Best of tv 2010...what are your favourites?

as 2010 draws (almost) to a close perhaps we here on this forum could look back over the past year, what have been the high points?....what have you enjoyed the most of the year?

I've added a few bulletin points but you can create your own:

1. Best tv show of 2010?
2. Worst tv show of 2010?
3. Biggest dissapointment of 2010?
4. Biggest surprise of 2010?
5. Biggest "guilty pleasure" of 2010?
6. Honourable mention

2010 has been a strange year, in many ways it's been the worst year for new shows, many have just tanked and failed. US network tv is pretty much in the toilet this year with no breakout hits.

It's all been about cable , the biggest success is by far The Walking Dead, with ratings network tv execs. would sell their grandmother for!

HBO has had a great year, The Pacific and Boardwalk Empire....personally i think BE has been a cracker of a show, i just feel people had unrealistic expectations as to what to expect from Boardwalk....probably thinking it would be all violence and gangsters, i personally welcome that BE is a much more character driven drama, it's production values are stellar.

I've had alot of tv choices this year, it's never been boring so i'm greatful for that, and having this forum to discuss shows and exchange banter has been great

Best show of 2010?...it's actually a though choice, i'm gonna surprise people here but i'll explain why:

Nikita: why?...the absolute main reason is it's a spy show and it's on The CW, i'm voting because it's been the biggest surprise for me in terms of consistent quality + it's shocking to belive it's a CW show! :eek:

I swear this show should be on Fox!, Nikita has been a blast, some of the best action and stunts on tv, good characters and acting, good production values, but most important...it's been CONSISTENTLY quality tv.

Worst show of 2010?...easy, Undercovers....JJ Abrams finally got a wakeup call, the golden boy is no longer untouchable. It was an absolute turkey in every way, for many people even coming up with "sexpionage" was an offense :mad:

Biggest guilty pleasure?: it's gotta be Pretty Little Liars - most won't know this tweeny and super girly show, Desperate Housewives for tweens, the breakout hit of 2010 which created an army of dedicated followers.

A cable show with a murder/mystery at it's core that really shouldn't be as good as it is, for me it's a total guilty pleasure...but i'm never one to dismiss a show becuase it's not aimed at "me", or because i'm not a 13-year-old girl.

Biggest disappointment of 2010?....sadly it's The Event , ooh dear...i could write pages about this, it's this years Flash Forward in every sense. It started well, it had 4/5 solid eps. at the start but then fell to bits.
Just like FF, interesting premise but badly executed. The issue is (as with FF) the writing, it's dreadful. The acting from the two leads Ritter and especially Roemer is some of the worst i've seen on tv in many years.

It's on hiatus until March 7th, it's goose is cooked...3 month hiatus killed FF last year, well FF was toast before it's hiatus, and it'll do the same to The Event, the biggest non event this year :rolleyes:

Biggest surprise?...honestly nothing has surprised me, but i guess i'd put Nikita into this box, but nothing else really stands out. I know Spartacus would be here but it was the start of the year and i'm kinda discussing shows that have been on in the second half of the year.

But Spartacus will always be in my heart on any list i could come up with , honorable mention for comedy reasons + better then it should really be, or i thought it would be: The Hard Times Of RJ Berger: hard to belive MTV made this!, it can be very funny at times, it's a rather patchy and inconsistent show....but when it's good it's really good!, the dialogue and humour is at odds with an MTV show, it's very adult, you'd expect this to be on premium cable, and i'd actually prefer it to be so as it would allow the writers/producers much more freedom.

You get the sense they wanna let loose but MTV reign them in, pitty.