November 4, 2024

Some shows are missing, some shows are way down in the rankings

Photo by Milad Fakurian on Unsplash

Many of these shows when I was growing up were not shown in the UK because they didn’t translate well. I’ve never heard of them. There are numerous shows I loved which didn’t make the list. The following list I’ve picked out from the 100 are the ones I’ve seen. There are a few in the early days I watched because of my parents. Frazier didn’t make the list which was a bit weird. And Friends only made it to 29 on the list. No mention of Cagney & Lacey, which was iconic for battling sexism and discussing women’s issues. I think the list was more about TV show formats and the golden age.

Going through the list of 100 TV shows it dawned on me how much of our lives from the 1960’s onwards, we spent watching a box for entertainment to distract us from our mundane lives. Enjoy.

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Variety Top 100 TV shows

TV shows I’ve watched from the Variety list:

Will & Grace — the first TV show I reviewed in Hollywood for a gay TV Film column.

Homeland

Black Mirror

St Elsewhere

Happy Days

Stranger Things

Columbo

Fleabag

Thirtysomething

The Muppet Show

DallasTaxi

NYPD Blue

The People v O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story

Roseanne

Gret’s Anatomy

Angels in America

Orange is the New Black

South Park

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Six Feet Under

My So-Called Life

The Shield

Star Trek: The Next Generation

The X-Files

ER

Hill Street Blues

Twin Peaks

30 Rock

Game of Thrones

60 Minutes

The Golden Girls

The Oprah Winfrey Show

Saturday Night Live

The Twilight Zone

Sesame Street

Cheers

Roots

The Mary Tyler More Show

Seinfeld

Sex and the City

Breaking Bad

The Simpsons

The Sopranos

Mad Men

I Love Lucy


That’s all folks!

Ginger Liu is the founder of Ginger Media & Entertainment, a Ph.D. Researcher in artificial intelligence and visual arts media — specifically death tech, digital afterlife, AI death and grief practices, AI photography, entertainment, security, and policy, and an author, writer, artist photographer, and filmmaker. Listen to the Podcast — The Digital Afterlife of Grief.

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