Top 20 New Shows of 2011: #11

My annual TV Awards, the AFT Television Awards, are given out during the summer. But this year, during both the spring and the fall, produced many impressive new television series. As 2011 closes out and 2012 begins, here’s a look back at the best new shows of the year.

#11: The Chicago Code
The best new network television show of the year was on FOX, starring Jennifer Beals as a tough-as-nails police superintendent and Jason Clarke as her temperamental former partner. Delroy Lindo’s corrupt Alderman was a great villain, but the show was so much more complex than that, presenting a vision of law enforcement in the Windy City just gritty enough for network television, and the show should certainly have seen more than one season.

Best Episode: “St. Valentine’s Day Massacre”
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