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Thanks for the opportunity to contribute!
First, my comments. This blog is about 90% responsible for my being converted to The Wire this season. Great, great show. I agree it's one of the top two, but Battlestar Galactica is just so amazing, too--I can't say that The Wire is better. It's just more immediate and gritty because of its setting here in our own world; I think BSG has just as much quality (and haunting moral ambiguity, and refusal to use pat storytelling), but it's easy to overlook but it's easy to overlook its excellence because of the space setting. So anyway--that's my lobby for BSG in the #1 spot, though I know it won't be!
My list: BSG, The Wire, The Office, Daily Show/Colbert, Veronica Mars
Other ones I enjoy but think might not deserve a top-ten spot: Gilmore Girls (not as good now as in earlier years), Big Love (quite good, not transcendent)
And now, if you'll excuse me, it looks like I need to sign up for Showtime...!
Posted By: LoveDarkShows (an alias) | December 01 2006 at 02:56 PM

I'll take the non-Top 10 approach for $500, Tim.
Best Network Program -- Heroes. This is not just about pretty people, this is about PLOT. Lost could learn a LOT from this show. You wonder how Nathan Petrelli's wife ended up in a wheelchair? BANG! They show you, and don't wait six months to do it. The acting is sometimes weak, but MAN the storytelling. These people KNOW where they are going and they are absolutely going to get there in 22 episodes.
Best Comedy -- Weeds. I thought I would never forgive Showtime for cancelling Dead Like Me, but between Weeds and Dexter, I'm BACK. Almost every character is laugh out loud funny.
Best New Program that was Cancelled -- Kidknapped. I could watch those actors reading the telephone book and they actually had intelligent dialogue.
Worst Program that I used to Love -- House. The problem with these unlovable characters with weak supporting characters is that if you make the unlovable more lovable you dilute the program, but if you make them Even More Unlovable, eventually even their fans will hate them and stop watching them.
Worst New Series That Previewed Well -- Decisions, decisions. Heads, it's Jericho! Couldn't finish the first episode. It could have been The Nine. Didn't finish their first episode either. me too, those two shows. looked at some of the pilot and d n get int.
Best Television Program EVER - The Wire. No doubt. wow.         ////2015/03//17 d n then know quoting Omar "No doubt."
Posted By: kd9 | December 01 2006 at 03:12 PM              ////2015/03//17 oh I miss these cmmtrs. kd9. sonof__ who liked vm.? and of course hickcity.