With all of the shows that people love so much and discuss here on the forum, I was curious to hear how many hours per week do you watch TV. DVR's and Tivo have really made consuming media so much easier where you cna sit down for 2 hours and bang out a lot of content as opposed to sitting through broadcast with commercials and at specific times. So what say you Treks in Sci Fi?!
Right now, as the new season starts, I would say I watch 6-7 hours of specific weekly programs either alone or with Jamie.
Ever since BSG went off the air, I don't watch TV at all. I'll watch Caprica once it comes back, so that will bring me to one hour a week.
That's so funny, I included Caprica in my estimate, although I have not been to thrilled with the end of last season. Most of what we watch is "reality" shows like Survivor, The Amazing Race, and Hells Kitchen although that one looks bad this season. For sitcoms we love Modern Family and I watch Clone Wars.
I'd say on average about 1-1.5 hours a night give or take. We usually watch whatever the DVR recoded the night before. If we're having a 'lazy' weekend we may bang out 2 or 3 hours of a single show (Mad Men season 2 right now). If the weekend is busy then we don't. We really treat TV as the last priority, once the work day, workouts, dinner, cleaning and anything else is taken care of. If the two of us are together, we'll sit down and watch.
Oddly we rarely watch tv on our own.
Currently I'm watching or plan to watch:
Dexter
Boardwalk Empire
Mad Men (over soon)
Survivor
The Office
Always Sunny In Phila
Smallville
Big Bang
Walking Dead
Weeds
I know I'm forgetting something but that adds up to about 7 hours without accounting for movies.
Yeah Jamie and I try and find 1 hour per night of TV we can watch together.
I don't watch much television (maybe 2-3 hours a week). The Clone Wars is a must. I watch most of my SciFi on DVD.
Usually a show or two a night, except on a couple nights. Think you guys know pretty much what I watch. Most of it is time shifted and commercial free, which turns an hour show into about 41 minutes.
P.S. Oh, and I watch no "reality TV."
We watch about 7-8 hours a week. Not much.
I find it curious that you would specifically mention that you don't watch "reality TV." I'm certain you don't watch daytime soap operas or Nickelodeon teen shows as well but you did not feel the need to mention those...
I don't watch television during the week. Not even the news anymore. Weekends are a different story. I'm a big dvd tv series watcher. My wife and I are on a Little House on the Prairie kick right now. Then I'll pop in a TOS dvd or some other fun series and watch with my son.
Jamie and i enjoy psuedo-reality TV. It's something we can watch together so that make sit good entertainmnet content for us. :)
Quote from: Bryancd on September 28, 2010, 12:47:12 PM
Jamie and i enjoy psuedo-reality TV. It's something we can watch together so that make sit good entertainmnet content for us. :)
Fran and I are enjoying Top Chef.
I was just yanking his chain because I felt some heat on the Big Bang thread last week about admitting I liked Survivor...;)
Quote from: Jobydrone4of20 on September 28, 2010, 12:16:51 PMI'm certain you don't watch <snip> Nickelodeon teen shows
I actually laughed aloud; while not produced by Nickelodeon they are the primary US broadcaster: of Degrassi - one of the greatest shows ever! :)
Well I watch alot of TV (especially now that I'm out of work), most of it is DIY and HGTV but we watch six to seven hours a day. Lots of time it will be on in the background while I'm on the computer working, surfing or editing a podcast.
Out of that six to seven hours of TV I'd say a few hours of it is primetime stuff.
Monday - HIMYM, The Event 1.5 hours
Tuesday - Raising Hope, Glee, No Ordinary Family 2.5 hours
Wednesday - Modern Family, Cougar Town 1 hour
Thursday - Big Bang Theory .5 hour
Friday - Clone Wars .5 hour
Saturday - Nothing 0 hour
Sunday - Amazing Race, Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, Extreme Makeover Home Edition 3.5 hours
I think I am at about 7-8 hours a week as well. We really only watch about 1 hour a night after the kids are in bed. There are no shows that I am really following these days. I will watch Caprica when it comes back on.
