Best Of 2008: Top 20 Online TV Shows On Fancast (6-10)

6. Bones:
6. Bones: “This is just a very cool show,” a user commented and we picked it as one of our favorites for that very reason. The series mixes brilliant forensic deduction with complicated inter-office politics and on-the-job romance – and they’re hot.

7. The Simpsons: One of the longest running and best shows in TV history, Homer, Marge, Bart and gang have spanned three U.S. Presidents (Obama will be their fourth) and countless changes in the country without losing an ounce of funny, and it has the online following to prove it. At the same time the show debuted in September 1989, Apple announced it’s new Mac portable computer. It weighed 17 pounds and cost $6,500. Today, the Simpsons’ original cast is still intact. How’s your 1989 Mac?

8. Arrested Development: This show about a dysfunctional rags-to-riches family torn between caviar and baked beans is another victim in the long line of brilliant-but-canceled TV shows. Ron Howard recently revealed a script is in development for a big screen version. In the meantime, it survives, and even thrives, on the computer screen, where it’s not only one of our favorite shows online in 2008 but also one of the most popular. Why was this taken off the air again?

9. Fringe: Picking up where The X-Files left off, the latest nightmare from the dreams of J.J. Abrams is filled with insidious government plots, mutated genetics and overwhelmed police investigators. This is exactly the kind of stuff your typical 25-year-old, techno-savvy Fancast user thinks about while waiting in line for their Starbucks coffee as a slower, more befuddled member of the species decides between a scone and a croissant.

10. Heroes: The series that brought back the water cooler gossip pool, it became a social and critical phenomenon credited with lifting up a sinking NBC in its second season. When the Writer’s strike interrupted its run, the show was the first in history to spin itself off on to the web and is partly responsible for the trend that made this list possible.