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 The New NickB 22 Apr 2016
I saw something on Facebook that suggested that on average people watch 33 hours of TV a week. I suspect this is wrong, but I know that quite a lot of people watch quite a bit of TV.

So how much do you watch?

I tend to have one or two programmes that I will definitely watch each week, but very little else. Line of Duty at the moment and Game of Thrones starts next week.

Generally 3-4 hours a week. If I'm doing a lot on the turbo trainer, I will watch more, but I'm not at the moment.
ultrabumbly 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

I'd guess this really needs to be defined as to what now counts as "watching TV".

We haven't switched the TV on in about 18 months other than to watch a film, and one that hasn't been traditionally broadcast (digital download or subscription stream service). Any series we are into we tend to binge watch a season over a weekend or two.

I'd suspect that there are still figures floating around that fail to take account of the fact that in the last 5-10 years many people in their 40s or younger have moved to "consuming media"('orrible term) in this sort of fashion so no longer have the box on waiting for something to come on or channel surfing which bumps any measure of use by a lot I would imagine.
 Mike Highbury 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:
> I tend to have one or two programmes that I will definitely watch each week, but very little else. Line of Duty at the moment and Game of Thrones starts next week.

> Generally 3-4 hours a week. If I'm doing a lot on the turbo trainer, I will watch more, but I'm not at the moment.

Gosh, is that all and what you watch? No wonder you come across as so ill-informed.
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 Xharlie 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

Er... what's a "TV"?

I don't watch TV because we don't get Cricket without Sky, here on the Continent, and it will be a rainy, wet and cold day in hell before I pay Sky money. When I did live in a country that had cricket broadcasts, I "watched" a lot of TV. That is to say, I drank beer, ate, read books, did stuff and frequently napped in front of a screen on which Cricketers happened to be bludgeoning a little, hard round thing about.
In reply to The New NickB: "..and Game of Thrones starts next week."

Never had you down as someone who would line Rupert Murdochs pockets
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OP The New NickB 22 Apr 2016
In reply to Bjartur i Sumarhus:

> "..and Game of Thrones starts next week."

> Never had you down as someone who would line Rupert Murdochs pockets

I'm not, but we do have access to a Sky Go account.
 Dax H 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

During winter 30 some hours is probably about right for us, significantly less in spring, summer and autumn though.
OP The New NickB 22 Apr 2016
In reply to ultrabumbly:

It is an interesting question. I guess if a lot of the online news sources and social media did not exist I would probably watch more TV and some of that strictly speaking is TV.

I am probably getting old though, in the past I may have turned the TV on, now it's more likely to be Radio 4.
 Fredt 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:
I would say I watch about 3 or 4 hours a week, mostly news.
Though last week I rewatched every episode of Night Manger all in one evening.

That's been the only thing I've seen recently.
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 yorkshireman 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

Really difficult to say, like others have said it comes from different sources and changes throughout the year. I'll watch Netflix on various devices and quite a fan of John Oliver Last Week Tonight on YouTube. Our internet connection is crap though so we use a Freesat box to record HD programmes and watch at leisure.

I'd say I watch maybe 8 hours of 'TV' a week spread over the above media.

But then there are outliers - when a new series of House of Cards comes out I could (and have) do 10 hours in one day when the weather is horrible.

I sat and watched 5 hours of Paris-Roubaix the other Sunday - I was digging into other stuff (second screening, another horrible term) throughout. I'll probably be averaging 5 hours a day of just cycling when the Tour de France is on for 3 weeks in July, but hardly watching anything else during the summer when the nights are long and warm.
In reply to The New NickB:

As a retired chap, you might imagine that I'd spend at least a few hours watching TV in the daytime; and you'd be wrong. It just doesn't get turned on until my wife's home from work and even then, we usually watch something we've recorded rather than as it's broadcast.

So overall it'll be perhaps ten hours a week; an hour each evening in the week and the rest at the weekend, again in the evening.

T.
 wbo 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

Very frequently zero, but a modal average 5 hours, and almost all after 9 hours. Not much basically, but lots of radio.

I am desparate to know what information I am missing out on Mike? How people in Shrewbury make cakes compared to those in Norwich? Cops unlimited? How much pensioners can spend on houses in Dorset. I rather suspect that watching too much TV will leave you overinformed with rubbish
OP The New NickB 22 Apr 2016
In reply to wbo:

I suspect he is just an arsehole, but that's just an uninformed view!
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 malky_c 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

Watch or see? I used to watch a similar amount - 2 or 3 things a week that I would make an effort to watch. However my wife pretty much insists on the TV being on 'for background noise' all the time. She can also binge-watch an entire series of something over a very short time on Netflix.

The result is that if I'm on my own, the TV never goes on at all - I don't even get the urge to watch stuff I'd probably be interested in. Even if we are together watching something we both like (The Bridge was pretty good recently), I can't sit and watch 4 episodes in a row, so she is soon way ahead of me and I lose track of what is going on.
 Yanis Nayu 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

Finally someone else who watches Line of Duty! It's BRILLIANT!
 Tom Valentine 22 Apr 2016
In reply to Yanis Nayu:

Dont say any more: got to catch up
In reply to The New NickB:

None, not got one, don;t want one never had one .

How do I know if I have never had one ? easy you try to avoid it.
 hokkyokusei 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

It varies from nothing to, say, ten hours per week. I don't watch much, if anything, 'live' as I don't have an aerial. I do watch stuff on catch up, mainly documentaries. I watch 2 or 3 films per week, and will binge watch the odd series. Currently watching Carnivale. Sometimes, if I'm gripped by a book, I don't watch any TV.
OP The New NickB 22 Apr 2016
In reply to Yanis Nayu:

> Finally someone else who watches Line of Duty! It's BRILLIANT!

