carmen_lj | 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.