Do you watch too much TV?

I do watch far too much tv I watch about 12 US programs such as Hamilton and Rex the three Chicago ones and resident and at the moment I am watching the old casualty and Holby which are both on 5 days a week. Cookery programmes pottery, the voice and the masked singer among others. I also work full time. Saving grace is I have sky so I can tape and run passed all the adverts. I am usually up until 2.00 am on Fridays and Saturdays other evenings I am with DH or doing crafts

Watch loads of tv but never daytime. Start watching about 6 till about 11. Also read one daily broadsheet paper from cover to cover every day and a good book for about an hour each night. Never listen to the radio apart from The News Quiz. Never understand people who say there is nothing to watch on Tv - I think there’s masses of good stuff and we are very lucky to have such choice. When I have stayed with friends in Canada and the US I am shocked at the lack of choice.

Never watch daytime TV. It goes on at 7pm for Channel 4 news, which we watch in the kitchen over dinner. Probably 4 or 5 out of 7 evenings we will watch a TV programme or DVD at 8pm or 9pm, no more.

But how much is too much? You clearly feel that you are watching more than you'd like to but if it's getting you through lockdown, why worry?

I watch news in the morning, The Chase most days, any drama and occasionally a film.
During tennis tournaments I watch them if they're on TV, like Wimbledon

I live alone, and yes, I admit to watching too much tv. However I record all the morning chat shows (GMT, Lorraine, This Morning) and then when I have my coffee ready I turn on the recordings and zip through the shows, pausing to watch when I see something that interests me. It doesn't take long, but I enjoy some of the chats, interviews, health tips etc.6

Oh yes, forgot to say thank you to HannahLoisLuke I like the look of your suggestion ‘Rams’ will be watching that film on Amazon Prime soon.

I am pretty much housebound, and I watch a lot of television. Mostly news and documentaries, but I also like Only Connect, University Challenge, Would I Lie to You among others. I don’t watch any soap operas, and I very rarely watch ITV, though I tolerate adverts on Channels 4 and 5, which sometimes have good programmes.

There are so many hours in my day that my viewing leaves plenty of time for reading, talking to friends and keeping up with my family online. I don’t do any housework beyond the essentials - I regard it as much more of a waste of time than watching selected TV programmes. In normal times I have a cleaner once a week.

Only in the evenings but we are quite selective.. set up stuff to ‘series record’ on our Apple TV box and whizz through adverts.
We love good dramas such as The Investigation, a good recent one. Enjoyed The Dig. Currently there are lots of different documentary programmes on Devon and Cornwall feeding my desire to get back there ASAP! Really recommend This Fishing Life on BBC2 (and iPlayer) 2 series of them, filmed both before and after Brexit and COVID - I didn’t realise it would be so fascinating but the people it features are marvellous, so hardworking and inspiring. Know more about fishing now than I ever thought I would want to know!
Best of all for me, Grayson Perry’s Art Club or The Great Pottery Throw Down, or Portrait Artist Of The Year now it’s free on Sky Arts channel. Oh, and The Queens Gambit on Netflix was fab. Lots to enjoy.

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Yes, far too much, I don’t craft at all, read only at bedtime and the allotment is too wet and cold. Housework doesn’t take long, a walk, phone calls, occasional trip to the farm shop before 8am for veg, or village shop for milk as shopping is delivered and prep for dinner. That’s my days really, as things open up with improving weather my voluntary work and the allotment will change my days.

Yes I watch far too much but don't care!

Definitely too much just now! It would be interesting to see which programmes are most popular with GransNetters. A few I like have been mentioned. Countdown, Would I lie to you, Mock the Week, Pointless, Gogglebox and crime dramas are among ours. My husband has not had a normal sleep pattern for years and has been known to watch 3- 6 hour train journeys from around the world in real time!

TV doesn't go on until the evening, unless 4 in a Bed is on at 5 pm. Have stopped watching the news, so it doesn't even go on at 6 pm anymore, also don't watch any soaps. I don't really like breakfast tv either, put it on very briefly for the weather and then off it goes.

Since the lockdown have been watching much more on Prime and Netflix, lately I'm feeling absolutely overloaded with choice and seem to spend as much time going through the various options on those sites as I do watching the actual programmes. I do still dip into BBC I Player, for films or Scandi noir and French stuff like Spiral. I started watching the Danish, The Investigation last night and am enjoying that.

