Television.

DevonClimber

Be honest, roughly how much time weekly do you spend staring at the box.
I admit, if I am not on the late shift, 15hrs could be a normal weeks viewing time for me and that is after cycling and all other commitments taken out.
It is too much, and I am chopping it down as there are far more other things i would like to do with that time however, I have to admit there is nothing I like more than nestling down with the missus at the end of the day with a cuppa and a CSI Miami or something.
Confession over. Your turn.

chrisaonabike

Baseline would be about two hours I guess. If there's something on that I'm interested in, it goes up a bit - Snooker, or Strictly for instance

I quite often find myself putting it on, flicking through the channels, discovering it's all shite, and switching it off again.

Edit.. FFS, what prude set up the naughty-word filter. Fl1ck1ng through the channels, I wrote. And if I only put one '1' in fl1cking, it still fails.

FAIL!

cornerblock

ChrisAOnABike wrote:

I quite often find myself putting it on, ******* through the channels

Those late night dodgy channels eh?

cornerblock

Oh f licking. Right you are.

chrisaonabike

I so hate censorship. There.

chrisaonabike

Cornerblock wrote:

ChrisAOnABike wrote:

I quite often find myself putting it on, ******* through the channels

Those late night dodgy channels eh?

peat

Hmmm.

Roughly half an hour most mornings while breakfasting/pottering. The odd doco or film, a few recorded programs on the sky+ jobber. So, just under 10 as a baseline for me.

During motorsport season i can end up watching ALOT at the weekends. During the winter i watch a bit of Bobsleigh (usually recorded) too. So, in summary, too much.

thegreatdivide

When the cycling is on the TV then loads.

Most of the other stuff I watch is ‘borrowed’ from the internet the morning after it’s been shown in the US:

Breaking Bad
Walking Dead
Homeland
Hell on Wheels
Sons of Anarchy
Boardwalk Empire
Dexter
Elementary
Game of Thrones
Other good HBO/AMC/Showtime stuff

Or it’s on the History Channel:

American Pickers
Storage Wars
Pawn Stars

kingofthetailwind

thegreatdivide wrote:

When the cycling is on the TV then loads.

Most of the other stuff I watch is ‘borrowed’ from the internet the morning after it’s been shown in the US:

Breaking Bad
Walking Dead
Homeland
Hell on Wheels
Sons of Anarchy
Boardwalk Empire
Dexter
Elementary
Game of Thrones
Other good HBO/AMC/Showtime stuff

Or it’s on the History Channel:

American Pickers
Storage Wars
Pawn Stars

+1

I probably only watch about 30 minutes of "normal" TV a day. The rest is "borrowed" HBO/AMC drama. Plus the awesomeness of Deadliest Catch.

Looking forward to watching more cycling next year. Is it just the Tour that's broadcast live?

MountainMonster

Not too much for me, I spend more time gaming that watching pointless t.v. shows. I do watch a few series on TV if it is on when I want it to be, but I refuse to run home from current engagements to watch a tv show.

thegreatdivide

Stupot101 wrote:

Looking forward to watching more cycling next year. Is it just the Tour that's broadcast live?

Eurosport will show the vast majority of the season's races from Feb to Oct.

verylonglegs

I don't own one as I'd rather not fund the BBC so I use a projector for films and watch a few US tv series occassionally, although it's by picking up the boxsets after they've been around for a while rather than worrying about keeping up to date with downloads. Still less than 10hrs a week though, I spend much more time listening to the radio than I do watching TV.

peat

MountainMonster wrote:

I spend more time gaming that watching pointless t.v. shows.

That would imply that there was a 'point' to computer games?

Phil Fouracre

Ouch!!

Barrydeek

At the moment, I am watching about 15+hours of tv a day, but that's because I broke my ankle in 3 places while mountain biking about 2 weeks ago (starting to get cabin fever already and missing the road bike like hell!)
But usually I have it on to watch most sports on tv or the docu channels on sky. Mostly I listen to the radio quite a lot nowadays, Talksport, bbc radio 6.

declan1

I literally only watch cycling when it's on. I've just completely gone off watching TV - there's just a load of rubbish on most of the time.

MountainMonster

Peat wrote:

MountainMonster wrote:

I spend more time gaming that watching pointless t.v. shows.

That would imply that there was a 'point' to computer games?

I find that at least going on epic quests keeps me thinking more than just staring at a screen. And it's a hobby once you're good.

teisetrotter

My wife watches loads of stuff. I read and ignore it.

The only things I'll watch are rugby, cricket and the occasional fishing programme. So on a good week probably four hours.

As over the years we got more choice ........ the more I chose not to watch. I think the last genuine series I was interested was the BBC's Sherlock. Whilst I was always into reading novels, I now read history books whilst she is watching TV ....... I am hooked.

dynamicbrick

Never watch the telly with any regularity, unless Bettany Hughes is presenting something.

Aside from dribbling over her, I'll sit and rot my brain over some of the History Channel American Pickers and Cajun Pawn Stars is watchable. Despite being a military history buff, I rarely watch the Military History channel because it's usually American-market low-grade nonsense that's been shown over and over. Other than that I'll happily watch the Top Gear & Red Dwarf channel.

I have tried to watch all the Michael Portillo Great Train Journeys series, as that is/was pretty good.

The real frustration for me is that we have a real wealth of really, really, good TV programmes that could be shown on Yesterday or Blighty - War Walks, Out of Town, Fawlty Towers, Blackadder, Chelmsford 123, Drop The Dead Donkey, House of Cards, and so on - but basically get endless repeats of Only Fools and nature documentaries.

essjaydee

I probably have the TV on too much, but don't actually watch a great deal of it! The TV being on in the background seems to have become a given in my household I usually will chill on our new sofa with a magazine or my netbook surfin t'internet
I spend far too much time on the pooter though, that's for sure :shock:

Loretta Damage

Not sure how many hours it adds up to, probably too much! Always more in the road race season. Only stuff on at the moment that I'm making a point of watching/recording is Arrow (really bad but I'm hooked), Elementary and Strictly (hope Danni & Vincent win, much to my kids' disgust who are Kimberley fans!). Otherwise I try and watch rugby when I can,anything about Roman history and old episodes of Time Team. Big fan of NCIS and True Blood as well when they are on.

southdownswolf

The TV is usually on in our house whether I am watching or not...

If it's just me, then usually sport will be on. Generally football, golf, cycling, rugby, american football.............
If others are at home, music channels or The Simpsons

xscreamsuk

often none, mainly sports, but as no cycling or RL on at the moment it often doesn't get used in a week.

iPete

TV is background noise whilst I play on the notebook, tend to not pay much attention as most of its crap.

cornerblock

iPete wrote:

TV is background noise whilst I play on the notebook, tend to not pay much attention as most of its crap.

Don't be so harsh on yourself, some of your posts are alright.

Bustacapp

I love TV.

I have it on all the time. Most of what I watch are documentaries. The only light drama I watch are emmerdale and coronation street. I find those comforting. I'm not ashamed of having square eyes either. I've always been a big advocate of TV, and think it gets far too much bad press. I work all week, train at the gym, then get home, cook and eat dinner and watch TV for a few hours. What's wrong with that? I am currently downloading some cycling documentaries too!!