Most Popular TV Shows 2011

1. Most Popular TV Shows 2011 • Most Popular Reality TV Shows • Popular TV Shows: New Seasons By Sandy

2. Most Popular Reality TV Shows • America's Got Talent (also known as AGT) is an American reality television series on the NBC television network, and part of the global British Got Talent franchise. It is a talent show that features singers, dancers, magicians, comedians, and other performers of all ages competing for the advertised top prize of US $1 million. • The show debuted in June 2006 for the summer television season. Starting in the third season, the Talent top prize included US $1 million, payable in a financial annuity over forty years (or the present cash value of such annuity), and a show as the headliner on the Las Vegas Strip.

3. American Idol The concept of the series is to find new solo recording artists, and has since become one of the most popular in the history of American television. • As of June 2011, it is the most watched TV series in the Nielsen ratings and is the only program to have been number one for seven consecutive（连贯的） seasons, surpassing All in the Family and The Cosby Show, which were both number one for five consecutive seasons.

4. So you Think you can Dance（舞林争霸）The show features a broad variety of American and international dance styles, including ballroom, Jive, swing, hip hop, krumpcontemporary, jazz, ballet, and bollywood. • Competitors attempt to master these styles,in an attempt to survive successive weeks of elimination and win a cash prize (typically $100,000), the title of "America's Favorite Dancer" and often additional prizes.

5. Survivor（幸存者） The show maroons（放逐到无人岛上）a group of strangers (as one or more tribes) in a desolate locale, where they must provide food, water, fire, and shelter for themselves, while competing in challenges to earn either a reward, or an immunity from expulsion from the game in the next of the successive votes for elimination. • While much rarer than elimination by vote, medical conditions, such as injury or infection, have eliminated several contestants. The last two or three survivors face a jury composed of the last seven, eight, or nine players voted off. That jury interrogates the final few, and then votes for the winner of the game, the title of Sole Survivor and a million dollar prize.

6. The Amazing Race（极速前进）is a reality television show in which teams of two people, who have some form of a preexisting personal relationship, race around the worldin competition with other teams. • Contestants strive to arrive first at "pit stops" at the end of each leg of the race to win prizes and to avoid coming in last, which carries the possibility of elimination. • Contestants travel to and within multiple countries in a variety of transportation modes, including planes, balloons, helicopters, trucks, bicycles, trains, buses, boats, and by foot. The clues provided in each leg lead the teams to the next destination or direct them to perform a task, either together or by a single member. These challenges are related in some manner to the country wherein they are located or its culture. Teams are progressively eliminated until three are left; at that point, the team that arrives first in the final leg is awarded a grand prize.

7. The Biggest Loser (减肥达人）J. D. Roth • The X Factor （X达人秀）Simon Cowell, Cecile Frot-Coutaz, Richard Holloway, Andrew Llinares • Top Chef（顶级大厨）Dave Serwatka, Dan Cutforth, Jane Lipsitz, Liz Cook, Casey Kriley, and Andrew Cohen 返回

8. Popular TV Shows: New Seasons The Big Bang Theory（生活大爆炸） • Set in Pasadena（帕萨蒂亚市）, California • Five characters:1) two roommate geniuses who work at the California Institute of Technology（加州理工学院）, experimental physicist Leonard and theoretical physicist Sheldon ; 2)their neighbor across the hall Penny, a blonde waitress and aspiring actress;

9. 3)Leonard and Sheldon's geeky and socially awkward co-workers and friends Howard, an aerospace engineer. 4)Rajesh, an astrophysicist also working at Caltech. The geekiness and intellect of the four guys is contrasted for comic effect with Penny's social skills and common sense. (这是一部以“科学天才”为背景的情景喜剧。主人公Leonard和Sheldon是一对好朋友，他们的智商绝对高人一等，因为他们对量子物理学理论可以倒背如流，无论你问他们什么问题，都难不倒他们，但是说到日常生活，这两个不修边幅的男孩就彻底没了脾气。直到有一天，隔壁搬来一位美貌性感的女孩Penny ，顿时吸引了Leonard的目光，而且她最近刚刚变成单身。Leonard和Sheldon还有两个好朋友Howard Wolowit和Rajesh。《生活大爆炸》就是讲的这一个美女和四个科学家的故事。)

10. Glee（欢乐合唱团）It focuses on the high school glee club New Directions competing on the show choir(合唱） competition circuit, while its members deal with relationships, sexuality and social issues. （Glee）是一部节奏常欢快的情节音乐喜剧。故事讲述乐天派的高中教师Will Schuester（Matthew Morrison扮演）接手校园合唱团后，梦想着率队赢得全国大赛。但摆在Will面前的现实是：来参加合唱团的学生五花八门，绝大多数都很不合群，有些更是别人眼里的“怪人”。

11. Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series was created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, and premiered on The CW on September 19, 2007. Narrated by the omniscient(无所不知的） yet unseen blogger "Gossip Girl", voiced by Kristen Bell, the series revolves around the lives of privileged young adults on Manhattan's Upper East Side in New York City.

12. The Simpsons is an American animated sitcom created by Matt Groening for the Fox Broadcasting Company. The series is a satirical（讥讽的） parody of a working class American lifestyle epitomized by its family of the same name, which consists of Homer, Marge, Bart, Lisa and Maggie. The show is set in the fictional town of Springfield and parodies American culture, society, television and many aspects of the human condition.

13. Two and a Half Men（好汉两个半）：the show was originally about a hedonistic（快乐主义者）jingle writer, Charlie ; his uptight brother, Alan; and Alan‘s growing son, Jake. Charlie’s free-wheeling life is complicated when his brother gets divorced and moves along with his son, into Charlie‘s beach-front house. • Charlie是一个潇洒自由的单身汉，但离婚后被前妻剥夺了几乎一切财产的弟弟Alan带着儿子Jake的突然来访完全打乱了Charlie悠然自得的生活，三个男人一台戏。 .