Top 250 TV shows, as rated by IMDB members. List updated daily.
The Trakt top 250 TV shows, based on popularity. List updated daily.
A collection of TV shows listed in various 'best of the decade' articles, with the default sort by the number of times they are mentioned
Shows on NBC
"BBC Culture polled 206 TV experts from 43 countries in order to find the greatest TV of the 21st Century – here’s the top 100"
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20211015-the-100-greatest-tv-series-of-the-21st-century?ocid=twcul
All credits go to IMDb user: RDLongoria
Situation comedy or comedy centered on characters who carry over from episode to episode.
As of 3/3/2024
The following is a list of series from 1950-2023. Series within were in the top ten of both Trakt’s Popular & Trakt’s All Time Watched in each of their respective years. The exception to that sole guideline above was the years 1950-1955, where the top ten were cross reference as a group as opposed to individual years.
My favorite TV shows throughout my entire TV watching career.
Shows with at least 75% rating on trakt (and enough votes). No documentaries, reality tv or anime.
(Find the post-2010 list here: https://trakt.tv/users/themlethem/lists/highly-rated-shows-post-2010)
(Find the movie list here: https://trakt.tv/users/themlethem/lists/highly-rated-movies-pre-2010)
https://editorial.rottentomatoes.com/guide/best-tv-shows-of-2020/
UPDATED: 2/24/21
Rolling Stone magazine issued a list ranking what they call the 100 best sitcoms of all time. The list was compiled by 4 writers at the pop culture magazine: Alan Sepinwall, Maria Fontoura, David Fear, and Rob Sheffield.
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-lists/best-tv-sitcoms-1162237/
My favourite TV series of all time. Ranked.
List created and maintained by https://listrr.pro
Just what currently showing on TV
https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2019/sep/16/100-best-tv-shows-of-the-21st-century
In 2015, readymade and/or reductive ways of summarizing the year’s TV output cropped up as frequently and unexpectedly as new seasons of Netflix originals. Plummeting viewership foretold a true broadcast apocalypse, until Empire strode onto the scene, expanding its audience in every week of its first season. Season two brought diminished returns (in the ratings and the show’s mad-science approach to soap-opera plotting), though its continued popularity—combined with passionate responses to Black-ish, Fresh Off The Boat, Jane The Virgin, Transparent, Master Of None, and (sigh) Dr. Ken—signaled the TV audience’s interest in a broader range of storytelling perspectives. A few months later, FX CEO John Landgraf seemed to put the TV year in a nutshell, but his prediction of “peak TV in America” was the subject of so much initial handwringing and scrutinizing that the general public (and some of the critics Landgraf was addressing) twisted the notion of peak TV into a jokey hashtag in a matter of weeks.
Some of that response could’ve been knee-jerk defensiveness: Peak TV essentially destroys any TV analyst’s pretensions to comprehensiveness. Any one critic’s list of a year’s best television is bound to have some blindspots, but the members of a voting body (like the A.V. Club staffers and contributors responsible for the following list) can usually fill in one another’s gaps. 2015, however, might be a first in television history, in which no round-up of the year’s finest programming is guaranteed to be all-encompassing. Arguably, there’s a more interesting and less conventional “best TV of 2015” list to be compiled from the margins of A.V. Club contributors’ ballots and the upcoming AVQ&A about the stuff that didn’t make our top 40. But even if the following picks only represent a sliver of the TV that debuted across multiple platforms in the U.S. this year, there’s no arguing that these are the TV offerings that The A.V. Club loved the most as a critical mass. And enjoying something as a critical mass is what a populist art form like television is all about."
Source: http://www.avclub.com/article/best-tv-2015-part-1-229275 / http://www.avclub.com/article/best-tv-2015-part-2-229334
Anything else is not really worth your time.
Most Popular TV Series With At Least 5,000 Votes
These are tv shows that I've finished (at the time of adding to this list) and would recommend to others
IMDB: Top Rated TV Shows
by Justin NemethDirector