MY TOP TEN CURRENTLY AIRING TV SERIES...

Chuck has had a lot of ups and downs since it's conception in 2007. I feel blessed because when I fell in love with this series I was convinced it would never last a full season. Now sadly they are on their last season but we got five amazing seasons out of Chuck, Sarah, and Casey....and the rag tag group of friends. Incredible guest stars that make the geek in you swoon....(Dolph Lungdren saying his famous Rocky IV line..."If he dies, he dies" or regular guest star Linda Hamilton saying "come with me if you want to live." That's only the icing on the cake. The cast are amazing together, and best of all Zachery Levi as Chuck Bartowski is one of the best superheroes out there!! If you haven't seen Chuck, do yourself a favor and fall in love with everyone on this cast!!

Emmy Nomintations---4
Emmy Awarded---2
Current Seasons---5 (this will be their last)
Top Ten Show according to Neilson Ratings---No

I don't know what originally started my wife and I watching Grey's because we didn't watch it from the beginning but now we are all caught up and I don't think a week could go by without joining the crazy determined surgeons at Seattle Grace. They have done some of the most riveting, heart wrenching episodes in TV History. I have never been moved or more terrified of TV Entertainment than their Episodes Sanctuary and Death And All His Friends where a shooter cut a path through the hospital. It is the most intense two hours of TV you will ever see. The cast is brilliant, the characters are so defined and important and I think the series could continue for at least another two years...maybe more...look at ER.

Emmy Nominations---11
Emmy Awarded---4
Current Seasons---8
Top Ten Show according to Neilson Ratings--No (but always high on TiVo recording lists)

If this were a list of my ALL TIME favorite TV Shows you would find the Nineties Buffy Spin off Angel on that list. So it was simple to say that I would be watching the star of that show David Boreanaz in this show which premiered in 2005. Since then I have fallen in love with Dr. Temperance Brennan, Sealey Booth, and the entire team!! There has been a few casting changes but the core group has always held the show together. It's part CSI but with a delicious eccentricity to it. The ongoing sexual chemistry between Booth and Brennan has kept the show alive with a spark...it'll be interesting to see whether that stays now that they are together in this new season. Bones is a procedural drama that is unlike anything else on Television.

Emmy Nominations---1
Emmy Awarded---0
Current Seasons---7
Top Ten Show according to Neilson Ratings---No

Sometimes a spin-off is exactly what fans love to see. More of your favorite characters, cross-overs, a new premise, a new setting. Private Practice embraced ALL that and more because the new cast of characters headlined by Grey's Anatomy's Addison Montgomery are amazing. They are equal to Grey's original cast and sometimes even better. Private Practice doesn't focus as much on the ER trauma side of things although they throw it in there sometimes to mix it up. It's a little more soapy, more dramatic, and sometimes a little more out there in the wild medical cases but it stays alive and stays riveting because of the cast. It was multiple times through this past summer I thought...aw man...I wonder what's gonna happen to Pete (Pete dropped from a heart attack in the last minutes of the season finale, his toddler son onlooking, Pete desperately trying to crawl to the phone.) Private Practice is all about the characters and I love it!!

Emmy Nominations---0 (very strange actually?)
Emmy Awarded---0
Current Seasons---5 (P.S. Pete's okay...but he's having some emotional problems since his attack)
Top Ten Show according to Neilson Ratings---No

First of all...I think the loss of Christopher Meloni is a true loss to this series. I respect him for leaving to join the cast of The Man Of Steel...a property which I love dearly....but Elliot Stabler together with Olivia Benson made this show through and through. Sure Benson is still there but its like a piece of her is missing and that chemistry that made this show last for so long is missing. However, SVU is still one of the Cop Procedural legends. It is the only Law and Order version I watch and I only started watching it a few years ago so someday I hope to catch up on the other seasons. SVU is cut and dry in the way it's laid out...crime, interview, suspect, chase, arrest, prosecute....but somehow they manage to keep it riveting every single episode either with a disturbing storyline or some really great acting. The guest stars are outstanding (most recently TR Knight of Grey's Anatomy fame played identical twins...one of whom rapes women and blames it on the other.) SVU might sadly be winding down but we had a truly terrific run so catch it before its gone!!

Emmy Nominations---17
Emmy Awarded---6 (4 of those for Guest Stars on the show)
Current Seasons---13 (Impressive!!)
Top Ten Show according to Neilson Ratings---Last year it was

I think I didn't start watching House until Season 3...and I have yet to go back and watch the first two Seasons and I can't wait to do that. House gives us what I think is one of the greatest characters in Media history...Dr. Gregory House...and he wouldn't exist in any form if not for Hugh Laurie who is absolutely brilliant. The show is ridiculous...no doctor, no hospital, no true Health care facility could or would operate like Plainsboro Hospital and no doctor would ever get away with what House does no matter how brilliant he is...however it is these reasons that makes House one of the best TV Shows ever...period. Laurie is electric and brilliant and hilarious and twisted and self involved...easily the most complicated character on Television. While each season has stuck to a familiar pattern they always seem to mix it up with some major turn of events whether it be a team members death, a twisted love affair, House's addiction, or most recently his incarceration. My brother has said before he doesn't understand why I like the show because its the same thing every time but it isn't...at all...the characters are so captivating and the scripts are so smart that this is easily one of the most intelligent shows out there. Rumor circulates that this is their last season but I beg them to reconsider because they are at the top of their games!!

