LIST: Best Television Shows (currently on the air)

i always enjoy a good list, and with the tv season coming to an end i thought it would be an opportune time for a list of the best shows on television. i know a top 10 list is standard, but for this topic i went with a top 15.

with such a grand topic i did set a few rules for myself:

- the show has to currently be on the air, or have just finished it's season or be already renewed for another season (if The knights Of Prosperity really does come back then it has a great chance of making next seasons list).

- i had to have seen at least one full season of the show (this made the Tudors and The Riches ineligible, although they are already on my mind for next seasons list)

- i also had to have seen more then just the first season if the show is already in it's third or fourth season (that eliminated Nip/Tuck. i enjoyed season one but haven't got to the next ones yet. that also took Deadwood off the list)

- finally, i obviously had to have watched the show, and as i am only human with only so much time in the day, even with a dvr i can't watch everything. so here is a quick listing of shows that i just haven't watched yet, but from what i have heard they could have been contenders for the list: The Wire, Dirt, Entourage, Heroes, Big Love, It's Always Sunny In Philadelphia

i have written fuller reviews of some of these shows and i will link to those reviews for those series. now, let's let the listing begin...

1-Boston Legal
2-Rescue Me
3-Sopranos
4-The Shield
5-Scrubs
6-Battlestar Galactica
7-24
8-Lost
9-The Office
10-Friday Night Lights
11-My Name Is Earl
12-30 Rock
13-Rome
14-ER
15-Dexter

just missed the cut: The Simpsons, Weeds, Survivor,

Boston Legal Finale Delayed One Week

don't panic if on tuesday may 22nd at 10pm you turn on abc all excited about the season finale of the great Boston Legal only to see some second-rate celebrities dancing around on your screen. it will be okay. i promise. what you will be watching is the finale of Dancing With The Stars, but on tuesday may 29th (one week later) at 10pm you will get the Boston Legal season finale you were looking forward to.

if you were wondering why this was happening it is because abc has decided to add an additional episode of The Bachelor 'after the final rose' at 8pm on the 22nd which pushes the 2-hour Dancing With The Stars finale to 9pm-11pm taking over Boston Legal's spot.

no worries though, we just have to wait a week. and although i don't know anything about the episode, the show is so good i know it's gonna be great.

Selleck Going To Vegas... Maybe

Las Vegas - Season One Uncut & Uncensored

i should start off by saying that i don't watch the show Las Vegas. i have seen it a few times, but i haven't followed it for the four seasons it has been on the air (i know, has it really been four seasons of it already?)

that being said, there is some Las Vegas news i wanted to mention, and that was the possibility that Tom Selleck would be joining the cast next season. james caan left at the end of this last season and selleck would be coming in as the new owner of the montecito hotel.

i'm thinking that might be a good move for selleck. although i am not a huge fan of the show, it has managed to go into a fifth season all while being moved around the schedule and spending a few seasons on friday nights - which as we all know, is where networks send tv shows to die.

selleck is also a bigger name then caan and could draw in some viewers. for Boston Legal fans you will remember selleck from his most recent, awesome guest appearances on that brilliant show.
nikki cox also left last season, but i haven't heard anything about who would be coming in to replace her and her breasts.

Boston Legal: It Was 50 Years Ago Today

Boston Legal - Season One

Boston Legal - Season 2

i am a little behind on some of my tv watching (actually just got up to date with 24 today after watching 3 episodes back to back) so i just got to last week's episode of Boston Legal today, but i had to talk about it.

Boston Legal is one of, maybe even, my favorite show on tv. this is david e. kelly's masterwork. the writing is so strong with its ability to be hysterically funny and touching and dramatic and political all in the same hour without missing a beat. and don't forget the great performances week after week by spader and shatner and the rest of the cast.

well if you missed last weeks episode, then go find it and watch it, because it was great. the main storyline involved a man holding the law office hostage while they re-enacted the trail from 1957 that had found a man (who he brought with him at gun point) not guilty of killing his mother. the lawyers for the man had been a very young denny crane and his father.

what made the episode even more interesting was the flashback scenes with denny crane and his father. for those scenes they actually took footage from an appearance shatner made on the tv show The Defender back in 1957. the integration of the footage was powerful and worked within the context of the story and the situation. it kind of made me think about that movie with terrance stamp, The Limey in which they use footage from an older terrance stamp film, Poor Cow.

great show, great episode!!