Currently Airing
Add these to your TV calendar.
Excellent:
- American Horror Story (FX)
- Archer (FX; leave your morals at the door)
- Breaking Bad
- Damages (used to be on FX, now on DirecTV’s Audience Network)
- Dexter
- Game of Thrones
- Homeland (Showtime)
- Mad Men
- Modern Family (ABC)
- True Blood
- Web Therapy (Showtime)
Very Good:
- 30 Rock
- Episodes
- Gossip Girl
- Happy Endings (ABC, Hulu)
- House (FOX; slow decline after the 4th season)
- How To Make It In America
- I Just Want My Pants Back (MTV, mtv.com)
- It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia (FX; leave your morals at the door)
- The League (FX; leave your morals at the door)
- New Girl
- The Office (US)
- Parks And Recreation (NBC, Hulu)
- Portlandia (IFC)
- The Simpsons
- South Park
- Suburgatory
- True Blood
- Up All Night (NBC, Hulu)
- The Walking Dead (AMC; slow pace)
Good:
- 2 Broke Girls (CBS)
- American Dad
- Are You There, Chelsea? (NBC, Hulu)
- Awake (NBC, Hulu)
- Boardwalk Empire (HBO; slow pace)
- The Big Bang Theory (CBS; was better earlier seasons)
- The Big C
- Californication (Showtime; leave your morals at the door)
- Community (NBC; it’s really meta)
- Desperate Housewives
- Falling Skies
- Family Guy (FOX; better in early seasons)
- Franklin and Bash (TNT)
- Fringe
- Glee (FOX; first season was very good)
- Grey’s Anatomy
- How I Met Your Mother (CBS; in slow decline)
- Ringer
- Saturday Night Live (NBC; just for the Weekend Update and the occasional funny skit)
- Tosh.0
- Two And A Half Men
- Weeds
- Workaholics (Comedy Central)
Formerly Airing
Get these on Netflix/Hulu/Amazon/iTunes/wherever.
Excellent:
- Battlestar Galactica (even if you don’t like sci-fi)
- Better Off Ted
- In Treatment (first season was the best)
- Northern Exposure
- The Office (UK)
- The Sopranos
- Spartacus: Blood and Sand
- Twin Peaks
- West Wing
Very Good:
- Breaking In
- Entourage (really jumped the shark in the 7th season)
- Flash Forward
- Friday Night Lights
- Law And Order
- Lost (was better the first 3 seasons)
- Man Up!
- Men Of A Certain Age
- Perfect Couples
- The Loop
- Traffic Light
- Scrubs
- Stargate: Universe
Good:
- 24
- Chuck (more nerd-appeal than anything)
- Gary Unmarried
- Hellcats
- Spartacus: Gods of the Arena
- Heroes
- Legend Of The Seeker
- Secret Diary Of A Call Girl
- Smallville
- Stargate: Atlantis
- Stargate: SG-1