Daytime TV - what is missing for you?

I'm more a wireless person, but a spell of ill health has made me love Judge Rinder!

Come Dine With Me is also a favourite.

I still haven't watched Father Brown!!
I must record it.

I like The Wright Stuff, Escape to the Country, 4 in a Bed and, occasionally, Come Dine With Me.

I would like more good quality, one-off dramas or something along the lines of the recent Peter Kay Car Share series.

Radio 4 or 4 Extra for me, Radio 3 for Himself. As I mow have a pair of wifi headphones I can wander around the flat listening. Love them!

I love the radio. I used to think daytime tv was a treat on a day off (I still work fulltime) but just recently tuned in and was dismayed at the absolute rubbish fed to tele watchers! Boring!!

Radio 4 extra also has similar programmes and is available on iPlayer.

Thanks Nonnie - I will get listening

Imp27 those programmes are usually at 1830 and you might like some of the ones at 1130 too.

Starbird, I used to LOVE listening to 'I'm sorry I Haven't a Cle' and also 'Just a Minute.' I am going to have a listen this morning , thank you.

I record Four in a Bed and watch a day behind. I can then fast forward through adverts/recaps of previous episodes/some of the non interesting challenges and basically reduce 2-3 hours of tv into 30 minutes! Lovejoy and Midsommer repeats are late afternoon fare as my husband works nights - he goes to work, I only read in the evenings and record anything after 9pm, (early to bed early to rise types, us)! Also find having quiet with a media blackout in the evenings is much more relaxing.

Imperfect27. O you should try radio catch up - just get Radio Player and it's easy, then you can listen to 'I'm sorry I haven't a clue' and find out who went to the fishermans' ball or got off the tube at Mornington Crescent!

I don't watch anything before the News at 6pm, and then not much after that until 8. I used to look out for an afternoon film on a Sunday if it was miserable weather but there's never anything watchable these days.
Regarding what I'd like to see, I do find that there are mostly enough good things on even though I only have the standard and freeview channels, things often clash so I watch catch up like others have said. There are some very interesting programmes on Al Jazeera sometimes too.
I am also an avid reader and Radio 4 listener ( and ipad time waster) so there's no shortage of indoor passtimes.
But having said that I have been known to watch Come dine with me and Escape to the country, Location, Location, summer sun, or Homes under the Hammer, just to see what people do with their houses. Given that these relocate programs are usually several years old, I too am astonished at how many people can afford such big budgets. It also amuses me that in these home makeover programs, if a home has a colourful decor, the owners will be told to declutter and paint the walls in neutral colours, in another program, if the decor is neutral, they may be told to add some colour and homely touches!

I used to record several programmes to watch as and when, but our old Sagem seems to have given up the ghost. Today DH has replaced it with a Humax. Well, that's another learning curve coming up, reading the instructions and learning how to use it.

I do knit whilst watching TV!

Never watch during the day.

However..... My secret addiction. I record Loose Women and watch in the evening.

I have radio on most days Classic FM, Planet Rock. Cannot be bothered with daytime telly though I did quite enjoy Father Brown. I usually watch stuff I have recorded as some films I like are on crazy hours at night.

I sometimes have grandchild over during the day and I like to take her out when I can. Like others on here, it is usually evening about 6pm, we watch the news and if there is something good like Dickensian or Shetland, we will settle down to watch it. We record alot and save it for when there is nothing on the television.

Now the GC are too old for kids TV It is never switched on before 7pm.I record The Chase and Come Dine With Me.Chris Country Radio is on all the time.

Until I had grandchildren I never watched daytime TV after Breakfast. I am glad I only have three as a fourth round of In The Night Garden might have tipped me over the edge!

Since living in France, for the first eight years we had far more channels that we could watch than we did in UK, and occasionally watched Pointless or Countdown in the winter. But usual pattern was from 8pm onwards which was 7pm UK time. Now the satellite has been moved and we no longer get any UK TV and apart from a very expensive new system that I am told is not very reliable, we are 'reduced' to DVDs. It does allow us to watch some excellent dramas and series, but oh how I miss the current affairs programmes, the News, Have I got News for You and Graham Norton. But quite honestly that is all I really miss during 24 hours. Radio 4 is wonderful!

Little bit of breakfast telly with my porridge
I like the politics show BBC 2 midday and try to arrange lunch then if I'm in.
Guilty secret -I also like escape to the country with a cup of afternoon tea.

Always watch Countdown, record it if necessary. Escape to the Country, Bargain Hunt, For What its Worth, anything with James Martin (!), if I am doing nothing better. Will watch recorded TV from yonks ago, to try and catch up. Never watch Snooker!!

We watch BBC Breakfast, lunchtime News and the Daily Politics, sometimes Bargain Hunt, but I don't really look at the schedules to see what else is on as I don't want to be tempted to go down the route of sitting down in front of TV all day! I record James Martin's Home Comforts to watch in the evenings.

I watch BBC breakfast tv for the news then nothing until maybe Pointless or sometimes not until the 9pm drama (or at the moment 8pm Dickensian).

Before I retired I treated myself to a really good DAB radio so that's on all day. Radio 4, Radio 2 or 6 Music all at different times. I might watch the 1 o'clock news with my lunch but not every day.

Like most people I thank goodness that we can now record programmes and watch when WE want to. It's so liberating. I also have Amazon Prime for films and tv series I haven't seen.

Personally I think daytime tv is mind-numbing.

I hate TV; keep threatening to stop paying for the licence and TV rental, but my menfolk, both of whom are severely disabled, as well as being nightowls (I'm a lark and in bed most nights by 9 ready for my morning paper round) do enjoy things I wouldn't be seen dead watching, e.g American Master Chef, political programs etc. Don't do lifestyle, gameshows, antiques, or anything else that is shown on daytime, and while I enjoy some documentaries, the whole family watches Doctors, Emmerdale and Corrie, and we catch up with the news, I wish there were some good films and/or dramas that we haven't seen. Thank goodness for Radio 2, 3 and 4!

BBC breakfast to start the day then telly off usually until Pointless is due on. When I'm not at work I like Radio 5 live on as its all chat and no music.
All these antique things and so many repeats make it not worth watching for me.
The evenings aren't much better most of the time, although a couple good ones back at the moment. We rarely watch ITV and not a lot on the beeb - thank goodness for the US crime series!

I like Homes under the hammer in the morning. Then Loose Women while I'm eating my lunch. At 5pm it's Come Dine With Me. Oh dear, am i addicted to tv? I do go out a lot too!