The best TV of 2013: Phil Hogan's choice. If not quite a vintage year, 2013 will be remembered for Netflix's innovation and a succession of bleakly engrossing crime dramas...
Who killed Danny Latimer? 10 million of us tuned into Broadchurch to find out.
Netflix arrived and turned TV watching on its head with House of Cards… but that's enough milestones. Two of the best were quite ancient – chemistry thriller Breaking Bad (another coup for Netflix) and scatterbrain comedy Parks and Recreation, both US imports that took off over here after several seasons over there. And, still on US comedy, the second season of Lena Dunham's Girls was funny, sharp and full of surprising nudity. Returning successes Downton Abbey and Homeland stuttered rather than soared, though Call the Midwife – another Sunday hit – shone with good writing and performances. Borgen and Mad Men were well up to scratch. One of the more original British dramas was Utopia (Channel 4), a cultish adventure noted for its violence, likable characters, byzantine storyline and Day-Glo visuals – not to mention one of the most memorable psychopaths of recent years in the knuckle-dragging Arby (Neil Maskell). I'll mention the popular Peaky Blinders – the inter-war gang drama set in sooty Birmingham and featuring the excellent Sam Neill as an ass-kicking police chief – though only to say I didn't take to its swaggering tone, its "bold" use of rock music, its flattering Guinness ad cinematography, melodramatic script and choreographed brawls.
Elisabeth Moss in Jane Campion's Top of the Lake.
Emmy-nominated The Returned, an unusually naturalistic story of people coming back from the dead, was the best French-language TV offering since grubby flics-and-lawyers show Spiral (also back, and as strong as ever). Top of the Lake, Jane Campion's story of New Zealand lowlife, starring Peter Mullan and Elisabeth Moss, was slow but had a chilling ending. As usual, there was no shortage of detectives.
Top 10
- Breaking Bad Netflix
- Mad Men Sky Atlantic
- Borgen BBC4
- Utopia C4
- Educating Yorkshire C4
- The Fall BBC2
- The Returned C4
- Broadchurch ITV
- Parks and Recreation BBC4
- Homeland C4
Channels like ITV, BBC and Channel four are expanding there shows and bringing back old programmes to attract the audience. The programmes are now becoming available on social sites such as Netflix, LoveFilm and are popular most viewed shows. The top 10 shows mostly watched by audiences is mentioned above.
Channels like ITV, BBC and Channel four are expanding there shows and bringing back old programmes to attract the audience. The programmes are now becoming available on social sites such as Netflix, LoveFilm and are popular most viewed shows. The top 10 shows mostly watched by audiences is mentioned above.
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