Britons spend 'more than two months a year' watching television Predictably, that fraction grows in younger age groups, with 44% of people under 35 admitting they are "chatterboxes." The process work two ways; 17% of people in that same age group said that they have used social media to determine what they watch, reacting to online chatter about it. The annual TeleScope report, which looks at changes to the nation's viewing habits, also revealed that the average person watches 28 hours of television in a week. An extra three hour average of "on-demand" viewing, on laptops and computers, brings the total number of weekly hours to 31. The most watched programme on 'traditional' television sets last year was The Royal Wedding, with 26.5 million -nearly twice as many as the second most watched show, The X Factor Results (13.69 million, down four milion from last year). Overall, documentaries remain the most popular genre of television, followed closely by soaps and dramas. The most watched programme on the BBC's online "on-demand" service was David Attenborough's Frozen Planet (2.78 million), followed by the sketch comedy show Come Fly With Me (2.05 million). One of the more outlandish findings in the report is that a third of adults under the age of 35 have been to a TV-show themed party in the past five years. Have you ever been to a TV-themed party?