Pajiba

1. Friday Night Lights
2. The Wire
3. Weeds
4. Entourage
5. The Office

Oh, boy, this one I can do (since, for some reason, I don't have an iPod yet).

Currently, it is:

1. The Shield
2. Heroes (in one more week, at least...)
3. NBC's Thursday night comedy block (but if I can only name one show, it's The Office)
4. Lost (yes, dammit, I'm still hooked; but, hey, these last few episodes have been good, right? Right?
5. Deadliest Catch (the crab-fishing guys)

The Office

Veronica Mars

Doctor Who

Lost

Heroes

1. The Daily Show/The Colbert Report
2. The Wire
3. South Park
4. Entourage
5. Human Giant

(Rome would be third . . . but dude, it's over. Let it go.)

1) The Shield
2) Veronica Mars
3) The Office
4) America's Next Top Model (indefensible, so I won't even try)
5) Criminal Minds

Oh, and I'm catching up with Scrubs on DVD, but don't watch the new ones when they air, so I guess that doesn'treally count

In no particular order...

Entourage

The Office

Dexter

Brotherhood

Rome (still looking for a replacement...)

1. Friday Night Lights (most gorgeous guys per square inch of screen on the tube and a good show to boot!) 2. The Office 3. Big Love (in June, yipppeee!) 4. 30 Rock 5. The Wire

1. 24 (It's a soap opera with explosions. Something for me, and something for my husband.)

2. Real World/Road Rules Challenge (Fear Factor with sex and booze!)

3. Tori and Dean: Inn Love (Don't judge me. This the methadone equilivant of my guilty pleasure, Beverly Hills, 90210.)

4. The Soup

5. Nip/Tuck

Lol. I actually don't watch tv. Bite me Dustin. I do, however, Netflix like a mo'fo. Here are my top five TV to DVD's:

1. The Office
2. Family Guy (screw you, my newphew looks like Stewie, so I'm obligated)
3. Lost
4. Entourage
5. Sopranos

1) Veronica Mars (glad to see so much love for this show)
2) The Daily Show
3) The Office
4) Battlestar Galactica
5) The Colbert Report

1. Boston Legal
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. Heroes (Well, I used to love it, but I forget why as it has been an eternity since there has been a new episode.)
4. Dexter (Watched all 12 eps at once over a weekend. Creepy nightmares ensued afterward.)
5. Enter daily crappy reality show here

Ouch. When it comes down to it there is really so little decent programming. It hurt to actually pay attention to how hard it was to fill five slots.

in particular order:

1. Friday Night Lights
2. 30 Rock
3. The Office
4. Scrubs
5. My Name is Earl

alternate: Grey's Anatomy

1. The Office
2. 30 Rock
3. Gilmore Girls
4. Weeds
5. Big Love

Project Runway
Heroes
Battlestar Galactica
The Riches
30 Rock

Friday Night Lights
The Shield
Veronica Mars
Heroes
Brothers and Sisters

I'm surprised at the lack of Battlestar Galactica. I'm a BSG DVD person, so I didn't count it.

1. Big Love (taking over where Rome left off.)

2. The Office

3. So You Think You Can Dance (Returning this summer--those kids are actually talented!)

4. Grey's Anatomy (I'm a masochist)

5. House

Along with my "lost" shows that I still watch religiously: Serenity, Dead Like Me, Arrested Development

OH SHIT! I forgot Bullshit! Hmm... who gets bumped?

1. Friday Night Lights
2. Battlestar Galactica
3. The Office
4. Heroes
5. Lost

Honorable Mentions: South Park, Grey's Anatomy, Veronica Mars, 30 Rock

I don't get Showtime or HBO :(

The Office

Heroes

The Daily Show/Colbert Report

Veronica Mars

The Amazing Race

1. Veronica Mars
2. Scrubs
3. ER
4. The Riches
5. Project Runway

plan my life around:
Veronica Mars
Heroes
CSI (the original)

watch on occasion:
Friday Night Lights
Scrubs

1.The Sopranos
2.Battlestar Galactica
3.Friday Night Lights
4.The Office
5.Entourage

(Honorable mention: The Unit, Boston Legal & 30 Rock)

1. FNL

2. Mythbusters

3. Dirty Jobs

4. Heroes

5. 30 Rock

I forgot House! I love as well, it's hard to just 5, I watch a lot of T.V.

1. Law and Order, since season 6
2. Daily Show and Colbert Report
3. Project Runway/Top Whatever on Bravo's rotation
4. Psych
5. Robot Chicken

Could you please explain the appeal of DeGrassi?

Well, I haven't seen any of the NextGen stuff (Rob and others can enlighten there), but the original Degrassi has a fond place in the hearts of nearly Canadian I know (of my own generation, anyway), no matter what kind of tastes they had growing up or what type of person they are now. I liked it because the characters were real and rich and mostly marvellously ugly and gawky. They were us. Of course, most of us didn't admit they watched it, back in the day--and for a lot of us, the show just seems to be better the older it gets. A lot of people still watch the reruns of the original whenever they're on. It's "good" bad tv, and I would watch a Degrassi episode over a Smith movie any day, but probably for different reasons than Dustin would choose the reverse (if that makes sense).

