I have to see if I can make the system do that. Right now, we're just typing in our grades, so I think it's theoretically possible. But it's also possible the designers foresaw my mischief-making and have put some sort of limit on characters.

We actually probably could?

I liked Siberia a lot. But it wasn't at the level of those.

Maybe, maybe not. Basically, the show running on that day got a special trophy because it ran neck and neck with our top three. And Best New Show was the best trophy to give it. It doesn't mean, however, that there are no new shows in our top three.

You're missing a key word there.

This was totally not my call! It was Phipps, and I keep it around in honor of his memory.

I think so, yeah, probably in TV Reviews and probably in the new year. I know Phil is enjoying Crazy Ones, so if you tend to agree with Phil, maybe you'll like it too.

Everything in the groupings are in the top 15. Consider this a five-way tie for all of the programs above if it makes it all make more sense.

We have a screener of it that circulated, yeah. But it was ineligible for this list because most of its content will air in 2014. So look for it next year.

Nah, I'll probably just link to it on Twitter. We talked about posting it here, but this feature is already bloated enough.

Okay, so we didn't get to see SHIELD. But it was never in serious consideration to begin with.

Trust me: There is going to be some shit you haven't seen in our top 40.

I have no say over that! But I think it is happening?

The only time the commenters were brought up was when one writer said he wondered what would happen when they realized Community wasn't on the list (SPOILER!), and I said I figured most of them would agree with us.

We've done "best show" for three years, and Breaking Bad won it twice, in 2010 and 2012. Louie won in 2011.

Actually, the networks sent out screeners for just about everything not named Homeland in early November, so we kind of HAVE seen everything.

That's a big part of it. If we had done our usual thing, the top five would have been some combination of Breaking Bad, Mad Men, Parks & Rec, Girls, and Game Of Thrones. Not that those are bad shows (that's a pretty good top five), but they would rise so high just because the most people watch them. This allows us to…

We did a handful of groupings because a.) we could and b.) it breaks down the list-making hegemony even more. Soon all will be chaos!

My plan is to publish the list of every show we considered on my personal site somewhere during the holidays!

Nope. Doing the list that way was just too much work for not enough payoff, and there are other reasons we're doing it this way which will be explained in a Newswire going up in the morning.