The American Film Institute publishes two top ten lists each year: the top 10 movies and the top 10 TV shows. This year’s has just come out. What do you think? And if they’re right, what does it say about 2006: a good year or a bad year?
AFI Movies of the Year
- Babel
- Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation Of Kazakhstan
- The Devil Wears Prada
- Dreamgirls
- Half Nelson
- Happy Feet
- Inside Man
- Letters From Iwo Jima
- Little Miss Sunshine
- United 93
AFI TV Programmes of the Year
- Battlestar Galactica
- Dexter
- Elizabeth I
- Friday Night Lights
- Heroes
- The Office
- South Park
- 24
- The West Wing
- The Wire
I think there are some good ones in the TV list, but it’s not been a great year for movies, by the looks of it.
Still, let’s meme. I can’t help out with the films list for once, since I doubt I’ve seen 10 films in the cinema this year (Casino Royale and The Prestige would both be on such a list, and Inside Man was all right, I s’pose). But here’s my pick of the top 10 shows of the year, in no particular order, with links to my various comments on them.
- Battlestar Galactica
- Dexter
- The Wire
- Cracker
- Life on Mars
- The Secret Millionaire
- Ugly Betty
- Planet Earth
- That Mitchell and Webb Look
- Brotherhood
Ooh. By the looks of it, I must be the only person in the world who hasn’t written about how great Planet Earth is. Well, it is. That’s all that’s needed.
So there’s the meme: top 10 TV shows, top 10 films or both. Any channel, from any country of origin, any language, so long as they aired or were distributed in 2006 and weren’t a repeat/re-run.