The first series passed me by, but the second and third have been brilliant. Looking forward to the finale next week.
 pec 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

I don't watch any at all and haven't done since the digital switchover, in fact I hadn't turned it on for more than a year before the analogue signal was turned off so there didn't seem much point getting a new TV or even digibox, I just stopped paying the TV licence instead.
Stopping watching TV was one of the best things I ever did, it gave me so much more time to do useful stuff.

I don't watch anything on the iplayer etc either as I can't stand modern TV production styles and the way everything is so massively overhyped. What I see of TV (as a captive audience in someone else's house) simply confirms how awful most of it is.

I'm sure there must be the ocassional thing I'd enjoy but what you don't know you can't give a way under torture as they say. I keep up with the world via radio 4 and online and for entertainment I go to more concerts and the theatre etc than I ever used to.
 Run_Ross_Run 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

None during the week and just MOTD and motor racing (if its on) at the weekend so i'd say 8 hours total.
 Clarence 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

Don't get a signal here since the analogue switchoff, the broadband is too slow to watch via the net and I don't have line of sight for a satellite dish unless it is on a gert big pole so I don't bother. I watch about six hours while visiting friends and family and spend the rest of my time listening to the radio.
 Siward 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

Does watching series 3 on its own make sense to a new watcher?
 broken spectre 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

Have I got News for You - and that's it!

Although sometimes I'll use TV to send me to sleep at night. This can backfire if something scary comes on whist your asleep and the TV becomes embroiled in your dreams!
OP The New NickB 22 Apr 2016
In reply to Siward:

You would certainly benefit from watching series 2.
 Cú Chullain 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

Outside of the news and the odd documentary I don't watch normal scheduled TV, tend to stream on demand stuff via netflix/amazon, box sets, films etc Can go weeks without watching any TV then spend several evenings on the trot binging on Broadwalk Empire or Breaking Bad.
jedicolin 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

Around 3 to 4 hours a DAY!
 Skyfall 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

Yet another self selecting thread .... i.e. how little I watch compared to the masses.

Tv/cinema/radio/tablets/smartphones etc. I imagine most people's tv viewing is dropping due to other input !

Tv - not sure 15? Varies, some weeks very little, others more.
 tehmarks 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

None, zero, no TV. I don't even own a TV (I live on a narrowboat and there isn't even anywhere sensible to put one).

Except at my girlfriend's. We manage to watch hours of The Food Channel every night. But only ever The Food Channel :s
 Big Ger 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

About an hour of "TV" a night, plus the local and national news.
In reply to tehmarks:

> None, zero, no TV. I don't even own a TV (I live on a narrowboat and there isn't even anywhere sensible to put one).

Same i.e. 0. Look at news on the BBC website and v, v occasionally watch repeats of programmes on iPlayer. Go to our excellent cinema c. once a week for movies (and the cinema seems to be incredibly allive and well at the moment). Sometimes have to watch TV for a few minutes in other people's houses. Mostly dire.

 snoop6060 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:
I guess it depends if you include porn? If not, I can join the smug, middle class people who have elevated themselves above such peasant level distractions. If you do, then I watch it daily, maybe upwards of 40 hours a week. There's a lot to get through even with my peculiar tastes.
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 veteye 22 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

I watch v little.Occasionally I determine to watch the 10 o'clock news, but cannot keep it on when it becomes regional-it's so amateur.
I probably watch BBC weather on the BBC weather website the most, but every 4-5 days.

Tonight I was just so dehydrated and tired that I decided not to try to work or tick of things to do.So I went and sat in front of the TV whilst eating my meal and came across a new series with Rick Stein doing different weekends of food tourism. He was in Bordeaux and so I was actually hooked as I like that part of the world.(Though I ended up in the half world of trying to stay awake with the food and coordinated Bordeaux wine tying me down).

So overall not much at all.Some weeks nothing at all. Sometimes I get hooked on a drama series and will watch most of it(last being The Night Manager)

 pneame 23 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

> I tend to have one or two programmes that I will definitely watch each week, but very little else. Line of Duty

Thank you for that. Just watched first 2 episodes. Excellent
In reply to The New NickB:
0. Since 1992.
In reply to pneame:

I would suggest watching from series 1, because some of the main characters are introduced that carry the story arc throughout (the Caddy for example)

It is absolutely brilliant.
 Heavy Mental 23 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

Haven't watched tv in over a year now, don't plan on going back to it either. Full of shite and bbc propaganda which I will not be paying a tv licence for.
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 nastyned 23 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

I don't own a telly but I watch around an hour or two of programmes on the computer three or four nights a week.
 summo 23 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

Around 5 or 6 hrs a week average. Little of value to watch beyond that, as I can't just watch something for the sake of it, as a means of filling time.
 toad 23 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:
I watch about 4 hours of ncis every night.
 Fraser 23 Apr 2016
In reply to Heavy Mental:

> Full of shite and bbc propaganda which I will not be paying a tv licence for.

Hmmm, I watch probably more than I should or want to, but can always find something really good without trying too hard. I mostly record stuff now and watch later so I can skip the adverts. Despite your moan, the BBC have produced some amazing tv over the past few years and I'm happy to pay my £12/month or whatever it is for the selective viewing it gives me.

I don't think I watch 33 hours a week though, at least I really hope I don't!
 john_mx 24 Apr 2016
In reply to The New NickB:

If I watch more then 1 hour a month I'll be surprised.

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