Quote from: Jobydrone4of20 on September 28, 2010, 12:16:51 PM
I find it curious that you would specifically mention that you don't watch "reality TV." I'm certain you don't watch daytime soap operas or Nickelodeon teen shows as well but you did not feel the need to mention those...
Actually I have on occasion watched a couple of soap operas and some Nick shows at times. ;)
Let's see
Mon - Chuck, Castle, Hawaii 5-O
Tue - No Ordinary Family, NCIS, NCIS LA
Wed - The Middle
Thu - Big Bang Theory, Fringe, Mentalist
Fri - Batman, Clone Wars
Sat - MSU football
Sun - Simpsons, Rubicon
14.5
The only shows I am currently watching areL
NCIS
The Middle
Mike and Molly
Hawaii Five-0
So that's less than three hours of comercial free a week.
Kevin
Quote from: Bryancd on September 28, 2010, 05:04:31 PM
Quote from: Geekyfanboy on September 28, 2010, 01:05:15 PM
Saturday - Nothing 0 hour
Date night. :)
Ummm no.. just nothing on primetime TV.. didn't say I didn't TV.. just not network TV
Currently enjoying Iron Chef America battle peanuts. Bobby Flay vs. Canadian chef Lynn Crawford.
About none.
I had cable a couple of years ago, but after moving to this house didn't bother.
With podcasts and radio, I'm much more mobile.
I watch 0 hours of TV.
Ok, I do watch Hulu/Netflix, but that really doesn't count. I can't stand commercials on TV anymore, drives me nuts.
King
Quote from: Jobydrone4of20 on September 28, 2010, 09:11:28 AM
Currently I'm watching or plan to watch:
Walking Dead
Crap; I forgot about that! OK; between Caprica and Walking Dead, I guess I'll be watching about 2 hours a week, once the shows start up. I'm still on the fence about Smallville. It seems like too much stuff has happened since I last watched it; I'm afraid I'd be lost. And Clone Wars... I dunno.
I almost never watch things when they air, I'm busy with school usually and stuff and the guy I live with hogs the TV almost all the time he's home (which includes now in the next room). It's not to bad cause I don't care so much.
The stuff I will watch or have this week include;
Chuck, Castle, The Colony, Glee, Stargate Universe, Big Bang, Fringe, Dexter, and the IRL race.
I've watch far to much TV, because of the DVR I forget when things are on but I watch enough Fox and Syfy to make the most sane person nuts. Every day I think is covered by a TV show. So safe to say 6-10 hours.
Quote from: wraith1701 on September 28, 2010, 11:07:24 PM
Crap; I forgot about that! OK; between Caprica and Walking Dead, I guess I'll be watching about 2 hours a week, once the shows start up. I'm still on the fence about Smallville. It seems like too much stuff has happened since I last watched it; I'm afraid I'd be lost. And Clone Wars... I dunno.
I did a nine season catch up on Smallville over the past year in order to get caught up in time to watch the end of season 9. That was a lot of Smallville.
Quote from: Jobydrone4of20 on September 29, 2010, 07:55:14 AM
Quote from: wraith1701 on September 28, 2010, 11:07:24 PM
Crap; I forgot about that! OK; between Caprica and Walking Dead, I guess I'll be watching about 2 hours a week, once the shows start up. I'm still on the fence about Smallville. It seems like too much stuff has happened since I last watched it; I'm afraid I'd be lost. And Clone Wars... I dunno.
I did a nine season catch up on Smallville over the past year in order to get caught up in time to watch the end of season 9. That was a lot of Smallville.
Dang; how many episodes is that? Was it pretty good?