When I was growing up, Lulubelle500, we weren't allowed to watch daytime TV - my mother had similar views to yours. I remember watching the wrestling with my father while she was out and feeling we were doing something really naughty - he always said Don't tell your mother!

However, now she is 93 and switches the TV on as soon as she gets up and watches it most of the day! I have been phoning her every morning during lockdown and hear about all the weird and wonderful people and their antics on whatever programme she has found - Dr Pimple Popper is a current favourite!

In answer to the OP, yes probably.

But how many GN’ers, who say they hardly ever put the tv on, spend too much time trawling the internet?

Since retiring I watch a lot more TV.

I watch BBC Breakfast most mornings while I eat my breakfast (can't stomach Piers Morgan), then the TV is switched off most days until about 7:00 pm in the evening.

I like to watch Coronation Street and Eastenders and then I'll watch a drama series that we've recorded or found on Netflix with my husband until 10:00 pm. Then I'll watch the Ten O'Clock News upstairs as I'm getting ready for bed followed by The Papers.

The rest of the time I listen to the radio - usually Radio 4 or Classic FM - and more recently podcasts and music mixes on BBC Sounds. Occasionally, if the weather is really bad or if I'm feeling poorly, I'll watch a film on DVD in the afternoon wrapped in a blanket with the cat for company.

Is that too much?

Oh, I do miss my mother some days! Reading this thread, she would have smiled. We used to have a running joke about the number of her friends who used to say: I never turn my television until 7.00 (or sometimes not even then) as 'though doing so would mean they were sad lonely people with no friends or inner resources, who weren't writing The Great British Novel or researching a cure for something terminal in their retirement, but were actually indulging in a vice as bad as smoking opium - eating Hobnobs while watching Daytime Television. (Apologies to the Grans who actually are writing the great novel or busy with their microscopes!)

Too much at the moment. We watch BBC Breakfast until 9:15 am and don't switch on again until around 4pm. We switch off after the news at 10pm and read until going to sleep. At weekends we sometimes binge watch something on Netflix, Amazon Prime or BBC iPlayer, we will stop this as soon as the weather improves enough for us get out in the garden.

DH is addicted to the news and watches it off and on throughout the day. I had to say, eventually, that he had to limit it because the constant Covid news was bringing me down. He is currently self-isolating, so I watch no news at all whilst he watches it on his phone.

Before he had to isolate, we used to watch things like crime series, including foreign ones, and would often watch several episodes at one sitting. So we might watch for 3 or 4 hours in an evening. We have the second series of Hidden to watch when he is out of isolation next week. For the past week, I have been in a daze after receiving some very bad news, so I sit in evening and watch silly comedies that I don't even like. It passes the time.

Dont watch tv during the day, but start about 7pm I stream most programmes on my computer, I love watching UK programmes as where we live the tv is rubbish, so I am glued do my computer screen for a few hours each evening,and love it!

What is too much I wonder?

Yesterday I binge-watched The Valhalla Murders - vey wet and overcast day, felt grotty following jab, and watching this sort of murder mystery (especially with it being filmed mainly in the dark it would seem) requires not too large gaps between watching episodes as I forget who people are!

Since retiring during first lockdown, I watch loads of TV (but who's to say what too much is??), read loads of books and do as little housework as I can get away with! Bliss!

As its both winter and lockdown I am watching more TV than normal.

Watching all day on and off during lockdown. Have seen some great programmes, educational, interesting plus some much needed escapism...if it’s what keeps you going through lockdown or illness or loneliness does it matter? Once lockdown is over /the weather improves we will go back to more normal lives, outdoor activities, gardening and socialising. I love a good bit of tv and I’m not ashamed to say so.

Never watch tv in the morning. In the winter I do sometimes watch Escape to the Country and then the lovely farming programme afterwards, yesterday’s was lovely as it was all about shire horses and brought back memories of the ones we had on the farm during my childhood.
In the evening after listening to The Archers I’ll switch back to tv and check out what’s on. Enjoyed the new gardening programme last night. Watched The Dig on Netflix then went to bed and listened to radio 5live.
I’m desperate to see the Sam Neil film Rams which was talked about on Graham Norton the other night and also on the One Show. Hoped it would be on Netflix but having checked, it’s on Apple TV, Amazon Prime and another subscription channel. I have a free year if Apple on my tablet but not on my tv so I’m going to have to watch it on my tablet, not ideal.
And of course the Six Nations starts tomorrow but without the crowd it will be a bit lifeless I fear, I so love the welsh crowd singing.