Looking at the nominees for the Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild awards, you might think there are only 10 shows on television — instead of hundreds, if not thousands of series.

We know that the industry is full of copycats when it comes to programming but could it be that the nominating body of organizations such as the Hollywood Foreign Press and the Screen Actors Guild find it easier to recognize shows already acknowledged with Emmy awards by the TV Academy? Let’s just that say a certain lack of freshness emanates like a stale odor over this year’s selections for those two awards.

Toward that end, we thought that now is a good time to mention some other worthy TV shows — before they fall through the cracks and disappear.

Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s “Fleabag” paved the way for this disarming British comedy about Miri Matteson (Daisy Haggard), a convicted felon facing life on the outside after serving 18 years in prison for a murder not forgotten by the locals in her sleepy seaside town. Haggard brings a winning mixture of sweetness and vulnerability to the role of a misfit who must learn to fit in again — with her parents, her ex-boyfriend and her community.

Marc Cherry’s clever and smartly produced comedy about the extramarital education of three Los Angeleno women from three different decades (1960s, 1980s and present day) marked a triumphant return to TV by the “Desperate Housewives” creator. It also offered a spot-on performance by Ginnifer Goodwin (“Once Upon a Time”) as a sheltered housewife who befriends her husband’s mistress as a means of getting even. Surely, Goodwin’s sensitive portrayal merited awards consideration over the stale work by fading stars Jennifer Aniston and Reese Witherspoon on “The Morning Show.”

Danny McBride’s third series for HBO is a crackling satire about a South Carolina televangelist family scamming the public through their megachurch. The cast is great,from John Goodman as patriarch Eli to McBride and Adam Devine as his sons Jesse and Kelvin. Guest spots by versatile “Unicorn” star Walton Goggins as a white-wigged creature known as Baby Billy Freeman give you a flavor for just how crazy things get on this cutting-edge comedy.

No other series this year was as visually stunning. Using rotoscoping, an innovative technique that takes actors’ filmed performances and then draws over them at an animation studio, co-creators Raphael Bob-Waksberg and Kate Purdy tell the trippy story of Alma (Rosa Salazar), who discovers that her consciousness can travel through time after she survives a car crash.

Kevin Bacon gave an award-worthy performance as Jackie Rohr, a scummy FBI agent who thwarted the Boston DA’s investigation of an armored truck robbery that resulted in a murder. Created by Charles McLean, the limited series explores how Rohr’s manipulations waylaid the criminal justice system and ripped apart his family. The outstanding supporting cast featured Jill Hennessy and Aldis Hodge.

We are living in the golden age of nature documentaries (“Planet Earth”) but the six-part “Serengeti” was a cut above, taking viewers on an intimate journey through the daily lives of majestic animals over the course of a year in Tanzania. Innovative camera techniques allowed us access to their struggles for survival and made stars out of Shani, the zebra, and her foal, Bakari, a heroic baboon and the lioness Kali. These animals do anything to protect their offspring, and they stop at nothing to prove their worthiness to their tribe.