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

1. Veronica Mars!!!

2. Dexter

3. The Office

4. Scrubs

5. Gray's Anatomy

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)

In no particular order and one of them a mini-series...

Rome
South Park
24
Lost
Planet Earth

(I have been watching Discovery with increasing frequency...like How It's Made...umm guess what...now I know how to make buttons, axes, marbles, drums, jawbreakers, propellers, swords, and a couple other things. Thank god i know how to make buttons now)

The Office

Veronica Mars

Doctor Who

Lost

Heroes

In no particular order:

South Park (that is my favorite)
The Office
Lost
Heroes

ummm...i guess those are the only shows i watch consistently.

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. Friday Night Lights
2. Veronica Mars (although the first two seasons were hands down better)
3. The Office
4. Planet Earth
5. 30 Rock

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

1)Friday Night Lights
2)The Office
3)Veronica Mars
4)30 Rock
5)Ugly Betty

*Caveat:I loved Deadwood,and this list would probably include more HBO/Showtime shows if I wasn't too poor for either of those channels.

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

1. The Office

2. 30 Rock

3. 24

4. Lost

5. Boston Legal

We don't have cable.

In no particular order...

Entourage

The Office

Dexter

Brotherhood

Rome (still looking for a replacement...)

The only show that I regularly set aside time to watch is Lost.

I very, very much enjoy USA's Psych, but sadly, I'm WAY behind on that one. An iTunes episode-purchase extravaganza may be in my near future.

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. ER
2. Peep Show
3. Criminal Minds
4. Never Mind The Buzzcocks
5. Have I Got News For You

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

1. Veronica Mars
2. Nip/Tuck
3. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
4. Rescue Me
5. Jeopardy! (sue me, I'm a nerd)

Apparently, I really like F/X...sorry for the lack of variety.

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

The Office
South Park
Heroes
Peep Show
Veronica Mars

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

I don't have a TiVo or anything (seriously just got an iPod not that long ago), and I only have basic, basic cable, so...

Scrubs (hasn't been that great this season, but I'm loyal and have been for the past 5 seasons)

Ugly Betty

The Daily Show/The Colbert Report (I'm cheating by doing that, but I can't just watch one of these shows...you gotta see both)

Late Night with Conan O'Brien

Grey's Anatomy (just for my weekly dose of shameless eye candy, Justin Chambers. And my large girlcrush on Kate Walsh)

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.

Yeah, I don't have Tivo. But if I did...

1) Lost
2) 24
3) Degrassi: The Next Generation (Want to make something of it?)
4) Jeopardy! (Oh, wow. Someone already put this.)
5) Pardon The Interruption (I never get to watch this anymore. Wilbon and Kornheiser together are comedy gold!)

If I had HBO, then perhaps that would be another story.

Rob (or anyone else, for that matter) -- I ask in complete seriousness and with no intent to denigrate, but could you please explain the appeal of DeGrassi? Because of the Kevin Smith thing, I gave it an honest-to-God shot, but I just didn't get it. It's like "Saved by the Bell," for Canadians, yes? Or am I missing something? Please enlighten.-- DR

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. Battlestar Galactica
2. The Office
3. The Riches
4. Veronica Mars
5. The Colbert Report

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

Heroes
Battlestar Galactica
30 Rock
The Office
Medium

Honorable Mention:

Project Runway
How I Met Your Mother (NPH forever!)

Project Runway
Heroes
Battlestar Galactica
The Riches
30 Rock

Wow, I would have bet many ducats that a large percentage of Pajibans watched The Daily Show and The Colbert Report at least multiple times per week.

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. The Office

2. Scrubs

3. Battlestar Galactica

4. Penn and Teller's BullShit!

5. This American Life

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

1. Scrubs
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. The Office
4. America's Next Top Model (shut your face--a girl needs at least one guilty pleasure)
5. American Idol (OK--two guilty pleasures.)

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

This is more theoretical than actual. Given that i dont have cable, i'm working from shows i LOVE but am not up to date on:

The Soup
How i met your mother (NPH is a genius)
The Office (which made almost every list on here it seems)
Family Guy
Arrested

Delicious

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
Rescue Me
Ugly Betty
Doctor Who
Veronica Mars

God I love television. It's funny how completely normal my list looks here; when I'm among my friends it's all "Doctor what? Veronica who?" I want to weep for them.

The Office

Heroes

The Daily Show/Colbert Report

Veronica Mars

The Amazing Race

Ok, mine are similar to others above me, but here we go in my favorite viewing order on Sat morning...
1) The Office
2) Heroes
3) Supernatural
4) South Park
and I have a tie for 5th place...
5) Criminal Minds & Jericho

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

Aqua Teen Hunger Force
The Office
Project Runway
The Daily Show
Ugly Betty

Don't have tivo but these are the shows I almost never miss.

Oh, and Degrassi is an odd choice. I too never understood the appeal.

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

watch on occasion:
Friday Night Lights
Scrubs

1. Battlestar Galactica

2. Heroes

3. Grey's Anatomy

4. Law&Order

5. House (lllllove Hugh Laurie, rather than the show itself)

I really only watch the first three, but I'd TiVo the other two if I had the darn thing...

