To ask for your top 5 ever TV shows

[Lemming20]

Looking for inspiration this Christmas.

Mine are:
Line of Duty
Bodies (hospital negligence drama by same writer)
CSI NY
Spooks
Motherland

With mad men and breaking bad a close runner up.

The Office (U.K.)
Sopranos
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Stath Lets Flats
Absolutely Fabulous
Friday Night Dinner

Close runners up:

Vicar of Dibley
This Country

This Country
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Steptoe and Son
Roots
Down East Dickering

Peaky Blinders
The Wire
The Killing
One foot in the Grave
The Shield

Bewitched - childhood nostalgia
The Fall
Wolf Hall
Shtisel
Assassination of Gianni Versace

Due South
Sharpe
Clarkson era Top Gear
Frasier
Time Team

Detectorists
… then some way off (Detectorists is just miles ahead of everything else)
Better Call Saul
Buffy
Fleabag
Succession

The Wire
Succession
Schitts Creek
Ozark
House of Cards (the first 3 series)

How did I forget Detectorists! I concur with @ChristmasQuizzer 😀

Brideshead Revisited
Shtisel
Pride & Prejudice (1995 version)
Will & Grace
Schitts Creek

Superstore
Shtisel
Citizen Khan/Man like Mobeen- tie
Yanxi Palace/Empresses in the palace (Chinese dramas- tie)
Good Manager (Korean)

Superstore
Shtisel
Citizen Khan/Man like Mobeen- tie
Yanxi Palace/Empresses in the palace (Chinese dramas- tie)
Good Manager (Korean)

Oops forgot to add Vicar of Dibley

That's top 6 though!

This is Us
Kingdom
Lind of Duty
Gavin and Stacey

The vampire diaries
The 100
The blacklist
Prison break
Greys anatomy

Dr Who
MASH
Yes Minister / Prime Minister
Monty Python
Victoria Wood

I've picked things that stand the test of time. Other favourites are Lucifer, Dopesick, the Thick of It, the Wire

The Sopranos
Breaking Bad
The Wire
Luther
Mad Men

Game of Thrones came close (or "Peter Stringfellow's Lord of the Rings" as Stewart Lee calls it )

Folks, if you haven’t seen Chernobyl, you missed out on a masterpiece.

The Americans
Breaking Bad
The Vampire Diaries
Buffy
Line of Duty

Runners up:
Firefly
Hannibal

Thats such a hard one as there has been lots of great tv shows.

Definately:
Orphan Black
The Originals
Shadow Hunters
The Last Kingdom

As my top 4

Then I’m stuck between:
Heartland
Hemlock Grove
Grimm and
Suits

You have my top 8!

The West Wing
Lost
ER
The x files
Breaking bad

Only Fools and Horses
Fawlty Towers
Arrested Development (except the final series)
What We Do in the Shadows
Stath Let's Flats

(I like comedies!)

*lets not let's

Prime Suspect
The Wire
The Sopranos
Seinfeld
Curb Your Enthusiasm
Only Fools and Horses

Ok i added one more I can’t decide which one to take off

West wing
ER
The Good Wife
Stranger Things
This is us

Breaking Bad
Father Ted
Frasier
Spiral
The Century Of Self