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How much TV do you watch and what?

#101
I know I will get a ton of abuse for this, but: There’s lots of bass players on this thread, folks who I used to have a fair amount of respect for, who are planted in front of the boob tube 15 hours a day.

Really? REALLY?!?!

Gosh, I’ll bet your bands suck green canal water.
 
#102
I'm more of a radio guy, sports talk, news, I like some NPR and two college stations on FM with 'smooth' jazz and classical, and two fave local AM stations: WSM, the home of the Opry and WVOL, a totally unique mix of soul and real blues, both totally un-wrecked by 'consultants' or owned by nationwide chains. I love AM overnight, you just never know what you might catch: I used to listen to WSM and the Opry in Jacksonville. They're a 50,000-watt Clear Channel license, and reach 38 states and Canada. Or you can listen to radio from anywhere on the web.

For TV, I watch entirely too much Turner Classic Movies. To watch CNN or Fox or any news is just too depressing . . .
 
#103
We got rid of the local cable thing about five years ago. Sometimes I use Netflix to watch a show, mostly as a mild distraction while I’m working on something. I watched a lot of Midsomer Murders recently while installing carpet tiles downstairs.

OTOH, if I’m not doing family stuff, working or exercising, I’d mostly rather do music than watch video.

Otto
 
#104
We do watch the local morning show before heading out to work for weather, news, etc., but other than that, If the Leafs or the Jays are not on, the TV probably isn't either. Sometimes for football on Sunday, but not that often.
 
#106
None for me.

We have three televisions in our house; one in the downstairs living room, one in The Wife's sewing room, and I just installed a wall mounted one in the new basement guestroom recently vacated when my stepson moved out last week. Before I got remarried in '13, I hadn't even owned a television since I got divorced from my first wife in 1990. And, I never missed it. Don't get me wrong, I like some television. I enjoy things like Discovery Channel and History Channel, and really anything educational. I also enjoy action movies, and NHL hockey. However, I realized very shortly after my divorce that the time I spent vegging in front of a TV would be better spent in my pursuit to become a better musician. I played bass, piano, and trumpet back then. Since then, I've added 11 more instruments. My Wife usually has something on the television while she's doing other things, more as background noise than anything.

Me? I just prefer music. So, the only time I ever turn on the television is to listen to one of the Sirius/XM channels through our satellite provider.
 
#109
Generally I don't watch TV but this time of year where it's pitch black out when I leave work and it seems to rain everyday I run out of things to do around the house. I typically watch nature documentaries or things about being outside. I was very annoyed to find out "touching the void" is no longer on Netflix.
 
#110
Flashback Bass said:
Well apparently with the amount of TV I watch I need to sell all my basses, quit my band, and relinquish my membership to TB! I've never been made to feel so wrong as I have been now.
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There's nothing wrong with how you choose to spend your free time. I stopped watching TV and sold all my video games because I started working from home and new it was too much of a distraction. When my Ex left she took the TV with her and I never replaced it until my current wife.
If you get pleasure from TV or movies go for it. The majority of things I do while not watching TV could hardly be considered productive activities.
 
#111
All Kenda all the time!
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#115
Quite a bit, actually.
Local news every morning & evening
Walking Dead
Talking Dead
The Gifted
Flash
Lethal Weapon
Modern Family
Big Bang Theory
Murphy Brown
Will & Grace
Hawaii Five-0
Fear The Walking Dead
Gotham
Mysteries At The Museum
American Pickers
Oklahoma State football & basketball

From Netflix:
Monty Python's Flying Circus
That 70s Show
Cheers
Friends
New Girl
Sherlock
My Next Guest Needs No Introduction (w/ David Letterman)
Daredevil
Stranger Things
Jessica Jones
 
#117
I convinced my wife to let me cancel our cable when our son was about 2, which would have been 2007. I do watch Netflix once in a while - might binge through a season of some show (8-ish hours?) every month or two, so about an hour a week on average, I guess. Most of it is pretty unmemorable to be honest, I couldn't even tell you the last show I watched!
 
#118
I binge-watch Netflix stuff occasionally along with movies on DVD or YT. I mostly watch weird movies, comedy, documentaries, and foreign films. But not every day. I watch NFL and NHL games at bars some times.
 
#119
I have not owned a "real" (i.e. broadcast or cable) television since early 2005. From 2005 until 2012, I watched nothing except for DVDs on my computer from time to time. Then I got streaming Netflix in 2012, and I've had it ever since. Added Amazon Prime a few years ago too. Still don't watch broadcast or cable T.V. – only "on demand" piped from a computer through an external screen – which got added to the household when my future wife moved in to my place in 2014. I didn't even have a screen outside of my laptop till then.

I/we like murder shows, primarily. Cold Justice, Homicide Hunter, The Forensic Files, etc.

I've binged through several T.V. series since getting streaming services. Better Call Saul, The Handmainden's Tale, The Man in the High Castle, Breaking Bad, Medium, Vikings, Fargo, Twin Peaks, the new Battlestar Galactica, and many others. I fully realize that some of these are horrible shows, but sometimes I just get hooked anyhow (sometimes thanks to my wife's desire to see them).

I have not seen an episode of Game of Thrones yet.

The hands-down worst show that I have actually seen all of (well, at least seasons 1–7) is The Walking Dead. It is an utter pile of flaming garbage, and has been from the start. But I'll usually quickly blow through a season about a year or two after it has aired. Don't ask me why.

I'm trying to get my wife to start Goliath with me, but no luck as of yet.

We've started a few that we soon gave up on. E.g. Dexter (a handful of episodes) and Ozark (one episode).

We watched 5 seasons of Mad Men, and then dropped it. Never a very good show, IMO, but at least it looked good. Once the fashion, design, cars, etc. started getting into the ugly late '60's stuff, we couldn't hang any more.

We watched literally every single episode of Frasier on Netflix, over the space of a few years. I had never seen it when it was on the air. I liked it a lot up until Daphne and Miles got together. Then it lost the plot, so we slowly wrapped up the last couple of seasons, more out of a sense of commitment than out of actual enjoyment.
 
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#120
I don't have cable - went without any live TV service at all for 8 years (only netflix/hulu), then had it for the first year in my current apartment (it was essentially free), and now I have SlingTV and PlutoTV* for some live TV in addition to the streaming services, just because I can't stand silence all day when I work from home and need some background noise - not music as I'd get too into it. *PlutoTV is a free app on my Roku, internet-based channels (Fail videos, Cat videos, movie channels, gaming channels, hell there is a 24/7 MST3K channel, even!!).

But, when I want to actually watch TV, I like the superhero shows on CW (DC, which I haven't caught up with in awhile) and Netflix (Marvel), Doctor Who, The Good Place, Forged In Fire, Kitchen Nightmares... And if I am being honest, I will still pop on Judge Judy at 4p because I do love a good bit of ridiculousness butted up against a wall of ornery. =0)
 

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