How Many Hours Television Do You Watch and What Do You Watch

I tend to watch a lot of documentaries....if I see a classic film is on I'll also watch that if it's an old favourite.
Soaps and comedies, never.

I also enjoy a good drama series i.e Happy Valley.

Certainly more than I used to. I enjoy history and anything to do with the natural world. Now the summer is coming I hope to be out of doors a lot more. But currently I’d say about 4 hours a day.

Much less than I used to. The occasional history programme or documentary. Some crime series but tend to do those on catchup so I can watch a couple at a time. I actually prefer reading.

I don't watch it much, tend to catch channel 4 news if poss, the politics show whilst having lunch, and any documentaries about archeology - Alice Roberts is a fav atm or Bettany Hughes - or anything with Simon Reeve.
OH likes the footy, England on tonight, but not many matches are on the telly.

Maybe 2 hours a day maximum. I watch the news while I eat breakfast for half an hour. Then maybe one episode of a drama series in the evening.
Just finished the Bay and started the new Sean Bean one

Rarely more than an hour a day, very little interests me nowadays, I prefer to listen to audiobooks or podcasts.

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Rarely more than an hour a day, very little interests me nowadays, I prefer to listen to audiobooks or podcasts.

Me too. I dont have a television at all. I also love to read.

I have my TV on a lot whether I watch it is another question Living on your own I either have the radio or tv on I don’t like silence it’s company I do all other things while it’s on ..l read
(but very poor eyes don’t make that comfortable for long periods)I sort out paperwork, pay bills, do jigsaws (always one on the go) drawing, writing etc etc while watching and sometimes I just chill out and get involved with the programme I don’t watch much in the day unless it’s bad weather and I m stuck in or if I m sick or something it’s mostly 6 pm onwards (if. I m stuck in I like Judge Judy she makes me chuckle) summer coming so I ll be out digging my allotment swimming or walking on the beach

As to watching I like Corrie and Emmerdale then dramas and real life crime, News, quizzes, BGT, Traitors and stuff like that
I rarely go out at night these days only on special occasions and so TV is my friend and my entertainer

Very little prefer the radio, always did.

My favourite is Google Box, love Giles and Mary.

Record Midsomer murders, have probably seen them all before but can never remember the ending now lol

Also quite like Classic Coronation Street, again record it and watch on lazy afternoons but often fall asleep, I've never been very good at watching tv/movies

Probably far to much this past Winter but now we are back walking and out more the afternoon viewing accompanied by a snooze will go.

I probably watch too much TV these days but always do something else at the same time.
I enjoy dramas and follow soaps but do like to watch documentaries as well.

I usually put it on after tea but don’t watch the terrestrial channels much. I stopped watching soaps and news programmes a while back. Apart from history documentaries, I tend to binge watch things. I’m currently rewatching The Diplomat on Netflix, ready for series three which comes out this year. Like The West Wing it has a brilliant cast, slick dialogue and keeps you on the edge of your seat.

I enjoy watching the oldies eg The Bill and Heartbeat. I can understand them.
Todays plays / dramas I find difficult to hear what the actors are saying. I watched Ken Dodd last night and it was hilarious - I could understand him. Bring back the Golden Oldies I say!!!

Much more than I should!

I love thrillers and police dramas, these four part dramas that are often shown.

I enjoy films too.

Zero hours.

Oh and I do enjoy documentaries and some quiz shows, the 1% club is my current favourite and I like only connect, though I rarely get anything right haha

I loathe the reality shows like Big Brother, Love Island etc, though I did watch the first couple of series of Made in Chelsea, and have been know to watch I’m a celebrity.

My TV is on all day. It’s just background chatter, while I get on with what I need to do.
But when I sit down, I love Documentaries , wild life programmes . I am not into soaps or fiction. I have Netflix, which has some fantastic documentaries.

Some seem to be implying that if you read a lot you don’t watch television. I do both. I am mostly housebound, so TV is very important to me. It’s my ‘window on the world’. I watch a lot of news, current affairs and documentaries. I also like the more difficult quizzes like University Challenge - I never miss that. No soaps, in fact little fiction of any sort.

Perhaps if it’s Quizzy Night I’ll watch all those in a row eg Master Mind, Only Connect, University Challenge but last night missed University Challenge because switched to something else while the Chess thingy was on.

If there is a current good drama on a Sunday I’ll watch, Enjoyed Pottery Throwdown, …the rest is catchup or streaming box sets that I missed from years back.

Also YouTube trawling for comedy, food recipe videos, info and film reviews that throw up intriguing recommendations.

I try to limit rolling news unless it is an important developing situation…but sometimes get dragged into the doom….

But I have definitely become more selective about mainstream TV and watch according to my mood. sometimes it is on while I browse the internet but with volume muted and subtitles switched on!
A real “turn off” for me is Saturday cooking/food programmes, followed by football, just a yawn 🥱
Good incentive to do other stuff that needs doing though.

Cossy, I’m pretty much like you. What hasn’t helped is sitting around for three months with a broken knee. I have loads of stuff to do but I just don’t get on with it. It’s called lazyitis! (For me in any case)

I tend to watch things on the Internet nowadays.
Walking tours around any place are a favorites of mine. Museums I won't visit again, country walks, city walks, NT houses etc.
Archaeological remains especially in remote areas eg, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, places I wouldn't be able to get to, are the most interesting.
I follow a few people who make videos about their life styles, off grid, or newly divorced/widowed, finding out how they coped etc.
Certain political pundits.
A few gardening channels, a few where people just chat about their lives.

If I watch TV tend to watch a whole series on on catchup in one go.

The one program I actually turn the telly on for is Married At First Sight Australia!😆 it caught my eye and now I'm hooked.
Not the British one, tried it, but it didn't gel.

Far too much! 😜
Very eclectic taste….

Less and less these days , if I do find a series I like I tend to binge watch if I can stream it instead of watching it episode by episode
Then find I’ve got nothing to watch 😋
I like history documentaries and enjoy Paul Whitehouse and Bob Mortimer in their fishing programmes.
Don’t enjoy reality TV and haven’t really found a decent comedy programme for ages, miss programmes like Only Fools and Horses , Porridge, One Foot in the Grave etc

About 2 hours a day . Never morning or afternoon though. Mostly BBC 2 or 4, and hardly ever any of the other channels. We like art programmes, so Landscape or Portrait Artist, Pottery Throw Down etc. Plus history, MaryBeard, Simon Scharma.etc. Also Netflix. Last thing we watched and thought very good was 1883.