1. "Game of Thrones" — 11%
Survey score: 11%
Critic score: 95%
Synopsis: An adaptation of author George R.R. Martin's "A Song of Ice and Fire" medieval fantasies about power struggles among the Seven Kingdoms of Westeros.
2. "Breaking Bad" (2008-2013) — 7%
Survey score: 7%
Critic score: 95%
Synopsis: A high-school chemistry teacher learns he's dying, so he takes up a new career as a meth producer in hopes of earning enough money to take care of his family.
3. "The Big Bang Theory (2007-)" — 4%
Survey score: 5%
Critic score: 82%
Synopsis: A comedy about a pair of brilliant physicists who understand how the universe works but have no clue about how to interact with people.
4. "Friends" (1994-2004) — 5%
Survey score: 5%
Critic score: N/A
Synopsis: One of television's top-ranked series and the recipient of numerous Emmy Award and Golden Globe Award nominations, "Friends" is a smart, sophisticated comedy that looks into the hearts and minds of a group of friends living in New York.
5. "Seinfeld" (1989-1998) — 4%
Survey score: 4%
Critic score: N/A
Synopsis: Seinfeld follows the neurotic adventures of Jerry Seinfeld and his neighbor in New York.
6. "Law & Order" (1990-2010) — 3%
Survey score: 3%
Critic score: N/A
Synopsis: Durable cops-and-lawyers procedural with gripping headline-inspired storylines.
7. "Downton Abbey" (2010-2015) — 3%
Survey score: 3%
Critic score: 86%
Synopsis: This period drama, set in the English countryside which is centered on the lives of the aristocratic Crawley family and their hierarchy of servants.
8. "The West Wing" (1999-2006) — 3%
Survey score: 3%
Critic score: N/A
Synopsis: Martin Sheen and Rob Lowe, as the U.S. President and his deputy communications director, play politics in this innovative Washington, D.C., drama series from award-winning producers John Wells, Aaron Sorkin and Thomas Schlamme.
9. "Doctor Who" (2006-) — 3%
Survey score: 3%
Critic score: 89%
Synopsis: Following the adventures of a time-traveling alien called "The Doctor" and his human companions as they deal with crises set on Earth and other worlds.
10. "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" (1997-2003) — 3%
Survey score: 3%
Critic score: N/A
Synopsis: A cheerleader is chosen to battle the forces of evil as she weathers the storms of young adulthood in an imaginative series that blends killer writing and performances. The show put WB on the ratings map and spawned the successful `Angel' before moving to UPN in 2001. Series creator Joss Whedon introduced the character in a 1992 film that had Kristy Swanson in the Slayer role.
11. "The X-Files" (1993-2002) — 3%
Survey score: 3%
Critic score: N/A
Synopsis: "The truth is out there," and FBI agents Scully and Mulder seek it in this sci-fi phenomenon about their quest to explain the seemingly unexplainable. Their strange cases include UFO sightings, alien abductions and just about anything else paranormal. The tales were spooky and well-written, but the long-running cult favorite's strength was a gallery of intriguing (when they weren't just enigmatic) characters, and the dynamic---and intense bond---between believer Mulder and skeptic Scully.
12. "Sherlock" (2010-) — 2%
Survey score: 2%
Critic score: 97%
Synopsis: A conflicted New Jersey crime boss seeks therapy to cope with mob and family pressures in this addictive, stunningly original drama, which can be chillingly violent, wrenchingly moving or darkly funny.
13. "The Sopranos" (1999-2007) — 2%
Survey score: 2%
Critic score: 97%
Synopsis: A conflicted New Jersey crime boss seeks therapy to cope with mob and family pressures in this addictive, stunningly original drama, which can be chillingly violent, wrenchingly moving or darkly funny.
14. "Grey's Anatomy" (2005-) — 2%
Survey score: 2%
Critic score: 70%
Synopsis: The story revolves around five surgical interns and their supervisors, showing their personal and professional lives.
15. "The Wire" (2002-2008) — 2%
Survey score: 2%
Critic score: 96%
Synopsis: A complex crime drama set in Baltimore that follows the thread of a single police investigation, from the perspectives of both law-enforcement officials and the criminals they're pursuing focused on the city's illegal drug trade in the first series before expanding in scope for the second to include corruption on the waterfront.
