SFist Watches: TV This Week

The Year 2005 has finally come to an end, and none too soon. It kind of blew. We have higher hopes for 2006.

But even though the calendar may say 2006, and even though vacation is officially over, you'd never know it by watching TV. This is another week where the reruns outnumber the new episodes. Come next week, that will no longer be the case, but we're hard-pressed to really find anything to recommend. On Thursday, "My Name is Earl" and "The Office" move to their new night on NBC. Thursday is also premiere night for a new season of "Dancing with the Stars" on ABC (with George Hamilton apparently taking on the John O'Hurley role). And on Friday SFist fave Amy Sedaris is scheduled to appear on Letterman. But aside from that, our TiVo is relatively bare.

So we'd like to get a kind of meme/best of/reader participation thing going this week instead. Tell us the top 10 season passes on your TiVo. (If you don't have a TiVo, but are still devoted to television in one way or the other, tell us what shows you make it a point of seeing every week.) No lying and listing nothing but PBS fare. We want honesty. If "Rollergirls" already has a top spot on your list, fess up. If your number two show is "Cheaters," we won't judge.

But if "Arrested Development" isn't in there somewhere, we may have to confiscate your remote.

OK. I'll go first. (Yes, "I." Since I wasn't able to pull together a year end, "best of" post in time, I'm kind of cheating and dropping the "we" here. At least for a couple of sentences.)

1. Father Ted (I've seen most of them before, but it's been long enough that I can watch them again and still laugh.)
2. The Office UK (See above.)
3. Alias (New episodes only!)
4. Starting Over (I love my daily dose of the crazy.)
5. Desperate Housewives (I don't even like the show. Why is it so high on the list?)
6. Lost (We've waited long enough. A new episode airs next week!)
7. Medium (Not that great, but not that bad either. Do I dare use the "rare, well-done" joke again?...Naaaah)
8. Martha (If only she'd stop with the celebrity interviews. Half the time she can't even be bothered to remember the names of the people she's speaking to, much less what show/movie/album they've just completed.)
9. Arrested Development (Oh, please have some episodes for this sad season pass in the coming weeks!)
10. Late Show With David Letterman ('Cause Leno sucks.)