Milestone #8

Milestone #8

When I hit 700 shows, I was still in the M's but now we're in the P's, so my prediction of the M's lasting a long while didn't happen.  There's still no F-, one F, and one F+.  The D-s, however, went from ten to twelve, the D's from 20 to 24, and the D+s from 37 to 45.  The C-s increased from 82 to 103, the Cs from 107 to 131, and the C+s from 143 to 170.  Less dramatically, the B-s grew from 171 to 184 and the Bs only from 93 to 94.  The B+s didn't budge from 28, the A-s from five.

The '40s not surprisingly still have only a Lone Ranger episode.  The '50s went from 22 to 26, the '60s from 23 to 31.  The '70s, with help from The Odd Couple, more than doubled from 35 to 74.  The '80s just barely maintained their lead over previous decades, going from 86 to 88.  The '90s advanced also unimpressively, from 114 to 119.  The '00s finally got to be more than one-fifth of the total, now 175.  And of course the '10s dominated over earlier decades, although only going from 268 to 284.

Of the former Big Three, CBS finally passed NBC, with 94 shows vs. 89.  (Even with The Odd Couple, ABC still has only 70.)  The BBC (both One and Two) had 104 shows, and ITV 110.

At this point, I assume I won't like most shows I watch and even finding something that gets a C+ average is an accomplishment.  If nothing else, I've made progress through the alphabet.