Top Ten TV Shows of 2007

8. 'Pushing Daisies '
I loved this pilot so much I actually watched it twice. The biggest concern was whether or not the show could live (pun intended) up to its deadly silliness for an entire series. Episode two proved it could and the show keeps getting better and better. I love the narrator, love the colors, love the chemistry between the pie maker and Chuck and love that audiences actually gave it a chance. My guess though is this is a show that can’t last forever. I give it three seasons, 64 episodes. One hour. Fifty nine minutes. So, enjoy it while it lasts.

7. 'Heroes'
Yes, I know that many people were disappointed with season two of NBC’s best show of 2006. Yes, too much time was spent with Hiro Nakamura in Japan. Yes, Peter’s Irish brood wasn’t that interesting. Yes, the addition of Maya and her brother seemed like a waste of time, but I still found myself glued to the tube whenever the Heroes came around. I hope Adam Monroe finds a way to dig himself out of that coffin. I’d be up for a showdown between he and Sylar or better yet… if they'd team up.

6. 'Nip/Tuck'
The nearly year long wait for season five was definitely worth it. The docs of McNamara/Troy moving their practice from Miami to Los Angeles has given this show brand new life. As if having to weed through the shark infested waters of LA isn’t tough enough, now Sean and Christian are finally coming to terms with the fact that they are forty-something's in a twenty-something world. This week’s episode finally showed that Christian has the capacity to truly love someone, which after four seasons of watching his unending sexual escapades, feels like exactly the right time. Bad girl Eden (http://www.accesshollywood.com/specials/accessdiscovers/index.shtml) is by the far the best new villain on TV this year.

5. 'Gossip Girl'
Spotted - LS watching my guilty pleasure of 2007, yet another soapy drama with twenty year olds playing horny teenagers. My time spent in high school was much less interesting, which is probably why I love these types of shows. Serena and Blair are the best frenemies since Paris and Nicole. - XOXO Dish of Salt

4. 'Weeds'
Even Mary Kate Olsen’s guest spot couldn’t ruin yet another season of this hilarious Showtime comedy about marijuana dealing widowed mom Nancy Botwin. Nothing beats last year's romantic teaming of Elizabeth Perkins' delightfully bitchy Celia and Kevin Nealon’s pot-loving accountant Doug, which is why it’s slipped out of my number one spot from 2006. If only drug dealer U-Turn would have bit the bullet a little bit earlier, it would have made it higher on the list this year.

3. 'Friday Night Lights'
Last year, this show was at top of many critics' lists as the best show of 2006. I watched it, liked it but just couldn’t get into it. A show about football? No thanks. Then I spent hours on a plane back and forth to the east coast, watching season one episodes back to back, and wound up falling in love with the Dillon Panthers. 'FNL' is everything 'Gossip Girl' is not… relatable, true to life and not really about football at all. Finally, this season the show lives on the night it should -- Friday Nights. Hopefully, NBC will not bench this show anytime soon and more people will tune in so they won't have to concoct ratings ploys storylines like Landry's accidental rapist killing nonsense. This show is too good for that.

2. 'Jericho'
While Jack Bauer’s “24” hours were getting stale after six seasons, in came this gripping show about what would happen to the U.S. after a nuclear attack. Conspiracies, sharp twists and turns and not a CTU agent in site! By the end of the season with food becoming scarce and the U.S. in shambles, Civil War had broken out between neighboring towns Jericho and New Bern - giving us an interesting glimpse into how our own Civil War between the North and the South could have happened. CBS cancelled this show and fans rallied behind it by sending shipments of nuts to save the show and it worked. Buy the DVD. Catch up and join us when we watch the seven new episodes and hope for more.

1. 'Desperate Housewives'

The most disappointing show of 2006 has turned itself around this season and now makes it to the top of my list. It’s the only show I watched religiously on the night, at the time it originally aired. Gabrielle and Carlo’s secret affair, Mike’s drug problem, the new gay neighbors, Bree’s fake pregnancy … all were classic Wisteria Lane fare, but the addition of Dana Delaney’s new/old neighbor Katherine Mayfair brought new life to the street. Let’s hope that tornado didn’t destroy a good thing and the show keeps up its wicked Wisteria ways.

Honorable Mention: "Dancing with The Stars"/"American Idol" (Yes, I still love these two reality powerhouses.)

Shows I Hear Are Worth Watching But Didn’t Have Time Too: “Mad Men”, “Damages”, “Saving Grace”, "House" and "Brothers and Sisters."

Shows I Like But Didn’t Get To Watch This Season And Are Still Sitting On My DVR: “30 Rock”, “Scrubs”

Show I Like But Lost It’s Steam This Season: “Grey’s Anatomy”

Show I Like That Lost It's Steam But Redeemed Itself In The Finale And Now I Can't Wait For: "Lost"

Show With The Worst Sophomore Slump: “Ugly Betty”

Show That Got Whacked Too Soon: "The Sopranos"

Show I Like But No One Else Seems To Watch: “Dirt”

Show That Is Most In Need Of Being Cancelled: “The Bachelor”

Show That Will Hopefully Go On Forever Like "The Simpsons": “Family Guy”

AND FINALLY,

The Worst Show Of 2007: "Viva Laughlin" (which I delightfully nicknamed Viva Awfulin)

Happy Holidays! Thanks for all your hits this year.

I'll be back with new Dish in January!