How much TV do you watch ?

Wren

Wren

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I’ve barely had my TV on all over the weekend, in the week I usually switch on late afternoon, and then it goes off at 7pm, unless there is a good drama or documentary, how much TV do you watch, do you keep it on just for the sake of it ?
 

I record everything I watch which is only a few programmes a week, and I sit down and watch back to back maybe 2 or 3 shows at once..

I always have the News & Politics Show on in the mornings ( Victoria Derbyshire)... and on Sundays if I'm home the TV goes on in the afternoon and stays on in the background all day..

I tend to feel more comforted by having the TV on all day if the weather is bad, it 's more cosy.. :D
 
When I'm up the television is usually on.

I actually sit and watch the morning news magazine shows, the evening news and a couple of old television programs from the 70s and 80s that I was too busy to watch during my working years. I also tune in many of the British television programs that are on the local public broadcasting station.
 

Generally speaking, I don't watch TV. However I went through a period last year when I binge on Netflix watched a bunch of series that I'd heard about...Stranger Things, Grays Anatomy, Criminal Minds, that one with Kerry Washington who's the President's gf ..... a bunch more.

When I was done with all the series I wanted to see, I just stopped watching. I haven't turned on the TV in months. I wonder if it still works? :lol:

My daughter just started watching Grays, and I discovered that the last season has since been released, so I think I'm going to a season or two before just to catch up, and then we'll watch the last season together. And then I probably won't watch TV again for a few more months.
 
My wife LOVES having the tv on when she's at home. One of her favorite networks is HGTV. During the week, when she is at work, I will turn it on to watch Gunsmoke, but after that, it goes off, until she gets home.

As she tells me, she was raised with two sisters and a brother and there was always noise in her home. I didn't have that at all. Where she works, it is pretty quiet, like most accounting and finance departments are, so she wants some noise at home.

We watch a lot of movies, either our own or from RedBox.
 
I don't have the TV during the day because I'm either not home,taking my walks/at the movies/ or reading my book
In the evening,I try not to turn the TV on until 9pm unless there is program at 8 that looks interesting
The last show I watch before I go to bed during the wk is'The 11th Hour with Brian Williams' 11pm-12am on MSNBC
 
We love watching America's Got Talent, American Idol, Last Man Standing along with weekends of PGA (if Tiger and/or Roy, Phil or Ricky are playing). Some shows, like DWTS, we record and then watch the recording later, doing a FF thru the commercials.
 
We watch a solid 2-3 hours an evening, not counting news during the day. But, there are only 3-4 network TV things that we watch. It's 90% films from Netflix or the library. Almost 50% Brit TV and film, some other foreign films and series, Indie films, and some American films and series. We think 99% of American TV is insipid, silly, tasteless, lewd. American film and series isn't much better ---- poor dialog, poor plot, poor characters, and special effects to attempt to make up for everything else that is lacking in good filmaking.
 
Very little. I will occasionally catch some news during the day if anything important is going on and a movie, documentary or series episode for a couple of hours in the evening. I cherish my quiet time. TV is just noise pollution unless i'm watching something in particular.
 
Can I ask those who watch Brit TV shows what is being aired over there? I'd love to know..

People keep telling me they watch Keeping up appearances and Doc martin..... but I sincerely hope that those old shows are not all you get .. and you get something more modern.
 
My TV is on waaaaay too much for my liking. Hubby is a tv addict. It's on from the time he gets up to the time he goes to bed.

If it were up to me, it might be on a couple of hours at night. I've got too many other things to do and tv watching is a time waster, an easy trap to fall into when other things should be taking precedence.
 
hollydolly said:
Can I ask those who watch Brit TV shows what is being aired over there? I'd love to know..

People keep telling me they watch Keeping up appearances and Doc martin..... but I sincerely hope that those old shows are not all you get .. and you get something more modern.
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The most recent one I LOVED is Ricky Gervais in "After Life." I'm a fan of Ricky in just about anything.
 
Our downstairs TV stays on constantly; it's more of a background noise thing I suppose. As far as just sitting and watching TV, I don't do a lot. There are no network shows that I enjoy much anymore but I watch an occasional movie or series that I can binge-watch on demand.
 
hollydolly said:
Can I ask those who watch Brit TV shows what is being aired over there? I'd love to know..

People keep telling me they watch Keeping up appearances and Doc martin..... but I sincerely hope that those old shows are not all you get .. and you get something more modern.
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I freestream everything I watch .. Outlander, Poldark, Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Patrick
Melrose, The Crown, Victoria. There are a few others I can't recall at the moment.

As to how much t.v. I watch - probably a couple of hours per day (while multi-tasking). That's the beauty of freestreaming. I can pause anytime.
 
HD, On Hulu now are New Tricks, The Split, Kingdom, Britain's Best Home Cook, The Oxford murders, Death at a Funeral, Black Books, DCI Banks, The Secret of Crickley Hall, Shameless (UK), Bedlam a few more.

I haven't looked at Netflix.

I don't have cable but enjoyed some Brit oldies like The Royales, Father Ted, BBC Country House and many more on YouTube, YouTube has a lot.

PBS has a lot too, I liked The Corelles in Corfu.
 
Pinky said:
I freestream everything I watch .. Outlander, Poldark, Doctor Who, Game of Thrones, Patrick
Melrose, The Crown, Victoria. There are a few others I can't recall at the moment.

As to how much t.v. I watch - probably a couple of hours per day (while multi-tasking). That's the beauty of freestreaming. I can pause anytime.
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Great..I really thought from what I've been told, that you were all getting old tired shows from the 70's and 80's...
 
hollydolly said:
Excellent..good to hear you're getting much more up to date stuff.. that show is brilliantly funny in it's pathos... :D
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I agree about that show; it's great. I also watched a British documentary series called "Horror House", about home owner's problems in the UK. (Sinkholes, flooding, traffic, etc.) Fascinating to see how different houses are built and amazing how old some of them are.
 
Too much, and mostly news.....

Record it... and some evenings just set down and catch up.

I think the one show that we binged watched was...Breaking Bad.

Never during the day, usually at night. Which can make for late nights.
 

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