I caught an ad for NextGen once and it kind of freaked me out to see them grown up...haven't been able to bring myself to rent it. I think Rob's is the first-ever endorsement I've ever seen!

(PS The funniest thing I've seen in years was just this past Halloween when three 30-something guys showed up dressed as Joey, Snake and Wheels from the original 80s series. When "Joey" walked into the room, I stood there thinking, "I know that guy--really well!" until it dawned on me it was only the costume I knew.)

1. Angel (TNT reruns)

2. Grey's Anatomy

3. The Dresden Files

4. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (FX reruns)

5. Arrested Development (G4 is rerunning it, amazingly)

yeah, that's a lot of reruns. what can i say, i was in college, not watching tv.

Given that I :
a) don't have cable
b) am Canadian
I don't get to watch a lot of American TV (which is the logic behind A & B).
But...
1. The Simpsons (can't believe no one on this list watches it anymore. Is it just because I have a teenage son?)
2.Dr. Who
3.Intelligence (best new drama on CBC in a loooooooooong tiime)
4.The Rick Mercer Show
5. Friday Night Comedy Line up on CBC (which includes Just For Laughs Comedy Festival highlights, Air Farce, This Hour has 22 Minutes)

1) Scrubs (network and syndication)

2) Penn & Teller's Bullshit

3) Good Eats

4) South Park

5) The Riches (a show I enjoy yet find myself missing more than I watch...maybe I DO need a DVR!)

Ok. Here's mine:

1) Heroes
2) Supernatural
3) Dirty Jobs
4) Mythbusters
5) Battlestar Galactica

And yes, I do embrace my geekiness.

1. Veronica Mars
2. Lost
3. Heroes
4. The Office
5. Whatever reality competition show Bravo is airing

1) Lost, I love this show, fuck the haters

2) The Office

3) Veronica Mars

4) Scrubs

5) ^^Those^^ are the only shows I watch, so just count Lost twice, as I like it twice as much as the others.

1. Doctor Who
2. Dexter
3. Boston Legal
4. The Riches
5. How I Met Your Mother

-Law and Order CI

-Sopranos

-Little Britain

- Charm School (just started,um yeah)

- Office

The Wire
Friday Night Lights
Battlestar Galactica
The Office
The Daily Show/The Colbert Report

And for the record, Dustin, it's the iPod which is the second greatest invention of our generation - TiVo clearly outranks it, when you look at how much each differs from what came before (the iPod, pre-video at least, was simply a walkman/discman that could hold many albums, but the TiVo does so much more/different than the VCR, it's predecessor).

1- Veronica Mars
2- Doctor Who
3- South Park
4- Ugly Betty
5- Psych
and Robin Hood is the latest addition.

1. The Office
2. 30 Rock
3. The Wonder Years (reruns on a deeply creepy channel that only seems to show it, Lunesta ads and a very shrill female televangelist, but Kevin and Winnie are worth it)
4. The Tudors
5. Instant Star (Degrassi: TNG mixed with "Canadian Idol." It's phenomenal.)

Theresa:......Yes he does. (Hangs head low) But ohhhh the comedic value of it (big smile)!

The Office
Lost
Ugly Betty
How I Met Your Mother
CSI

It's funny because the entire list of shows I watch would only be one or two longer than this. I'm one of those freaks who doesn't have cable.

1. Doctor Who

2. The Office

3. Desperate Housewives (not just for me, my husband likes it too)

4. South Park

5. The Shield

Sometimes, I will actually watch these shows in real time despite the TiVo Season Pass!

Current favorite shows? I don't even have premium cable so I'll include what I'm catching up to on DVD:

1. The Office
2. Supernatural (FU!)
3. Big Love
4. Weeds
5. Daily/Colbert

But if I really had TiVO I would probably be recording completely embarrassing things like Cheaters and Maury.

1. My Name is Earl
2. The Office
3. Scrubs
4. Stargate SG-1
5. Doctor Who

1. Project Runway/Top Chef (Another Bravo Top-Whatever lover)
2. House
3. The Office
4. What Not to Wear (Scathing reviews for the sartorially challenged!)
5. 60 Minutes (Because it's still awesome)

I'm another one who doesn't have HBO/Showtime.
I once caught the season finale of Degrassi while watching TV with my then roommates. I'm not sure I grasped its appeal in that one show...

Battlestar Galactica (Universal is rerunning Season 3 in HD - whooo!)
Veronica Mars
30 Rock (I heart Kenneth!)
Boston Legal
Dirty Jobs

Runners up: Planet Earth, the Stargates, Scrubs, Desperate Housewives

1. Veronica Mars
2. Lost
3. Friday Night Lights
4. Brothers and Sisters
5. Heroes

I liked the music diversions a bit better because I hate television, BUT:

1. Man vs. Wild (BEST. SHOW. EVER.)
2. South Park
3. America's Next Top Model (and no, I don't feel guilty about this AT ALL)
4. Project Runway
5. ? (I am finito... sad)

1. Friday Night Lights, the best show on television
2. Heroes
3. House
4. Good Eats with Alton Brown

1. Battlestar Galactica
2. Veronica Mars
3. The Office
4. Lost (season 3 is starting to make up for the suckfest that was season 2)
5. 30 Rock

Entourage gets an honorable mention, but they rerun it so often and make it available On Demand that it doesn't really require the Season Pass.

