RTE Guide Top 100 TV Programmes

UPDATE 1st October 2008 : The results are published here

What’s your favourite TV show of all time?

That’s the question the RTE Guide is asking at the moment. They are on the hunt for Ireland’s 100 Favourite TV Shows as voted by you, me and everybody else.

As the blurb on the website says :

Over the past few weeks, the RTÉ Guide office has been the scene of much feverish activity as our entertainment team, with the aid of contributions from industry insiders, has been compiling the following long list of programme titles. Battle lines were drawn according to taste, age and gender but when the dust had settled, we were left with almost 350 TV shows that have made their mark on audiences over the past few decades.

If a show you like isn’t on the list, there’s an option to add it – so there should be no complaints about it being representative of the Donnybrook mavens.

For the record here’s my nominations.

Comedy:

The Young Ones, The Office (UK), Some Mothers Do ‘Ave Em, Father Ted, The Royle Family, Only Fools and Horses, Scrubs, Family Guy, One foot in the Grave.

Oh – Black Books isn’t on the list – if you like it, add it in. I think it’s a bad oversight.

Drama:

The Sopranos, Pure Mule, Prison Break, Ballykissangel (stop it now, guilty pleasure), The West Wing, This Life (loved that show)

Soap:

Meh – gave a nod to Glenroe as I used to watch it and remember the theme tune heralding the end of the weekend and school the next morning.

Sci-Fi/Fantasy:

Star Trek, The X Files, Planet of the Apes, The Twilight Zone

Sport:

PASS

Detective/Mystery:

CSI, Starsky and Hutch, Magnum PI, Moonlighting, Hart to Hart, NYPD Blue, Miami Vice, Hawaii Five-O, The Streets of San Francisco

Mini Series:

Jesus of Nazareth, Roots, Holocaust, V, The Lakes

Documentary/Factual:

Today Tonight, Prime Time, The Full Circle with Michael Palin, Tomorrow’s World, Planet Earth, Life on Earth, Around the World in 80 days

Lifestyle:

The Restaurant

Entertainment:

Reeling in the Yers, X Factor, Gladiators, Six Million Dollar Man, Parkinson, Charlie’s Angels, Top Gear, MacGyver, Noel’s House Party.

Quiz:

Blackboard Jungle, WWTBAM, University Challenge, Weakest Link, Krypton Factor, Quicksilver

Kids:

So many choices but opted for just one – the legendary Blue Peter – still have all the annuals.