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Best / Worst of 2012?
The Age Green Guide makes its picks of the best and worst in 2012 telly.
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Excess Baggage? Everybody Dance Now? The Shire? Tricky Business?
We had a lot of bad telly this year, and today’s Green Guide in The Age makes its picks of the year’s worst.
And the year’s Best:
Mad Men? Homeland? Rake? Howzat? The Bridge? The Voice?
There are at least 20 of each -but how do they stack up?
I’m keeping mum on my list until later! And of course there will be the TV Tonight Awards 2012 with voting to begin next month.
Here’s what Andrew Murfett, Greg Hassall, Daniel Burt, Debi Enker, Paul Kalina, Melinda Houston and Craig Mathieson reckon makes the cut:
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Sherlock.
Where was Downton Abbey?
Best
The Block
MyKR
Nine Olympics
Seven AFL
Smash
Poh gives a helping hand / Kitchen Cabinet
The Bolt Report
Go back where you came from
4 Corners
Worst
TEN News
Master Chef All Stars
ONE
The Price is Right
No doubt those of us in Sydney will be able to read this, word for word, in The Guide with Monday’s SMH.
Why was Mad as Hell in the worst list – Damn you Fairfax!!!
There are enough turkeys on that first list to provide Xmas dinner at a soup kitchen.
The inclusion of Mad as Hell at the start was almost as bizarre as Shaun’s sense of humour. Especially as they wrote more in favour than against and the against was mostly, as HardcorePrawn says, that it wasn’t as good as something he’d done previously. They could have put any number of banal and insipid, if not actually awful, programs there.
Was also surprised to see House Husbands so high on the good list when I wouldn’t have included it at all.
Reading the Green Guide article it seems as though Mad as Hell was included on the list of worst shows because it wasn’t quite as good as Newstopia.
So Shaun Micallef, by setting the bar so high, has his show ranked as one of the worst of the year? That hardly seems fair.
@Darcey09, the Green Guide ranks the Olympic Opening Ceremony as one of the sporting highlights of the year, but with no mention of Eddie McGuire’s banal and error-strewn commentary. Very odd!
@Benji77 and also the absence of Laid on the worst list. Green Guide, The Age connection at work here perhaps??
The mere mention of Mad as Hell at the top of Worst list made discount everything else they had on the list.
How did the rained out queens jubilee pageant not make the list? Am i the only one who enjoyed The Shire. Puberty Blues had no storyline. The Voice had great talent but the format badly needs tweaking
The Age really has a blind spot when it comes to Eddie McGuire. How did his commentating of the London Olympics not make the worst list or the cringeworthy moments list?