Are you a TELEHOLIC?

I feel I watch too much but in the Winter its hard to occupy oneself on dark miserable days. I walk and read but most days I'll watch tv in the evening. I'm not addicted absolutely not! 😉

You are not alone. I'm one too! Lovely 📺

I’m the complete opposite and literally never switch the set on. DH puts it on for the news whilst eating breakfast before going to work. I switch it off when leaves around 7 o’clock, and it stays off all day if I’m in until he returns. It’s on for a couple of hours in the evening from the news, and I watch bits on the iPad in bed if I can’t sleep.

When I’m on my own I listen to music, audiobooks and the radio.

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I’m sitting here trying to persuade my 3yo GS he doesnt’t want to watch tv!

We rarely watch tv although this week we began The Box of Delights which was mentioned on another thread. I’m sure I’d watch more if I was on my own, though.

No TV in the morning for me. From 3pm onwards if I'm home though.

We have ours on for background noise all day. DH is a real sports enthusiast, so there always seems to be some game on, with the volume down. We do watch it in the evenings.

Don't watch in the mornings, probably switch on around 3 for Escape to the Country and a cup of tea with DH, then it's off again until 7.30-ish until we toddle off to bed - which is getting earlier and earlier as we like to factor in a minimum of an hour's reading time before we fall asleep.

But certainly wouldn't criticise, Bea65, you do what gets you through. I agree with you about the manual typewriter, too, BTW!

Yes, I'd say we both are TBH. Even if we're not actually watching we tend to have it on in the back ground during the day.

There's so much to watch and we do have a tendency to binge watch any series we get into.

I am a Teleholic as well. It’s on all the time. I live alone too. I don’t knit, crochet or have any hobby. If it’s not Sky, it’s Netflix. or YouTube.

In the dark months I like Countdown and Tipping Point (replaced now by Deal or No Deal, which I don’t like) if I’m at home. TP was always DH’s prompt for a tin of soup as a hot drink, while it’d be a cup of tea and a caramel after for me.

I’m a bit of an insomniac, so tv keeps me company in the small hours.

My husband is switches sky news on the moment he gets up and just leaves it on
Drives me potty listening to the same old same old just repeating If switched of when out of room it gets switched on when he returns
My idea of luxury is silence

I never put it on in the morning and rarely in the afternoon, but I’m sad to say that I do have my iPad on the table at teatime watching stuff while I’m eating - something I always told DH off for. It now takes the place of meal time conversation. I have the big set on in the evening for a film or a series I’m catching up on.

We watch tv every evening but never put it on until the evening news at about 6 pm.

I love the tv and I think it can be great company! I watch an hour or two most evenings and sometimes an hour in the afternoon if I’m doing something quiet and there’s a programme I want to watch. I usually watch less in the summer. I find it very relaxing and if I’ve had little sleep the night before, for whatever reason, it’s the one thing that lets me just have five minutes nap! I wouldn’t be without it but I don’t just put it on as background noise. (I might if I lived alone though).

We watch less and less television.Every week DH or I go through the Radio Times and circle anything of interest. It is not unusual to have a few days with no circles.

I live on my own and TV is pretty important to me. I watch most of BBC Breakfast, and the news on and off all day. I like documentaries and non-fiction programmes (no soaps!). During the day there are far too many cookery and property programmes, which is why I watch so much news. I watch the property programmes like Escape to the Country sometimes, but cookery programmes never.

I never was but it’s great for the winter months. I’ve enjoyed a lot on iPlayer especially.

I don't watch it as much as I used to, and sometimes difficult to find anything on I want to see. We have it on for the news from about 6 to 7am then it goes off until around 7pm. I usually watch recordings until 9/10pm and then it goes off.
My OH watches via his laptop during the afternoons and then goes upstairs in the evening to watch in his bedroom. He's much more of a "square eye" than me lol.

I love my TV. It's such good company for those living alone. I do set boundaries though and never switch it in until 2 pm. I don't want my entire day dominated by it. Nevertheless it is of huge comfort to me. The presenters become like old friends, especially on BBC. I've got Freesat and Netflix, so plenty of choice. I'm never lost for anything to see.

We have it on in the bedroom and kitchen first thing for the news and sometimes it gets left on but I try to turn the bedroom one off when I go down and the kitchen one when Breakfast has finished. It goes back on for the 6 o'clock news.

I didn't have a TV for some 30 years and failed to recognise a few retired actors who live nearby, but now I'm a complete telly addict .
I love Sky and those art programmes and I rewatch them .
Otherwise , I'm an old film addict .
I love films anyway .
I enjoy historical documentaries-they lead to research .
Quite like a quiz - if it's not gimmicky .
Murder mysteries capture my imagination .
Classical music ,jazz and blues are favourites as well .
There's always something which absorbs me .

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I am a Teleholic as well. It’s on all the time. I live alone too. I don’t knit, crochet or have any hobby. If it’s not Sky, it’s Netflix. or YouTube.

I can’t just watch tv. I have to be doing something productive at the same time; currently I’m knitting a jumper for aforementioned GS.

Dh has hearing loss and the very thought of making myself heard above background tv makes me feel faint! Radio as background noise doesn’t seem so intrusive, oddly. We leave R4 on for our cats sometimes.

There are so many good programmes and, with catchup I never seem to find the time to watch everything. As a night owl I’ve been watching Winter Walks in the early hours. Earlier on there was a programme on BBC4 about great photographers which I missed the first part of so I must watch the whole programme. I don’t turn the tv on in the morning. Tend to listen more to podcasts. I listen to Must Watch on Mondays which discusses all the current programmes so I can watch things and then listen to other people discussing them.I was only trying to remember the other day what it was like with only two channels and no catchup. I can’t quite get my head round how quiet life must have been. I love my telly!

Yay to all Teleholics.. I also suffer with insomnia and have the Tv on mute with subtitles as cannot sleep thru the night and regularly awake between 3and 5am .. very frustrating 😴