the sequence for this award was not aired. It was nominated for Emmy and Golden Globe awards, winning a total of three Emmys. However, snubs in lead Emmy categories resulted in outrage among TV critics and the decision by the academy to hold a tribute event in honor of the series after it had gone off the air in 2003. "Best of" lists 41st on TV Guides list of 50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time Second on Empires "50 Greatest TV Shows of All Time" 27th on The Hollywood Reporters "Hollywood's 100 Favorite TV Shows" Voted third in 2004 and 2007 on TV Guides "Top Cult Shows Ever" Listed in Time magazine's "100 Best TV Shows of All-Time" Included in TV Guides 2013 list of "The 60 Greatest Dramas of All Time" Ranked #7 on TV Guides list of "The 60 Greatest Sci-Fi Shows of All Time" Ranked #38 on TV Guides list of the "60 Best Series of All Time" Named the third Best School Show of All Time by AOL TV Ranked #38 in 2016 on Rolling Stones list of 100 Greatest TV Shows of All Time Included on Syfy's list of "The 25 best fantasy series of the past 25 years" Ranked #49 by Writers Guild of America on their list of the "101 Best Written TV Series Of All Time" Ranked #2 on Entertainment Weeklys "50 Best Teen Shows of All Time" Home media By 2004, before the release of the final season, the series earned $123.3 million in sales. See also Vampire film List of vampire television series References Further reading Michael Adams: Slayer Slang: A Buffy the Vampire Slayer Lexicon, Oxford University Press, 2003, Lorna Jowett: Sex and the Slayer. A Gender Studies Primer for the Buffy Fan. Wesleyan University Press, Middletown 2005, Andrew Milner: "Postmodern Gothic: Buffy, The X-Files and the Clinton Presidency", Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, Vol. 19, No. 1, 2005, pp. 103–116 James B. South and William Irwin: Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Philosophy: Fear and Trembling in Sunnydale. Open Court Books, Chicago 2003, Gregory Stevenson: Televised Morality. The Case of Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Hamilton Books, Dallas 2003, Rhonda Wilcox and David Lavery (ed.): Fighting the Forces. What's at Stake in Buffy the Vampire Slayer''. Rowman and Littlefield Publ., Lanham 2002, Valentina Signorelli. "L'Essere-per-la-Morte in Buffy The Vampire Slayer - analisi ontologico-esistenziale dell'universo audiovisivo creato da