The revolution will not be televised: 2016 was the year TV turned upside down
It’s crunch time for television as we’ve always known it: 2016 was the first year the most must-see shows went missing from terrestrial channels. Streaming has changed the game for ever
From Top Gear to The X-Files: the six worst TV shows of 2016
The past year has been more abject than most, so it feels fitting to concentrate on its most disappointing television shows as we near 2016’s end. And there were plenty of duds to pick from
Battle of the Bastards to San Junipero: what was the best TV episode of 2016?
Game of Thrones’ notorious mud’n’blood fest had stiff competition this year from Black Mirror, Atlanta, Mr Robot, Horace & Pete and that Westworld finale
The 50 best TV shows of 2016: No 1 Planet Earth II
With amazing camera work and David Attenborough’s guiding words, 2016’s most outstanding television series made its rapt audience – and, most impressively, teenagers – re-engage emotionally with the animal kingdom
How TV news failed to keep up in 2016
It has been a remarkable year – but the rise of social media has made traditional televised newscasting look increasingly out of touch
Rise of the robots: how tech took over TV in 2016
The comedy of despair: why 2016 was a vintage year for female TV stars
Insecure, OJ and The Night Of: how TV tackled race in 2016
Continuing our countdown of the best TV of the year, we salute Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s sad, grubby and flat-out astonishing sitcom that’s gone stratospheric
The 50 best TV shows of 2016: No 3 Stranger Things
Our countdown of the year’s best TV has reached No 3: the Duffer brothers’ meticulous mix of 80s pop culture, sci-fi, horror, nerds and telekinesis. And by the way, what is a Demogorgon?
In HBO’s riveting plunge into the murky depths of the US justice system, Riz Ahmed and John Turturro saw truth twisted and the sins of society go unpunished
Our countdown of the year’s top TV continues with Charlie Brooker’s near-future nightmare, which made us want to throw our mobiles in a bucket of water
The 50 best TV shows of 2016: No 7 The Night Manager
As our countdown of the year’s best TV continues, writhing torsos, superb performances and a chilling dose of moral ambiguity stopped the BBC’s big-budget Le Carré adaptation from descending into A Bit of Spy and Laurie
The 50 best TV shows of 2016: No 10 HyperNormalisation
Adam Curtis’s dissection of ‘post-truth’ politics and the manipulation of global power made uncomfortable, provocative viewing – especially when it came to Colonel Gaddafi
