Looking For Something To Binge Watch? Here's Our Top 10 TV Shows Of The Year

We've been taking a look back at the year that was and pulling together the list of the best of 2017. Here's what TV had to offer this year.

Ahead of collating last year's writers' poll results, there were no prizes for guessing which show would take out the best TV series of the year; the debut of Stranger Things proved to be a super hit on a rare scale.

A year on, our writers have once again lofted Stranger Things to the top of the charts, but its consecutive success in 2017 was far from a foregone conclusion. And not just because season two of the '80s sci-fi nostalgia-fest was less unanimously adored than its previous instalments.

Moreover, 2017's TV offering has been chock-full of worthy contenders as the golden age of TV has continued to produce some of the most urgent, relevant and compelling storytelling of the 21st century. Just behind Stranger Things, Game Of Thrones - another perennial presence in our annual top ten - maintained its place as the biggest juggernaut franchise on the small screen, even if some fans felt cheated by the unusually stingy eight-episode arc of season seven.

The return of Twin Peaks offered a telling acknowledgement of how elevated TV programming has become, with Lynch's infamously baffling MO thrilling both dyed in the wool devotees and newcomers to the 27-year-old franchise. The second season of Aziz Ansari's heart-meltingly endearing comedy Master Of None, and psychological crime thriller Mindhunter, both big hits with viewers and critics alike, round out this year's top five. But an honourable mention must go to extraordinary TV adaptation of Margaret Atwood's The Handmaid's Tale, not only for its eerie political prescience, but also for the powerhouse performance of Elisabeth Moss.