The Peon Pulpit's Best Shows On Television (2008)
- Best Reality Series - The First 48 (A&E)
- Best Educational Series - How It's Made (Science Channel/Discovery Channel/Ztele)
- Best Drama Series - Lost (ABC)
- Best Documentary Series - Frontline (PBS) Runner Up: VH1 Behind the Music (VH-1)
- Best Comedy Series - The Office (NBC)
- Best News Show - The Daily Show (Comedy Central)
- Best Political Show - Real Time with Bill Maher (HBO) Runner Up: The McLachlan group (TMG)
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Some glaring omissions:
Graham Ramsey's Kitchen Nightmares - the single best business management classroom session available. Want to understand why you are a failure in your career or why your business isn't successful? Check out a couple of episodes. ("Liam, your just not good at this. Your unhappy, the staff is unhappy, your customers are unhappy..." Yep!)
McLaughlin Group - still the most entertaining political half hour on TV. Predictions! "Hillary intentionally tanks Obama just to set the stage for 2012"
HBO Real Sports - HBO has an entire room full of awards for this show - for good reason. Even if you are not a sports fan you will be captivated.
Darren Brown's Mind Control. Fast paced and pure entertainment without the usual magic hype. . ("You wanted my hand on your crotch didn't you?? I did, I did!!!). One hour of wondering just how much tail this guy tags a week.
Real Housewives of Orange County - sorry, but you cannot NOT watch this!
Top Chef - incredible talent meets incredible pressure. Never gets old. Tom C. is perfect as the honest - but fair - judge. Lose Padma and you will have reached cooking nirvana.
VH1 Behind the Music - catch the reruns. As good as you remember. "Coming up next, the wheels fall off the Speedwagon..."
Carrier - just to remind yourself that no matter how much your job sucks, at least you are not working 20 hour shifts cleaning toilets for $100 a week only to get off work to spend the rest of your time with 35 criminals and racists in the same room.
Real Time with Bill Maher - free therapy from the shaman of liberalism - you are NOT crazy or alone!!
Fox News - anytime. A quick lesson in just how far the science of state-sponsored propaganda has evolved - from Leni to Hannity.
Good stuff!
I think it is Gordon Ramsey - not Graham Ramsey. Great show in any event.
What!! No Good Eats???
Yeah...Good Eats should probably be up there.
What about Sunrise Earth?!
Some additions. First, Intervention (A&E) and Locked Up Abroad (National Geographic). Two of the scariest shows ever broadcast. Forget X Files, forget Lost - catch these two little weekly reality reminders of just how tenuous and fragile your little "secure" life really is. Basically, visual water boarding - see how much you can withstand before breaking and curling up in a fetal position in the corner crying for "mommy"!. Note to self: - never smuggle heroin in Bangladesh. Check that - never leave the f**king country!
48 Hours Mystery (CBS). Consistently captivating and engrossing. Feels more like a motion picture than a documentary. Each week you are left wondering if these cases are real!
Pardon the Interruption and Sports Reporters (both ESPN). With a DVR you can cover the entire sports world in 40 minutes a week. An easy way to thoroughly navigate those cookouts and cocktail parties without actually watching a damn inning or quarter!
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