Sammy, I was glad to see someone else has the bedroom Tivo of guilty pleasures (aka, all my embarrassing reality TV).

Living room DVR:
1. The Office
2. Heroes
3. Entourage
4. The Sopranos
5. 30 Rock

The Bedroom DVR:
1. American Idol
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. America's Next Top Model
4. What Not to Wear
5. Project Runway

Honorable Mentions: House Hunters, Workout, The Soup

No Tivo Digital Video Recorder yet

Simpsons
24
The Riches
Dresden Files (altough I think the season just eneded - did it?)
V Mars (anxiously awaiting its return)
8 to 10 on ABC - just sit back and turn off my brain for 2 hours

+ HBO shows on DVD
+ SVU, Criminal Intent reruns on USA

1. The Office
2. Halfway Home
3. Lost
4. The Riches
5. Grey's Anatomy

Oh well, TV is where I embarrass myself.

1. Veronica Mars
2. Project Runway
3. America's Next Top Model
4. Ugly Betty
5. Heroes

Ok, maybe only number three is really bad, but dang, I have some girly taste in shows. Surprised I don't have Gilmore Girls or Super Gold Extravagana on QVC or something.

1. Sopranos
2. Rescue Me
3. Friday Night Lights
4. Heroes
5. Veronica Mars

Dexter and Grey's Anatomy just miss the cut.

1) Friday Night Lights
2)Lost
3)The Office
4)24
5)The Tudors (me, for JRM, my husband for all the boobies...but, they've been not showing them as much as the first ep...poor hubby)

shaggy - How is Torchwood? Downloaded it but I haven't gotten around to watching it yet.

David - The beauty of cable is they replay these shows all the time. Wnet away for two weeks - still caught up on most of my shows, like the Riches

I'm actually so nuts about some of the stuff i watch and not wanting to miss, I made a lsit of what I would miss while on vactaion, which shows are available on their channels site (Lost, 24) and which I need to be more creative in where I look (Robin Hood)

Left one off - always suit up Monday's at 8

1. 24. This season is, well, doubleplus ungood, but I've been a loyalist since Minute One of Season One and so I'm going to hang in there this year and hope next year is better. I'm still super pissed they killed Curtis, though; I knew he was going to die this year, but in the first two hours? WTF.

2. House.
3. Gene Simmons Family Jewels. (Dude. It's just so awesome I can't stand it, and I swear that has nothing to do with how fucking hot Nick Simmons is.)
4. Intervention.
5. All L&O's, period.

I wanted to watch Friday Night Lights, but I didn't catch it early enough and for some reason I can't bring myself to start watching this late. And although it's been marathoned a few times, I haven't managed to catch it from the beginning. It's on my to-watch list, and will probably ultimately supplant something on the top five, but for now, I'm sadly out of the loop on that one.

Anyhow.

OMG! I totally forgot about the Colbert Report and the Daily Show! HEAVEN FORFEND.

The Daily Show is probably #6, to be perfectly honest, but the Report certainly edges out Law & Order.

Let me begin my acknowledging that, yes, I am a total geek, nerd, otaku, whatever. I accept and embrace my lameness:

1 - Bleach
2 - Blood +
3 - Samurai Champloo
4 - Random History International Program(s); ususally Worst Jobs...
5 - Pop-Up Video (reruns on VH1 Classic)

Of course, being me, 4 and 5 are often supplanted by random anime on [as], usually Ghost in the Shell or Full Metal Alchemist.

1. The Office
2. Robin Hood
3. Flava of Love Girls: Charm School (I'm going to hell for this one)
4. Bones (The man is hot, leave me alone.)
5. All the shows from BBC's Friday Night "The Underground"

1. Corner Gas (best sitcom since Frasier--sweet and gentle comedy, yet surprisingly smart!)
2. Bones
3. ER
4. Desperate Housewives (hey, half of you put trashy reality shows on your lists--I want my brain candy, too!)
5. Law & Order: SVU

Is the British Whose Line still on these days? If so, I'd have to consider a substitution....Now, that was some good funny....

1. Survivor--I
2. America's Next Top Model--have
3. Australia's Next Top Model--a
4. Mo'nique's Charm School (which used to be I Love New York, which used to be Flavor of Love 1 and 2)--serious
5. The Pussycat Dolls Present: The Pussycat Dolls Search for the Next Pussycat Doll--problem.

1. Battlestar Galactica - best drama on TV.
2. Lost - still love it
3. The Riches - best new show this season
4. The Shield - so happy this is back
5. South Park - the "300" take off was hysterical.

I have to be at work ridiculously early so the above shows I record because they are on too late. 24, My Name is Earl, The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Office, and House are watched live. Same with Drive for the time being.

