So we have done our top five programmes of the year. The funniest, the best-acted, the most riveting, the hardest-hitting, the most - godamit! - addictive of the lot. And if you haven't, you can still vote here.
Now it's time for the flipside. The head to the tails. The yin to the yang. The Ant to the Dec. Yes, that's right, it's time for your worst TV show of 2006.
Oh dear, where to start. I'm tempted to say BBC1's chatshow flop Davina, which had "failure" written all over it the moment it was announced by Peter Fincham. Why? It was a chatshow, it was midweek, it was up against The Bill and it was hosted by Davina McCall, who tends to be rather better on Big Brother than she is off it. But I'm not nominating Davina. It has suffered enough.
Then there was Love Island, although strictly speaking that wasn't a new show, despite ITV's lame attempt to reinvent it by dropping the word "celebrity", as if anyone would possibly not associate it with the car crash first time round. The result? Car crash number two. But I'm not going to nominate that either.
Next is Channel Five's All Star Talent Show, which made The Farm look like the Open University. Such was the low calibre of the "All Star" talent that to call them Z-list would be an insult to Paul Danan. But how bad can a show be that features Bernie Nolan on the drums, Carol Thatcher tap dancing, Lembit Opik on the harmonica and the Cheeky Girls doing ballet? Answer: very bad indeed.
Drama flops of the year included Channel 4's Goldplated - a poor man's Footballers' Wives - BBC1's The State Within, which was just too complicated for its own good, and pretty much any drama on Five.
My comedy disappointments of the year - not the worst shows, I hasten to add - included Rob Brydon's Annually Retentive on BBC3, which had back of a fag packet written all over it; the second series of Green Wing, which wasn't a patch on the first; and Man to Man with Dean Learner on Channel 4. I really wanted to like it, I really did. I just wish Channel 4 had commissioned a second series of Garth Marenghi instead.
An honourable mention must also go to Channel 4's reality quiz show Unanimous, in which a bunch of idiots spend an eternity in a bunker trying to work out who deserves to win £1 million. High maintenance, high production values, high stakes - and highly bleedin' irritating. Like Deal or No Deal but without Noel or the banker, it deservedly sank without trace.
Still, as Dirty Harry once said, opinions are like arseholes - everyone's got one. So tell me yours. Oh, I nearly forgot. My worst show of the year - BBC1's Just The Two Of Us, its celebrity singing show in which TV "personalities" I had never heard of teamed up with singers I barely remembered. It was almost worth it for watching Fiona Bruce, the shrinking violet of BBC News, get unceremoniously kicked out. Almost. I can only hope the husband and wife presenter pairing of Vernon Why?, sorry, Kay and Tess Daly have more chemistry at home than they do on screen.
The good news is the second series stars on January 2. Rejoice.
