It’s been: a year.

12 months full of things we would never have imagined becoming an inescapable part of our daily lives: face masks, roadmaps, bubble politics and debates about if a Scotch egg constitutes a substantial meal.

But if there is one thing that has remained constant throughout this time it’s our relationships with our televisions. A study last August revealed that people in the UK spent 40% of their waking hours watching TV during the height of the April coronavirus pandemic, and 12 million adults in the UK signed up to a new streaming service. And our viewing habits have shown no signs of faltering since.

But while the TV companies have delivered the goods with tense thrillers like The Undoing, vital dramas about consent like I May Destroy You and an unexpectedly compelling show about chess, we must also give thanks to the unsung TV stalwarts that have kept us going for the last year. The long-running, multi-episoded series that have soothed fractured souls, taken us out of anxiety-laden brains and given us something to focus on that’s a million miles from briefings and Boris.

So, here’s the one TV show that members of the Stylist team give thanks for.

“The TV show that saved me in lockdown”