Best Television of 2014

So it's been an interesting year of Television, some US shows wrap over two years like Revenge which runs for ever and ever with all the breaks it takes. The Walking Dead does breaks best by cutting the season in half, 8 and 8 episodes, 8 in 2014 and 8 in 2015 for Season 5.

The Blacklist fails to do breaks well and this year it felt like it was only on for a week or two and then poof it was gone. Thanks for the memories.

New shows came and some are already gone, Hostages (a disaster, the trailer had SO much promise), How to Get Away with Murder had me hooked from day one and I can't see this one disappearing from the screen anytime soon. The 100 is a new teen drama on the CW who seem desperate for a hit however The Flash & Arrow (both comic books adapted for TV) seem to be the next big thing after The Vampire Diaries.

Glee over Fox is coming to an end next year after a sad season last year without Finn and Simon Cowell's The X Factor (USA) got the boot after a couple of seasons and no major stars. Unlike the UK where a star per season seems a definite. And another good year over in the UK this year however Fleur should have totally won.

Fox also brought life back into the 24 series with 24: Live Another Day and continues the serial killing drama/thriller The Following. Not that the second series had anything on the terrific debut season.

Over on FX they continued to have a dream run with American Horror Story & keeping the American theme going the Americans also continued to impress the critics and despite the Bridge's second season better than the first the axe came crashing down on it.

TNT also called it a day for the rebooted Dallas and over on HBO True Blood wrapped up with a rather lame finale, much similar to Dexter last year.

Mistresses took the crown for the campiest and most soapy drama without Dallas to compete with and despite Dallas being way better, Mistresses lives to see another season.

Hannibal like The Bridge (however unlike the Bridge it will be back for season 3) proved sometimes a show is better the second time around. And sometimes in Under the Dome's case the second season is a bit of a mistake.

HBO delivered hit after hit, in every genre, comedy Veep, Girls, Getting On, mini series/telemovie The Normal Heart, new drama/thrillers True Detective, The Leftovers and gay dramas are done with ease on Looking.

Over on Showtime (my other main favourite) Shameless continues to improve, Homeland season 4 came out on top and the critics loved it, Ray Donovan improved in leaps and bounds and his wife just delivered some killer one liners and new comer The Affair was a great addition to the stations already good roster. Californication wrapped up and I was 100% satisfied but good to see it go off before it got completely bat shit crazy. Speaking of bat shit crazy, Nurse Jackie will also wrap up next year which is another show which does need to call it a day, she is sober, she is on the pills and back and forth.

So 2014 it's been a lot of time in front of the box and there has been some good, some bad and some damn terrible. I won't even talk about Australian TV which is all bad (besides the ABC, Wentworth and if Foxtel would release Devil's Playground - I am sure this is good too).