Good TV

Currently Airing

Add these to your TV calendar.

Excellent:

Very Good:

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