how much tv?

How much TV do you watch? Do you just switch on to watch a few programmes you know are going to be on, or do you leave it on all night?

 

I'm watching less and less of it daily, my patience with television is swiftly running out. Most decent TV (that is to say, pre-nineties) is available on dvd these days, i'd rather watch it that way.

 

I tend to turn it off more than on these days, even the news feels like someone is manipulating my opinions these days. In the advent of Chris Morris I just can't take any news seriously!

 

I watch very little TV, although I do watch the gogglebox for DVDs.
This week I've been babysitting for a friend of my mums and so I've watched considerably a lot more TV than usual. I can't complain though... I did manage to catch an excellent "Newsnight" session (I think it was wednesday's).

 

We always used to find it hilarious that they would run Newsnight straight after The Day Today..! It's amazing that TDT actually did influence the directors of news programmes, one of the few cases that i know of a spoof programme influencing what it was spoofing. Genius.

 

I just love Jeremy Paxman, especially when he has that smirk (when people are grilling each other during interviews and he doesn't need to interrupt).
I think he'd make a fantastic PM.

 

I often go days without watching TV. If I see the Simpsons on I'll stop and watch, or I see an interesting documentary. Or ER, I love ER. But I really have better things to do with my time than sit in front of the TV, I prefer to be move active...

 

I watch a couple of programmes religiously - Lost and Eastenders, and just flick ocassionally. Eastenders is crap at the moment, even with the legendary Phil Daniels in it, I think it's just a habit. Lost, though, is the best thing that's been on in years, I'm totally hooked. I watch less TV at uni, and it's always good to come home to Sky....

 

i watch a few programes "soaps ( brainwashed as a child by me mother ). comedies such as ideal "two pints of lager and a packet of crisps ......other programes are timeteam "restoration " haunted homes "dead famous " ghost whisperer " sensing murder " and any good documentarys . lately i have been watching wifeswap the laugh does me good .

 

I dont watch tv at all, well thats not true because I watched sal on the weakest link but before that its years since I watched any tv at all .
I dont watch the news or anything, I will watch it if I visit someone otherwise I dont watch tv.
Im on the internet a lot and thats replaced tv for me , also I think tv news and programming is biased as hell, their debates are censored and controlled and totally bullshit .
Their general programming is a form of mind control to make you slaves, they wont touch certain subjects or if they do they have straw men so that people get a false view of how things are

 

I have been through phases of being addicted to TV when I was younger But I decided quite a while back to cut it down ... when you watch too much you can actually feel yourself getting stupider I find

Rarely watch news anymore, when I do it's Channel4 News or Newsnight, which I have found to be the most thorough and least slanted. BBC1 and ITV news are quite terribly, dangerously bad.

Can't STAND soaps... they're hideous

But there are a few things I regularly watch out for ... particularly new comedy, things like Steve Coogan's "Saxondale", Armando Ianucci's "Time Trumpet", Ricky Gervais' "Extras". Science documentaries like Horizon. Quite a lot of the programmes I want to watch I will download from torrent sites and watch them in my own time.

I think it's best to be a proactive TV viewer, don't leave it running in the background, it WILL indoctrinate you even if it's only with a love for property development or cookery... don't even switch it on unless it's for something you know is going to be on.