"Since the year 2000, British telly has been evolving at speed. As a result, we've been blessed with dozens of era-defining episodes of TV over the past 23 years. Episodes that have held the nation in a monocultural chokehold. Episodes that have birthed timeless memes. Moments that have made us bawl our eyes out.
In celebration of what we're dubbing "British TV Week", we've called in the help of some of our favourite writers in TV to help us collate a definitive ranking of the best episodes created on these shores since the turn of the century. We sent out requests for rankings of their top five, and received over 40 responses.
Our top 10 was collated through the first callout; we then returned to each contributor for a second round of voting to rank entries 30-10. Our honourable mentions are unranked selections from voters. It's probably worth mentioning that our winner came out on top by quite a significant margin.
Here we go…"
-Ben Allen
