The Best of the 2012 Lists: TV

When December 31st comes around, everyone on the Internet Makes a Best of List.  We rounded up who picked what this year in the best of television 2012.

THEIR PICKS:  The Shows Other Sites Named #1

top tv 2012 breaking badBreaking Bad Season 5, on AMC

    • Picked as #1 By:  Washington Post, The Daily Beast, NPR.com, MetaCritic.com, Complex, Paste Magazine,  Hollywood.com’s Shauna Murphy, AVClub.com, Collider.com, FilmSchoolRejects.com, Newsday.com, Washington Post, AFI, CollegeHumor.com

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top tv homelandHomeland Season 2, Showtime.

      • Picked as #1 By:
      • Entertainment Weekly,
      • HuffingtonPost.com, The Guardian’s Rebecca Nicholson,
      • The Age,
      •       Hollywood.com’s Anna Brand

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top tv 2012 mad menMad Men Season 5, on AMC

          • Picked as #1 By:
          • Vulture.com,
          • Hollywood.com’s Amy Semigran,
          • IndieWire.com

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top tv louieLouie Season 3, on FX

Picked as #1 By:

Boston Globe
Hollywood.com’s Kate War

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OUR PICKS:  Our Top 15 in Television of 2012

Our #1 Pick for 2012 is The Daily Show

In no particular order, the rest of our favorite shows from 2012:  ESPN’s Pardon the Interruption, FX’s Louie, Showtime’s Homeland, HBO’s Boardwalk Empire, NBC’s Parks and Recreation, AMC’s Breaking Bad, HBO’s Game of Thrones, AMC’s Mad Men, CBS Sunday Morning.