Is TV better than it used to be?

[JuntMonkey]

Of course there are plenty of old shows that are good or great, as good as many of the shows on now. However, there are more than a handful of phenomenal recent shows that blow everything else out of the water.

The second season of Buffy had to be by far the best season of a dramatic television series up to that point (1998). The first two seasons of Sopranos are among the top 5-10 television/movie productions in the last 30 years.

Then you have a bunch of second-tier shows that are still better than nearly any past dramas - mostly stuff on HBO.

Comedy is another story. I don't watch any current ones, and I'm sure the sitcom situation was better in the past. Is there a single good sitcom on the air?