--- title: Nielsen Infographic: How Long It Takes To Binge Watch Popular TV Shows description: But only 10 hours to watch all of 'Firefly' canonical: https://time.com/98052/how-long-it-takes-to-binge-watch-popular-tv-shows/ author: Samantha Grossman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-13T20:22:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-05-11T04:48:40.288Z og:title: This Chart Shows How Long It Would Take to Binge Watch Your Favorite TV Shows og:description: It would take 10 days to watch all of Law and Order: SVU og:url: https://time.com/98052/how-long-it-takes-to-binge-watch-popular-tv-shows/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: This Chart Shows How Long It Would Take to Binge Watch Your Favorite TV Shows twitter:description: It would take 10 days to watch all of Law and Order: SVU twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # It Would Take You 10 Days to Watch Every Episode of _Law & Order: SVU_ > Sponsored content. 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Some key findings here: It would take 15 and a half days to marathon every single episode of _Doctor Who_, 10 days and 10 hours to get through all of _Law & Order: SVU_ and nearly seven days for all of _Grey’s Anatomy._ If any of that seems too daunting, we recommend choosing _Firefly_ for your next binge session, since that will only cost you 10 hours.  ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/98052/how-long-it-takes-to-binge-watch-popular-tv-shows/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/98052/how-long-it-takes-to-binge-watch-popular-tv-shows/"},"headline":"It Would Take You 10 Days to Watch Every Episode of Law & Order: SVU","datePublished":"2014-05-13T20:22:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-05-11T04:48:40.288Z","description":"But only 10 hours to watch all of 'Firefly'","url":"https://time.com/98052/how-long-it-takes-to-binge-watch-popular-tv-shows/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Nielsen","Television","infographic","Netflix","The Simpsons","binge-watching"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Samantha Grossman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/samantha-grossman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/98052/how-long-it-takes-to-binge-watch-popular-tv-shows/","name":"It Would Take You 10 Days to Watch Every Episode of Law & Order: SVU"}}]}] ```