16. "24" (2001-2010) — 2%
Survey score: 2%
Critic score: 89%
Synopsis: An exciting and edgy real-time action series about U.S. counterterrorist agent Jack Bauer trying to save his country from foreign and domestic enemies in the course of 24 grueling hours (with each hour a separate episode). The series took a great concept and executed it superbly, juggling taut storylines with forceful performances and a stylish, gritty look. Which made it easier to forgive some of the more foolish and implausible subplots, many involving Jack's crisis-magnet daughter, Kim.
17. "The Simpsons" (1989-) — 2%
Survey score: 2%
Critic score: N/A
Synopsis: Matt Groening's subversive, animated satire about Springfield's hapless first family became a cult favourite when it premiered on Fox in 1989 after first being seen in 1987 as a short on 'The Tracey Ullman Show.' That was then; now it's TV longest running comedy. Not since 'The Flintstones' in the '60s has a cartoon series drawn such a large adult audience, and, ay caramba, given us pop-culture expressions for the ages. And in 1999, Time magazine called it the best TV show of the 20th century.
18. "The Office" (2005-2013) — 2%
Survey score: 2%
Critic score: N/A
Synopsis: Matt Groening's subversive, animated satire about Springfield's hapless first family became a cult favourite when it premiered on Fox in 1989 after first being seen in 1987 as a short on 'The Tracey Ullman Show.' That was then; now it's TV longest running comedy. Not since 'The Flintstones' in the '60s has a cartoon series drawn such a large adult audience, and, ay caramba, given us pop-culture expressions for the ages. And in 1999, Time magazine called it the best TV show of the 20th century.
19. "ER" (1994-2009) — 2%
Survey score: 2%
Critic score: N/A
Synopsis: The multiple Emmy Award-winning ER explores the inner workings of an urban teaching hospital and the critical issues faced by the dedicated physicians and staff of its overburdened emergency room.
20. "Lost" (2004-2010) — 1%
Survey score: 1%
Critic score: 87%
Synopsis: Forty-eight passengers miraculously survive an air crash only to be stranded on a scary island. With the trauma of the nightmarish crash still in their minds, the passengers have to put up with differences, hostility, predators and more. What does the future have in store for them?
21. "Battlestar Galactica" (2004-2009) — 1%
Survey score: 1%
Critic score: N/A
Synopsis: An interstellar warship protects survivors of a decimated civilization with a race of android predators in hot pursuit in this dark update of the 1978-80 space adventure. Unlike its `Star Wars'-influenced predecessor, this `Galactica' is a decidedly grim saga that portrays the Cylons as creatures that rebelled against their creators, who soon discover their foe can infiltrate their `ragtag fugitive fleet' by taking human form.
22. "Stranger Things" (2016-) — 1%
Survey score: 1%
Critic score: 95%
Synopsis: A love letter to the '80s classics that captivated a generation, Stranger Things is set in 1983 Indiana, where a young boy vanishes into thin air. As friends, family and local police search for answers, they are drawn into an extraordinary mystery involving top-secret government experiments, terrifying supernatural forces and one very strange little girl.
23. "NCIS" (2003-) — 1%
Survey score: 1%
Critic score: N/A
Synopsis: The series is about criminal cases involving Navy and Marine personnel, handled by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service.
24. "The Walking Dead" (2010-) — 1%
Survey score: 1%
Critic score: 82%
Synopsis: A horror drama following the survivors of a zombie apocalypse who are searching for a safe haven while being tracked and menaced by the undead. Adapted from a comic-book series.
25. "Sex and the City" (1998-2004) — 1%
Survey score: 1%
Critic score: N/A
Synopsis: The story revolves around four sassy New-York based women, Carrie, Charlotte, Miranda and Samantha who are in search of love, romance and long-lasting relationships.
26. "Arrested Development" (2003-) —1%
Survey score: 1%
Critic score: 87%
Synopsis: A young man leads his oddball family and their real-estate-development business following a securities-fraud fiasco that put the father in jail. This is an arrestingly sophisticated and sardonic sitcom, with deliciously deadpan narration and stylish flashbacks, about mostly self-absorbed characters at odds with one another and the world at large.
27. "Modern Family" (2009-) — 1%
Survey score: 1%
Critic score: 86%
Synopsis: A mockumentary-style sitcom chronicling the unusual kinship of the extended Pritchett clan, a brood that includes patriarch Jay; his younger Latina wife, Gloria, and her son; Jay's daughter, Claire, and her family; and Jay's son, Mitchell, who lives with his partner, Cameron.
