A thought crossed my mind the other day. (This is quite rare, so savour it.) When talking about favourite telly theme tunes, people often mention ones from the 90s and earlier. Which is eminently understandable – apart from any perceptions about quality, television is less and less likely to give programmes time to have a decent theme tune these days.
Still, it’s not like they don’t exist. So, as a celebration of great theme tunes post-2000, I asked the Twitter hive mind for their opinions. Their thoughts follow; before I carry on with the next stage of my little plan, are any of your favourite 21st century theme tunes missing? Let me know below…
Update (26/01/11): Loads more of your suggestions added!
Update (31/01/11): More suggestions added!
- The 10th Kingdom
- 2010 ITV World Cup
- 24
- 30 Rock
- Adventure Time
- Alias
- American Dad
- Arrested Development
- Ashes to Ashes
- Balamory
- The Big Bang Theory
- Beijing Olympics 2008
- Beyblade
- Big Brother (UK)
- Boardwalk Empire
- Bones
- Boston Legal
- Britain’s Got the Pop Factor etc etc etc
- Bruiser
- Caprica
- Channel 4 News (re-recording)
- Chuck
- The Class
- Clerks: The Animated Series
- The Cleveland Show
- The Colour of Magic
- Come Dine With Me (UK)
- Community
- Coupling
- Curb Your Enthusiasm
- Dead Like Me
- Deadwood
- The Dead Zone
- Dexter
- Doctor Who
- Dollhouse
- Downton Abbey
- Early Doors
- The Fairly OddParents
- Friday Night Lights
- Firefly
- Foster’s Home For Imaginary Friends
- Futurama Remix
- Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace
- Gavin and Stacey
- Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex
- Gilmore Girls
- Grandma’s House
- Grass
- Green Wing
- Harry and Paul
- Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law
- Haven
- Hogfather
- Horrible Histories
- House
- How I Met Your Mother
- How Not to Live Your Life
- The Inbetweeners
- In The Night Garden
- The IT Crowd
- Jakers! The Adventures of Piggley Winks
- Jam and Jerusalem
- Jeremiah
- Lab Rats
- The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson
- Late Night with Jimmy Fallon
- The League of Gentlemen (Series 3)
- Leverage
- Lie to Me
- Life On Mars
- Little Britain
- Little Dorritt
- Look Around You
- Lost
- Mad Men
- Malcom in the Middle
- Man to Man with Dean Learner
- Merlin
- The Mighty Boosh
- Misfits
- Monkey Dust
- Newswipe
- Naruto
- Nighty Night
- The Office (UK)
- The Office (US)
- One Piece
- The One Show
- Paranoia Agent
- Parks and Recreation
- Peep Show
- The Peter Serafinowicz Show
- Phineas and Ferb
- Primeval
- Prison Break
- Pushing Daisies
- QI
- Randall and Hopkirk (2000)
- Ripley and Scruff
- Robert’s Web
- Russell Howard’s Good News
- Samurai Jack
- Saxondale
- Screenwipe
- Scrubs
- Shameless
- Shane
- Shaun The Sheep
- Sherlock
- Six Feet Under
- Skins
- Smallville
- The Smoking Room
- Snuff Box
- Sonic X
- Spooks
- Stargate Atlantis
- Star Wars: The Clone Wars
- State of Play
- Still Game (Broadcast version)
- Supernatural
- Teen Titans
- Timmy Time
- The Tonight Show with Conan O’Brien
- Tru Calling
- True Blood
- TV Burp
- Two and a Half Men
- The Unit
- The Venture Bros.
- Viva Piñata
- Wallander (Swedish, 2nd series end theme)
- Weeds
- The Wire
- The X Factor
With thanks to @bohaynowell, @chickenbrutus, @danofthewibble, @ellardent, @eviljobob, @ianiansymes, @jamesmobbs, @JemRoberts, @PugStoleMyName, @Redswipe, @rjek, @sebpatrick, @wavenode, and @WillJTudor,
And if anyone suggests Star Trek: Enterprise, I shall shoot you full on in the face.
11 comments
Ian Symes on 24 January 2011 @ 1pm
Grass! Completely forgot about it the other day.
Bunkum on 24 January 2011 @ 1pm
What about the Sopranos and Mad Men? They’re both great.
deputy on 24 January 2011 @ 2pm
Mad Men especially is ace. Also, Deadwood has a good theme.
Mark X on 24 January 2011 @ 8pm
Three cracking theme tunes not on that list…
Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di_ORAn1xlE
Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZWzX8Nt23U
Still Game (the good Cuban Brothers theme, not the rubbish library music on the DVDs): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJjTzyTYzpg
Ridley on 24 January 2011 @ 10pm
Malcolm in the Middle
Ridley on 29 January 2011 @ 3am
Hogfather
The Colour of Magic
Ridley on 16 April 2011 @ 4pm
Friday Night Dinner. ;)
John Hoare on 1 May 2011 @ 3pm
Thanks. Still planning to do something with this over Summer, BTW…
Ridley on 14 August 2011 @ 8pm
Game of Thrones. :p
Ridley on 12 November 2011 @ 1am
Mogrels, Trollied, Spy, The Walking Dead, WWE NXT…
Ridley on 12 November 2011 @ 1am
Mongrels even. Ahem.
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