This 1995 miniseries starring Jennifer Ehle as Elizabeth and Colin Firth as Mr. D’Arcy is still considered by most Austen fans as the definitive screen adaptation.
Bruce Timm’s sleek, stylized animated series reinvented the superhero in a small screen film noir style on a show that was a hit with both kids and adults.
Submitted for your approval: Rod Serling, a writer whose mix of science fiction, fantasy, and social commentary results in the most celebrated and respected anthology series of all time.
Ian Richardson stars in the original BBC miniseries about the most seductively ruthless politician you’ve ever had the pleasure to watch claw his way to the top (over the corpses of his rivals).
The acclaimed drama set in a high school in a small Texas town is not so much a sports drama as a drama about people whose lives were—for better and for worse—defined by sports.
Dan Harmon’s comedy of life in community college is a smart, savvy, snappy comedy on the same comic wavelength as ’30 Rock,’ aimed at young adult sensibilities but with a mix of social satire, creatively exaggerated stereotypes, and lots of very clever pop culture parodies.
Tina Fey created and stars in this hilarious send-up of life behind the scenes at a late night comedy show and Alec Baldwin is brilliant as the network executive who fancies himself her mentor.
TV crime show and romantic fantasy meet as urban mythology in the original modern TV fairy tale starring Linda Hamilton as a beautiful crusading lawyer and Ron Perlman as a tender-hearted man-beast.
