Top TV Miniseries of All Time

It has been more than 30 years since Roots changed the face of American television, turning the “miniseries” into an event. Some 12 years later, Lonesome Dove became yet another landmark, reviving the American Western in a work the much-decorated Robert Duvall has described as his best ever.

In 2003, HBO again tweaked the miniseries genre in bringing Tony Kushner’s Angels in America (and its remarkaby stellar cast) to cable.

Those, clearly, have to be considered among the top miniseries of all time, but Entertainment Weekly attempted to put together a list of 10.

Here’s a sampling of who made it:

 I. Claudius (1976)

Roots (1977)

Shogun (1980)

V (1983)

Lonesome Dove (1989)

Tales of the City (1993)

Angels in America (2003)

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