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

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

Veronica Mars
Battlestar Galactica
Ugly Betty
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report

1. FNL

2. Mythbusters

3. Dirty Jobs

4. Heroes

5. 30 Rock

1. Heroes
2. Scrubs
3. South Park
4. House
5. The Office

1. The Wire
2. Heroes
3. The Office
4. Project Runway
5. The Sopranos (7 episodes left!)

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

daily show/colbert report
scrubs
south park
late night w/conan o'brien
mad tv

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. heroes
2. project runway
3. scrubs
4. king of queens
5. america's next top model

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.

1. The Venture Bros.
2. The Office
3. Big Love (June)
4. The Simpsons
5. Nip/Tuck

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)

I saw Joey Jeremiah at a club about ten years ago. He was wearing a Chip&Pepper shirt. Sadly, he was not wearing the hat.

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!)

1. The Daily Show/Colbert Report

2. The Office

3. Supernatural

4. City Confidential

5. South Park



Honorable mention: Veronica Mars, The Dresden Files, Heroes and Dominick Dunne's Power Privilege and Justice!

Ok. Here's mine:

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

And yes, I do embrace my geekiness.

Manny: Your nephew has a football shaped head?

Just wondering... :D

1)Daily Show/ Colbert Report
2)The Office
3)Scrubs
4)South Park
5)Ugly Betty

(alphabetized so I wouldn't have to rank them...)

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

(In no order)

1) Scrubs
2) Entourage
3) Heroes
4) Supernatural
5) Veronica Mars

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.

Living Room DVR...
1. The Amazing Race
2. Entourage
3. The Riches
4. House
5. The Office

Bedroom DVR (aka the guilty pleasures)
1. Murder She Wrote
2. Matlock
3. Food Network Challenge
4. The Oblongs
5. Law and Order: SVU

Working for a cable provider certainly has its perks but with all of the TV I watch now, it's hard to believe I spell my name right some days.

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

1)What Not To Wear
2)Project Runway
3)Jeopardy!
4)UFC The Ultimate Fighter
5)The Office

-Law and Order CI

-Sopranos

-Little Britain

- Charm School (just started,um yeah)

- Office

Currently airing:
1. Daily Show/Colbert Report
2. South Park
3. House
4. The Tudors
5. America's Next Top Model (you're not alone in guilt, alanna)

Battlestar Galactica and Dexter would be at the top of the list ... but they are months away!

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).

South Park
The Office
Lost
Eureka
Torchwood (okay, so I have to download this one, but it's still in my top 5 shows)

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

The Office
Lost
Grey's Anatomy
Gilmore Girls
Heroes

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.)

1. Battlestar Galactica

2. Veronica Mars

3. Heroes

4. Grey's Anatomy

5. ANTM - Honestly, it's because I find fourfour/TWOP recaps that much funnier when I've seen the reference material.

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

1. Workout
2. Good Eats (it's in reruns - I don't care!!)
3. The Soup
4. Antiques Roadshow (American or BBC version)
5. Cash in the Attic (only when Allistair and Paul Hayes are on. Rawr.)

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. Veronica Mars
2. Ugly Betty
3. Weeds
4. Heroes
5. BSG

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!

1. Planet Earth
2. the Daily Show
3. the Henry Rollins Show
4. the Office
5. Man vs. Wild

I love me some Discovery Channel. Bear Grylls is a badass.

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.

Veronica Mars
Lost
Daily Show
Heroes
CSI

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

1. Grey's Anatomy
2. Heroes
3. Prison Break
4. Nip/Tuck
5. Numb3rs (absolutely in love with David Krumholtz!)

Next one on the list is House, but the whole Cameron/Chase thing knocked it off the top 5

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...

1. Veronica Mars!!!! (yes, I am one of those rabid fans)

2. House

3. The Office

4. Scrubs

5. CSI (original only, please!)

And that's honestly all the TV I watch.

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. Planet Earth
2. The Office (although...guys...it's gone downhill lately. Admit it.)
3. Entourage
4. Intervention
5. Weeds

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

1. The Office
2. Battlestar Galactica
3. Scrubs
4. The Daily Show
5. The Colbert Report

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. Lost
2. 24
3. America's Next Top Model
4. Brothers and Sisters
5. Arrested Development - i live for the re-runs.

Honorable Mentions:

Project Runway
Deadliest Catch- I can't believe someone already mentioned it! It's a very interesting show actually. I encourage all to watch it.

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

I do not have TiVo, and thus wait the insufferable period for my favorite shows to come out on DVD so I can Netflix them. That being said, these are what I would watch if I had the technology:
1) Veronica Mars
2) Battlestar Galactica (luckily my parents TiVo this one)
3) Heroes
4) Lost
5) Bones

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.

Grey's Anatomy--I have almost given up on it. It more or less blows these days, but I'm watching to see how it winds up the season.

The Riche$--Awesome. I love this show. I will watch it religiously.

Scrubs--To be fair I only watch the reruns on WGN. But I do love this show. John C. McGinley is a genius.

