Being away from home I'm finding that we just don't watch TV. TV as in live TV. Normal TV.
We do watch a downloaded series on our tablet at the end of the night.
Is this your behaviour too readers?
Do you watch TV anymore readers? At home or on holiday?
I like to have the TV on as background to my day. Usually the documentary channels.
ReplyDeleteI like that Kev. Don't think I've got any documentary channels.
DeleteI still watch shed loads of TV Woodsy.
ReplyDeleteNews and documentaries during the day, Movies, crime dramas and Talking Pictures TV in the evening.
I was glued to the TV screen as a child, and I'm still an avid watcher today.
Basically the same as me Mish although having worked full time up till last week I've never experienced daytime TV. When I get home from Germany I'll try it. I have to admit having been an avid news watcher I'm finding it all rather depressing at the moment and may have a break till mid-Autumn!
DeleteBox sets of comedy in the evening and Sooty with lunch for an hour or so, some movies on occasion, currently on a ufo abduction tip
ReplyDeleteSooty for lunch! How cool is that MB! I've been reading alien abduction tales by Shaun Hutson this year. Very good stories. Is UFO abduction on TV?
DeleteVery little live TV these days, as there is almost nothing on. The news; Repair Shop; NZ, Australian, and US versions of Lego Masters (building Lego models); and currently watching the latest season of The Brokenwood Mysteries (a cross between Columbo and Midsummer Murders, but set in NZ).
ReplyDeleteDocumentaries and movies on You Tube. I did enjoy watching The Ghost Busters TV show from the 1970s.
I like repair shop here in the UK too Paul. The skills around the barn are staggering and it's great when old toys get repaired. I Missed one the other day restoring a Raleigh Chopper, which I must catch up with. I adored my chopper as a kid!
DeleteI still watch plenty on the telebox, mainly sci-fi series, films, talking pictures tv, and the music channels (the 60s, 70s and 80s channels - seeing how far back I can remember with the 60s ones (the earliest song I remember singinging along with when I was little was Puff The Magic Dragon, but I was only 2 when that came out so maybe it got alot of playtime in 67/8). Cat Stevens father and son just played on one of the 1970s channels...I remember being gobsmacked when it was announced on the radio that he was giving it all up and converting to Islam.....
ReplyDeleteI remember when all we had were three channels. Some of the best TV ever were on those. I like the music channels too although the 70s one doesn't seem to be on as much.
DeleteWe got rid of live TV a decade ago, and never looked back. The “News” is all government propaganda anyways, and all those damn commercials! We do Roku streaming movies, plus my huge DVD collection, and we have more than enough to keep us happy. SFZ
ReplyDeleteI bet you have a brill DVD collection Zigg!
DeleteCable TV here. We also use the free streaming services to watch old Gerry Anderson shows and The Red Skelton show.
ReplyDeleteWe mostly listen to the Easy Listening Cable Station on "Music Choice."
What's Red Skelton Scott?
DeleteCall us old fashioned, but the wife and I don't stream. There is enough on free to air TV, the DVDs I buy and the dinosaur CGI and Morsu Pixie channels she watches on YouTube.
ReplyDeleteIf we did subscribe, we'd probably turn into complete couch potatoes, just trying to get our money's worth!
Life is getting too short to spend it looking at other people's dreams when our own dreams are still unrealised...
The nature of telly is changing Looey for sure. You can watch it anywhere anyway now. What's always been a constant is how much or how little we watch. My childhood feels like it was one big baby boomer TV show from heaven. I had so many favourites and it was all so exciting. I don't have a favourite TV show now as in a new show on normal telly channels. The last one was probably the X Files!
DeleteRed Skelton was a US comedy actor Woodsy, mostly in TV entertainment shows and movie musicals and comedies, I think, in the 40s, 50s, and 60s.
ReplyDeleteThanks Mish! You've just won the pub quiz with that one!
DeleteOnly three channels ? You lucky boy. NZ only got TV in 1960, so I was in the first generation to grow up with it. There was just one channel until 1975, and the 1980s before there were three. These days I watch a fair amount of free You Tube videos, including Max's Models. Plus old movies and TV shows. Plus my DVD collection.
ReplyDeleteOne channel until 75. What a channel that must have been Paul. What were your fave shows?
DeleteThe New Zealand Broadcasting Corporation ran radio, and then TV, like the BBC in Britain. Gerry Anderson shows from Stingray onwards, including Secret Service; The Avengers (Emma Peel and Tara King only); The Munsters; Doctor Who (I can just remember William Hartnell); cartoons; Camerwick Green; lots of Westerns; old movies; cop shows; along with music shows; ballroom dancing; Country Calendar (still going) on farming; the news. My top three of the 1960s were Thunderbirds, The Avengers, and Doctor Who.
ReplyDeleteBut there were lots of shows that never made it to NZ. Some of these I have been able to catch up on in recent years, such as Honey West and The Ghost Busters, thanks to DVDs and You Tube.