An insurance company is offering to insure against your TV elbow and other similarly serious setbacks sustained during lengthy sessions of plugging into your television screen.

I couldn’t believe my square eyes and probably with good reason as I was three episodes into a mini-marathon of House Rules on Yahoo7 on Sunday.

(Spoiler alert) I love what they’ve done with the Tassie place, but the study is a shemozzle. Mean girls Fiona and Nicole finally designed a nice lounge room while South Australia’s Kate and Harry scored the competition’s first 10 from LLB of all people. Self-confessed geek twins Andrew and Jono presented a Scandi-style loft bedroom I’d be happy to bunk down in.

Apologies if you don’t speak fluent House Rules; my husband doesn’t know the lingo either and between me and our eldest daughter it’s an excruciatingly, long winter for him; think Game of Thrones.

From memory the insurance company was willing to foot the physiotherapy bills that might come from being spread-eagled across the sofa for hours on end, days in a row.

Beyond belief, I didn’t have the inclination or the know-how to go back and review the advertisement. Besides the same episode of House Rules twice is once too often. A little less drama, a little more renovation please! Build a bridge people, please!!

With winter officially kicking off on Thursday it’s clear we’re fast approaching the open season on serious television binge-watching.

For political junkies, House of Cards returns to Netflix on Wednesday (AEST).

With Season 5 promoted as both the best and darkest yet, I am tired just thinking about the hours of viewing ahead of me in the coming days.

On the bright side, we have made enough soup and ragu to feed a family of four until the weekend.

There is nothing like Nordic noir to warm the cockles of your heart once the cold seriously sets in.

Icelandic thriller Trapped became the sleeper hit of the winter in 2016 for the BBC, testing the frozen waters with its first drama from that country.

A far-fetched thriller, Trapped makes for perfect gloomy winter watching and will put a spring in your step about the lack of a blizzard outside on the Border.

Having also starting following The Young Pope I’m not yet a convert but I’m keeping the faith.

Jude Law plays the pretty but scheming new pope in town. Pope Pius XIII to the world, he’s still little Lenny Belardo to his surrogate mother and chief adviser, Sister Mary (Diane Keaton). 

It’s already been approved for a second season so if you’re half-tempted, it’s best not to fall too far behind.,

With no end to the television series available on demand this winter, the only potential problem lies with your posture.

My best insurance policy against television binge-watching injury is our 13-year-old labradoodle.

At full stretch she takes up three-fifths of our lengthy club-style lounge, meaning no one else can get too comfortable or settle in for too long. She routinely needs to go outside at key points in the plot; another excuse for us to get up and stretch, albeit briefly.

In summary, you don’t need a binge-watching injury log of claims; you only need a dog that claims your couch.