Sandra Oh and Awkwafina in Quiz Lady (2023)

Alan Carr and Oliver Savell in Changing Ends (2023)

James Pickens Jr., Ellen Pompeo, and Chandra Wilson in Grey's Anatomy (2005)

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 older series. Superb series - e.g. programmes from the 1990s - such as 'Drop the Dead Donkey' (1990–98) & 'The Larry Sanders Show' (1992–98) spring to mind; and still older series that snaked back into the '80s! - e.g. 'Seinfeld' (1989–98).

I thus opted to include only TV progs made from (approx.!) the year 2000 onwards.

However, a few 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 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)

Emma Roberts in American Horror Story (2011)

These are the television programmes, series and DVD releases I have seen. I have written reviews for all of them, good and bad.

Every TV show/series and DVD release I've seen

Matt Stone and Trey Parker in South Park (1997)

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