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Top 10 Awards

The Top 10 is the main prize of the Melon Music Awards, honoring the ten artists most loved on Melon's chart each year, chosen mostly by streaming score.

Top Boy

Top Boy is a British crime drama created by Ronan Bennett, set on the fictional Summerhouse estate in Hackney, following Dushane (Ashley Walters) and Sully (Kano). Two Channel 4 series (2011, 2013), then a Drake-backed Netflix revival (2019-2023), BAFTA-winning, with Jonny Boy and Jaq spin-offs announced.

Top Cat

Top Cat (Don Gato y su Pandilla) is a 1961-62 Hanna-Barbera ABC animated sitcom, 30 episodes, based on Sgt. Bilko, about a New York alley cat gang and Officer Dibble, later hugely popular in Mexico.

Top Channel Albania

Top Channel is a national private television broadcaster headquartered in Tirana, Albania. Founded by Dritan Hoxha in 2001, it was Albania's largest television by revenue until 2017.

Top Chef

Top Chef: American Bravo reality cooking competition, premiered March 8, 2006, produced by Magical Elves; hosts Katie Lee, Padma Lakshmi, Kristen Kish; head judge Tom Colicchio; 29 international versions, 42 Emmy nominations.

Top Chef VIP season 4

Top Chef VIP season 4 (2025) was Telemundo's Spanish-language celebrity cooking competition with 20 stars, hosted by Carmen Villalobos, judged by chefs de Livier, Tita, and Vázquez; Cristina Porta won the $200,000 prize on October 6, 2025.

Top Chef: All-Stars L.A.

Top Chef: All-Stars L.A. is season 17 of Bravo's Top Chef (2020), an all-returnee cast competing in Los Angeles and Tuscany, won by Melissa King, who also took Fan-Favorite.

Top Chef: Carolinas

Top Chef: Carolinas, the 23rd season of Bravo's Top Chef, ran March 9 to June 8, 2026; 15 chefs competed in Charlotte, Greenville, and Asheville, and Rhoda Magbitang won the $250,000 prize.

Top Chef: Destination Canada

Top Chef: Destination Canada is season 22 of the Bravo series Top Chef, its first Canada-based season. Host Kristen Kish with Tom Colicchio and Gail Simmons; premiered March 13, 2025; filmed in Toronto and the Calgary–Canmore corridor with a Milan finale.

Top Chef: Portland

Top Chef: Portland is Season 18 of Bravo's Top Chef, filmed fall 2020 in Portland, Oregon during COVID-19 with an alumni judge bubble, chef's-table Restaurant Wars, wildfire disruptions, and winner Gabe Erales; aired April 1 to July 1, 2021.

Top Chef: Wisconsin

Top Chef: Wisconsin is the 21st season of Bravo's Top Chef, premiering March 20, 2024, with new host Kristen Kish, 15 chefs, revised immunity rules, and winner Danny Garcia.

Top Chef: World All-Stars

Top Chef: World All-Stars is Bravo Top Chef's 20th season (2023), the first filmed entirely abroad, in London and Paris, with 16 winners and finalists from 11 international Top Chef versions; Buddha Lo won the $250,000 prize.

Top Cow Productions

Top Cow Productions, Inc. is a Los Angeles comic publisher founded in 1992 by Marc Silvestri, one of Image Comics' seven founders. Known for Witchblade, The Darkness, Cyberforce, and Wanted, it operates as an autonomous Image partner studio.

Top Dawg Entertainment

Top Dawg Entertainment (TDE) is an independent hip-hop and R&B label founded in 2004 by Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith in Carson, California, home to Kendrick Lamar, SZA, ScHoolboy Q, Jay Rock, Ab-Soul, and Doechii, with seven No. 1 albums.

Top Five

Top Five is a 2014 American comedy-drama film written, directed by, and starring Chris Rock, following a comedian forced to confront the career he left behind.

