A television playback control method includes the following steps: S1, obtaining eye focusing information of a user for a video played by a television; S2, judging whether the user maintains viewing the video according to the acquired eye focusing information of the user, when the user does not maintain viewing the video information, jumping to step S3, and otherwise, jumping to the step S1; and S3, saving current viewing progress information of the user, and when the user views the video again, continuing to play the video by retrieving the current viewing progress information.