favorite tv characters: Lorelai Gilmore. Alan Shore. Gregory House.
and those shows are good but not all through. Gilmore Girls is too quirky cartoonish at some times, Boston Legal sometimes bores me, on House I do not get that interested in the medicine. I am watching mainly just for my characters.
in contract, the most as-a-whole great show: Friday Night Lights - I like all the characters. esp Coach & Tami Taylor. and Tyra. and Landry.
another all around very good show: The Office - I delight in Michael Scott, so earnest and swee-hearted really, I think right. and Dwight. and they are balanced by the more real-relatable Jim and Pam...
the show I most personally feel engaged by, intimately involved in: Nip/Tuck - funny that the most dramatic, glamorous show is the one that feels the most like life to me. not so funny that it does when consider it is the saddest. and perhaps my most beloved character of all is Christian Troy.

Weeds pretty all through good. Mary Louise Parker (have I said before?) to me is rather exactly a mix of Lauren Graham & Mary Stuart Masterson.
The Riches has first rate acting, is great looking, and the premise seems promising. but the writing has been not good. too many constant one-off dramatic extremes -yes yes-, too little of a day-to-day world.