FIVE STREAMERS YOU CAN SWITCH OFF WITH

We all loves shows that make us think. Those twisty-turny thrillers that keep us guessing, or the gritty and grungy dramas that remind us life is good.

But sometimes we like to switch and switch off – no brains required. Here’s five of favourite guilty secrets for when we want to do just that.

How do you take a ‘trashy’ romance and make it watchable? Rivals has a go at it. Best described as a ‘eighties romp in rural England’ It’s packed with the clashing of egos, the swapping of wives and lots of symbolic horses. But it’s so much fun. And 92% on Rotten Tomatoes suggests people seem to love the porny escapism.

Pitched as ‘the thinking persons reality telly’, Traitors is a new take on old formats with dark cloaks. A bunch of people are holed up in a fancy house trying to work out who’s on whose side. Somehow it works, in several countries. While the UK does it best, even Paul Henry and a kiwi crew is fun to pass the time.

How do you make trauma funny? That was the challenge for the team from Ted Lasso. So they grabbed Jason Segal, Harrison Ford and the awesome Jessica Williams to dig into stories from a team of psychologists grappling with their own inner demons. It might sound dark, but it’s light, charming and really very funny.

The plane first crashed over 20 years ago, but the story still works just fine. It’s a six-season rumble in the jungle with beautiful people fighting to get off an island. Plenty of running through trees and rocks to the side of the head. Sure it gets silly, but it’s totally watchable and solves ‘what shall we watch’ for over a month.

Love Island, Treasure Island, even Deal or no Deal Island edition. Random people playing pop-psychology on islands is like instant noodles on screen. The challenges are fun, the arguments are silly, the tension is whipped from a primary school playground and the island always wins. A bit like Lost.