30 Rock--I've liked the few episodes I've seen, but I only see it on in-flight viewing, and I've never bothered watching it on actual television.

Planet Earth--I decided ten years ago that the Discovery Chanel had, as an entity, jumped the shark. But this series is freaking amazing.

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

1. Battlestar Galactica
2. 30 Rock
3. The Office
4. Heroes
5. Studio 60 (although i doubt its ever coming back)

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. House

2. Grey's Anatomy

3. Gilmore Girls

4. King of the Hill

5. Simpsons

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

The Office
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show
Scrubs
Weeds

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.

House MD
The Office
Lost
Gilmore Girls
Ugly Betty

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

Dexter and Grey's Anatomy just miss the cut.

1. The Office
2. 30 Rock
3. Bones
4. Heroes
5. Veronica Mars

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)

I know I listed 5 already, but I do want to add that I am also totally blown away by Planet Earth (I will buy that on DVD once I have a High-Def TV), and seeing a couple Adult Swim shows on other lists made me remember: I am totally digging 'Tim and Eric's Awesome Show, Great Job!' It is weird as hell, and I love every minute of it.

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

I am just going to list them all...

The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
The Wire
Dexter
Battlestar Galactica
Weeds
The Office
Scrubs
South Park
Trailer Park Boys
Heroes

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.

1. Battlestar Galactica
2. The Office
3. Project Runway
4. This American Life
5. The Amazing Race

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.

1. The Office
2. Daily Show/Colbert Report
3. Gilmore Girls (she lives in hope)
4. Smallville (he lives in hope)
5. Dirty Jobs

The real question is which ones do you save after watching.

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.

At the risk of sounding extremely repetitive:

1. Lost

2. Heroes

3. 24 (Although this season is shit. You know it, I know it.)

4. How I Met Your Mother

5. The Office

Honorable Mention: Ed vs. Spencer on BBCAmerica. They may be old, but they're new to me, so I'm compulsively tivoing them to catch up.

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"

My choices would be pretty much in line with the others if you keep in mind the no cable/living in Canada thing.

My question is, how long is Hugh Hefner's latest cum-dumpster going to be on my screen? And Lethal is back? Oh man, I'd forgotten about her.

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. Friday Night Lights
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. Ugly Betty
4. The Office
6. The Simpsons

(I don't have cable either)

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.

Yes, I am a geek. A sci-fi geek.

1. Lost
2. Battlestar Gallactica
3. Re-runs of Star Trek Deep Space Nine (the BEST Star Trek, Sorry Jean Luc)
4. The Daily Show
5. South Park

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 Sopranos (come on, no one?)
2) The Office
3) Colbert Report
4) Entourage
5) Baseball Tonight (and I'm a girl too. I need help for my obsession)

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

Battlestar Galactica
Heroes
Supernatural
Psych
Veronica Mars

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

1. Heroes
2. House
3. Grey's Anatomy
4. Entourage
5. America's Next Top Model or So You Think You Can Dance (depending on the season)

Wow, after seeing that in print I am really starting to doubt my intelligence.

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. Veronica Mars
2. Lost
3. The Office
4. Heroes
5. The Colbert Report

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

Dexter

Blood Ties

The Dresden Files

Heroes

Numb3rs

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

Wow! We all have very similar tastes

1. Lost
2. Heroes
3. Gilmore Girls
4. The Office
5. Grey's Anatomy

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!

1. Ugly Betty

2. Planet Earth

3. Brothers & Sisters

4. Lost

5. Boston Legal

1. Nip/Tuck
2. Entourage
3. Weeds
4. Ugly Betty
5. The Daily Show

Six Feet Under, how I miss thee!

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. Jeopardy
2. The Office
3. Simpsons
4. Entourage
5. Antiques Roadshow

1. The Office

2. Scrubs

3. Family Guy

4. South Park

5. Ugly Betty

1. Rome
2. Survivor
3. The Daily Show
4. MXE
5. The Amazing Race

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.

Defending Degrassi...

Yeah, Dustin, I'll give it a shot.

First off, I grew up on the original show. I watched it on Saturday nights on PBS after Doctor Who. It is very much an integral part of my youth, and I couldn't have expressed the reasons for my affection better than Ranylt did above. I cared about those characters, and many of them had surprisingly richly drawn depths. Spike's pregnancy, Wheels' parents' death...those things resonated with me in ways not yet seen in my real world life at the time (fortunately).

Dismissing it as Saved By The Bell for Canadians...well, that's frankly insulting to my precious Degrassi. Saved By The Bell? That slapstick, laughtrack-dependent, "ooo"-ing-when-people-kiss foolishness? Degrassi is filled with real, relatable characters who face real, relatable problems that aren't tied up neatly in a bow every single half hour. Saved By The Bell had a talking robot, for God's sake! If Zach Morris were in the world of Degrassi and attempted his shenanigans, believe me, his comeuppance would be much more than a forgiving chortle from Mr. Belding. As the tagline for the current incarnation of Degrassi says: "Degrassi - it goes there."

