Best Television Shows of 2012

Here are my picks for the top Television Dramas of 2012:

1. The Walking Dead (AMC)
2. Game of Thrones (HBO)
3. Once Upon A Time (ABC)
4. Mad Men (AMC)
5. Downton Abbey (PBS)
6. Dexter (Showtime)
7. American Horror Story (FX)
8. True Blood (HBO)
9. 666 Park Avenue (ABC)
10. Fringe (Fox)
11. Smash (NBC)
12. Grimm (NBC)
13. Awake (NBC)
14. The Good Wife (CBS)
15. The Mentalist (CBS)
16. Supernatural (CW)
17. The River (ABC)
18. Dallas (TNT)
19. Arrow (CW)
20. Revolution (NBC)

Here are my picks for the top Television Comedies of 2012:

1. The Big Bang Theory (CBS)
2. Modern Family (ABC)
3. Community (NBC)
4. Girls (HBO)
5. The New Normal (NBC)
6. Parks and Recreation (NBC)
7. Glee (Fox)
8. Don’t Trust the B—- in Apartment 23 (ABC)
9. 30 Rock (NBC)
10. Happy Endings (ABC)
11. New Girl (Fox)
12. Cougar Town (ABC/TBS)
13. Desperate Housewives (ABC)
14. GCB (ABC)
15. The Simpsons (Fox)
16. Go On (NBC)
17. How I Met Your Mother (CBS)
18. The Office (NBC)
19. Raising Hope (Fox)
20. Hot in Cleveland (TV Land)

Every year, Metacritic also tallies the critics top picks for the best television shows of the year and compiles a list of the what critics say are the best.

Here is their list for 2012:

1. Breaking Bad (AMC)
2. Mad Men (AMC)
3. Homeland (Showtime)
4. Louie (FX)
5. Girls (HBO)
6. Parks and Recreation (NBC)
7. Game of Thrones (HBO)
8. The Walking Dead (AMC)
9. Parenthood (NBC)
10. Sherlock (PBS)
11. 30 Rock (NBC)
12. Justified (FX)
13. The Good Wife (CBS)
14. American Horror Story: Asylum (FX)
15. Luck (HBO)
16. Nashville (ABC)
17. Happy Endings (ABC)
18. Downton Abbey (PBS)
19. Community (NBC)
20. Treme (HBO)
21. New Girl (Fox)
22. Boardwalk Empire (HBO)