TV's Top 10 for 2006

0 Comments | Philadelphia Daily News, December, 2006 | by Ellen Gray

'TIS THE season when TV critics get asked, more than once, for their own naughty-and-nice lists, and to be honest, I'm all polled out. It's no secret that I think HBO's "The Wire" was the best thing on TV this year, or that NBC's "The Office" makes me laugh. When it's not making me cringe. After those two, I could fill a Top 10 list faster than anyone on even an Aaron Sorkin show can talk.

Problem is, it might have 20 shows. Because 2006 has been a great year for television, an ever-expanding medium that while offering more time-wasters than ever - the naughty list would stretch on for pages - continues to challenge Newton Minow's 1961 description of it as a "vast wasteland." To quote the former Federal Communications Commission chairman a bit further: "When television is...