Various TV Best of 2009

I give my best of TV "awards" based around the TV schedule (Sept to May-- although I also add in the summer shows), so I won't get to mine until May, but real critics aren't as busy as I am in December (or, at least, get paid to write in December) and have the time to write a true 2009 Best Of article.

Here's what some critics thought of last year's TV:

First, the AFI chose these (in alphabetical order):
The Big Bang Theory
Big Love
Friday Night Lights
Glee
Mad Men
Modern Family
The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency
Nurse Jackie
Party Down
True Blood

TV Guide's Matt Roush chose these (not sure of the order; here's how he had them):
Modern Family
Mad Men
Battlestar Galactica
Nurse Jackie
The Big Bang Theory
Breaking Bad
Torchwood: Children of the Earth
Glee
True Blood
Friday Night Lights

Here's the link to Matt's article


Entertainment Weekly's TV Guy, Ken Tucker, chose these:
1. True Blood
2. Fringe
3. Modern Family
4. Sons of Anarchy
5. Nurse Jackie
6. Breaking Bad
7. Friday Night Lights
8. Mad Men
9. Glee
10. The Good Wife

I read Tucker's article in the mag, but I'm sure it's online somewhere.  Sorry I'm not helping out here, but you have no idea how many unwritten blog posts I have that I just didn't have the time to get to.  Looking them up online would keep me from posting.


That's what I've got.  I'm not understanding all the Nurse Jackie love, though.  I enjoyed it-- and the acting was great-- but I know it won't be in my Top Ten (and I haven't even started watching Lost, Friday Night Lights, Breaking Bad, or Mad Men, so I have more room for it).