empire top telly

Just been flicking through Empire's 50 Greatest Telly Shows Ever and am alternately yaying and being dead judgey at teh public.

• Hurrah for DS9 being included! And then boo for it being beaten by TOS and, goodness sake, TNG, with TNG as the highest placed Trek at 37. Oh, the tedium.
  
  
• But Babylon 5's beaten all the Treks, heh, coming in at 32. But then they suggest the best episode is Into The Fire, bizarrely.
  
  
• But these Srs Sci-Fi Space Operas R Srs are all beaten by Red Dwarf. He. It's at 26 and they've correctly identified the best episode as Quarantine, hurrah!
  
  
• Contrary to every Best Telly Comedy poll ever run in this country, Empire's poll has Blackadder (20) beating Fawlty Towers (28), which brings me much of teh yay. Shame on them for insulting the first series of Blackadder though. BRIAN BLESSED. Dude.
  
  
• Doctor Who is at 16. This is clearly mad and wrong. But I am petty enough to be amused at The Auld Enemy (that would be Star Trek) being roundly beaten. It does, however, say 2005 to present, which is just booooo. Honestly. Denial of The Mighty Trought is madness indeed.
  
  
• Who fen are referred to as 'Who-ites' there. That's a new one to me.
  
  
• Spaced is at 10. Which is both wonderful and weird. Admittedly, I saw it some years after it was broadcast, but I didn't realise it was that popular.
  
  
• I think I can safely say that any poll of Greatest Telly which doesn't include I, Claudius is horribly, horribly flawed and wrong. Yes.
  
  
• Guess what won? It always wins these things. I was hoping to be surprised.

the doctor who/i, claudius drinking game - because procrastination is an art

"For people with way, way too much time on their hands."

The idea is this: you get a few bottles of yer favoured tipple, sit down and watch the entirety of I, Claudius without any breaks and take a drink every time you spot an actor come on who's been in Doctor Who.

- unless it's Derek Jacobi, cause he comes on rather a lot. Just take a teeny wee sip instead.
- if you can name the actor's Who character and the story they appeared in, take an extra drink the first time they turn up in Claudius (if they've been in Who more than once, have an extra drink for every character and story you can name.)
- finish the glass if you spot the Black Guardian.
- if you spot Pat Gorman and can name every role he had in Who, keep drinking until you pass out.

And, for I am just that helpful, here is the complete list (feel free to correct me, yo) in chronological order of their initial Who appearances:

( Doctor Who/I, Claudius actors )

Naturally, I take no responsibility for the consequences should anyone actually choose to follow these suggestions for it will make you very tired and drunk and you will probably do something enormously silly. Or get alcohol poisoning.