Radio Times Top 40 TV Shows of 2016: 30 to 21
The votes have been counted and the results are in... here's our critics' countdown of the year's best telly
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22. The Windsors (C4)
Channel 4’s extremely rude cartoonish soap opera about the royal family imagined them as irredeemably stupid, lazy, self-indulgent and so absurdly posh that they can’t even pronounce the wordy “gypsy” correctly. But the lashings of Spitting Image-style tomfoolery lent it a certain innocence and allowed the creators to be extremely bold. Take Kate Middleton (Louise Ford), reimagined as a Traveller whose struggles to find her role in national life are repeatedly scuppered by Haydn Gwynne’s scheming Camilla. The joke at Channel 4 is that the broadcaster’s programmes director Jay Hunt won’t be getting a call from the Palace soon with the offer of a Damehood. She’ll have to console herself with having commissioned one of the comedies of 2016. Ben Dowell
