Last year around this time we ran and organized a poll to come up with our 100 favorite movies (1? Apocalypse Now). It was a really fun time and provoked a lot of interesting discussion. I thought we could do something similar this year, only with TV shows.
Here are some guidelines:
1. The TV shows can come from any genre, time period, or country (includes anime series). Documentary series like "America Undercover" and "Frontline" and Reality TV both count, but Nightly News casts do not.
2. It's reccomended that you stick to shows that have either been cancelled or have been on for at least two seasons. This rule will not be enforced, but it saves the top 10 from being dominated by shows that were just on (Lost, Desperate Housewives, Veronica Mars). However, shows that were only on for one season yet were excellent (Firefly, although that's nowhere near my top 10) count.
3. I'll do the organizing and polling. Send me your lists through PM or e-mail to brendan.heldenfels@gmail.com. You can list any number of shows between 100 and 10.
4. In terms of determining which is #1, we'll use the point scale process. For example, if your top 10 looked like this:
Johnny Come Lately's Top 10 Shows of All Time
1. West Wing
2. Silk Stalkings
3. NYPD Blue
4. ER
5. Captain Planet and the Planeteers
6. Lost in Space
7. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
8. Frontline
9. Upstairs, Downstairs
10. The Office
West Wing would be awarded 100 points, Silk Stalkings 99 points, NYPD Blue 98 points, and so forth and so on. The totals for each series would be added together to determine which places the highest.
5. Let's say that the deadline for this is two weeks from today (if this is too long, we can change it--I want this to be a group thing). I'll then post the winners, counting down from 100, in a separate thread.
6. Feel free to post your individual lists here, or we can create a seperate thread for discussion as well.
This should be fun if we get a lot of people to participate.
Again, PM your lists or send them to me at brendan.heldenfels@gmail.com, and let's get some discussion going!
Here are some guidelines:
1. The TV shows can come from any genre, time period, or country (includes anime series). Documentary series like "America Undercover" and "Frontline" and Reality TV both count, but Nightly News casts do not.
2. It's reccomended that you stick to shows that have either been cancelled or have been on for at least two seasons. This rule will not be enforced, but it saves the top 10 from being dominated by shows that were just on (Lost, Desperate Housewives, Veronica Mars). However, shows that were only on for one season yet were excellent (Firefly, although that's nowhere near my top 10) count.
3. I'll do the organizing and polling. Send me your lists through PM or e-mail to brendan.heldenfels@gmail.com. You can list any number of shows between 100 and 10.
4. In terms of determining which is #1, we'll use the point scale process. For example, if your top 10 looked like this:
Johnny Come Lately's Top 10 Shows of All Time
1. West Wing
2. Silk Stalkings
3. NYPD Blue
4. ER
5. Captain Planet and the Planeteers
6. Lost in Space
7. Buffy the Vampire Slayer
8. Frontline
9. Upstairs, Downstairs
10. The Office
West Wing would be awarded 100 points, Silk Stalkings 99 points, NYPD Blue 98 points, and so forth and so on. The totals for each series would be added together to determine which places the highest.
5. Let's say that the deadline for this is two weeks from today (if this is too long, we can change it--I want this to be a group thing). I'll then post the winners, counting down from 100, in a separate thread.
6. Feel free to post your individual lists here, or we can create a seperate thread for discussion as well.
This should be fun if we get a lot of people to participate.
Again, PM your lists or send them to me at brendan.heldenfels@gmail.com, and let's get some discussion going!
