Bluemoon's Official Top 100 TV Shows

[RobMCFC]

So far, out of the first 65 i have,

5 that were on my list.

7 i've seen in full, or almost in full

a further 5 i've seen, but only the first series of, (and then didnt bother with the rest as it wasn't for me).

How is everyone else doing, anyone got more than 10 from their list on? 15?

Anyone seem more than 25% of the list so far?

5 so far
Confident about the chances of 9 more appearing
Written off the chances of the other 6.

Relating to the various comments about people forgetting certain shows, one I forgot that wouldn't have been in my 20 but is worthy of a mention is "The Phil Silvers Show". Way before my time but I remember discovering it one evening in the 80s when I was slumped on the sofa feeling ill. The character of Sgt Bilko and the quality of the scripts was amazing. Did anybody have this in their 20?

 

[Boo or Boo-urns]

How is everyone else doing?

8 nominations so far (53 of the listed shows watched in full/almost full)

- Cracker
- Mad Men
- Gomorrah
- The Bridge (Broen)
- The Americans
- Inside No.9
- HBO's Deadwood
- HBO's Rome

Still got high hopes for a few more to appear.

4 x HBO
2 x BBC
2 x CH4
2 x Documentaries
1 x Foreign language

 

[Coatigan]

8 nominations so far (53 of the listed shows watched in full/almost full)

- Cracker
- Mad Men
- Gomorrah
- The Bridge (Broen)
- The Americans
- Inside No.9
- HBO's Deadwood
- HBO's Rome

Still got high hopes for a few more to appear.

4 x HBO
2 x BBC
2 x CH4
2 x Documentaries
1 x Foreign language

Wow, that is some incredible watching covered.

 

[Mad Eyed Screamer]

At last mine starting to creep in.... The Young Ones and Boys From The Black Stuff - disappointed the latter was not higher up though.

 

[willipp]

7 of my top 20 so far and apart from one or two i think they will all be in there somewhere. Pretty predictable in my choices on the whole.

2. 24
7. Homeland
8. Stranger Things
10. Luther
13. Friends
14. Shameless
16. Prime Suspect
17. Dexter

 

[BlueHammer85]

35. The Walking Dead 9/97



The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror television series based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard. The series features a large ensemble cast as survivors of a zombie apocalypse, trying to stay alive under near-constant threat of attacks from zombies, colloquially known as "walkers". However, with the fall of humanity, these survivors also face conflict from other living survivors who have formed groups and communities with their own sets of laws and morals, often leading to hostile conflict between the human communities. Andrew Lincoln played the series's lead character, Rick Grimes, until his departure during the ninth season. Other long-standing cast members have included Norman Reedus, Steven Yeun, Chandler Riggs, Melissa McBride, Lauren Cohan, Danai Gurira, Josh McDermitt and Christian Serratos.

Beginning with its third season, The Walking Dead has attracted the most 18- to 49-year-old viewers of any cable or broadcast television series, though viewership has declined in later seasons. In addition, the series has been overall positively received by critics. It has been nominated for several awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Drama and the Writers Guild of America Award for New Series.

The Walking Dead will conclude in 2022 after the eleventh season commences airing in 2021.


34. Cheers 12/103



Cheers is an American sitcom television series that ran on NBC from September 30, 1982, to May 20, 1993, with a total of 275 half-hour episodes across eleven seasons. The show was produced by Charles/Burrows Productions in association with Paramount Network Television, and was created by the team of James Burrows, Glen and Les Charles. The show is set in a bar named Cheers Beacon Hill in Boston, Massachusetts, where a group of locals meet to drink, relax, and socialize. The show's main theme song, co-written and performed by Gary Portnoy, lent its refrain "Where Everybody Knows Your Name" as the show's catchphrase.

During its run, Cheers became one of the most popular series in history and received critical acclaim from its start to its end. In 1997, the episodes "Thanksgiving Orphans" and "Home Is the Sailor", aired originally in 1987, were respectively ranked No. 7 and No. 45 on TV Guide's 100 Greatest Episodes of All Time. Its series finale was watched by an estimated 93 million viewers, almost 40% of the US population at the time.


