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Best TV of 2015

18 December 2015

  • Empire’s Taraji P Henson and Downton Abbey’s Dame Maggie Smith.

    Cookie or the Countess? The 20 best quotes from 2015’s TV shows

    Who’s a cup of tea in a world of skinny lattes? It’s the telly year in quotes, from Humans to Catastrophe, Empire, Downton Abbey, Mad Men and The Great British Bake Off

17 December 2015

  • Michael Traynor as Nicholas and Steven Yeun as Glenn Rhee - The Walking Dead _ Season 6, Episode 3 - Photo Credit: Gene Page/AMC

    Fences, eco-panic and devastation: The Walking Dead was the most topical show of the year​

    In the sixth season of the zombie series, the surviving humans build a fence to keep the flesh-eaters out. But all their efforts are undermined by the threat from within, raising uncomfortable parallels with real-world events
  • Jeffrey Tambor as Maura Pfefferman in Transparent.

    Trans TV: From Transparent to Boy Meets Girl and EastEnders, this was a year in transition

    In 2015, TV finally moved on from an obsession with sex change and started to treat trans people as real human beings instead

    • Tom Rob Smith on London Spy: 'I was surprised that sex scene shocked anyone'

    • Never catch-up TV: 2015 was the year of too many good shows

    • Best TV of 2015: No 1 – Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt

16 December 2015

  • Nicola Walker: ‘It was slightly ridiculous that I had two shows on at the same time. As far as I was concerned, those jobs happened far apart.’

    Nicola Walker: ‘You wonder what your life has come to, telling someone what sort of biscuit you are’

  • Peter Kosminsky: ‘There was a little voice in my head saying: You’ve tried costume drama and you were crap at it.’

    Peter Kosminsky: ‘I thought I was a very odd choice for Wolf Hall’

  • Sharon Horgan and Rob Delaney at Norman’s Coach and Horses, Soho.

    Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan: ‘He rubs my corners off and I try to kick some of the sweetness out of him’

  • Wolf Hall with Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell.

    Best TV of 2015: No 2 – Wolf Hall

15 December 2015

  • From left, John Slattery as Roger Sterling, Jon Hamm as Don Draper, Vincent Kartheiser as Pete Campbell, Christina Hendricks as Joan Harris and Kevin Rahm as Ted Chaough, in a scene from the final season of Mad Men.

    Best TV of 2015: No 3 – Mad Men

    The final season gives us unexpected romance, profound sadness, death – and one of the best screen portraits of drunkenness in TV history

14 December 2015

  • Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan in Catastrophe.

    Best TV of 2015: No 4 – Catastrophe

    Rob Delaney and Sharon Horgan’s comedy inverts the classic romcom with sexual honesty, a barrage of swearing and a dysfunctional support cast

13 December 2015

  • London Spy’s Harriet Walter, Jim Broadbent, Arian Lester and Ben Whishaw.

    Best TV of 2015: No 5 – London Spy

    Seemingly inspired by the real-life events of the ‘spy in the bag’ case, Tim Robb Smith’s five-part espionage drama proved much more complex, entwining acts of deceit and pursuit under the achingly beautiful direction of Jakob Verbruggen

12 December 2015

  • Aziz Ansari in the Netflix original series Master of None

    Best TV of 2015: No 6 – Master of None

    Aziz Ansari navigated the transfer from standup to sitcom with style, and when his show tackled race, it was bold, thoughtful and game-changing

11 December 2015

  • Rami Malek in Mr Robot. The series was nominated for a Golden Globe award for best television drama, Malek was also nominated for best actor in a TV series.

    Best TV of 2015: No 7 – Mr Robot

    Amazon Prime’s sleeper hit is a mesmerising, trippy tale of hacktivism and corporate evil that plays fast and loose with the truth

10 December 2015

  • Taraji P Henson and Terrence Howard as Cookie and Lucious in Empire.

    Best TV of 2015: No 8 – Empire

    Glossy, groundbreaking and totally outrageous: Empire is the hip-hop soap that keeps on giving

9 December 2015

  • Better Call Saul’s Jonathan Banks and Bob Odenkirk.

    Best TV of 2015: No 9 – Better Call Saul

    Vince Gilligan’s offbeat prequel to Breaking Bad avoided the pitfalls of TV spin-offs with a commanding performance from Bob Odenkirk and some entertaining, esoteric tangents

8 December 2015

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