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Six hours, 25 minutes

The amount of time, on average, Britons spent watching TV each day in the first lockdown. In this series, we reflect on a pandemic year where television has ruled the world

  • Grey’s Anatomy and my mental health

    Grey's Anatomy: the TV show that has always been there for me

    Shonda Rhimes’s long-running medical drama is not exactly uplifting. But through grief, upheaval and despair, it has been the one thing I can always count on
  • ‘I’m not resistant to modest bingeing but at the same time, my palate has also become jaded.’

    The silver streamer: older people are bingeing TV? News to me

  • (From left) Shira Haas in Unorthodox, Omar Sy in Lupin and Gillian Anderson in The Crown

    From The Sopranos to The Crown: the big lockdown TV quiz

  • Chef Ainsley Harriot, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Paul Mescal from Normal People and This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby.

    We stan together: the wonderful world of Instagram TV fan pages

    Continuing our series on a year of lockdown viewing, we explore how social media has brought comfort to fans of British television – and offered an alternative to gossip
  • Downton Abbey, Twin Peaks, Parks and Recreation, 24 and Girls.

    'Downton Abbey is ludicrous': the biggest TV hits we've never seen – until now

    Continuing our series on a year of bumper pandemic viewing, our critics finally watch the shows that had passed them by, from Downton to Twin Peaks
  • Annie Lord's year of lockdown TV

    ‘My portal to the outside world': a year of living vicariously through TV

    Britons spent an average of six hours and 25 minutes a day watching television in the first lockdown. In the first of a week-long series, one writer reflects on how TV became the backbone of her lockdown life
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