On The List

Come Saturday Channel 4 is rolling out another of the lists that eat up the whole night’s schedule. Usually these are the trite The 100 Greatest Tearjerkers or The 100 Greatest Sexy Moments, which are as important in the scheme of things as The 100 Greatest Newts Called Derek.

Worse most of the lists are voted for by the great unwashed – the sort of fuckwits who think the greatest ever film, ever, is Star Wars. (Or as the nerdy little twerps insist on calling it: Star Wars Episode IV: A New Hope. Asshats!) Then the programmes themselves are stuffed to the gunwales with empty-headed dorks and media commentators whose credentials for being in front the camera blathering on about not much at all is they once worked on Smash Hits.

This time should be different. It’s The 50 Greatest TV Dramas. Also, the shows that made the list were voted for by television professionals, including writers, directors, producers and network commissioners. It may still be opinion, but this time its informed opinion. Which means the results should be interesting and, for once, relevant.

Hopefully some of these shows should have made the list. Anyone who can name all twenty wins a very big cookie.