1. The Office
2. Planet Earth
3. Veronica Mars (hoping it will get better)
4. Grey's Anatomy (hoping it will get better)
5. The Colbert Report

1. Battlestar Galactica
2. The Office
3. Veronica Mars
4. Lost
5. Grey's Anatomy

1. nbc thursday (the office most especially)
2. gilmore girls (even though it's in its death throes)
3. lost (yeah, yeah...)
4. conan
5. daily show/colbert report

1. The Office
2. Weeds
3. Dexter
4. Scrubs
5. Heroes

1. Clatterford
2. Robinhood
3. House
4. Bones
5. Daily Show / Colbert Report

1. House
2. Les Invincibles (i'm from Québec)
3. Rumeurs (see above)
4. Lost whenever i'm around a TV on wdnesday night)
5. Dead Like Me (it's not playing on tv, but the DVDs rarely leave my DVD player)

That's pretty much what i watch on tv.

I don't have Tivo, but here are the top five shows I try to catch regularily or tape (on my old fashioned VCR :P)

1. Daily Show
2. Colbert Report
3. House
4. The Office
5. How I Met Your Mother

People here have surprisingly similar taste in tv! Or maybe there are just that few shows out there that aren't complete crap. And I totally have to start watching Friday Night Lights if it gets picked up for a second season... I need a replacement for the OC!

In no particular order

Battlestar Galactica (I usually hate sci-fi but I love this show)

Daily Show (Enough said)

Project Runway (I'm queer for bitchy gay men)

The Office (so funny and so sad)

Dog the Bounty Hunter (my guilty pleasure)

1. The Office

2. Scrubs

3. Family Guy

4. South Park

5. Ugly Betty

I don't have TIVO or the premium channels (HBO, Showtime, etc.) I sometimes get annoyed on the internet cause people talk about TIVO like it's a phone or a tv, like everyone has one. I honestly don't know anyone personally who has TIVO. Anyway, this is interesting. I never really think about my favorites on tv cause I really don't watch much of it, but I do have a few shows I will go out of my way for:

1. American Justice
2. Cold Case
3. Intervention
4. American Idol
5. Law & Order SVU

I really liked Friday Night Lights, the Riches, Grey's Anatomy, and Lost, but I just don't watch enough tv to keep up with shows that have running storylines.

P.S. In response to Pajiba's original guidelines for posting on this list: my post above was in no way "eschewing" tv or trying to be "holier than thou," just to be clear. It kind of sounded like that when I reread it. I can happily veg out for hours in front of the tv and I know WAY too much about all kinds of shows that I don't even watch. I'm obsessed with tv, I'm just not home that much.

1. The Office
2. My Name is Earl
3. The Soup
4. I Love New York (and any other abomination of Flavor of Love...)
5. Lost

1. BSG

2. Lost

3. Medium

4. 24

5. Heroes

1. Friday Night Lights

2. The Office

3. America's Next Top Model

4. Battlestar Galactica

5. Heroes

1. The Office
2. Project Runway
3. Battlestar Galactica
4. Dexter
5. Veronica Mars

1. Doctor Who
2. Heroes
3. Lost (though quickly losing interest in it).
4. Boston Public
5. Next Top Model (any country). I like to watch people cry. I'm kidding. Maybe.

tlb: re Tivo, it's actually surprising to me how few people have a DVR. Tivo is literally a life-changer in terms of appreciating and watching good shows and avoiding crap. I watch less TV with Tivo, not more, but I only watch what I want, when I want. And no commercials. After six years with my Tivo, I'm still blown away by how cool and affordable it is.

Dara: Awesome that you listed Colbert and not TDS -- I assume TDS is somewhere down your list but below Colbert? I cheated and listed them as one, but what Colbert does is actually far more challenging than being the likeable, snarky Daily Show. I can't say I like TCR more, but I appreciate how much harder it is to stay in character all the time PLUS make it funny and relevant, without the easy, disdainful one-liner to bail him out when needed.

No love for Human Giant?!?!

I must admit that I don't have tivo and I have to study most nights from 8 to 11 so I miss most things. This also means that I rarely watch shows that require you to follow the plot line closely through out the season. For example, with Law and Order each episode is largely self-contained...you don't have to know what the characters did last week for it to make sense.

1. Law and Order (any of them)
2. Antiques Roadshow (either)
3. Jeopardy
4. King of the Hill
5. The Simpsons

I love DeGrassi too, but the "classic" years, not the new series. Joey Jeremiah--yow!

Sammy, you are very bold to put Matlock on your list. I salute your braveness.

Now, on to my totally unoriginal list, in alphabetical order:

1. Battlestar Galactica
2. Daily Show/Colbert Report
3. Heroes
4. Project Runway--if it was on, but since it isn't--Lost (yeah, it sucks ass lately, but I'll still watch.
5. What Not to Wear

Huh, in making this list, I realize I don't watch a whole lot more TV than these shows. Why am I paying so much for cable again?

1. daily show/colbert
2. south park
3. scrubs
4. 30 rock
5. late night with conan

Apparently I'm afraid of drama on television.

tlb>> The Next Generation is slightly glossier, and maybe I'm just desperately clinging to my youth with this loyalty. (I actually have a Zit Remedy t-shirt.)

