ve yet to finish but seen more than half are marked (i). Doctor Who and Life on Mars would have made the list if they were American. I realise no ones interested in my short commentaries but I write them anyway.

1. Heroes – Best new show in a long time, I like how they’re doing a story a season. Makes it feel more complete. If only more shows took this approach

2. The Shield – Great and unpredictable year.

3. Jericho (i) – I love the way the show has progressed so far, yet to see the last 3 eps.

4. Battlestar Galactica – Very unbalanced year. Considering the impact it had on the crew and plot more time was needed on new Caprica. I’d have been happier with a 13 ep arc on the planet beginning when they landed, not with the invasion.

5. Lost – it’s said all a writer has to do to save a lax or slow story is to ‘wow them’ in the end. Well, they sure did that.

6. Medium (h) – Opposite to lost this belongs in the top ten for it’s openings alone. Every opening scene to their shows are amazing and I love the family aspect of this and the fact the parents can drink beer from the bottle at their family meals. Small details like this win a special place in my heart.

7. Supernatural (h) – Villan of the week plots actually work for this show and the story arc is better paced so far than similar shows like the X-files.

8. Scrubs - highest ranking comedy. It may not be as good as its early years but this show still makes me laugh than any other American comedy. Long live JD.

9. Desperate Housewives (h) – Ranking higher than 24 and Prison break, this show doesn’t fail to disappoint. The Bree/ Hodge story arc was well told and the show continues to stay fresh.

10. My Name is Earl – Not as enjoyable as last years but this shows Cops episodes secures its place just above 24 into the top 10.

Honourable mentions go to 24, Prison Break, How I met your mother, Drive, Smallville (h), Raines and Day Break. These aren’t bad shows but for some reason or another fail to get into my top 10 (if 24 stayed as good as its first 4 eps it would have been number 3) Shows not listed havn’t been watched yet.

P Giddy

03-06-2007, 13:32

1. HEROES
2. LOST
3. THE SHIELD
4. THE WIRE
5. SOPRANOS
6. 30 ROCK
7. DEXTER
8. HOUSE
9. THE OC
10. 24

With honourable mentions to Entourage, Prison Break, Veronica Mars, Family Guy, American Dad, Scrubs, CSI, Shark, Smallville, Criminal Minds and Raines. I also have the whole of S3 of The Office to watch and if it's half as good as S2, then it will definitely make it onto a later list.

mitch316

03-06-2007, 16:07

1. boston legal
2. heroes
3. csi
4. lost
5. supernatural
6. the shield
7. battlestar galactica
8. my name is earl
9. ugly betty
10. smallville

bobmushroom

03-06-2007, 16:19

1 Heroes
2 BSG
3 Lost
4 Sopranos
5 The Shield
6 theWire
7 24
8 Ugly betty
9 Veronica Mars
10 Prison break

68monkey

03-06-2007, 16:20

1 - LOST
2 - House
3 - Heroes
4 - The Office
5 - The Unit

*I'd probably vote for The Wire, if I'd seen the current season, but I'm still watching Season 1 on DVD.

cjanderson

03-06-2007, 16:50

1 Bones
2 Criminal Minds
3 CSI (vegas)
4 America's next top model
5 lost
6 24
7 heroes
8 Without a trace
9 close to home
10 cold case

TonyG

04-06-2007, 10:00

Ok, the polls have closed, the votes have been counted & the results are....

1. Heroes (748)
2. Lost (443)
3. Battlestar Galactica (293)
4. Prison Break (229)
5. The Shield (224)
6. The Office (218)
7. 24 (199)
8. Dexter (187)
9. House (173)
10. The Sopranos (164)
.
.
11. The Wire (128)
12. Entourage (126)
13. Veronica Mars (114)
14. Studio 60 (102)
15. Rome (97)
16. Supernatural (93)
16. Ugly Betty (93)
18. Friday Night Lights (90)
19. CSI (82)
20. My Name is Earl (78)

Thanks to everyone that voted. :thumbs:

TonyG

04-06-2007, 10:19

:dork: Stats/Factoids :dork:

100 Members voted for 78 different shows.

85% of voters, had Heroes in their top 10.