Emmy Nominations---12 (50% of them to Laurie alone)
Emmy Awarded---5
Current Seasons---8 (please do 9!! :(
Top Ten Show according to Neilson Ratings---Yes

Another series I didn't start watching until Season...2 or 3....but quickly got hooked because of the cast and the procedural aspects of the show. The concept of this group of exceptionally smart behavioral analysts taking on some really awful killers hooks you in and keeps you watching! Procedurally it doesn't always follow a pattern to a T so it likes to mix things up a little bit. Anyone who likes the cat and mouse game of thrillers should watch Criminal Minds because nearly every episode is cat and mouse and the killers they go up against are downright twisted!! The team is such a diverse group of personalities and they work so well together and are like a family. Many people complain for instance about Thomas Gibson's 'wooden performance' in the show but that IS Aaron Hotchner...emotionally stunted, controlled, powerful...but when he goes off the rails once in awhile it makes it all the more powerful.

Emmy Nominations---2
Emmy Awarded---0
Current Seasons---7
Top Ten Show according to Neilson Ratings---Yes

Blue Bloods has always been on shaky ground...sometimes not bringing in quite the audience that CBS expects. But given they stuck it in the Friday Night sub-par spot I think it does well. This cast is outstanding all headlined by the amazing and reverent Tom Selleck. He ignites the screen with this powerful force and the Reagan Family is just riveting to follow. Everyone plays an integral part in the family and in the story and you have so many layers of the legal system all in one house...the retired Police Commissioner with deep wisdom, the Police Commissioner currently running the entire city's police force while still dealing with his time on the force, the seasoned but still young hot headed Detective, the rookie cop and the ADA holding them all together and holding them accountable. The crimes are brutal, ripped from realism, and makes it part mystery, part drama and simply outstanding performances. This became one of my favorite shows in an episode where Erin (Bridget Moynahan) is taken hostage in her own office at gun point and her father (Tom Selleck) stares down the criminal and then finally...with the delivery of a bad ass action hero sputters "Get your hands off my daughter" and blows him away....amazing!

Emmy Nominations---0 (complete travesty!)
Emmy Awarded---0
Current Seasons---2
Top Ten Show according to Neilson Ratings---No
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The funniest show....ever? Sometimes I think it might be. This show is part sitcom/part faux documentary with three completely different families who all share being a family together. One minute you're in tears over some insane Physical comedy that Phil performs (Ty Burrell as Phil does some amazing physical comedy reminiscent of the late great John Ritter), and the writing on this show is so brilliant, witty, and just flat out hilarious. I can honestly say I have never laughed like this at a show...especially a show that isn't your standard 'filmed in front of a live studio audience' type sitcom. Every event that comes up in this families life is told in a hilarious no holds barred way and the large cast are all so fantastic together!! Watch one episode of this and you'll literally be in tears...I knew this show was going to be an instant hit when (in the first episode) the gay couple of Cam and Mitchell) announce the arrival of their adopted daughter by holding her over Cam's head to the Circle of Light from Lion King....this is the best comedy on Television period.

Emmy Nominations---31?!?!?! THIRTY ONE!! WELL DESERVED!!
Emmy Awarded---11
Current Seasons---3
Top Ten Show according to Neilson Ratings---Yes

Sometimes a show comes along that creates a character that will go down in Television history as being unforgettable....Lucy Ricardo, Fred Flintstone, Columbo, JR Ewing...just to name a few off the top of my head. Some of these characters I think are on Television right now...two in particular come to immediate mind...Hugh Laurie's House and Simon Baker's Patrick Jane. They have a lot in common, flawed characters, self involved, conceited, displaying a certain level of psychosis to their personality and they both have this....oh crap what have I done persona when some stupid idea they have turns bad but neither will ever apologize. Much like House The Mentalist breaks a lot of rules to get things done that would probably never fly in the real world. This is about a group of Police officers from a fictional Law Enforcement agency called the CBI that uses Patrick Jane's unusual, incredible observation skills to solve murders. But Simon Baker is the glue that holds this show together. His character is brilliant and the story that carries throughout the whole series about Jane's vendetta against a serial killer (Red John) who murdered his wife and child years earlier. The Mentalist is captivating and another new spin on police procedural show.

Emmy Nominations---1 (for Simon Baker....he deserves more!)
Emmy Awarded---0
Current Seasons---4
Top Ten Show according to Neilson Ratings---Yes