Blimey, I hope I'm not too late with my picks (it's still January 7 in some timezones):
1. The Honourable Woman (BBC/Sundance)
Ok so I'm a sucker for spy stories and Hugo Blick so it was kind of inevitable that The Honourable Woman would end up taking the top spot. But what a terrific show, it has the prettiest direction and camera work on TV, Maggie Gyllenhaal just knocks it out of the park and the intrigue is finely put together with nice twists and turns.
2. Mad Men (AMC)
Hey AMC, give me the second half of the season you bastards... (I thought I would use this space productively in case some AMC exec happens accross this thread whilst on a cocaine binge. It doesn't need any motivation, it's Mad Men, it's great and you should watch it.)
3. Hannibal (NBC)
Bryan Fuller does something absolutely magnificent with the second season of Hannibal, expanding the show's mythos, scope and ambition. It is probably the most intense show on TV and has forever ruined horses for me.
4 Turks & Caicos/Salting the Battlefield (BBC/PBS)
Did I mention I really love spy stories? The two sequel films to 2011's Page Eight have some terrific old school intrigue and pretty darn amazing production values. If nothing else they can boast about the greatest cast on TV this year: Bill Nighy, Christopher Walken, Helena Bonham Carter, Ralph Fienns, Winoa Ryder and that is just the big names.
5 Detectorists (BBC)
This year's finest new comedy. A low-key affair, sure. Not laugh-out-loud-funny sure. But it so clever in how it uses its characters and setting. I never thought I would enjoy a show about people using metal detectors as much as I did but the show completely won me over. Also you can never get enough Toby Jones.
6. Orange is the New Black (Netflix)
The best show on Netflix (especially after the season HoC had) keeps playing to its strengths. One of few shows that actually manages to mix humour and drama well and it has some of the most fascinating characters on TV. I just hope that Netflix and Jenji Kohan doesn't do the same mistake as with Weeds and keeps it on forever.
7. Marvellous (BBC)
Do you need to feel good about the world for a bit? Then make sure to watch Marvellous, a film about a very unique man. There is no better phrase to describe this made for TV film than "heart warming" and that it manages to be just that without ever dipping into oversentimentality speaks volumes about its quality. Also you can never get enough Toby Jones.
8. Game of Thrones (HBO)
Game of Thrones keeps alternating between political intrigue, gratuitous boobage, melodrama, fantasy epic and gratuitous violence and I love pretty much every second of it. Just don't kill Arya. Like really. Please? Pretty please?
9. Fargo (FX)
Making a series out of the Coen brothers' film shouldn't have worked as well as it did. Minnesota as envisioned by the Coens really holds up even under new management, keeping what made film great (colourful characters and black humour) and giving it a new, if familiar, coat of paint (new story and characters) made for a great limited series.
10. Doctor Who (BBC)
It is broad, stupid, camp, clever, bonkers, funny, scary, niche, and a bunch more of things. There is no show quite like Doctor Who.
Honourable Mentions:
Bojack Horseman (Netflix), True Detective (HBO), The Normal Heart (HBO), Den Fjärde Mannen|Another Time, Another Life (SVT), Viva Hate (SVT), Uncle (BBC), VEEP (HBO), Black Mirror: White Christmas (Channel 4)
Stuff I haven't watch yet but might have made the list:
Transparent (Amazon), Happy Valley (BBC), The Game (BBCA), Olive Kitteridge (HBO), Glue (Channel 4), Utopia (Channel 4), The Fall (BBC), The Missing (BBC/Starz)