Give it a chance, though, if you're in the mood for it. Snake and Spike are the only current holdovers, but Joey, Caitlin, and Mr. Raditch were regulars for a while. Wheels made an appearance, too, and I'm sure there are other cameos that I haven't yet seen. (I've mostly watched episodes from the last few seasons.)

Dustin>> No offense taken. Like Degrassi, I was being slightly melodramatic. And I have been known on occasion to enjoy Saved By The Bell. :- )

Oh man! I saw Project Runway up there! Love Runway, it's just not on right now...so I forget.

Thats right, who's a geek? Who? WHO?
ME!

1. Battlestar Galactica (HD on Universal)

2. Firefly (HD on Universal)
3. Heroes
4. The Wire
5. 30 Rock

(And if "Deadwood" is 'legal', it goes at the top and banishes 30 Rock ...)

1 The Shield
2 Deadliest Catch
3 Rescue Me
4 Top Chef
5 Scrubs

This is hard because I've been watching a couple of FXs and since they don't drag them across both sweeps at any given time I'm watching one but not the other. Can I count them as one? I think I will.

1)Lost

2)Nip/Tuck-The Riches

3)Heroes

4)Supernatural

5)Grey's

As you might guess, this takes some serious juggling.

Others that I'm catching up on DVD are BSG Veronica Mars.

1). Scrubs (awesome to see it getting love on here. You people are SMART.)
2). House
3). Weeds
4). America's Next Top Model (Sort of embarrassed but.. yeah)
5). The Office

Friday Night Lights
House
Project Runway/Top Chef/ Top Designer
How I Met Your Mother
The Daily Show/ The Colbert Report

Alternate: The Riches (fills the same purpose as House, but no cable)

P.S. To whoever said they were going to replace The O.C. with FNL, FNL is miles above...

Veronica Mars
Ugly Betty
Brothers and Sisters
Weeds
Jeopardy

no dvr for this kid. but I still love me some television.

The Office. I'll admit this season has been somewhat disappointing. at the beginning of the season I was so high-pitched-squealing excited and now I feel like I've been cheated.

Planet Earth. blows my mind. I hope they rerun this like crazy.

Scrubs.

ER. it's about time Dubenko said something to Neela.

Foster's Home For Imaginary Friends.

1. Veronica Mars
2. Scrubs
3. Psych
4. House
5. Weeds

in order of overall quality:

ugly betty
dexter
law & order: criminal intent
lost
weeds

1. Heroes
2. Scrubs
3. My Name is Earl
4. NCIS
5. Veronica Mars

A lot of those great shows you guys talk about (30 Rock, Dexter, etc) haven't reached Australia yet or are only on cable, which I don't got. :( sniffle

1. Supernatural
2. Friday Night Lights
3. House
4. Battlestar Galactica
5. Entourage

The Office

24

Planet Earth

Psych

House

If I had a TiVo, this is what I would record:

1. Veronica Mars
2. The Office
3. Scrubs
4. Amazing Race
5. 30 Rock

1. Scrubs
2. The Riches
3. Weeds
4. Futurama (it's on hiatus, right? Someday there will be new episodes, right?!?)
5. Daily Show/Colbert Repor(t)

1. Lost
2. House
3. Battlestar Galactica
4. Desperate Housewives
5. Heroes

Rome will not be removed until my mourning has ended.

1. Heroes*
2. The Office*
3. Drive*
4. Doctor Who
5. Blood Ties (in a desperate bid for another vampire show)

* = Life is arranged to accommodate these, even down to "My show is on and I can't take your call" on the outgoing message. Haven't lived like this since the glory days of The X-Files and Buffy.

Oh how I miss my DVR. . .I may have one again soon and then my TV consumption could change drastically. For now though, here are my top five:

1. The Sopranos

2. America's Next Top Model (I don't actually watch it on TV as it falls during my daughter's bathtime so I watch it days later when it is on the CW site; I just have to keep away from anyone and anything that might reveal who gets the boot)

3. What Not to Wear

4. Seinfeld

5. Wonderpets (one of the Nick Jr. shows my daughter enjoys that I don't mind watching with her; plus those little animals are so darn cute and their classical music inspired songs make it more palatable than those freaky Doodle-somethings on Playhouse Disney. . .THEY need to be executed)

1. The Shield - Here's to the best show on television

2. Always Sunny in Philadelphia - I've said it before and I'll say it again. With the slight but noticeable dropoff from The Office and Scrubs, this is the funniest (and most underrated) show on TV

3. 30 Rock - see above.

4. The Sopranos - I used to bittorrent this until I got busted by HBO. So onto the tivo it goes.

5. Lost - Lost and I have come to an arrangement. I dont ask it questions anymore, and it gives me one hour of yelling-at-the-TV fun a week with characters I've come to love.

The Sopranos

ROME

The Office (jesus, I knew the show was popular...)

Big Love

The Wire

What can I say, HBO has the good shows. Also Curb your Enthusiasm, and of course Deadwood (cocksuckers.

As much as I'd like to pretend I don't watch TV (and I used to be one of those people), I just can't resist it now.

