Today we are happy to announce the release of the Top 250 TV (beta) list on IMDb! Similar to the Top 250 Movies list, the Top 250 TV (beta) list ranks TV shows as rated by regular users. Check out the list, vote on your favorites, and let us know what you think of the release. The list can be seen here on your desktop: http://www.imdb.com/chart/toptv , and under the 'TV' menu on IMDb apps and mobile browsers.
Thanks, and we hope you enjoy the new list!
Thanks, and we hope you enjoy the new list!
Posted 5 years ago
Don't see ' Waking The Dead ' here at all,Brilliant series with a great cast,top ratings everywhere
bluesmanSF, Champion
It is not rated highly enough by users and does not have enough votes even, to qualify for inclusion.
Both of these, or one or the other, are why individual titles are not on the list.
Both of these, or one or the other, are why individual titles are not on the list.
Nice!! But can you remove mini series!! I mean its not nice that planet earth is number 2!
bluesmanSF, Champion
You can create your own version by using "advanced title search" and including/excluding anything you want.
Where on that page is Advanced Title Search?
Thanks, got it. But it's not Top 250 TV based so it doesn't really help.
You are right, or wrong, but in all fairness the "Planet Earth" should
be ranked #1, and all others ranked at #2, as all the rest are but a
small part of the Planet. In fact it should be ranked number #1 based on
merit alone.
Remove mini series?! Why? Its not like tv is only limited to tv shows. A mini series is also a kind of show
I thought perhaps, because of production values and very good acting performances, series like The Borgias and The Tudors could have been included.
bluesmanSF, Champion
They both have enough votes but probably are not rated highly enough by regular users. They both seem close and might be on the list from time to time, based on ratings for them and for other shows. It's not a one time, make it or don't list. It'll change over time as votes are cast.
i have a great suggestion i think , first thank you IMDB , you're great
as usual.my suggestion is make it possible to rate the tv series by
seasons because some shows are great in their first seasons and then
they decline, such as prison break , true detective , justified,
lost...etc so when i see true detective rated 9.2 i am sure that's for
the first season not the second one which was terrible...i don't know i
hope you got my point...allow us to rate each season apart and then let
the result take in consideration the average rating of all seasons ..
thank you Sir for replying, i m glad some one ( at least ) agrees with me.
bluesmanSF, Champion
If you search "rate series by season" there are existing suggestion threads. You shoud post there and vote to support the idea rather than comment here about that different topic.
This list mixes 'television series' like Breaking Bad and The Wire, with 'mini-series' like Band of Brothers. Even though both are television programming, there still quite different in nature and unfair to compare side by side. They should be separated out, or this list should at least give us the option to sort by such categories, as well by genres.
bluesmanSF, Champion
You can always do that yourself with advanced search. There's no need for duplication.
What about The Honeymooners? 8.7 rating but not on the list.
bluesmanSF, Champion
Honeymooners does not have enough votes to be on the list.
I realize it doesn't have enough votes but it still should be here regardless. Dr. Horrible's Sing-a-Long Blog is on here and that was an internet release and not even a series. They should use a little common sense compiling this list.
I love to see this new top 250. Personally I don't think the minimum votes should be increased. I check and out of all the tv series in the database only a little above 1000 have 5,000 votes, so we are watching at over 20% of all eligible titles. The lower minimum compared to movies allows for lesser known but respectable tv series to find their place in the list and to be dicovered by more curious people, otherwirse it would only be a list of most popular series.
Also I don't join my voice to those who want to separate documentaries, if fantastic series have convinced so many people of their value in a way that four of them are in the top 10, then its perfect for them to get the recognition and extra exposure win by those fantastic places. I know documentaries are not allowed in the regular top 250, but that's something I personally don't share, congratulations to cosmos and Planet Earth for their fantastic showing. And if there are vote manipulators giving it one, then shame on them, but it should be known by know that this rating only picks regular voters precisely to avoid that gross manipulation to take effect, if there are thousands of new #1 votes for Planet Life after the release of the top 250 then it has not worked cause the series is still going strong, and now I'm interested in watching it and eventually will.
In all fairness the "Planet Earth" should
be ranked #1, and all others ranked at #2, as all the rest are but a
small part of the Planet. In fact it should be ranked number #1 based on
merit alone.
Great post. If we currently applied the same 25,000 benchmark as for movies, the 250th best show would be rated 7.2, and there would only be 281 eligible shows. Sure, you could cut down that list but to me that defeats the purpose. If your top movies list can have 250, then TV can and should as well. If anything, I would lower the benchmark even more, but I'm willing to accept 5,000 as a compromise.
As for documentaries, I 100% agree. What I do find surprising is that no news shows made it onto the list. (I count stuff like The Daily Show or John Oliver's show as talk shows) Yet so many people watch the news every day. I guess I shouldn't be surprised. From many of the comments here, that seems to be in line with so many people wanting to have some sort of separation between their entertainment and their learning/news/non-fiction/documentary-watching. At least, I hope it's a case of wanting separation rather than simple disinterest in the various documentary/news/whatever programs.
There NEEDS to be a separate list for each decade. This grading method is NOT FAIR to the older classic shows. This list is a complete and utter joke, as I'm sure everyone agrees.
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bluesmanSF, Champion
You can create such a list on your own with advanced search. Not all search results need to be pre-made and placed on the page. There would literally be millions.
There are many garbage shows in the Top-50 simply because they're currently on the air. And there are shows that deserve to be in the Top-10 that aren't even in the Top-250. What a joke!
bluesmanSF, Champion
If you don't like it, don't use it. Create your own with advanced search.
I feel there should be a separation between TELEVISION series and INTERNET series. Some shows, like Orange is the New Black or House of Cards are still technically TV since stations can and do buy up syndication rights to broadcast them. But then there's things on this list like Angry Video Game Nerd which isn't a television show at all.
While you have a point, I think we've passed the point of no return on being able to draw a line in the sand between the two. This grey area will only become more messy in the coming years as more and more people watch stuff online and as the industry changes. I say, if a web series is popular and highly rated enough to make the list, then more power to them.
The list is ok, but the bulgarian series Под Прикритие Pod Prikritie are missing:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1909015/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
It has very high rating from over 22 000 users and should be in top 50.
bluesmanSF, Champion
The list only uses rating from "regular" users. To combat ballot stuffing, they do not reveal what makes one a regular user.
bluesmanSF, Champion
Ramuel,
How do you know what "regular" users voted?
How do you know what "regular" users voted?
bluesmanSF, Champion
Since the site doesn't say, on purpose, how can you say:
And, of course, top 1,000 also has nothing to do with the top 250 lists and has nothing to do with this discussion.
You also don't know if something was "banned from the list" which makes no sense anyway, so maybe you should stop posting things as fact when you clearly don't know what you're talking about.
one account with above 100 titles is called regular voter
re:
And to be a Top1000 voters must have 1.000+ titlles . Now depends on Top1000 voters , now it requires more then 1000 titlesThis is also not true. The top 1,000 is the top 1,000. There are probably hundreds of thousands with over 1,000 ratings. They cannot all be in the top 1,000. I have thousands but am not a top 1,000 voter.
And, of course, top 1,000 also has nothing to do with the top 250 lists and has nothing to do with this discussion.
You also don't know if something was "banned from the list" which makes no sense anyway, so maybe you should stop posting things as fact when you clearly don't know what you're talking about.