19 shows only received one vote.

Battlestar Galactica finished in 3rd but only one person had it as their favourite show.

"24" finished in 7th yet no-one had it in their top-two shows.

If you take an average of the scores received by each show only, it reflects more of the quality of the show, as the scores are skewed due to the availability of certain shows.

The top 10 based on these averages are...

1. Heroes (8.80)
2. The Office (8.72)
3. Friday Night Lights (8.18)
4. The Wire (8.00)
5. The Sopranos (7.45)
6. The Shield (7.23)
7. Dexter (7.19)
8. Lost (6.82)
9. Rome (6.47)
10. House (6.41)

statto

04-06-2007, 12:12

Thanks for the effort you've put in TonyG. Five of my favourites made the top ten (including the top 3) :)

Bit disappointed that Studio 60 didn't make the top ten, and absolutely flabbergasted that 30 Rock didn't even feature in the top 20!

TonyG

04-06-2007, 12:42

Yeah, if you had asked me before the new US season started last year, what new show would rate highest in our poll, I'd have put my mortgage on Studio 60 .... just a shame it hasn't lived up to its potential.

30 Rock only finished in a lowly 32nd place, with only 7 members voting for it. I was awaiting Harsin to put in an appearance as I was confident he'd rate it highly. I guess not many people watched it. Shocking when you consider that the likes of Scrubs can finish much higher (23rd) in the poll.

dbilsborough

04-06-2007, 13:49

I missed this thread completely, but I'm not surprised by the winners.

For what it's worth now, by favourites have been

1) Dexter
2) Heroes
3) Shark
4) Daybreak - (did nobody else see this?)
5) Penn & Teller Bulls**t!
6) The Unit
7) Jericho
8) Prison Break
9) 24
10) Lost

Richie

04-06-2007, 13:54

Thanks TonyG, always interesting to see how people rank the season.
I didn't vote as I've not completed enough shows to have an overall opinion yet!

We should have one for the best individual episode of the season as well. My vote would be for the Desperate Housewives episode 'Bang', which eclipsed just about everything this year and that includes 'Company Man' from Heroes.

Robby

04-06-2007, 14:46

Some good results there, and dead chuffed FNL got a look in on both counts. When i get a lull in my TV watching habits i'm going to check out The Wire based on the love for it in this thread.

Great thread Tony, thanks :thumbs:

TonyG

04-06-2007, 14:50

Yeah, I too is looking forward to watching the first THREEEEEE seasons of The Wire, back-2-back over the summer. :D

36Degrees

04-06-2007, 15:32

Ta TonyG, nice work =)

Only surprise to me was 24 being 7th(!?) and was expecting Dexter to be rated higher.

30 Rock I probably would have put in my top 10 having just started watching it, is very good.

chrisns

04-06-2007, 18:49

Looks like a worthy winner. Thanks for the effort, Tony! :thumbs:

swanny

04-06-2007, 19:16

Rome 15th :suspect:

TonyG

04-06-2007, 19:51

Rome 15th :suspect:
Yeah, I know! ... I blame the BBC for dragging their heels on showing the 2nd series.

swanny

04-06-2007, 20:05

Yeah, I know! ... I blame the BBC for dragging their heels on showing the 2nd series.

Good point. Just wish there was going to be a S3.

Goblin

04-06-2007, 21:08

how is Lost still getting votes?

I see 24's popularity is dwindling, I managed a couple of episodes into series 6 before quitting.

TeOtWaWkI

04-06-2007, 21:26

how is Lost still getting votes?

I see 24's popularity is dwindling, I managed a couple of episodes into series 6 before quitting.

Because Lost got better halfway season and 24 worse

jonthomas83

04-06-2007, 22:14

Yup, (i'm in the U.K.) and Lost will probably end up at the top now that I hear that Heroes goes downhill at the end of the season. I absolutely loved Lost toward the end of this season. Fantastic!