What's got my interest up is the fact that they seem to be exploring the whole DC universe in the series. What's got me leaning towards giving the show a pass is that I get the impression that everything is being thrown in without rhyme or reason... Kinda like they're desperately throwing everything into the show to spike viewership. So far, they have Brainiac, Zod, The Flash, Green Arrow, Aquaman, and it looks like Dr. Fate is in there too? And Hawkman? All of these characters are hanging around Smallville & Metropolis?
Quote from: Kingisaaclinksr on September 28, 2010, 09:05:00 PM
I watch 0 hours of TV.
Ok, I do watch Hulu/Netflix, but that really doesn't count. I can't stand commercials on TV anymore, drives me nuts.
King
D - V - R :)
HD-TIVO! Mmmm! ;)
Quote from: sheldor on September 30, 2010, 03:43:04 AM
Quote from: Kingisaaclinksr on September 28, 2010, 09:05:00 PM
I watch 0 hours of TV.
Ok, I do watch Hulu/Netflix, but that really doesn't count. I can't stand commercials on TV anymore, drives me nuts.
King
D - V - R :)
Except I don't pay for Hulu ;)
Ok ok ok, fineeee. If I account for all that, probably 5 hours a week of TV.
King
Quote from: wraith1701 on September 29, 2010, 10:07:43 PM
Dang; how many episodes is that? Was it pretty good?
What's got my interest up is the fact that they seem to be exploring the whole DC universe in the series. What's got me leaning towards giving the show a pass is that I get the impression that everything is being thrown in without rhyme or reason... Kinda like they're desperately throwing everything into the show to spike viewership. So far, they have Brainiac, Zod, The Flash, Green Arrow, Aquaman, and it looks like Dr. Fate is in there too? And Hawkman? All of these characters are hanging around Smallville & Metropolis?
I enjoyed it. It's kind of like an alternate DC universe, not much like the comics at all. Combine Buffy with DC comics and you have a pretty good idea what the show is about. Like anything that lasts as long as Smallville has, there's hits and misses. The biggest problem I've had is the climaxes never seem to pay off enough for me. The Doomnsday season and the Zod season are examples of this. They spend a year leading up to what should be an epic confrontation and I've wound up basically disappointed. I guess I enjoyed the show a bit more when they didn't focus as much on whole season story arcs, and each episode was a stand alone story.
About an hour a night - DVR and skipping adds so most shows are 45mins or less. I'm not counting anything that my wife has on and I 'watch' while doing other things.
Oddly, about the only thing I watch in real time is The Apprentice because we both watch it and there no advertising.
That list may go up a bit now as Eureka is on a rerun during the day so I'm recording all of season 1 and will work through it fairly quickly hopefully.
I watch a LOT of TV. OR should I say listen to a lot of TV. I grew up in a big city where the noise of life was all around me and I don't like the quiet unless I'm going camping. I'll have my tv on for hours and sort of watch ala cart Discovery Network stuff. If I see something that catches my eye, I rewind and then watch the program. Then I watch shows with my wife and my daughter and I watch Ben 10, Geberator Rex, and Clone wars together.
So, I watch a lot of TV in one sense, but I don't really watch it unless it catches my eye when it's not one of the shows I normally watch.
I noticed something interesting this week. Fran is away on a business trip, while she's been away I haven't turned on the tv once. So I guess I watch an hour or two of tv a night when my wife is home.
Quote from: billybob476 on October 26, 2010, 07:23:14 AM
I noticed something interesting this week. Fran is away on a business trip, while she's been away I haven't turned on the tv once. So I guess I watch an hour or two of tv a night when my wife is home.
I won't say I'm the reverse but when I'm at home on my own I tend to use the opportunity to catch up on stuff from the DVR that I know my wife isn't interested in. In that sense, I don't watch any more TV when she's away, I just watch less for a while when she's back.
haha mine tends to be used for video games :)
Quote from: billybob476 on October 26, 2010, 07:54:06 AM
haha mine tends to be used for video games :)
Been off those since 6 months after the eldest was born - it was either that or divorce...