1) Grey's Anatomy (I know, I know...)
2) The Office
3) Dancing With The Stars/The Bachelor (shut up)
4) Jeopardy! (my favorite show. no joke)
5) Tie between Family Guy and the Simpsons

shows I LOVE... but I don't have cable or any pay channels. so I have to settle for watching these when I'm visiting my parents:
1) SOUTH PARK (so maybe I'm a twentysomething female... I still think this is one of the most fun, clever shows on television)
2) What Not To Wear
3) Top Chef/Project Runway/whichever one of Bravo's elimination shows is running that season. Anyone else interested in this "Shear Genius" show? Is it on yet?
4) Aqua Teen Hunger Force or Parental Control (guilty pleasures)
5) It's a tie between Nip/Tuck and Weeds

1. Scrubs
2. Deadwood
3. Heroes
4. The Office (I'd prefer the English version, please)
5. If the scope was broader, I'd say Firefly but as that's not allowed, I'm going to shame myself by saying "The Pussycat Dolls: Search for the Next Doll". Thank goodness someone else has this on their list and we can discuss stripping as a form of female empowerment together.

Otherwise, big ups for Degrassi! "Everybody wants something, they'll never give up!!" Meanwhile, Press Gang was far superior.

1. Dr Who

2. Heroes

3. Gray's Anatomy

4. House

5. Scrubs

ok, so i'm in australia. It's called the internet. there's lots of stuff on it.

South Park
The Colbert Report
Smallville
Baseball Tonight
Pardon the Interruption

-Heroes
-Dresden Files or Eureka depending on the season
-The Stewart/Colbert Hour of Power
-Bones
-Numbers

In no particular order...

1. Criminal Minds
2. Entourage
3. Weeds
4. 30 Rock
5. Dexter

and then...

Studio 60
Dr Who
Big Love
Veronica Mars
BSG
Lost
Heroes

and the departed...

Deadwood
Firefly
Huff
The West Wing
Sports Night

I neither have TiVO or live in the US, so these are my top 5 American shows

Heroes
NCIS
House
Numb3rs
Search for the Next Pussycat Doll (absolutely hilarious show!)

1) The Shield
2) The Wire ( very late on this one but just getting into it )
3) Rescue Me
4) Entourage
5) Friday Night Lights

(and honory mentions to; South Park, Heroes, Dexter, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Lost, 24, Big Love and Ugly Betty)

1 Death Note

Seriously, that anime is wicked. It's about a battle of the minds, the main character is basically a villain, and it's filled to the brim with sweet juicy suspense and clever clever twists. Download the fansub and you should not regret it.

2 The Office

3 Heroes

4 South Park

5 Bleach

6 Colbert

7 Daily Show

8 Family Guy

9 American Dad

10 The Simpsons

I know the last 3 are not that good, but I can't help but watch them because they're still funny enough.

1. America's Next Top Model
2. Search for Next Pussycat Doll
3. American Idol
4. Family Guy
5. South Park

Coming out is so liberating!

Dexter
Weeds
House
30 Rock
Battlestar Galactica

ciji-
You and me, babe....we're the only 2 who put The Tudors on our list. It's really not that bad, guys, but more of a guilty pleasure...I watch it on Tuesday nights when there's nothing but Dateline: To Catch a _____ comes on!

This list is limited to what is currently available on tv:
Reno 911
Arrested Development
Workout
24
Footballers Wive$ Overtime
And I definately watch tons more, these are just the ones that have a season pass so I can watch at my convenience

I'm brazilian, so we don't get all the shows in the US, but anyway...

Veronica Mars
Grey's Anatomy
The Office
Nip/Tuck (though S4 just started for us, but it's been way better than S3 was)
The Closer

And I so want to put The OC (which ended last week and it was going so well) and Rome, S2 started last Sunday and I've been waiting forever to watch it.

Sunsneezer - Do you read the Death Note manga? Is anime better (tighter, I guess)? Because, seriously, I gave up about vol. 8 cause all they were doing was sitting around, saying the same thing over and over and over and over and over again. Not like the cool battles of wit between L and Light of the early days, just boring crap, repeated ad infinitum. I literally had vol. 9 for about 2 months and just couldn't summon the will to pick it up and read it.

Better late than never, huh? Oh no, I'm just time-shifting this comment.
Friday Night Lights
Battlestar Galactica
The Office
Heroes
Lost (although it's on very thin ice)

1. The Office
2. 30 Rock
3. Grey's Anatomy
4. Project Runway
5. Scrubs

1. The Office (that's what she said!)
2. Battlestar Galactica
3. Weeds
4. Veronica Mars
5. Scrubs

I have to agree with the Planet Earth love-I didn't include it because it seems more like a miniseries to me, but damn if I'm not obsessed with the images of dancing birds of paradise and panda bear babies.

1.Lost
2.Grey's Anatomy
3.Project Runway
4.CSI
5.Psych(although not quite sure if it's still on)

I'm such a girl.