It was with great reluctance that I began watching The Next Generation. I assumed it would be modernized and turned into far too much of a soap opera in order to sell to a hipper audience, much like the show that Degrassi inspired - Beverly Hills 90210. What drew me in was the presence of adult characters from my original beloved series. If Joey, Snake, Spike, and Caitlin were still in this universe, then I was interested.

So, I began to watch just within the past year, and I'm still in the process of getting caught up. I was pleasantly surprised to find this new Degrassi is very worthy of its predecessor.

Certainly it bothers me a little that the most common demographic for Degrassi viewers is teenage girls. I do laughingly dismiss it as "Canadian teenage melodrama" and a guilty pleasure when people ask me what the hell I'm watching. I readily admit that there are a few more soap-opera tinges than I would like at times. But Degrassi taps into a very primal, nostalgic time for me. Its characters compel you to care about their hopes, their dreams, and their loves. The show reminds me of a time when those things in my own personal life had an entirely different significance.

If you were to watch the entire series and didn't feel a tug at the heartstrings when Spinner gives Jimmy that hug in last season's finale, then you are a lost soul. Simply put, for what it is, Degrassi works on all cylinders.

I appreciate the defense, Rob. It makes a lot more sense, then. I actually attempted to start with "The Next Generation," and perhaps my unfamiliarity with the original cast made it a little less palatable. Also, my lack of patience. I don't disrespect your fondness at all (and apologies for the "Saved by the Bell" comparison.) -- DR

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-Veronica Mars

2-The Ritches

3-America's Next Top Model

4-Ugly Betty

5-The Daily Show/Colbert Report

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

I second what Rob said about Degrassi. Saved by the Bell is the last show that would come to mind when trying to find a comparision. Teen pregnancy and drunk driving dealt with in a serious, complex manner and not solved in one episode, visible severe acne, no laugh track= the polar opposite of Saved by the Bell. I'm an American and I love Saved by the Bell as a nostalgic Saturday morning tradition, but it's nothing like Degrassi, which used to air on PBS in my town when I was in junior high. I was obsessed with it, probably because it was much more "real" than anything else for teenagers then.

So what is TNG all about? I thought it looked too glossy and cheesy, but maybe I'll give it a try. Is it like the kids that were on the original show as parents now, or what?

1. BSG

2. Lost

3. Medium

4. 24

5. Heroes

Man this is hard. How can I narrow it down to just five.

1. Battlestar Galactica
2. The Office
3. Veronica Mars
4. The Colbert Report
5. The Daily Show

Apologies to those who did not make the cut.

1. Friday Night Lights

2. The Office

3. America's Next Top Model

4. Battlestar Galactica

5. Heroes

1. BSG
2. The Office
3. Ugly Betty
4. The Daily Show
5. Good Eats

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

1) Friday Night Lights (best show ever, I need a second season!!)

2) Battlestar Galactica

3) House (Hugh Laurie!!)

4) Supernatural (guilty pleasure)

5) Veronica Mars (for old time's sake)

Also crazy about Deadwood, but status unknown.

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.

Uh, I meant legal. Sorry.

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?!?!

Oh, Corner Gas! I love that show. Too bad our budgets only allow for such short seasons. And yeah, Degrassi is completely divorced from reason. I was a bit young for the first wave, and a bit old for the second one, but it is definitely an institution which defies logic. And you'd be surprised to see how gratifying it is to see teenagers on television who aren't 26-year-old bulimics decked out in Prada. I could imagine kids making a band called 'The Zit Remedy', couldn't you?

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

Oh to have a TiVo and American networks...living in Ireland I must wait all day downloading or watch on crappy quality. Anyway:

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

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. Friday Night Lights
2. Dexter
3. Battlestar Galactica
4. The Office
5. Ugly Betty

With Heroes as a close runner-up!

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.

1) The Office
2) 30 Rock
3) Criminal Minds
4) Good Eats
5) Scrubs (Although the most recent episode with the cochlear implant really pissed me off, I remain fiercely loyal to this show. Sigh.)

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. :- )

Hmmm...I did some combining I watch too much TV, honestly.

- NBC Thursday Night Line-up (Earl, Office, Scrubs, & 30 Rock)

- Haunted on Discovery (love the badly re-enacted ghost story)

- Bones

- Daily Show/Colbert Report

- Law and Order: CI (Vincent D'onfrio is HOT and totally my TV boyfriend)

Okay....one more, seriously I'm unemployed I need TV

- What Not to Wear on TLC

Oh and sometimes, Dr. Phil.

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

1. Doctor Who
2. House
3. Bones
4. Scrubs
5. Psych

If you weren't counting British television, I don't have five season passes on my DVR.

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 ...)

Jeebus, this posting software is fully ganked!

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

1. Felicity (they just started showing it - from the beginning on Fuse...whatever Fuse is)

2. Whatever the new Real World-Road Rules challenge is (the inferno, the gauntlet?)

3. Grey's

4. Friday Night Lights

5. Weeds

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.

