#4 Best Shows On Broadcast Television Now- Kath & Kim (Australia)

Sure, the American version is ok-ish.  It's like Warren Beatty's Shampoo in TV show form with superficial middle-class people pretending to be rich rather than actually-rich superficial people.  But the Australian original is a masterpiece.  Each character is deliciously quirky, from slightly-overweight, spoiled recent divorcée (or, as coined, seperatée) to an older divorcée facing another marriage, to a sports-loving morbidly obese friend frequently treated with disdain.  What's not to love?  Throw in a metrosexual butcher as a spouse, and the Computa-City salesman as the other spouse, whose constant cheating and fear of being called a wussy overcomes all other feelings.  You just have to watch it to get what I'm saying... of course. 

#5 Top Shows on Broadcast Television Now- Corner Gas

It's been sickeningly long since I last updated, but here I am, and there you aren't, because nobody reads this anyway.  At least now I'm on Google but I'm pretty far down...

So here I am with Nummer Fünf on the 5 Best TV Shows On TV Right Now list.  Nothing to do with German, I just put that on there as it popped in my head.  You may or may not have heard of everyone's favourite Canadian import, Corner Gas.

It's, sadly, in its last season on CTV.  Surely it will be syndicated somewhere, and while its current timeslot on America's WGN is less than desirable, this is the TiVO age and you'll be fine.  Even VCRs can do that if you're not a new-techie.

So, let's actually write about the show.  Yes, that was plural.  I'm a renowned schizo.  At the confluence of The Office, Andy Griffith, and ummmmm... some other show.  It chronicles the life (or, as one reviewer smartly put it, lack thereof) of Brent, the manager/owner/something of a (or, more correctly, the) small-town gas station in rural Sasketchawan (forty kilometres from nowhere).  The obvious [forever-unrequited] love interest, Lucy, comes in from the big city life in Toronto to run a local café when she inherits it from a dead relative or something.  A colourful cast of characters includes the eccentric best friend, the overzealous new police officer, Brent's slightly senile father, the other police officer who verges on super-sensitive, and many more.  Their quirks make this a very funny character-driven comedy.