1. Friday Night Lights (LOVE)
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. Ugly Betty
4. House
5. 30 Rock

1. Veronica Mars

2. House

3. Grey's Anatomy

4. Ugly Betty

5. Gilmore Girls

1. Gilmore Girls
2. Veronica Mars
3. Heroes
4. Grey's Anatomy
5. Tie between Project Runway and So You Think You Can Dance (my reality guilty pleasures)

Can I just comment that I am THRILLED to see VM on so many lists! This just reinforces the fact that many smart people visit this site daily. (Although we all know the show needs a little help this season, as does Gilmore Girls-CW: get your shit together). Save Veronica Save the World!

OMG, how could I forget Pysch! Yes, I love that show.

It's back on in July...sniff.

1. The Wire

2. Entourage

That's all the TV I watch. But I buy the DVD's of:

3. Veronica Mars

4. Battlestar Galactica

5. Lost

Does that count?

1. Heroes
2. Friday Night Lights
3. Grey's Anatomy
4. House
5. The Tudors

Veronica Mars (I seriously started watching because Seth was so excited about it. Next I will Netflix BSG. I am your bitch.)
Grey's Anatomy
Bones
The Office
New Adventures of Old Christine (I know I just lost any points earned with my ass kissery with this one, but I don't have cable and am being honest).

1. The Shield
2. The Sopranos
3. The Office
4. The Lost
5. The Planet Earth

big into trends and my top three started with "the"

1. Heroes
2. Robin Hood
3. House
4. Drive
5. Planet Earth

1. The Wire

2. Veronica Mars

3. Heroes

4. Rome

5. Deadwood

I don't care if two of those shows are dead...they're still awesome.

wow--my list is almost the same as quite a few others--i don't know many people who share my taste in tv (although to be honest, i will watch just about anything)

1. battlestar galactica
2. heroes
3. friday night lights
4. lost & veronica mars
5. ANTM, TAR, survivor, and so you think you can dance--i am not ashamed--it is a 4-way tie, i can't pick just one. plus they are great shows to watch on the treadmill!

i actually watch a lot of tv, but these are easily my top 5--since i cheated a little--and i only have basic cable.

1. The Office
2. 30 Rock
3. South Park
4. Reno 911!
5. The Colbert Report

1. Heroes
2. 30 Rock
3. The Office
4. America's Next Top Model
5. American Idol

"...guess what. I am months behind you! And I don't want to know what happens thankyouverymuch. Grrr.
Posted by: amanda at April 17, 2007 6:47 AM"

Right Amanda, everyone should refrain from discussing things in case you happen to read ahead of yourself.
Here's a thought: piss off.
That way, you don't run the risk of reading a spoiler, and you don't get to run anyone else's life. It's a win-win.

1. Veronica Mars (LIVE for it!)

2. Heroes

3. Planet Earth

4. ANTM

5. Project Runway (If it ever comes back!)

1. Veronica Mars
2. Heroes
3. Psyche
4. Bones
5. Studio 60

1. Mind of Mencia

2. Reno 911

3. South Park

4. Good Eats

5. The Soup



Runners Up: Best Week Ever, Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Cops

I don't have Tivo and I get only basic cable, so my choices reflect that:

- What Not to Wear
- Veronica Mars
- Lost
- My Name Is Earl
- Rescue Me

Heroes, Scrubs, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia and Nip/Tuck are honorable mentions.

Sign me up for the DeGrassi bandwagon! I never saw the original version, so it's the Next Generation I'm addicted to. Since half the cast graduated last year, it has turned incredibly melodramatic, and I'm not sure I can stand it much longer. Still, it has a strange appeal. I think it's nostalgia ... or I just know how much I would've loved the show if there had been such a thing when I was a teen. I watch it as a gift to the teenager still lurking inside me.

Anyway ...

My Tivo Top 5:
1. Lost (though it doesn't excite me like it used to)
2. The Office (my true favorite)
3. Grey's Anatomy (even though I kinda hate it)
4. Ugly Betty
5. Medium

Oh man can I just say I fucking love watching TV.
It's the best entertainment besides...well most things.
In no particular order

1. Hereos- It's better than Lost no matter what you lot argue for.

2. The Soup- Too funny

3. ANTM- Girl fight, bitches and competition bring it on.

4. Ugly Betty- Amanda's costumes are totally fab.

5. Desperate Hwsvs- Great story lines, hilarious script.

Hey loob

Heres a thought: Chill out and understand the idea of gentle tongue-in-cheek annoyance.

Step 1: Remove panties from crack.
Step 2: Unknot.
Step 3: Replace.

1. Heroes
2. The Office
3. 24
4. Scrubs
5. Acceptable TV

Friday Night Lights
Sopranos
Dexter
Entourage
South Park

(Arrested Development)

1. the office
2. daria
3. proj run
4. degrassi- tng
5. 24

Friday Night Lights
Grey's Anatomy
The Office
Heroes
Veronica Mars

honorable mention: Daily Show

Nip / Tuck
Sopranos
Weeds
Grey's Anatomy
Project Runway

ooh, good one. let's see...

1. scrubs
2. ugly betty
3. heroes
4. entourage
5. south park

oh tv. how i love thee.

