Jamie Dornan’s right, comfort TV is causing our attention spans to desert us | Rebecca Nicholson

Instant streaming gratification will inevitably lead to bad TV - but first, pass the remote, it's time for another Girls5eva

I like to imagine Jamie Dornan - you might anticipate a full stop there, but do carry on - having the same issues as the rest of us over Christmas, craving a second to switch off and so switching the television on.

Perhaps he, too, spent time staring at a hectic page on a streaming service, wondering for so long what to watch that scrolling became the activity and then it was time for bed, the evening having been filled by an endless click of the down button, interrupted only by arguments about whether The Wolf of Wall Street or Zero Dark Thirty is more festive or should we do a Girls5eva or three instead? (The answer is always yes.)

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