What TV do you watch?
 

I watch very little TV. A dramatic contrast from 20-40 years ago when a TV was a companion, always on. In every house on the block no less.

So now, if I watch something, I am interested or the tube is not on.

I watch 3 shows daily.

Morning Joe at 6am, then at 6pm, PBS News Hour, at 7, Erin Burnett. Then I am done for the day.

Sports and stuff yeah but it's here and there. Soccer, football basketball.

I also like Chris Mathews but he is on at the same time as Erin, so depending on which catches my ear...

How about you guys and women?

Do you have any programs you pretty much make time for? Non political/news too?

The missus watches the evening news and a couple of game shows afterwards. I will watch The Voice if I'm not doing anything else. Network TV has too many commercials for my patience. I counted 17 commercials during ONE commercial break. I won't sit for it.

I shop around for used DVDs and Blue ray discs and mainly watch movies from my collection otherwise.

I watch an LG.

Ballgames and documentaries on Netflix. A few years ago I probably watched a total of 10 hours of TV for a year. Now that the Royals are more interesting, the games are generally on, whether I am watching or not. Same for the Sooners. I have binge watched a few series - Luther, Sherlock Holmes (the Cumberbatch version), Numbers, Foyle's War, Inspector Morse, Inspector Lewis, and George Gently, and another sci-fi FBI series, but I can't remember the title. Oh yeah, my wife and I watched Downton Abbey and Madmen.

I think that the last series I made it a point to watch weekly was West Wing.

interesting.... to me
thanks

I don' think of streaming services as TV.

Really they are I guess.

So all your news comes from the written word?

Which outlets?

I don't even know what brand my TV's are.

but... when it comes to audio, I know every piece. ;)

They were TV shows, just watched in a different format ( and no commercials).

I listen to a lot of NPR, check out the Wapo online and get the Kansas City Star.
Actually, I used to watch quite a bit of MSNBC, but I got tired to watching pure advocacy rather than news.

I watch Morning Joe just to see how much of Trump's but they can lick and after 10 minutes of pure disgust at a once great network I hit the I-15 and listen to Game Of Thrones on cd. I use the satellite radio and tune between Howard Stern, the BBC and the Loft but mainly listen to Thrones.

At work I read Isaac Asimov by Nook while listening to classical station on Sirius Xm between patients.

After my GI Bill funded computer class is over at 7pm I hit the 15 and listen to Rachel Maddow, Chris Hayes and Lawrence O' Donnell unless I am back to Thrones.

Before I go to bed I watch Star Trek Next Generation, then maybe some Gordon vodka straight.

yes, I too was driven from MSNBC for the same reason. You get a hard copy of your local paper or on line you read it?

I get the hard copy. It's easier to take into the bathroom than the laptop.:D

lol

I take my phone and read The Times news feed.

Easier than a big paper. :p;):D

DVDs..

what kind?

There's more than one? (Please forgive me.)

Movies and cable series.

I prefer the round ones.

A 30" Samsung letterbox format HD CRT freebie.
I like the PBS documentaries and some of the ABC dramas, the two air channels with reliable service to my location.

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I got me one of them fancy DVR thingies and fast forward through all the shows, just watch the commercials.
I especially love the prescription drug commercials, which have pretty much taken the place of the old boring beer commercials with girls in bikinis.
Nozulla, Lyrica, Lunesta, Chant, Prilosec, Concerta, Lipitor, Enbrel, "SeeAlice", Abilify, Nasonex, Vioxx, Pristiq, Humira, Zoloft, Lipitor, Wellbutrin, Stelara, Prevacid are a few of my favorites.
I especially like the ones with animated people and animals, or butterflies floating around.
Many are fun just trying to guess what it cures, while the actors play softball or load an LP onto the old turntable they found in the garage.
I also dearly love the long lists of side effects, like fixing your neighbor's car while sleepwalking, or oily anal discharge.

funny in an ironic sort of way...
if its not on Amazon Prime or Netflix or DVD then I am not watching it.

I find it a bit unfair that they let these pharma companies advertise all this crap, complete with warnings that they "may cause severe complications, up to and including death", but tobacco companies can't advertise on television at all, even if they include the health warnings.

My favorite is the sly and subtle way they say: "and this shit may kill you."

Thank Reagan.

Thanks for the laugh.
What I also find fascinating is the disclaimer they read on radio after at the end of a commercial. Guess this is required legalese but the rapid pace at which it is said, no one could understand a word. I find this actually mocking the regulatory requirements.

You had me right then! Great post. :D

:rolleyes:

is it trying to make a point or trying to add levity....

I enjoyed Eugene Levity on Second City TV.

