Our TV critic's top 20 shows of 2024: From unmissable high-octane thrillers to cosy crime capers, magnificent costume dramas and nature and science spectaculars - but do YOU agree with his top choice?

Back in the days when there were just three or four TV channels, how we moaned about repeats. Unless you’re lucky enough to watch telly for a living like the Daily Mail team, you’re unlikely to have seen all the five star shows this year has brought us. Toril has broken with her ultra-religious mother and is running a nightclub – ‘for fun’, she says, which is true since Toril’s idea of fun involves unlimited champagne and cocaine. At 98, strolling through a garden of foxgloves to show us bumblebees buzzing ‘like living tuning forks’ to gather pollen, he appears as sharp and energetic as ever, and still utterly rapt in nature’s wonders. Joan Sophie Turner’s delightful 80s crime caper recreates the era with masterstrokes of scene-setting – such as tea around a Formica-top table, poured from an aluminium teapot.