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How much TV do you watch and what?

#121
Very little, maybe 30 minutes or so at the end of the night. We've been watching "The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina" on Netflix, its taken us a week to get through 2 episodes. On Sundays I'll have the afternoon NFL games on TV, I'll catch maybe a full hour of game-time in between wrestling my kids or doing odd jobs around the house, but there is no "typical". Last weekend I watched none as I was in the yard all day, about three weeks ago my wife took our girls to see their grandma and I had a cold, so I caught a full game. No cable, just netflix and rabbit ears.
 
#123
Should have thrown this in earlier as well, but I do use the Kodi app (with Covenant add-on) from time to time. Sometime on a Firestick, but usually from the computer. I have a cable run from the computer to the TV so that's handy. I am addicted to 'The Walking Dead' and 'Better Call Saul' and I can't get either of those shows on the basic cable package I have.
 
#124
Watch, Netflix and movies because I hate commercials. ... Listen to NPR, JAZZFM and CBC. ...

Anyone that watches Handmaids, the house she lives in is behind me and just up the street. ... I'm not a huge fan, my wife is, kind'a spooks me out. Weird when I driving home the the street is full of long red robes. ... They're just starting to film the third season.
 
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#127
Haven't possessed cable TV service in the past 5 years...haven't missed it in the least. When my parents have the TV on during a visit with them, it almost irks me to death. I do own several TVs in my house, though more than half are CRTs for retro gaming. My 4k home theater TV is hooked up to a small form factor media center PC that I can also use for gaming (has an Nvidia GTX 1050ti, so it can run SF5 at 1080p/60fps no sweat). Since I have the entire internet at my fingertips, I spend more time watching Youtube channels I like or streaming services like Crunchyroll or Amazon Prime Video.

I do not miss TV in the least
 
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#129
I don't. I really dislike reality TV and don't really care for most things on Netflix or Hulu. However, I do play videogames. I live far away from home and its how I socialize. Still, it averages out to about 3-4 hours a day. Most of my news comes from reading. Either the paper or on a website. For a 25 year old I suppose I'm a little old fashioned, but I grew up reading the paper and listening to NPR with my dad. I feel like if the news is worth reporting it'll show up in my paper.
 
#132
I almost exclusively watch YouTube. Netflix and Google Play are tied for seconds, then Hulu when I feel like getting in touch with my inner weirdo. Cable TV comes dead last. There isn’t a single show I can say I go out of my way to watch on it right now. The only two shows I committed to in the last 10 years (probably more...I’m not a TV person) were “Louie” and the Fargo series, both of which are coincidentally FX shows.

Fargo might have even lost me unless they can regain some of the magic season one, and especially season two had. Part of it is that I’m simply too busy to commit to a show and I’m kind of a millennial, which means I want to watch what I want, whenever I want, with minimal (zero?) commercial interruption. I’m even willing to pay extra for it.
 
#134
I watch CBS and Denver area evening news whenever I'm home between 5 and 7 PM. (I also read two newspapers every AM.)

I watch almost all broadcast TV unless it's sports. I grew up with ABC, NBC and CBS and my reflexes still go that way. Probably more than 2 hours per evening in addition to news, but sometimes 3. Once the 10:00 news hits on the CBS affiliate in Denver I find it hard to go to bed until it's over.

ESPN, yes. CNN, yes. I also surf across the shows like Counting Cars and American Pickers every now and then. I rather like to catch car restoration shows now and then. My wife likes cooking and food shows, so between cars and cooking that's a lot of our cable viewing.

When it comes to stuff like Big Brother and Survivor, I refuse to watch them. I consider them to be the lowest form of visual entertainment, showing people at their worst - voyeur time. Nope, not interested.

But I will watch Dancing With the Stars, for the same reason I watch the Olympics. I like to see people strive and succeed.

Shows that I will actually seek out and actively watch??

Murphy Brown
Bull
CBS Sunday Morning
CBS 60 Minutes
Madame Secretary
Blue Bloods
Big Bang Theory
 
#135
I haven't owned a TV in over 30 years. I enjoy reading books and listening to NPR (public radio).

Occasionally, after years of hearing people discussing a series like Dexter, Breaking Bad or Game of Thrones, I will binge watch all the seasons (on my computer) but that's as close to TV as I get.
 
#136
Killed_by_Death said:
If you have an EDU eMail address, I'd recommend starting a Student account on Amazon Prime, it's half the cost of NetFlix.
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My girlfriend has a business account on amazon for some of her supplies so I got the hookup for that! I’ve had all of the streaming sites at one time or another. Netflix for me has a really well rounded selection and they are stepping up the quality of their original content, Marvel shows aside, the movies and shows they have been making for the past year are just as good if not better than cable tv shows. The movies are also getting up to the point of major motion picture quality. The Haunting of the Hill House was so well written at the end of the season I was blown away that a Netflix show or any show could actually pull a story off with that amount of attention to detail! I work a job that has rotating shift work, so I have plenty of time to watch Netflix at home when I have to stay up to adjust for my upcoming night shifts or get an episode or two in when work comes to a lull in the middle of the night, for that purpose streaming services can’t be beat!
 
#138
Lately, wifey and I have been binge watching The Man In The High Castle. Kinda bizarre and definitely addictive. By the end of the workday we are both pretty beat not more than two or three episodes at a time.
Other than that, I surf the usual suspects of news (to make sure we’re not at war and no one bothered to call me up), AXS (something on there usually grabs my attention) and home improvement/cooking channels for mindless background noise.
Finally, I will flip on the Browns and Indians games whenever they’re playing.
 
#140
Way too much at work especially in November and December. This is the slow time of year for night shift in the operating room I work at. There are less GSWs and stabbings when the weather cools off and less supplies to put away because it’s slower during the day with staff taking vacations and patients pushing elective cases back until after the holidays because they don’t want to spend the holidays in the hospital if there’s an option. Took this picture Halloween night. Was watching Deadpool at work lol
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Not so much at home though . Maybe a nfl game, one show with my wife (lately we’ve been watching the walking dead again) , and one show by myself per week(I like shows that show different areas of the world (river monsters, parts unknown, stuff like that).
 
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