Top ten TV shows of 2006

The end of the calendar year is really a pretty stupid time to do a best-TV list: often you're having to consider the tail end of one season to the beginning of another, when there may be big quality differences between the two years, or compare a show that hasn't aired since May to one that's only been on for a couple months. Nonetheless, every real TV critic does one, so I figured I might as well follow their lead. (The Sopranos and The Wire don't show up here just because I'm waiting to catch up with them on DVD.)

1. Lost
2. 24
3. Rescue Me
4. House M.D.
5. Battlestar Galactica
6. Invasion
7. My Name Is Earl
8. Weeds
9. Friday Night Lights
10. Veronica Mars