Top 50 TV dramas

[duffer]

As voted for by The Guardians TV critics...

The list in full:

1. The Sopranos
2. Brideshead Revisited
3. Our Friends in the North
4. Mad Men
5. A Very Peculiar Practice
6. Talking Heads
7. The Singing Detective
8. Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit
9. State of Play
10. Boys From the Blackstuff
11. The West Wing
12. Twin Peaks
13. Queer as Folk
14. The Wire
15. Six Feet Under
16. How Do You Want Me?
17. Smiley's People
18. House of Cards
19. Prime Suspect
20. Bodies
21. Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy
22. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
23. Cracker
24. Pennies From Heaven
25. Battlestar Galactica
26. Coronation Street
27. The Jewel in the Crown
28. The Monocled Mutineer
29. Clocking Off
30. Inspector Morse
31. This Life
32. Band of Brothers
33. Hill Street Blues
34. The Prisoner
35. St Elsewhere
36. The L Word
37. The Shield
38. Brookside
39. 24
40. The Twilight Zone
41. Pride and Prejudice
42. Red Riding
43. Oz
44. The Street
45. The X-Files
46. Bleak House
47. The Sweeney
48. EastEnders
49. Shameless
50. Grange Hill


Mad Men seems to be the flavour of the month and the omission of Deadwood is a glaring error in my eyes.

 

[Logan!]

13. Queer as Folk
14. The Wire

 

[Alex]

The Wire not in the top 2 is absurd

Greetings Logan

 

[wr8_utd]

Buffy over Band Of Brothers, The Shield and 24!?

 

[Uncle Junior]

Buffy over Band Of Brothers, The Shield and 24!?

What's wrong with The Shield?

 

[Team Brian GB]

26. Coronation Street
38. Brookside
48. EastEnders
50. Grange Hill

That says just what a poor list this is.

 

[Lester Freamon]

As voted for by The Guardians TV critics...


13. Queer as Folk
14. The Wire

Excluding the fact that I haven't heard of about 30 of those shows, that is just hilarious.

 

[duffer]

Excluding the fact that I haven't heard of about 30 of those shows, that is just hilarious.

Have you seen Queer as folk?

 

[Lester Freamon]

Have you seen Queer as folk?

Actually, my mom was a big fan of it so I have seen enough to know that that is a laughable claim.

 

[evra]

"I Claudius" was a tv drama, it should be above the Sopranos in my very humble opinion.

 

[Rado_N]

West Wing and The Wire should both be in the top 5. Laughable list for many reasons.

 

[decorativeed]

Columbo? Anyone?

 

[Iron Stove]

No Rome?

 

[Pexbo]

Anthony Andrew's from Brideshead Revisited is a customer at the restaurant I work at. He goes outside to see his dog about 10 times a night.

 

[Mockney]

13. Queer as Folk
14. The Wire

I would make some remark about this being indicative of the namby pamby lefty liberal media types that like the Grauniad...if I wasn't supposed to be one of them.

It's all suitably PC and wanky though....Heavily over-British too it must be said, unless it's supposed to be of course?

 

[Desert Eagle]

Buffy > Battlestar is just insane

 

[Randall Flagg]

No Dexter or Breaking bad either. Worst list ever, it saddens me that the English soaps are even allowed on such lists