TV used to dominate my life

Then a few years ago, a realisation changed everything

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A colleague and I recently got chatting about what we get up to at home. In response to me telling him I don’t watch TV, he bemused, ‘So what do you do in the evenings?’ Ironically, this conversation happened on set whilst filming an episode of MasterChef.

I found the fact that he couldn’t fathom the idea of doing something other than watching the box after dinner a telling commentary on modern society’s relationship with the television. 

Sure, I might not watch TV today. But that hasn’t always been the case – far from it.