We’ve covered the best and worst of 2009, but what about the biggest? After the jump, an incomplete list of the biggest TV trends and developments of 2009, and your invitation to suggest more in the comments:
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2009 in review
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Vacation Robo-Post: The 2009 Cincy Awards
Yesterday, I announced Tuned In’s newest year-end award: The Cincies, honoring TV’s most interesting failures of the year. You can read yesterday’s post for the explanation. Today, after the jump, I hereby announce the 2009 Cincies:
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Vacation Robo-Post: Introducing the Cincies: What Were TV's Most Interesting Failures?
I sometimes think that we critics spend too much list-making time focusing on the wrong things. Best-TV-of-the-year lists are fun to read, but there’s a lot of overlap among them. Worst-TV lists are more diverse, but TV offers so many easy targets; does it take much insight to beat up on I’m a Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here?
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Vacation Robo-Post: The 10 Worst TV Shows of 2009
This is the time of year when we celebrate the achievements of mankind that have ennobled the arts. Which is so totally boring! Celebrate, celebrate, celebrate—fellow Tuned Inlanders, it is time to denigrate! After the jump, I hereby present my Bottom 10 TV Shows of 2009.
I limited myself to 10. You don’t have to; add your nominees in …
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Those Other People's Top 10 Lists
The top-ten lists are starting to come out fast and furious, in TV as in everything else, and this weekend AFI released its list of the top 10 TV shows (as well as top 10 movies) of the year. Having been on the AFI jury a couple times before (most recently in 2008), I feel especially invested in this one. After the jump, the list, and a …
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My Top 10 TV Shows: The TV Show(s)
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After I finished my lists of the top 10 TV shows and top 10 episodes of …
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Top 10 Episodes of 2009: The Best, and the Rest
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My list of the top 10 TV episodes of 2009 is also up here at time.com. See my post about the best 10 shows of the year for my general thoughts about listmaking. After the jump, some particular comments about the episode list, the quick-and-dirty version of the list, and my honorable mentions:
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Top 10 Shows of 2009: The Best, and the Rest
TIME’s annual collection of 10-Best Lists are up, including my list of the top 10 TV shows of 2009. (Also up is my list of the top 10 TV episodes, which I’ll cover in a separate post.) After the jump, the quick-and-dirty version of the list, some thoughts and explanations, and my honorable mentions: