The BFI TV 100 is a list of 100 television programmes or series that was compiled in 2000 by the
British Film Institute
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(BFI), as chosen by a poll of industry professionals, with the aim to determine the best
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television programmes of any genre that had been screened up to that time.
Selection and criteria
The
British Film Institute
The British Film Institute (BFI) is a film and television charitable organisation which promotes and preserves film-making and television in the United Kingdom. The BFI uses funds provided by the National Lottery to encourage film production, ...
television programme poll was conducted in the year 2000, and its results are reflected in the list that appears in a following section. Initially, a 'big list' of 650 programmes was drawn up by BFI personnel.
Television programmes no longer extant in the archives were excluded from consideration. The provisional list was split into six categories: Single Dramas, Drama Series and Serials, Comedy and Variety, Factual, Children's/Youth, and Lifestyle & Light Entertainment. Some programmes were represented in the list by an entire series; however, for some series—e.g., the anthology ''
The Wednesday Play
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'' and the current affairs programme ''
This Week''—individual episodes were listed. News stories were mostly excluded, with exceptions such as the coverage of the death of
Diana, Princess of Wales
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(on the basis that it would be impossible to determine whether it was the coverage or the news itself that made them important). Sport was excluded for similar reasons, and also because many events such as the
1966 World Cup, while important to those in England, would not necessarily matter to those in other areas of the UK.
The provisional list of 650 was then distributed to 1,600 television industry professionals in the UK, who were each given 30 votes.
[ Each voter was required to cast a minimum of three votes in every category. The judges were also asked to name their top overseas programme (where the U.S. sitcom, '']Frasier
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'', was chosen).[
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Full list
The following are the results of the poll, as reported by the BFI and other sources. Because the list reports decisions made in the year 2000, programmes and series are presented as they were perceived in that year; as such, ones not yet having concluded by the year 2000 are presented as having an open-ended date span in the "Year(s)" column, even if they have subsequently ended. The Genre column, added to the original table, may have a lot of crossover genres and is intended as guide to the "main" genre of each programme.
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led broadcasters in terms of numbers of programmes/series produced, with 70.
tied for third with 6 each.
* {{cite web , author = BFI Staff , date = 4 March 2009 , title = The BFI TV 100: 1–100 , location = London, UK , publisher =
, url=http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/tv/100/list/list.php , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110911083558/http://www.bfi.org.uk/features/tv/100/list/list.php , archive-date=11 September 2011
and giving the first 20 on the list.