Max Beesley and Samantha Morton in The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling (1997)

These are TV programmes that show that great television is still being made. They prove that well-thought-out craftsmanship is the basis of a good TV programme.

In this list are TV broadcasts that are either in the format of a dramatic tale, a sitcom/comedy drama, an entertainment programme, or a documentary/factual production. Some are a multi-episode series, and some are a 1-off programme.

All are programmes that stand out from the overall TV output. They are particularly well put together in their artistic style - be it ground-breaking, different, or just plain good.

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 NOTE re TV programmes I have chosen to include in this list:

In order to keep this list pertinent to its implication - by the "yet" in the list title - that the programmes cited are of a more recent TV output, I chose to leave out (well, mainly leave out!) older series, e.g. programmes from the 1990s. I thus opted to include only TV progs made from approx. the year 2000 onwards. However, being brought up on British TV (being in the UK), I DID include a few British oldies of the '90s, that were so good I simply felt I couldn't leave them out - e.g. 'Drop the Dead Donkey' (1990–98). Sadly this 'rule' of my excluding programmes that were pretty old, meant that I felt I had to leave out some superb series: 'The Larry Sanders Show' (1992–98) springs to mind; and still older series that snaked back into the '80s! - e.g. 'Seinfeld' (1989–98). They are of course all programmes made in the USA. They are nonetheless among the greats of TV output . . . So maybe I shall have to change the parameters of this list, at a later date, so that I can include these American programmes! ,-D

A few more of the older greats just crept their way ,-) onto the list! (Although they were, at least, all from the final decade of the last century . . . rather than rolling back further still ,-) to the 1980s!) I have included several outstanding series, that lasted till the Noughties but began back in the '90s. These include, amongst other great TV programmes, the sitcoms 'Frasier' (1993–2004) & '3rd Rock from the Sun' (1996–2001). I have also included a few more programmes of the 1990s: they had just stuck in my mind as so memorable. One of these was a superb miniseries - 'Takin' Over the Asylum' (1994) - starring Ken Stott & a very young man now well-known to viewers: David Tennant. It is so brilliant a programme in concept & delivery that I automatically put it on this list before I remembered it was such an early TV drama! I had watched it 25 years before I created this list (!), but I still remembered the programme's powerful effect on me. That is the timelessness & quality of certain TV programmes.

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NOTE re date I first watched the programmes in this list:

If no watch date is notated by me in this list, then I watched the programme when it was INITIALLY broadcast on UK TV.

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The art form of TV is NOT yet dead! Proven by these programmes; whether in the format of drama, comedy drama, ents, or factual

Steve Pemberton and Reece Shearsmith in Inside No. 9 (2014)

Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry, and David Schwimmer in Friends (1994)

Norman Chappell and Tony Hancock in The Tony Hancock Show (1956)

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jerry Seinfeld, Jason Alexander, and Michael Richards in Seinfeld (1989)

TV programmes that should NOT have ended/been cancelled so soon . . . 

Some of these TV series were perfect as they were, a few needed improvements/changes, but all were either a success already or were well on the road to being a hit . . .

Whether a series was ended via the producers' decision, or by the choice of the actor/s, or for some other reason, it was a sad loss. A case - for the viewers at least! - of the wrong judgement, or just a regrettable course of action.

The programmes were ended too soon, when they could easily have carried on to even greater things!

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Ended too soon: TV series that should NOT have ended/been cancelled so early :-(

Robbie G.K., Devyn Nekoda, Robyn Alomar, Phillip Forest Lewitski, Akiel Julien, Mickeey Nguyen, and Humberly González in Utopia Falls (2020)

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