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I usually watch about an hour a day with the wife right before bed. Usually NCIS, Chicago Fire, The Voice, Big Bang Theory, and Once Upon a Time, with a sprinkling of spinoffs and Law and Order. I get news from the radio and the web.

Regardless, laughter is the best of medicine. I resisted posting a doughnut reply. :)

I watch little TV, but it's always on PBS during the day for the toddlers and baby. Though they hardly watch it either... twin girls are two years old today and into anything & everything they can get into. I'm on my toes all day with them and a 7 month baby boy and just have no time to keep up with news and internet anymore. I'm mom, dad, grandpa, and grandma until grandma gets home. And even then one of the twins will only go to sleep for me, grandma and especially their momma can't put her to sleep. My daughter can't put either girl asleep because her and the childrens daddy took an almost two year vacation when they were born. Their daddy is still on his vacation since my daughter FINALLY dumped him and came home here to her kids about two months ago... but like I said, the girls are two today so it's a little late as the bonding has already been done. It's been a sad couple years at my house, but I've made sure my grandbabies were, are, and always will be loved and taken care of. My tools stay in the toolbox these days but oh well... children can't help what their parents do.

That being said, I'm very happy. I love these three babies with all my heart and at this point would be lost without them. They become your kids after raising them from the get-go, even if it's not on paper, they are in your heart.

They got good grandparents as their real parents. May they know how fortunate they are.

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I was very sad. DCS got involved when she gave birth to our grandson. They wouldn't tell us ( the grandparents ) why, but they had someone sitting guard outside of her room in the hosp and wouldn't allow her door to be closed. I'm only guessing that it was because she had not went to a doctor until time to have the child for some reason and they must've been waiting for drug test results on the baby. I was mad because they wouldn't talk to me and I told them that whatever the parents had done I could assure them that their girls were not involved because they left them with me at birth and had not lived with them. They were 17 months old at that time.

DCS told me it was a sad story but there was nothing they could do to give my wife and I custody because in TN the law states that a mother can keep custody of her children even if they don't live with her As Long As she checks on them at least once every four months. They said we can raise them but our daughter will always be able to come scoop them up at any time if she decides to be a mother.

Our daughter see's they've bonded and promised us that she won't up-root them from their stable environment, which is the only one they've ever known. I watched my daughter cry when she found my video's of their first steps. She missed out on all that but it was her own fault for not being here. I love her dearly as well, but it took almost two years for her to see that she was not going to change her boyfriend, and she wasn't going to get him to live as a family with their three kids. She's always worked and still does, but all her money went to him and his drug habbits living from one friends house to another.. where she lived as well. I'm glad she finally learned, she's home here with her kids two days a week now. She leaves for work at 5:30am and works until 9:45 pm and gets home around 10:30 so the kids are in bed when she leaves and they are in bed when she gets home. She see's them on her two days off, but mostly stays out of the way being the kids cling to me. Still sad, it'll take some time but she realizes my wife and I will always be their security.

Good for you, hillbilly!

Hillbilly..... I hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day. You deserve it.

My Wife and I have enjoyed Doc Martin, a British sitcom about a surgeon who becomes a GP because he can't stand the sight of blood. Of course, he makes all sorts of miraculous diagnoses and life saving decisions.

But the real miracle worker in the show is the town's jack of all trades, Bert. He has managed to get whiskey to come directly out of the still looking and tasting like it has spent ten years in an oak barrel. This is just one of those details that makes me think that the writers are ignorant, or expect an ignorant audience. Anyone who cares about whiskey is going to know that Bert can't just fire up the still to fill an order for five cases of whiskey.

Love Doc Martin. The Durrells In Corfu is also terrific.

On Amazon Prime, check out Bosch. Season 4 can't come soon enough!

Wife is a Morning Joe fan so I get to listen. But generally it is in the background while listening to NRP drinking coffee and surfing the net most mornings.
Pretty much NPR throughout the day.
Wife and I watch the evening news on NBC and eat supper.

We watch some shows together. Outlander Masterpiece GOT to name of few. Reluctantly I will sit once in awhile thru one her shows on Bravo till she wakes me up.

But for myself I like Ray Donovan Shameless and old black and white movies on TCM Starz Encore Western Channel.


Barney

We recently finished watching the first two seasons of "Fortutude" on DVD. Remarkably entertaining considering how disturbing the whole thing is.

And it appears there will be a season 3 that will be produced and aired in 2018.

Not happy that WGN cancelled "The Outsiders" after two great seasons.

We've been binge watching Outlander on Blu Ray, courtesy of friends.

Great show!



Barney