Hallmark’s Happy Yule Log; The Top 25 Shows of 2016, No. 25

Starting today and continuing through the end of the year I’m going to count down the Top 25 shows of 2016, building up to No. 1, aka the Program of the Year. By December 31 my choices will comprise a list unlike any other you will see among the many year-end honor rolls that will flood the media during the next two weeks. That’s because, in my opinion, a program doesn’t have to turn up on the Ten Best lists of the top critics in order to have special value or be the best of its kind.