Top 20 New Shows of 2012: #7

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 2012 closes out and 2013 begins, here’s a look back at the best new shows of the year.

#7: Elementary
Jonny Lee Miller managed to make Sherlock Holmes stand out as two other major reinterpretations of the classic detective are ongoing. Miller is excellent as the modern-day, New York City-dwelling Holmes, and Lucy Liu is surprisingly good as his “sober companion” Watson. The cases, however, are what really make this show worth tuning into a CBS procedural.

Best Episode: “Child Predator”
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