"Once upon a time, Hollywood looked down at the grey television box in the corner of everyone's living room. Small-screen offerings were indeed nothing special when they were popularised in the 1950s ruling the industry alongside news broadcasts and throwaway comedies.
This steadily changed, however, as the new millennium neared closer and the quality of TV sets began to improve. Indeed, by the dawn of the 1990s, TV studios began to fill the needs of the consumer who wanted bigger and better shows for their marvellous home cinemas.
Donning themselves as producers of box office television, the arrival of HBO significantly changed the makeup of the entertainment industry.
Distilling 24 years into just 20 entries is, therefore, no easy task, with our list of the 20 best TV episodes of the 21st century extracting just one iconic instalment from influential stories by the likes of Cary Joji Fukunaga, Trey Parker and Shane Meadows."
