Daytime TV - what is missing for you?

A recording of 'Brave' with a rather hot little DGD fidgeting around on my lap!

I did notice this evening that a series of Father Brown is on at lunch-times, so I may record it and never get around to watching it

We watch BBC Breakfast and then the one o'clock news. I might watch Escape to the Country if I'm in the kitchen or the gorgeous James Martin but time is what I am missing for daytime tv.

I still love Escape to the Country, although DH regularly points out we live in the country! I also find it coincides neatly with nap time given the chance, but life seems to have got busier recently zzzzzzzzz
An occasional "Bergerac" is nice too, but for real mind numbing, watch QVC and marvel at the total banality of two people enthusing about some ghastly polyester tent shaped garment, fake pearls or £200 boots!!

I work 4 days and nanna sit one one so don't have much time to watch. On the odd occasion I'm off I'll watch. I like the Wright stuff, I enjoy BBC 2 politic at mid-day. They did have Cagney and Lacey repeats at one time that I loved. If they rerun some series like old E.R or British series I'd watch if I had the time. I'd watch some of the old 40's 50, British films if they put them on ( see the thread about favourite films) daytime tele must be a godsend for some people. When I retire I'll watch more of it, so I hope it improves.

I can't resist Bargain Hunt. I am now an expert valuer, having watched it for years! I like Tim Wonnacot, even though he is just a tad predictable. My favourite auctioneer is Anita Manning who almost always manages to get a profit for the contestants.

DH likes his diet of The Daily Politics, followed by the news and then it goes off until around five, if we are in. I quite like Pointless but don't watch it religiously. We tape Father Brown (which is curiously watchable), but as for the endless diet of property shows, antique programmes and the rest - no. If GS is over here and we need some 'downtime' (usually after swimming or something similarly active) we might watch a film as a treat.

I'm at work all day , but if I'm off sick then I watch the lovely Matthew Wright on C5 at 9:15, I quite like Wanted Down Under, but mostly I'll go for game shows: Tipping Point can be a bit slow, but my favourite is The Chase, especially Bradley Walsh (is it?)

Being old and disabled I find TV is company. watch Bargain Hunt, Flog it, Dr Blake, Yesterday and Escape to the Country and wonder why they would want to escape to the country when retired. What will happen when they can no longer drive?

I have no idea what is on. I would have to sit still to watch it and would miss out on all the other things there are to do. I am a Radio 4 addict and that can come with me whatever I am doing in the house. Even when pregnant and not allowed to move I never did. The only exception was when I broke my ribs and watched cricket all day!

Sorry, not all my ribs, only 3!

Dr. Blake, Father Brown and A Place to Call Home .. looking forward to next series of the latter. Horrid Henry and Mister Tumble when DGD is here!

Went off Doctors a long time ago when the story lines got stupid and ok I will admit to it I have on occasion watched Jeremy Kyle !! But I do like Father Brown and James Martin Home Comforts at this present moment it's Doc McStuffins and Henry Hugglemonster lol with Dgd.

DH and I have got a new hobby - watching films in the afternoon, something we have never done but a dreadful chest infection for him and my current "can't be bothered" mood has led us to watch some really good films which I have recorded previously. I shall see what the library has to offer when we run out of recorded ones. Don't forget BBC Radio Player allows downloads of all programmes now not just podcasts and there are some splendid things on that.

I'm addicted to alibi, Murdoch Mysteries (love Yannick Bisson), Castle etc & some of the documentary channels have good stuff on them.

I watch Homes under the Hammer if I'm in and not busy, or ill, but life is too short to spend time watching daytime TV. I am getting fed-up with all the antiques programmes and and moving house (abroad or elsewhere in this country) programmes though and I absolutely hate cookery programmes! That doesn't leave a lot!

I like Homes under the hammer in the morning. Then Loose Women while I'm eating my lunch. At 5pm it's Come Dine With Me. Oh dear, am i addicted to tv? I do go out a lot too!

BBC breakfast to start the day then telly off usually until Pointless is due on. When I'm not at work I like Radio 5 live on as its all chat and no music.
All these antique things and so many repeats make it not worth watching for me.
The evenings aren't much better most of the time, although a couple good ones back at the moment. We rarely watch ITV and not a lot on the beeb - thank goodness for the US crime series!

I hate TV; keep threatening to stop paying for the licence and TV rental, but my menfolk, both of whom are severely disabled, as well as being nightowls (I'm a lark and in bed most nights by 9 ready for my morning paper round) do enjoy things I wouldn't be seen dead watching, e.g American Master Chef, political programs etc. Don't do lifestyle, gameshows, antiques, or anything else that is shown on daytime, and while I enjoy some documentaries, the whole family watches Doctors, Emmerdale and Corrie, and we catch up with the news, I wish there were some good films and/or dramas that we haven't seen. Thank goodness for Radio 2, 3 and 4!

I watch BBC breakfast tv for the news then nothing until maybe Pointless or sometimes not until the 9pm drama (or at the moment 8pm Dickensian).

Before I retired I treated myself to a really good DAB radio so that's on all day. Radio 4, Radio 2 or 6 Music all at different times. I might watch the 1 o'clock news with my lunch but not every day.

Like most people I thank goodness that we can now record programmes and watch when WE want to. It's so liberating. I also have Amazon Prime for films and tv series I haven't seen.

Personally I think daytime tv is mind-numbing.

We watch BBC Breakfast, lunchtime News and the Daily Politics, sometimes Bargain Hunt, but I don't really look at the schedules to see what else is on as I don't want to be tempted to go down the route of sitting down in front of TV all day! I record James Martin's Home Comforts to watch in the evenings.

Always watch Countdown, record it if necessary. Escape to the Country, Bargain Hunt, For What its Worth, anything with James Martin (!), if I am doing nothing better. Will watch recorded TV from yonks ago, to try and catch up. Never watch Snooker!!

Little bit of breakfast telly with my porridge
I like the politics show BBC 2 midday and try to arrange lunch then if I'm in.
Guilty secret -I also like escape to the country with a cup of afternoon tea.

Until I had grandchildren I never watched daytime TV after Breakfast. I am glad I only have three as a fourth round of In The Night Garden might have tipped me over the edge!

Since living in France, for the first eight years we had far more channels that we could watch than we did in UK, and occasionally watched Pointless or Countdown in the winter. But usual pattern was from 8pm onwards which was 7pm UK time. Now the satellite has been moved and we no longer get any UK TV and apart from a very expensive new system that I am told is not very reliable, we are 'reduced' to DVDs. It does allow us to watch some excellent dramas and series, but oh how I miss the current affairs programmes, the News, Have I got News for You and Graham Norton. But quite honestly that is all I really miss during 24 hours. Radio 4 is wonderful!

Now the GC are too old for kids TV It is never switched on before 7pm.I record The Chase and Come Dine With Me.Chris Country Radio is on all the time.

I have radio on most days Classic FM, Planet Rock. Cannot be bothered with daytime telly though I did quite enjoy Father Brown. I usually watch stuff I have recorded as some films I like are on crazy hours at night.

I sometimes have grandchild over during the day and I like to take her out when I can. Like others on here, it is usually evening about 6pm, we watch the news and if there is something good like Dickensian or Shetland, we will settle down to watch it. We record alot and save it for when there is nothing on the television.