1 Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt - Netflix
When have we been more in need of a joyous 1, candy-coloured, relentlessly 2 perky, exclamation-mark-ridden, outrageously 3 funny sitcom 4 about… an abduction survivor 5?
2 Wolf Hall - BBC 2
Mark Rylance's Cromwell became one of the people of the year, 475 years after he died.
3 Mad Men - Sky Atlantic
Sky Atlantic The really magnificent thing was not the nice feeling that Don had attained 6 career zenith, but that expectation was so totally confounded.
4 Catastrophe 7 - Channel 4
Catastrophe is full of cynical 8 and sinful people, but at its heart it’s an ordinary love story, couched in some first-class swearing, about sexual honesty, served with a side-plate of adultery, lust 9, elderly parents, flirtatious 10 colleagues, money worries and a dead dog.
5 London Spy - BBC 2
London Spy succeeded in keeping a place in the British schedules for the idea of Hard TV: dramas that demand intense concentration and refuse to give up all their secrets on a first - or even a second - viewing.
6 Master of None - Netflix
Master of None sits in the post-Louie, Curb 11 Your Enthusiasm genre 12 of indie sitcoms 13: a hybrid 14 of surreal moments and awkward modern manners that’s also deeply moving.
7 Mr Robot - Amazon
Prime A mesmerising, trippy tale of hacktivism, conspiracies 15 and corporate 16 evil.
8 Empire - E 4
Call it a hip-hop soap, call it the black Dynasty, call it groundbreaking, but above all Lee Daniels’s everyday tale of record company shenanigans was a ray of sunshine in E 4’ s weeknight TV schedule.
9 Better Call Saul - Netflix
In the end, Better Call Saul was far better than it had any reason to be. It was funny - but it had real depth. Over its 10 episodes, Better Call Saul delved 17 into territory more emotional( and more weird) than anyone ever expected.
10 River - BBC 1
Abi Morgan's shrewd, charming and sometimes trippy detective series, set in the built-up concrete jungle of east London, did something genuinely new.