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When you get sucked in by television...

I've just returned from a trip to England and Scotland for a family wedding. I packed a couple of books and checked that I had extras downloaded on my Kindle app, and happily set off, envisaging hours of blissful reading on the long, long flight.
I didn't even read one page.
For the first few hours, that period being interrupted by announcements and flight attendants, I watched a whole season of Two and a Half Men. Then I had a quick look at the new movie line-up - it was in alphabetical order, so right near the top was Austenland...
Now if you've read my previous post, you will know that I have a slight crush on anything Austen. I read the book, Austenland, last year, and it was, well, meh. But I was willing to give the film a go, especially since Keri Russell has regrown her hair after being the first actress to cause the demise of a show merely by cutting her locks in Felicity way back when.
And how was it? Well, also meh. But some good fun to while away the hours.
(Sidebar: Is it while away the hours, or wile away the hours? Apparently, according to the Oxford dictionary, both.)
I broke for supper, then actually pulled out a book but only got that far as I spotted Colin Farrell on the TV next to me. Nice. I skimmed through the movie titles and found what I was looking for - Saving Mr Banks. I'm not sure why I hadn't got around to watching it yet - my daughter recently finished reading Mary Poppins, and we've watched the movie a dozen times since then - but no time like the present. As much as I loved it (what a cast!), I never knew PL Travers' background - or rather, Helen Goff's background - which means I'll never read/watch Mary Poppins in the same way again.
(And whatever you do, don't read the Daily Mail article on PL Travers...)
PS: I did get some reading done on my trip, but nothing that I'd planned - my brother-in-law had three Robert B. Parkers on his bookshelf in England, which followed me to Scotland. And on the flight home? Another season of Two and a Half Men, The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and - not sure what came over me - We're the Millers...

What movie or TV series made you put your book down for an hour or so?