I knew I loved you Pajiban people! Only one person put the dreaded American Idol on their list. And many of your lists look similar to mine. ;)

1. Heroes
2. Medium
3. Gilmore Girls
4. Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip (when will you return??)
5. Miami Ink

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

1. Scrubs
2. The Sopranos
3. The Simpsons
4. 30 Rock
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...

In no particular order:

House
The Office
Nip/Tuck
Big Love
Southpark

Rome would be on the list if it was still showing. Oh why must all good things end!

Veronica Mars
Ugly Betty
Brothers and Sisters
Weeds
Jeopardy

1. the office
2. 30 rock
3. dexter
4. deadliest catch
5. this american life

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.

seeing as I have BASIC cable (yeah im a broke college student) this is going to be really easy

-House MD

-Heroes

-Grey's Anatomy

-Ugly Betty

-Gilmore Girls/Criminal Minds

(GG has been on a break sooo my attention has been diverted. actually that applies to my TV watching in general, I've recently discovered/rediscovered how good the thursday lineup on NBC is.)

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

1. Heroes (Can't wait for its return)
2. Veronica Mars
3. Family Guy
4. America's Next Top Model (So sue me)
5. Grey's Anatomy (Although the latest story lines have me losing the love fast)

(Rome used to be on that list but it's over... sigh). I keep missing Dexter, though I've loved the few episodes I've seen.

in order of overall quality:

ugly betty
dexter
law & order: criminal intent
lost
weeds

Veronica Mars
Friday Night Lights
Battlestar Galactica
Heroes
Grey's Anatomy (though I'm quickly losing patience with it)

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

Also, those are the shows I must not only watch, but tape, every week! :D heh

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

1. Lost
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. Battlestar Galactica
4. Psych
5. Heroes

The Office

24

Planet Earth

Psych

House

the office
how i met your mother
heroes
the riches
ugly betty

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

re: Leigh- Oh, how sad to be pointed out on a thread as the only person to put American Idol on her list! Oh well, I'm ok with it. I fully realize it's ridiculous and awful but I still am addicted. Think of it like a Whopper or any fast food item of your choice. Cheap, processed, bad for you, and impossible to give up for good. Although, this season really is the absolute worst, even by AI standards.

Incidentally, Leigh, Leigh is my middle name. Weird.

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. The Soup
2. Monk
3. Entorage
4. The Sopranos
5. 24/CSI

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

Rome will not be removed until my mourning has ended.

Heroes
Battlestar Galactica
The Daily Show
Small Space, Big Style
Boston Legal

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.

1. 30 Rock
2. Andy Barker PI
3. Ugly Betty
4. Good Eats
5. What Not to Wear

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 Office
2. 30 Rock
3. CASH CAB!!!!
4. So You Think You Can Dance
5. Daily Show/Colbert Report

Honorable Mentions: House, Grey's, ER...I really like hospital shows

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.

....also, I usually tivo at least one history channel documentary a week.

"Oooh....the Black Death? The ancient tribes of Antarctica? Hitler's favorite mustache trimmer? Record that shit!"

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.

1.) 30 Rock
2.) Entourage
3.) The Office
4.) Weeds
5.) Friday Night Lights

fuck it...im just going to keep going.

6.) Heroes
7.) The Sopranos
8.) Any RW/RR challenge (yes, im fucking lame)
9.) Dexter
10.) Scrubs (would have been #3, two years ago)
11.) The Simpsons (was my all time number 1 until 2001)
12.) Aqua Teen Hunger Force

...ok im starting to look lame(r), ill stop now

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

No Tivo, no dvr, but I just can't help myself with these lists. Damn you Pajiba (she said with the upmost love and affection).

1. The Wire
2. Scrubs
3. The Sopranos
4. The Office
5. Big Love

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- Heroes (next week, yay!).
2- Doctor Who (probably this winter).
3- Battlestar Galactica (forever from now).
4- America's Next Top Model.
5- The Girls Next Door.

Degrassi was a close sixth, and would have been higher if I actually got that channel at my curren residence.
Oh, and Mythbusters, but that's on enough that I don't need to tape it or anything.

What's kind of sad is the fact that the only shows I'm currently watching on a regular basis are the ones I'm usually ashamed to admit to.

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.

5. The Tudors
4. My Boys
3. Planet Earth
2. How I Met Your Mother
1. The Office

South Park
The Colbert Report
Smallville
Baseball Tonight
Pardon the Interruption

I try not to watch tv. However, there are 2 tv shows that stand out for me against all others: Freaks and Geeks and Arrested Development. I watched Freaks straight through only once, alone, in my first year of university and was incredibly moved and inspired by the writing, acting, quirkiness et cetera.
AD was playing non-stop in my apartment the last year of university (last year). My roomates and I would watch seasons 1, 2 and 3 on one roomates Apple computer and then start it over again. We were always laughing- it was amazing.
Sorry I'm a jerk for not contributing to the discussion here, but common! Pajiba lovers, I feel like these are the most definitive series for us, especially because they were short-lived.

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

1. Veronica Mars - dear God, please do something with Logan. I'm so over his mopey-but-oh-so-pretty angst

2. Grey's Anatomy

3. E.R. (soon to be renamed "Everybody Loves Neela")

...nope. That's it.

I'd include House but it's too formulaic...

I'd include Entourage but even though I've seen it all, I'm still not sure if I actually *like* it...

