From Love Island to Queer Eye, as the longest day of the year beckons our writers pick their favourite summery television so you needn’t brave the outside world

The pick of the year’s top television featured ghosts, gangsters, comedy buffoons – and a hot priest

Women masturbating on screen was once the stuff of taboo, but a new wave of refreshingly radical shows are closing TV’s pleasure gap at last

Where’s Mad Men? How did The Sopranos do? Does The Crown triumph? Can anyone remember Lost? And will Downton Abbey even figure? Find out here – and have your say

Abbi and Ilana have given us the greatest possible sendoff after five years of high jinx – and a breakup to rival Ross and Rachel in TV heartbreak history

As Abbi and Ilana’s love affair comes to an end, the show’s bowing out on a high with boats, booze and celebrity cameos

Finished days before his death, Freedom is a poignant autobiography. On a lighter note, Matt Lucas and Richard Ayoade spend a weekend in Rome

Raucous female-fronted comedies such as Girls Trip and Rough Night are changing the status quo, but there’s a darker side to this breakthrough

A down-to-earth view of the works in New York’s MoMA includes appearances from her well-known friends including RuPaul and Tavi Gevinson

We’ve seen a wealth of online series make the leap to traditional channels in recent times. Here are six more that could follow them