The Wire

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.