The Greatest TV Shows of the Noughties

That's very likely to be the reason as Horne and Corden was awful.

As for the list - don't agree with the top three myself, though they should be in there somewhere, and although Corrie is probably the soap of the decade by default, it's place in the top 20 is more a reflection on TV than a reflection on the show itself. I'd also have Big Brother in there rather than I'm a Celeb, as without Big Brother they'd have been no I'm a Celeb, and love it or loathe it, it played an important role in shaping the TV landscape for the decade.

Wish C4 really had done a full 100 list - would probably have reflected things better.

I was wondering that myself! Although production teams occasionally do use converted double-deckers for mobile canteens, storage and dressing rooms.

Personally I'm glad that Little Britain didn't make it, vastly over-rated in my view. Conversely I think Outnumbered has only just started getting the recognition it deserves; unfairly so IMO, since it has been consistenly good for some time now.

Although I never watched Sex & City, it was a very much talked-about programme this decade-- as much as West Wing or 24 (which were both referenced)-- I'm surprised at its absence. Whilst Top Gear is popular, it's been going for years now-- not really 'of the decade'-- same with Coro! If you were to choose a soap for this decade, I would say Doctors which started in 2000 and now reportedly gets 50% share for its slot.

Top Gear as we know it only came about in 2002. I agree with you about Little Britain - that was kind of innovative when it first started but looking back it was a bit rubbish really. Catherine Tate still makes me laugh.

Although it began in 1998, Cold Feet became very popular in the early 00s so that should also be on the list I think.

Except for The Wire, Lost, Peep Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 24, Dexter, The Sopranos, Battlestar Galactica, The Thick of It, The Office, Mad Men, Friday Night Lights, Life on Mars, QI, TV Burp, Screenwipe, Flight of the Conchords, Look Around You, Jam, Nathan Barley, The IT Crowd, The Inbetweeners, Dead Set, Misfits, Outnumbered, Planet Earth, The Power of Nightmares, Generation Kill, The Corner, State of Play...

...except for those shows, yeah, you might be right.

The Power of Nightmares should be given another airing!

The later series 'The Trap: What Happened to Our Dream of Freedom' was much better in my opinion.

Worst. List Show. Ever. Who were these members of the public?

Well Maybe we could have our own Vote? we could have a short list of 50 and then people could choice there 5 best and the 20 shows with the most votes win? I dare say Asa will have to do this

If you're going to put that mindless talent fluff on there then really Big Brother and I'm a Celebrity should be there as well.

If The X Factor represents the best the Light Entertainment departments could throw at us in the last decade then they should shut them down quite honestly. Programmes like that in my opinion marked the point at which British television totally lost the plot.

So back up your view then with an example of a better entertainment show in the last decade. You may not like the genre, but that's a very snobbish attitude when in fact however contrived, the production values of The X Factor (and Britain's Got Talent) are incredibly high. You only have to see a BBC equivalent to understand that.


Back to over-rated though - and The Office. Having seen Ricky Gervais act the same in everything else he's ever been in, and in any interviews where he's appeared as himself, how anyone can praise the character of David Brent when it's nothing other than Ricky playing Ricky is beyond me.

To be honest, I feel as though I've missed a decade of prime time British TV. I've never watched any of those "comedy" shows, i.e. The Office, Gavin and Stacey, Little Britain etc. I've never watched Big Brother, though I did watch the first series of I'm A Celeb. I dip into and out of Corrie and Strictly Come Dancing/Britain's Got Talent. I don't watch Top Gear or the other "blokey" shows, nor do I watch any dramas. In all honesty, the only live TV I have consistently watched during the "noughties" is news, daytime stuff and Neighbours. I complement that with old British and American sitcoms on DVD. That suits me fine. Most of what has been made in Britain this decade has not interested me at all. There's just a handful of US shows that strayed into the 2000s that have held my attention and they include Frasier, Friends, The King of Queens and Everybody Loves Raymond. And let's be honest, all of those started in the 1990s when TV was still good. TV in the "noughties" just has not appealed to me at all. Here's hoping for something better in the 2010s...

what about 2 and half men?