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My Top 5 for 2012

Any guesses what my Top 5 shows of the year were?

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This morning on ABC Radio National Breakfast with Fran Kelly I revealed my Top 5 shows for the year.

It was another tough choice and I decided to make life easier by focussing purely on content that made its debut in 2012.

Honourable mentions go to: Puberty Blues, Howzat, Call the Midwife, Jack Irish, Smash, Episodes, Hit & Miss and Game Change.

Drum roll….

5. The Newsroom
4. The Voice
3. Redfern Now
2. Mabo
1. Homeland.

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  1. When sticking to debut series of 2012 I only have a top three and they were howzat kerry packers war, the voice and homeland. Would like to see the newsroom. I didn’t mind watching mabo or a moody christmas but wouldn’t say they were a fav.

  2. Absolutely no ‘reality’ or ‘talent’ show deserves a spot in the top 25 let alone the top 5.

    1. Game of Thrones
    2. Mad Men/Boardwalk Empire
    3. Rake
    4. Hit & Miss
    5. A Moody Christmas

  4. My personal top 5 are:

    Moody Christmas
    Episodes
    Breaking Bad
    Puberty Blues
    Big Brother

    Was a good year for TV this year, especially for Australian produced shows. I found my list really easy to make based on the shows we watched religiously

  6. Mine would have to be

    5 – teen wolf
    4 – revolution
    4 – grimm
    3 – the walking dead
    2 – the newsroom
    1 – falling skies

    besides, neighbours and spicks and specks I only watch foxtel.

  8. Drama-
    Breaking Bad
    Mad Men
    Game of Thrones
    Justified
    The Hour (a better version of the Newsroom without the Preachyness)

    Unlucky:
    Homeland for the first 9 eps of the season before it turned into 24 (The CIA all of a sudden stopped bugging Brody’s phone the moment he starts talking to Abu Nazir… Really??)
    SOA

    Comedy
    Parks and Rec
    Community
    Suburgatory
    30 Rock (sad to see you go)
    House of Lies (Entourage with an IQ)

    Unlucky

    VEEP
    New Girl
    Happy Endings
    Modern Family

  9. you missed out on the great series of The Bridge. Although it wasn’t mainstream enough, you did make great reviews of it. Nice show tucked away on sbs2.

    Also, i wish Rake was there. It was in it’s second season though

  10. I’m assuming you missed season 5 of Mad Men since no-one in their right mind would have it on a list lower than The Newsroom, The Voice, Episodes or the execrable Smash.

  12. Ugh – The Voice?

    How about shows that have been consistently excellent this year?

    The Good Wife
    Modern Family

    and out of left field – Into the Abyss and the Death Row documentaries by Werner Herzog.

  15. You left Smash off the top 5? But you love Smash, David! Definitely all for Homeland and as a huge West Wing fan, love The Newsroom too. I would round it out with Scandal, OUAT and Howzat.

  16. Oh tough one my top 5 of the year in no particular order.

    – Newsroom
    – Girls
    – Puberty Blues
    – Offspring
    – Dexter
    – Homeland

    Ok….I can’t choose 5 because I loved all 6 of the above that I couldn’t possibly cut one.

  25. Interesting list David – plenty of food for thought there.
    I strongly agree with both ‘Homeland’ (as top choice) and ‘The Newsroom’ – despite some reservations I have, there’s nothing else like it on TV, and it boasts incredibly strong performances from all the main cast members. ‘Howzat’ would definitely be in my own top five, along with ‘The Hour’ (technically it might have been made in 2011 but I think it premiered in Australia this year) and, perhaps, ‘Media Watch’ for being so consistently informative And entertaining.

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