"And I'm desperately seeking episodes of Chicago Hope. Any ideas?
Posted by: koneko at April 17, 2007 3:28 AM"

The Discovery Health Channel shows Chicago Hope re-runs. It comes on at 2am in my area and is the best thing on in it's time slot :)

1. Heroes
2. The Unit
3. Colbert
4. Big People, Little World
5. Project Runway

1. House
2. NCIS
3. CSI:Las Vegas
4. Family Guy
5. Futurama (thank heaven for re-runs and DVD's! :) )

1. Scrubs
2. Heroes
3. The Office
4. 30 Rock
5. Lost

The Office sure is mentioned pretty much on every list. Just made me wonder (again) if tv viewing was measured by actual sets tuned in versus Nielsen families what the ratings would really be.

Go Hokies! Class of '95

1) Veronica Mars (just started Netflixing it, hope to be caught up when it starts again)
2) House
3) The Closer
4) Find & Design(on A&E)/Cash in the Attic(HGTV)
5) Dexter

Just picked up season 1 of Arrested Development based on the amazing reviews and props on this site!!

Starting to watch Weeds and Big Love too.

1) Dirt (Season just finished though.)

2) Lost (Gawd, how did this get on so many peoples shit list this year.)

3) The Soup

4) Desperate Housewives (yes, it's silly.)

5) How I met your Mother.(Love, love, love the Canadian girl.)

Lost

The Office

Gilmore Girls (I know, I know, this season...sigh)

Daily Show

uhh....Grey's Anatomy?

p.s. also love Colbert Report and the Daily Show but had to limit to 5. And I LOVE DOCTOR WHO, but I've seen all the episodes on now (recently moved back to U.S. from England). When they start the new ones I'll be watching faithfully.

Daily Show
Colbert Report
Project Runway
Top Chef
Scrubs

1. The Amazing Race
2. The Sopranos
3. Grey's Anatomy
4. House
5. 24

Five is tough! I also love The Office/Scrubs/30 Rock combo and DailyShow/Colbert.

First I must give a big ups to all the Canadians who are still fans of the original Degrassi. I grew up on that shit! I tried to watch an episode of the next generation and couldn't handle it. They just don't keep it as real as the original did.

Anyways here goes with my list
1) Top Chef
2) Hells Kitchen/Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares
3) The Dog Whiperer (I have two dogs and honestly this show helps me everyday of my life with them)
4) It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
5) What Not to Wear (I wish Stacey and Clinton would What Not to Wear in Canada)

Honourable mentions for those that are no longer running but I LOVE the reruns:
Dead Like Me
Arrested Development
Freaks and Geeks
Futerama
Sex in the City (shutup I'm probably going to end up like one of those old vaginas so I mine as well enjoy it)
The X-Files (Admit it, you hav a little sci-fi geek in you too!)
And of course: Buffy the Vampire Slayer

OOPS- scratch Psych for #5. Put in 30 Rock- otherwise Alec Baldwin might yell at me! Plus, I love Kenneth :)

Dude... So I have to give you five shows, not shows that I love, but those that are great TV for intelligent beings. I will refrain from pointing cancelled/ended shows. Dunno if you'd like cartoons too, but "Family Guy", "South Park" and "Morel Orel" should be on that list.

Ok, there you go:

- "30 Rock": honestly, the best new comedy out there. By far. Try to get it from the top, it won't be hard at all.
- "House": liking it is kinda subjective, but even the ones who hate it must admit it's scratchy on the brains. And House himself is a fantastic character.
- "The Office": downright histerical, top moments reminding of "Arrested Development"-funny, low moments reminding of "My Name is Earl"-funny (BTW, this one is pretty much gone, except for Jaime Pressly...).
- "Weeds": when it gets back. But it would be better if you watched it from the start. Seasons 1 and 2 are pretty short. Cynical, smart, sordid and very, very cleverly written.
- "Lost": forget everything people say about "the writers fooling us" or "they are the lost ones". Those guys know very well what they're doing, the episodes are filled with extra information for you to catch and, if you take it seriously as a long term commitment, you'll be very well pleased. Only thing is that you HAVE to watch it from day one, so it makes (a little) sense.

Those have been pretty hard to choose - not because I watch a lot of other shows (I do), but because bright TV is out for lunch since a long time now.

If you are already watching any of the above, or have particular issues, or needed to follow a recommendation from day 1, here are two extras just to fit the spot:
- "Nip/Tuck": only if you feel a show should be outrageous as hell, and you'd laugh as it jumps the shark two or three times per episode. It's actually more of a reality show than, say, "ANTopModel".
- "24": this shouldn't be left out, but I couldn't follow the current season. This advice comes from season 1 to 4, the ones I watched. Season 6 seems to be exaggerating a bit, but people I know still love it as passionately as I did in those first seasons.

Everybody's talking about "The Wire", "Dexter", "Veronica Mars" and all the HBO stuff. I bet they're are all fantastic and I'll get to watch them when I can.

One last thing: do NOT waste your precious "only 5 shows" time with "GreySluToMe" (it's outrageously stupid in many ways, girlish, childish softcore with no medicine involved) and "Heroes" (because it's fairly good and addictive, but so badly executed and written that you don't want to bear with the crap they throw at you).