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Britain’s Empire magazine has chosen the 50 best TV shows ever made. Turns out they think only 39 of them are American shows!
50. Quantum Leap
49. Prison Break
48. Veronica Mars
47. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine
46. Sex and the City
45. Farscape
44. Cracker
43. Star Trek
42. Only Fools and Horses
41. Band of Brothers
40. Life On Mars
39. Monty Python’s Flying Circus
38. Curb Your Enthusiasm
37. Star Trek: The Next Generation
36. Father Ted
35. Alias
34. Frasier
33. CSI
32. Babylon 5
31. Deadwood
30. Dexter
29. ER
28. Fawlty Towers
27. Six Feet Under
26. Red Dwarf
25. Futurama
24. Twin Peaks
23. The Office
22. The Shield
21. Angel
20. Blackadder
19. Scrubs
18. Arrested Development
17. South Park
16. Doctor Who
15. Heroes
14. Firefly
13. Battlestar Galactica
12. Family Guy
11. Seinfeld
10. SPACED 
9. THE X-FILES
8. THE WIRE
7. FRIENDS
6. 24
5. LOST
4. THE WEST WING
3. THE SOPRANOS
2. BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER
1. THE SIMPSONS
Empire shoehorns 11 limey shows into the list and none of them is “The Prisoner”?? “Only Fools and Horses” gets a higher ranking than the original Kirk-Spock “Star Trek”?? “Father Ted” ranks higher than “Monty Python”? “Family Guy” makes the list but -- hey now! -- not “The Larry Sanders Show”???? Empire offers explanations here.
How does Empire’s list stack up against others?
This was UGO’s Top 10:
10. The Price Is Right
9. South Park
8. The Simpsons
7. Freaks and Geeks
6. The Muppet Show
5. Arrested Development
4. The Sopranos
3. Battlestar Galactica
2. The Wire
1. Buffy The Vampire Slayer
“Buffy,” “Sopranos” and “Simpsons” are the market-leaders. They are the only three that made the Empire and UGO top-10 lists, as well as Time’s 2007 all-time 100. (All three also made TV Guide’s 2002 top-50 list -- if you want to throw a list from the pre-“Wire” era into the mix).
Note that nine of Empire’s top 10, “The Simpsons,” “Buffy The Vampire Slayer,” “The Sopranos,” “The West Wing,” “Lost,” “24,” “Friends,” “The Wire” and “The X-Files,” all made Time’s all-time Top-100 list last year. (“Spaced” was the only component of Empire’s top 10 absent from Time’s 100.)
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