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The Greatest TV Shows of the Noughties

Do you agree with the list? (December 2009)

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DV
DVB Cornwall
For sheer size and extraordinary scale my award goes to this years Eurovision Song Contest, from Moscow, something that really wouldn't have thought possible on 31-Dec-1999.
JA
jamesmd
Brekkie posted:
JAH posted:
When you mention my 'lazy snobbish attack' I'd love to know why you use the term ''snob'' with such vitriol. It's no bad thing to be a snob - I just want quality television, I don't want manufactured crap. I want television that people have sat down in a room and thought about for a long time to come up with ideas for this week's show - television with effort, rather than telvision that's just had money thrown at it.

That's fair enough.

I do think when you look at the ratings for the decade as a whole (and indeed individual years) they actually show a healthy range of programming, with a mixture of drama, sporting events and the odd surprising gem sitting alongside the usual soaps and talent/reality shows which dominate the ratings.

jjne posted:
Brekkie posted:

And just 2.2m people chose to watch it.
I'd love to see the justification for this tired old cliché -- quality equals quantity is the crux of your argument.

Since when has popularity in any way been a reference to the quality of anything?

I never said it was - I'm just pointing out that broadcasters, especially ITV, don't get the rewards they deserve in terms of ratings when they put the effort in.


You've contradicted the first part of your second point with your first point.
RM
Roger Mellie
Chie posted:
Roger Mellie posted:
Whilst Top Gear is popular, it's been going for years now-- not really 'of the decade'--

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.


Fair point about Top Gear-- I concede it has changed a lot from its original brief. Little Britain I never liked, I always found it repetitive-- only so many times "computer says no" and the like are funny. I agree Catherine Tate was better, at least she put a little more imagination into proceedings.

Ah the yes, The Sopranos... given all the rave reviews it got, I'd thought that may be included. Shows how little I know Laughing

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