I'd mention Doctor Who, but I'm still smarting over last week's "expelliarmus" debacle...

And I'm desperately seeking episodes of Chicago Hope. Any ideas?

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

thx to torr...

Dexter (La Passion!)
Veronica Mars (snappy)
Lost (Persistence pays off!)
24 (i can't help it)
Heroes (just to have something to talk about at the bar that isn't Prison Break)

thx to dvd:

The Wire. Truly hard to believe a show like that could even get made in the US.

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!)

Being a Brit I cannot TiVo shows :( I do however get a weekly delivery from a very good friend with a fast connection....

1) Grey's Anatomy
2) Heroes
3) Veronica Mars (Eeeeee!)
4) Ugly Betty
5) Supernatural

Oh and 24, Battlestar Galactica, Dexter and House but I tend to watch those in several episode at a time blocks and not on a weekly basis.

*sigh* I have such pedestrian TV habits at the moment.

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)

I posted a list, and now I just want to say that as a brit without sky/cable/whatever, it is really frustrating to suddenly read little comments about what is currently happening in a show you love because guess what. I am months behind you! And I don't want to know what happens thankyouverymuch. Grrr.

And the Office? Really? That show sucks.

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 - Dexter
2 - The Office
3 - 30 Rock
4 - Southpark
5 - Lost

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!

1. House

2. My Name is Earl

3. The Office

4. Scrubs

5. Dexter

Dexter
Weeds
House
30 Rock
Battlestar Galactica

1. Friday Night Lights
2. Gilmore Girls
3. Lost
4. Scrubs
5. The Office

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!

Mo - Whose Line is on all the time on BBCAmerica

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

Don't have tivo, but these are the shows I hate to miss:(no particular order)

1) Supernatural
2) Doctor Who
3) Ugly Betty
4) Dexter
5) Friday Night lights

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.

Scrubs
Battlestar Galactica (gotta catchup on those)
Addiction
Whatever's on HBO on Sunday night (Was "Rome"-->Is "Sopranos"-->Will Be "Big Love")
Anthony Bourdain's No Reservations

Scrubs is on about 20 channels on my cable lineup. I think my daughter's Season Pass'd about half of them.

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.

Sorry, that should be "is the anime better..."

Truman Capote's voice is ringing in my ears. "Is the, IS THE, use your goddamned propositions!"

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)

I'm sooooo late. But hey, I still have to get my two cents in even though I'm sure these will be scorned.

The Soup
South Park
Family Guy
House
The Tudors

Yeah, yeah, I know. All mine are guilty pleasures but I'm paying the cable bill so it's all good. Wow - half my list reads like I'm a 12 year old boy. Oh well. (grin)

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

1. House
2. The Daily Show
3. What Not to Wear (Hush, I'm a girl.)
4. Knitty Gritty
5. NHL Hockey (specifically the Penguins)

These are the only shows I watch with any regularity not counting Saturday Morning Cartoons for my four year old. Project Runway would have made the list if they weren't taking so darn long with season 4.

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. Veronica Mars
2. Battlestar Galacatica
3. 30 Rock
4. Law & Order: SVU
5. Buffy the Vampire Slayer (FX reruns soon to be switched to Angel reruns on TNT)

Honorable Mention: Deadwood, Big Love and Dexter all get skipped on the Tivo for the OnDemand option

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.

I'm not sure if I count, since my student lifestyle precludes cable and I therefore download all my TV shows selectively (and am effectively shielded from trying new things, like this Friday Night Lights I keep hearing so much about). But of the things I do put the effort in to see semi-regularly, I guess we have:

The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
The Office
America's Next Top Model (yeah, yeah, but campy humour and bitchfights? yes please)
Scrubs (waning)

in no particular order.

Also, a billion comments later, I'm still laughing at this:

(I have been watching Discovery with increasing frequency...like How It's Made...umm guess what...now I know how to make buttons, axes, marbles, drums, jawbreakers, propellers, swords, and a couple other things. Thank god i know how to make buttons now)

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

1. Heroes
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. Men in Trees
4. Ugly Betty
5. America's Next Top Model

This is too hard. I watch too much TV

1. Veronica Mars

2. House

3. Grey's Anatomy

4. Ugly Betty

5. Gilmore Girls

1. The Wire
2. The Office
3. Lost
4. Battlestar Gallactica
5. What Not to Wear (me)/ The Shield (my husband)

Honorable Mentions: ER (yes, we are still hanging on), 30 Rock, My Name is Earl, Law and Order, The Apprentice

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!

1. Heroes
2. The Office
3. LOST
4. The Sopranos
5. Entourage/Big Love...tie

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

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

I have 2 Tivos. Don't judge me.

Tivo #1:
1. Friday Night Lights
2. Heroes
3. The Office
4. How I Met Your Mother
5. 30 Rock

Tivo #2:
1. Supernatural
2. Veronica Mars
3. Battlestar Galactica
4. Gilmore Girls
5. Brothers & Sisters

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. The Office

2. Ladette to Lady (Sundance Channel)

3. Ninja Warrier

4. Top Model

5. Flip that House

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

1. 24
2. The Office
3. 30 Rock
4. House
5. Heroes

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).