Top Gear (1977 TV series)

Top Gear (1977 TV series), also called Old Top Gear, was the BBC's original motoring magazine show on BBC Two from 22 April 1977 to 17 December 2001, created by Derek Smith, hosted by Angela Rippon, William Woollard and later Jeremy Clarkson, and cancelled in 2001 before the 2002 relaunch.

Top Gear (2002 TV series)

Top Gear (2002 TV series): BBC Two motoring show relaunched 20 October 2002 by Jeremy Clarkson and producer Andy Wilman, fronted 2002–2015 by Clarkson, Hammond, and James May from Dunsfold Park, becoming a global BBC hit.

Top Gear challenges

Top Gear challenges: stunt and task segments of the BBC motoring show, prefaced by "How hard can it be?", including cheap car challenges, epic races, and amphibious crossings; scripted entertainment with a documented safety record.

Top Gear controversies

Top Gear controversies: disputes involving the BBC motoring show, including the Burma 'slope' slur, Argentina's H982 FKL plate row, and Jeremy Clarkson's 2015 dismissal for attacking producer Oisin Tymon.

Top Gear: Botswana Special

Top Gear: Botswana Special (Series 10, Episode 4, BBC Two, 4 November 2007) is considered the first proper Top Gear special, in which Clarkson, Hammond, and May drove £1,500 two-wheel-drive cars, including Hammond's Opel Kadett "Oliver", about 1,000 miles across Botswana.

Top Gear: Patagonia Special

Top Gear: Patagonia Special is a two-part BBC2 Christmas special (December 2014) in which Clarkson, May, and Hammond drove 1,600 miles from Bariloche to Ushuaia; filming collapsed over Clarkson's Porsche plate H982 FKL, read as a Falklands War reference.

Top Gear: Polar Special

Top Gear: Polar Special is a Top Gear special in which Clarkson, May, and Hammond raced a Toyota Hilux against a dog sled to the North Magnetic Pole.

Top Gear: Vietnam Special

Top Gear: Vietnam Special (2008) is the Series 12 finale in which Clarkson, Hammond, and May ride 1,000 miles from Saigon to Halong City in eight days on budget bikes, ending with amphibious bike-boats on Halong Bay.

Top Girls

Top Girls is Caryl Churchill's 1982 all-female feminist play, premiering at the Royal Court under Max Stafford-Clark. It follows Marlene's Thatcher-era career rise, a dinner party with historical women, and her abandoned daughter Angie, winning the 1983 Obie Award.

Top Gun

Top Gun (1986) is Tony Scott's Paramount action drama starring Tom Cruise as Navy pilot Maverick at the elite Fighter Weapons School; highest-grossing film of 1986, over $357 million worldwide, mixed reviews, Navy-supported production.

Top Gun (soundtrack)

Top Gun: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Columbia, May 7, 1986) is the hit compilation for Tony Scott's film, with Moroder/Whitlock songs, Berlin's Oscar-winning "Take My Breath Away," Loggins' "Danger Zone," and Faltermeyer's score, a top-selling 1986 album.

Top Gun: Maverick

Top Gun: Maverick is Joseph Kosinski's 2022 sequel to Top Gun, starring Tom Cruise as Pete Mitchell training Top Gun graduates including Rooster. It grossed $1.5 billion worldwide, was 2022's #1 film, and led to Top Gun 3.

Top hat

Top hat (silk hat, stovepipe, plug, chimney-pot; French haut-de-forme, Spanish chistera): tall cylindrical men's formal hat, dominant 19th-century headwear, beaver then silk plush, now worn mainly at weddings.

Top Hat

Top Hat (1935) is an RKO musical comedy directed by Mark Sandrich, starring Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers with Irving Berlin songs including "Cheek to Cheek"; the fourth Astaire-Rogers film, first written for the pair, Oscar-nominated Best Picture, National Film Registry 1990.

Top Management (TV series)

Top Management (탑 매니지먼트) is a 2018 South Korean web drama, YouTube's first Korean Original, starring Seo Eun-soo, Ahn Hyo-seop, and Cha Eun-woo as a clairvoyant manager of the struggling boy group S.O.U.L.