The Best TV Shows from 2008

Below is our top ten list of the best TV shows which first started broadcasting in 2008.

First Aired: 07 September, 2008

True Blood is a TV series starring Anna Paquin, Stephen Moyer, and Sam Trammell. Telepathic waitress Sookie Stackhouse encounters a strange new supernatural world when she meets the mysterious Bill Compton, a southern Louisiana…

First Aired: 13 January, 2008

Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles is a TV series starring Lena Headey, Thomas Dekker, and Summer Glau. Set after the events in Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991), Sarah Connor and her son, John, try to stay under-the-radar from…

First Aired: 20 September, 2008

Merlin is a TV series starring John Hurt, Colin Morgan, and Bradley James. These are the brand new adventures of Merlin, the legendary sorcerer as a young man, when he was just a servant to young Prince Arthur on the royal court of…

First Aired: 23 September, 2008

The Mentalist is a TV series starring Simon Baker, Robin Tunney, and Tim Kang. A famous “psychic” outs himself as a fake, and starts working as a consultant for the California Bureau of Investigation so he can find “Red John”, the…

First Aired: 09 September, 2008

Fringe is a TV series starring Anna Torv, Joshua Jackson, and John Noble. An F.B.I. agent is forced to work with an institutionalized scientist and his son in order to rationalize a brewing storm of unexplained phenomena.

First Aired: 03 September, 2008

Sons of Anarchy is a TV series starring Charlie Hunnam, Katey Sagal, and Mark Boone Junior. A biker struggles to balance being a father and being involved in an outlaw motorcycle club.

First Aired: 15 August, 2008

Star Wars: The Clone Wars is a TV series starring Tom Kane, Dee Bradley Baker, and Matt Lanter. Jedi Knights lead the Grand Army of the Republic against the droid army of the Separatists.

First Aired: 01 May, 2008

The Inbetweeners is a TV series starring Simon Bird, James Buckley, and Blake Harrison. Follows four friends and their antics during their final years of school.

First Aired: 13 July, 2008

Generation Kill is a TV mini-series starring Alexander Skarsgård, James Ransone, and Lee Tergesen. A Rolling Stone reporter, embedded with The 1st Recon Marines chronicles his experiences during the first wave of the American-led…

First Aired: 20 January, 2008

Breaking Bad is a TV series starring Bryan Cranston, Aaron Paul, and Anna Gunn. A high school chemistry teacher diagnosed with inoperable lung cancer turns to manufacturing and selling methamphetamine in order to secure his family’s…