Heroes
Battlestar Galactica
Friday Night Lights
Veronica Mars
30 Rock
Those are my favorites

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"

Just average college kids presenting you with our humble TiVo season pass list:

1. The Office
2. Scrubs
3. Colbert Report
4. Daily Show
5. Conan O'Brien

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

Bedroom TiVo:

1. Lost
2. The Office
3. Penn & Teller: Bullshit
4. Deadliest Catch
5. My Name is Earl

Living Room TiVo:

1. 30 Rock
2. South Park
3. The Sopranos
4. House
5. The Riches

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.

1. 30 Rock (Alec Baldwin is genius!)
2. House
3. The New Adventures of Old Christine (Why isn't anyone watching this?--it is hysterical!)
4. Best Week Ever
5. The Office

And when they're on: It's Always Sunny in Philadephia, 30 Days, Rescue Me, Nip/Tuck--F/X rules!

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.) Scrubs
3.) Raines
4.) Studio 60 (not...officially...cancelled...yet?)

That's all I consider worth the space. When Curb Your Enthusiasm comes back, maybe I'll add it.

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

1. The Shield
2. Psych
3. Top Chef
4. The Soup
5. Battlestar Galactica

If I had HBO/Showtime The Wire and Dexter (only watched one but liked it and love the books) would kick off Top Chef and The Soup.

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

1. Six Feet Under (RIP - thank goodness for Bravo)
2. Grey's Anatomy
3. The Wonder Years (ION rocks!!)
4. Brothers and Sisters
5. Inside the Actor's Studio

"...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.

Love to the people who mentioned Corner Gas!
I LOVE that show, but I always have to wait for the release of the dvds, as I can't find it regularly on tv in Aus.
Someone holla when season 4 comes out, ok? :)

1. Veronica Mars (LIVE for it!)

2. Heroes

3. Planet Earth

4. ANTM

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

Friday Night Lights
Entourage
The Wire
The Office
Heroes

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

1. House
2. Heroes
3. The Office
4. Entourage
5. The Riches

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

Ok, so as you may have guessed from my nom de plume, I am in China, so I don't get many good shows at all (Thai cable is complete suckage) BUT on DVD:
1.Scrubs
2.Numb3rs
3.Rome (I know it is a miniseries and finished but I LOVE IT. Don't make me go all Titus Pullo on your asses)
4.Weeds
5.Men in Trees (yes, a bit craptastic but have crush on Jack)

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.

OK, here goes. Damn Spring line up, my shows are diwindling and mostly gone.
Still on air:

The Riches
24 (this show is f-ing hilarious)
Lost (got good once they decided it wasn't a soap opera)
Heroes

On hiatus:
Battlestar Galactica

Gone forever:
Deadwood
Rome

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

The Office
Friday Night Lights
The Daily Show
Veronica Mars
30 Rock

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.

house
heroes
sopranos
south park
the office

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.

Weighing in on Degrassi, I am and was a casual watcher of both the original and TNG. Both touch on the "heavy" topics, as many have pointed out here, but I think the new one has lost a little of the realism of the old. The kids are a little less...typical-looking, a little more typical-TV-looking. I kind of prefer the "un-glossed" version.

Brian (if you're still reading) - thanks for the tip re. the original Whose Line on BBC America! Not sure if I get the channel here in Canada but I'll definitely check it out.

Glad I'm not the only Corner Gas fan out there! I can't convince my co-workers that it's an excellent show. Of course, they're all reality TV junkies. Ah well, to each their own...

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

1. Lost
2. Heroes
3. Friday Night Lights
4. Entourage
5. Tie - 24, Weeds and Jericho

Honorable mention - Black Donnellys

Friday Night Lights
Sopranos
Dexter
Entourage
South Park

(Arrested Development)

"Heres a thought: Chill out and understand the idea of gentle tongue-in-cheek annoyance.
Posted by: amanda at April 18, 2007 8:30 AM"

Oh I understand the concept.
I see my mistake. The comment lacked actual wit or funny, so I didn't twig. :)

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

1. Heroes
2. Ninja Warrior
3. Daily Show / Colbert Report
4. Scrubs
5. Charmed (reruns on TNT)

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

honorable mention: Daily Show

Silent Witness*
Lost
The Shield
Stargate Atlantis
heroes

*I have a bit of an obsession with a bunch of BBC shows like Footballer's Wives, Hex, Robin Hood, Spaced, Black Books, The Office...I could go on. =)

Nip / Tuck
Sopranos
Weeds
Grey's Anatomy
Project Runway

Deadwood (sniff...)
Sopranos
the Office (UNSHUN--last week was hilarious, so NO they are not "losing it"--RESHUN)
Daily Show/Colbert Report
Deadwood (because i hate you, HBO)

honorable mention: Big Love, 30 Rock, and How I Met Your Mother (it's freaking doogie for Fsake)

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

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

oh tv. how i love thee.