33. The Prisoner 8/111



The Prisoner is a 1967 British avant-garde social science fiction television series about an unnamed British intelligence agent who is abducted and imprisoned in a mysterious coastal village, where his captors try to find out why he abruptly resigned from his job. It was created by Patrick McGoohan and George Markstein, with McGoohan playing the lead role of Number Six. Episode plots have elements of science fiction, allegory, and psychological drama, as well as spy fiction. It was produced by Everyman Films for distribution by Lew Grade's ITC Entertainment.

The series was first broadcast in Canada beginning on 6 September 1967, in the UK on 29 September 1967, and in the US on 1 June 1968. Although the show was sold as a thriller in the mould of the previous series starring McGoohan, Danger Man (retitled as Secret Agent in the US), its combination of 1960s countercultural themes and surrealistic setting had a far-reaching influence on science fiction and fantasy TV programming, and on narrative popular culture in general. Since its initial screening, the series has developed a cult following.


32. Peaky Blinders 11/111



Peaky Blinders is a British period crime drama television series created by Steven Knight. Set in Birmingham, England, the series follows the exploits of the Shelby crime family in the direct aftermath of the First World War. The fictional family is loosely based on a real urban youth gang of the same name, who were active in the city from the 1890s to the early 20th century.

In 2018, after the show's Drama Series win at the BAFTA TV Awards, Knight confirmed his "ambition of making it a story of a family between two wars, and by ending it with the first air raid siren in Birmingham", which was 25 June 1940. The fifth series premiered on BBC One on 25 August 2019 and finished on 22 September 2019. Netflix, under the deal with Weinstein Company and Endemol, had acquired the rights to release Peaky Blinders in the United States and around the world. In January 2021, it was announced that the sixth series would be the final television series of Peaky Blinders.


31. Curb Your Enthusiasm 8/112



Curb Your Enthusiasm is an American comedy television series produced and broadcast by HBO that premiered on October 15, 2000. The series was created by Larry David, who stars as a fictionalized version of himself. The series follows Larry in his life as a semi-retired television writer and producer in Los Angeles, and for one season, New York City. Also starring are Cheryl Hines as his wife Cheryl, Jeff Garlin as his manager and best friend Jeff Greene, and Susie Essman as Jeff's wife Susie. Curb Your Enthusiasm often features guest stars, many of them playing fictionalized versions of themselves.

As with Seinfeld, which David co-created, the humor of Curb Your Enthusiasm often revolves around the minutiae of American daily social life. Episodes frequently center on Larry's ignorance of or disregard for well-established social conventions and expectations, as well as his insistence that others adhere to rules of which only he seems to be aware. This social ineptitude, combined with his inability to let even the most minor grievance or annoyance go unexpressed, often leads David into awkward social situations and draws the ire of his friends, family and total strangers. Larry is also routinely the victim of elaborate misunderstandings.

Curb Your Enthusiasm has received high critical acclaim, and has grown in popularity since its debut. It has been nominated for 38 Primetime Emmy Awards, and Robert B. Weide received an Emmy for Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series for the episode "Krazee Eyez Killa". The show won the 2002 Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. Curb Your Enthusiasm's tenth season premiered on January 19, 2020. In June 2020, the series was renewed for an eleventh season

 

[RobMCFC]

8 nominations so far (53 of the listed shows watched in full/almost full)

- Cracker
- Mad Men
- Gomorrah
- The Bridge (Broen)
- The Americans
- Inside No.9
- HBO's Deadwood
- HBO's Rome

Still got high hopes for a few more to appear.

4 x HBO
2 x BBC
2 x CH4
2 x Documentaries
1 x Foreign language

I've got 7 more HBO series in my 20 that have yet to appear (but there's two of them that I don't think will).

 

[RobMCFC]

Watched the first 4 (or 5?) series of The Walking Dead and enjoyed it, but just got bored of it not going anywhere so I stopped watching.

 

[willipp]

Watched the first 4 (or 5?) series of The Walking Dead and enjoyed it, but just got bored of it not going anywhere so I stopped watching.

If it had been 3/4 series long it would be in my top 20,used to love it. However it just got rediculous and repetitive and then when a Tiger saved the day at the end of one series with Nagan i decided i was done with it.

 

[lancs blue]

Just Boys from the Blackstuff from my list in the last couple of chunks although omitting The Prisoner was a bad memory lapse.