Historical clue formulations

• #1 on BBC's list of greatest 21st-century TV series — 2025-08-09
• TV series named second-best of all time by Rolling Stone, but which never won an Emmy — 2022-05-18
• 2000s TV hit set in Baltimore — 2017-03-12
• Series of drug-related offenses? — 2014-12-12
• Hit HBO series set in Baltimore — 2012-03-05
• It was Obama's self-professed favorite TV series — 2011-07-23
• What something may go down to — 2010-12-31
• Gritty TV series set in Baltimore — 2009-12-18
• Words after "under" or "down to" — 1998-06-19
• It often comes down to this — 1996-06-28