1. Veronica Mars
2. The Office
3. 30 Rock
4. How I Met Your Mother
5. Heroes

"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: Battlestar Galactica
2: Heroes
3: Scrubs
4: Weeds
5: Dexter

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

The Wonder Years (airing on ION, right before the SOFT ROCK Time Life infomercial starring AIR SUPPLY)

The Office

Lost

Tim and Eric's Awesome Show (great job)

How I Met Your Mother

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

1) Heroes


2) Lost


3) Battlestar Galactica


4) The Closer


5) Kyle XY




I don't have TIVO (yet), but these are the only shows on television that I will re-arrange my life to watch.

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. The Wire (best-ever non-Whedon TV)
2. Deadwood
3. Battlestar Galactica
4. The Shield
5. Veronica Mars

Movies may have declined, but the tube is getting stronger.

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.

Gilmore Girls (I love me some Stars Hollow)
Grey's Anatomy
Desperate Housewives
Supernatural (the music alone is killer; Jensen Ackles is yummy)
Tie: Bones/House

Honorable mentions: Studio 60, Medium, How I Met Your Mother, Two and ½ Men and 24. (I love Bauer, but the plot is getting so tired. There's a nuclear bomb and a Middle Eastern terrorist? Seriously? Didn't I already watch that, like, three times? Next season let a Canadian go berserk with tainted maple syrup candy - that might be fun.)

Oh, and to the person who mentioned Dead Like Me - Yes!! So bummed they didn't do more seasons.

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.)

in no particular order:

Project Runway
Grey's Anatomy
The Riches
The Closer
The Office

Lost

The Office

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

Daily Show

uhh....Grey's Anatomy?

Veronica Mars
The Office
Heroes
Battlestar Galactica (when it comes back)
South Park

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.

1. The Wire
2. Battlestar Galactica
3. Veronica Mars
4. Ugly Betty
5. Heroes

Only 5? That sucks!
Honorable Mention on the TiVo: Eastenders.

Daily Show
Colbert Report
Project Runway
Top Chef
Scrubs

Wow is this an after-the-fact post, but some times you just got to say, 'what the fuck.' I've worked a third shift job for the past three and a half years, so I never saw Arrested Development or Lost. Recently, I bought and completed watching the first season of Lost. If I had a chance to watch TV, I would choose:

1) Lost (I remember reading about every fan's dissapointment in the second season, something I hope to experience soon)
2) My Name Is Earl (Own on DVD, Jaime Pressley makes the show in my opinion)
3) Veronica Mars (Own season 1 and 2 on DVD)
4) Dexter (Sounds like an interesting concept)
5) It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia (Watched a few episodes on the web, frickin' hilarious)

Actually, Pajiba turned me on to a few shows, including Freaks & Geeks. Thank you. And love live Pajiba.

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.

I'm a late bloomer on this question... In no particular order I guess it'd be:

*Gene Simmons Family Jewels (I have a new appreciation for Gene and Shannon)

*What About Brian? (It's cute)

*Nip/Tuck

*Dirt (I know, I know... BUT I watched two episodes and became addicted)

*The Office

Thursday night television is a hard night to choose from. It's basically the only time I sit in front of the tv for a block of time. I also have an addiction to ANTM- God help me and Dancing With the Stars. (Go Joey Fatone!)

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

Ok, so I'm a little late to the game, but here goes (and I'm tossing my hubby's picks because they are good geeky shows like "Mythbusters" and various Food Network shows that I don't love as much as he does):

1. Days of our Lives in Dillion, TX (my pet name for Friday Night Lights)
2. The Office
3. Lost (I refuse to give up- this season is FINALLY starting to get interesting)
4. House (yeah, it's usually the same premise almost every week, but I LOVE Hugh Laurie)
5. Psych (a guilty pleasure)

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

I'm late. But this looked fun. And hell, I was bored enough to read all the comments, so I'm sure as hell leaving my own at this point.

1- Doctor Who (uh..I have my own Sonic Screwdriver. On my desk. Looking at it right now. Carry it with me everywhere. More than enough said.)
2- Ugly Betty
3- Heroes (it's finally back!)
4- Dexter
5- Boston Legal (Shatner/Spader = OTP!)

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).

Yeah, yeah, I am really late on this one, but I still want to list the shows that I like watching.

Top 5 shows (in no particular order):
1. Any of the History Channel's Monday night line-up (Building an Empire, Digging for the Truth, etc.)
2. Project Runway- but really any Top whatever show. I'm currently watching Shear Genius. Bravo seems to make it work no matter what.
3. Ugly Betty- I really adore this show on so many levels.
4. Any Flavor of Love Catastrophe
5. Nip/Tuck

Some honorable mentions:
Heroes, Grey's Anatomy, 30 Rock, The Office, TDS/Colbert Rreport and Iron Chef- Let me be frank. I pretty much love watching The Food Network, except for Rachel Ray. Also, I could watch the History Channel for an entire lifetime.

Shows that are gone but still kickin'it on DVD:
Arrested Development, Sex and the City, Futurama, and The Office (BBC version)

Also, I really don't watch that much television. I just watch TV at odd times and intervals which allows me to watch a wide variety of programs. I probably should have listed What Not To Wear, as well.