Watch what you want but..............

DH and I have different tastes in tv viewing so we devised a system:
large TV in living room is called Screen 1 and small tv in a bedroom is Screen 2. We do go’s- and -turn’s each evening so we each get to see Progs we like on the ‘Big Screen’.
Saturday nights we always watch a film (recorded or a dvd) together that we’ve both chosen. This Saturday was “The Grand Budapest Hotel”, and we had toffee popcorn,
Almost as good as going out!

My husband is obsessed with programmes about old cars and ww2. Drives me potty. There are so many on Quest. ?

Seems lots of men can’t bear to be without the remote in their control.
My DH speeds through the adverts on recorded programme s, which is fine but inevitably goes too far and misses a bit of the next part. Then spends time faffing about getting it to the right it to start watching again. Might just as well watched the adverts !

Definitely two TV's required

Absolutely Jane10 separate tellies is the only way to survive

I like what I like and he likes what he likes. We are individuals. We have a TV in two comfy rooms. He enjoys what I consider boring in one room with the dog and I enjoy mine in the other with the cats. Sometimes we will enjoy a programme we both like in the same room. I would go brain dead if I had to suffer the likes of Abandoned Engineering for any length of time.

I told this story a while ago on another thread but its still relevant. My OH would come in the room pick up the remote as he has to have control of it then proceed to change channels without asking if I was watching that programme. Then continue to click round the channels looking for something else. He too would fall asleep with the controller in his hand and whoa betide anybody trying to get to it. Well I got a second controller and hid it down the side of my chair. When he changed the channel I changed it back! He couldnt work out how that was happening! Then when he fell asleep I still could use the remote. I then started changing the channel when he was watching something, when he complained I said how do you like it! He now is much more aware and asks me first.

Covid19 is getting to everyone and many 'adults' need to leave tantrums in childhood.

Can you both find something more worthwhile to do?

I am often asked what I would prefer to watch from the screen menu. I offer my choice then find I am watching something completely different. I have given up trying to obtain an explanation for why that is. Often I get hold of the controller and I do the asking then select the programme I want to watch. Good for the goose..........

Sewing Bee is the only programme I really want to watch in real time (as normally record everything) and so glad it follows Repair Shop which is hubby’s favourite. I’m not really bothered about tv, would prefer to read or sew but my Wednesday evening is non negotiable ?

Welcome to my world! Hubby classes anything I want to watch as rubbish, meanwhile it's Poirot, and Morse or war documentaries. If I insist he goes up to bed in a sulk which I ignore!!!

Thank you all. We do have small, older TVs in the bedroom and kitchen, but they only show "live" programmes and sometimes (in fact most of the time) we watch on "catch up" on the main TV. Perhaps I could ask for "catch up" on a new TV in the bedroom!!

I have a laptop (iPlayer) and wireless headphones + Netflix

DH has TV and his headphones + iPlayer (Humax) so he's happy now he knows how to uses it.

We watch our local news together and the odd film late at night, Last one was Educating Rita. DH had never seen it.

Good morning all from the wonderful Fylde Coast and its glorious weather. Just recovering from a fall which made me decide to take up residence in our local wonderful hospital for a while. Now on the mend and enjoying our lovely blue sea. Good wishes to all.

I agree with you pat9,it would be nice to have a husband to watch tv with.I was lucky that my husband and myself didn't fall out over the tv,but I'm sure there must be an answer,have a tv in another room,have the means to record programmes while watching another channel,just try to enjoy your time together,it doesn't last forever.

My husband hates most of my programmes but happily watches TV after I've gone to bed. We had a big fall out on Friday. He decided to Hoover the car and was furious the bag was full! He only hoovers about once a year, and only his car. He said the bag was ALWAYS full. I was furious and told him to stick it up his *. We didn't speak for 24 hours. To be honest we needed a row. It didn't matter what caused it.

Mine is the same, I have to admit I usually stream good programmes from the UK, we may look at some things together, Husband regularly watches any rubbish on the tv, then as he is about to go to bed he says "now you can watch what you want" very condescendingly.The programme I then watch at 11:30 our time (not UK) is SKY news to see what has happened in the UK,then off to bed.Thank goodness I watch my streamed channels on my desk computer.What is the matter with these arrogant men?

Same as Chardy tablet and headphones then at least you can stay in the same room. ?

Separate TVs! We watch a few quiz programmes together but agree to do our own thing otherwise. Can't be doing with too much togetherness - we need space!

Lucky you all who have a husband - irritating or not.

We haven't had tv since we met 21 years ago. Problem solved!

Oh for goodness sake. Have two tv's...end of. There are more important things in life than an argument over what to watch on tv....

Well, my DH if he gets tired of a programme will just switch channels. He never asks if I want to see the one he switches from.

I put up with this, having decided that life is to short for quarrelling over TV, but sometimes I do wonder if I should just have my own set.

' We ' watch an awful amount from the Quest channel ( doing up of old cars and bikes, and programmes of building lodges in Alaska ! )
Having said that he also watches Sewing Bee with me

All this advice to "get another TV" is a really first-world solution! Reminds me of advice from a rich friend when I mentioned (I wasn't even complaining, just mentioning!) that I usually transported the shopping home in the baby's pram (with two pre-schoolers walking alongside,) because DH needed the car for work. "Oh you should get a second car!" she said brightly, but she didn't suggest how we would pay for it, or where we would keep it.