Thanks TonyG, superb stuff!

DeadKenny

04-06-2007, 23:24

If you take an average of the scores received by each show only, it reflects more of the quality of the show, as the scores are skewed due to the availability of certain shows.

The top 10 based on these averages are...

1. Heroes (8.80)
2. The Office (8.72)
3. Friday Night Lights (8.18)
4. The Wire (8.00)
5. The Sopranos (7.45)
6. The Shield (7.23)
7. Dexter (7.19)
8. Lost (6.82)
9. Rome (6.47)
10. House (6.41)
Problem is BSG doesn't feature in there at all, and I'm sorry but the quality of BSG is just vastly superior to everything out there:razz: :D

Deron

05-06-2007, 06:58

We should have one for the best individual episode of the season as well. My vote would be for the Desperate Housewives episode 'Bang', which eclipsed just about everything this year and that includes 'Company Man' from Heroes.

For me Heroes S1ep20

Then 24 S6ep4 and BSG S3ep4 joint 2nd...

robzinski

10-06-2007, 10:07

The top 10 based on these averages are...

1. Heroes (8.80)
2. The Office (8.72)
3. Friday Night Lights (8.18)
4. The Wire (8.00)
5. The Sopranos (7.45)
6. The Shield (7.23)
7. Dexter (7.19)
8. Lost (6.82)
9. Rome (6.47)
10. House (6.41)

See, if more people had given Friday Night lights a chance instead of dismissing it as a show about American Football, or if it hadn't been treated so poorly by ITV then i'm confident it'd be a lot higher on the overall list.

I somehow managed to miss this thread for the whole of May, so didn't get my votes in. Mine would have been.

1. Entourage
2. Friday Night Lights
3. Studio 60
4. Lost
5. Heroes
6. CSI: Vegas
7. My Name Is Earl
8. The O.C
9. How I Met Your Mother
10. Jericho

I gave up with 24 and Prison Break around the beginning of March.

Concrete Donkey

10-06-2007, 10:39

See, if more people had given Friday Night lights a chance instead of dismissing it as a show about American Football, or if it hadn't been treated so poorly by ITV then i'm confident it'd be a lot higher on the overall list.

Has anyone seen the ESPN show Playmakers ? how does FNL compair ?

robzinski

10-06-2007, 10:59

Has anyone seen the ESPN show Playmakers ? how does FNL compair ?

Its a totally different show. Playmakers was about the issues surrounding playing in the big league, injuries, contracts, drugs(Painkillers, and others).

FNL is a show about highschool, and the issues the kids face and as an aside the main characters play for the football team.

Robby

10-06-2007, 11:01

Not heard of Playmakers so can't judge. FNL pretty much has everything stacked against it. It's based on American Football, has a documentary feel to it, is set in a US high school, revolves around a middle American town and is predominantly more about growing up, living and loving between the high schoolers and their parents. It's not really something that appeals to me on paper and it may take an episode or two to get the vibe of the show but at it's heart it excels at telling stories about real people coupled with a great sporting backdrop.

Whether you like US Football or not, you're rooting for these kids to succeed and because of the realistic nature in which it's filmed I find it a great piece of escapist entertainment with characters you can really sympathise and relate to. It's not really a show that's heavily based on tactical play and becoming a NFL superstar (tho' they may dabble in that next season).

RESSEH

10-06-2007, 14:36

Damn i missed this too but will add what i would have had as my top 10 for fun :p

1. South Park
2. Jericho
3. Heroes
4. Lost
5. Prison Break
6. Scrubs
7. 24
8. BSG
9. Smallville
10. The shield

Damn these lists are hard. I think i only got jericho so high as i only just finished watching it and was able to watch all the episodes over a 2 week period. Now that most US shows are finished, i tihnk i might check out some of the shows from the top 20.

And dammit. I forgot about Veronica Mars :(