How many hours of television do you watch per week

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I'm always surprised at the amount of box sets my friends seem to get through - sometimes watching 6 hours or so in an evening.

I've worked out I probably average 12 hours a week.

How much do you watch?

We sit down to watch TV at 9pm until 11pm. That is likely to be a film or netflix series.

But in off work at the moment and I do like go watch a bit of morning TV too.

I don't watch any unless it happens to be on when I go in for meals. I prefer YouTube.

A couple of weeks ago I was stuck at home without access to my kitchen or garden (building work) and I binge-watched something it was lovely, really should do it more often.

Probably an hour-ish in the evening with DH, sometimes longer if we decide to watch a film but generally we don’t. And I wfh so I watch the news at lunch for about half an hour.
And we have half an hour of peppa pig in the morning before nursery.

So about 2 hours a day.

Less than 2 on average
Recorded lots of stuff but usually delete as dont get a chance to watch it.

Yesterday watched Tv for five mins. Will probably not finish watching the programme for another week or so.

I did manage to watch Virgin River 3 a few weeks ago but that was mainly on the tablet late evening in bed, over a week or so and not actually on the TV.

I watch 30 mins every lunchtime while on the treadmill - currently hand maids tale😀. Then tv is on in the background around dinner, after bath etc we either game or watch tv til sleep.

Summer - about 4 hours a week.
Winter - about 10

Couple of hours? Never in the day in the week then I may watch and hour with the family (some kind of sitcom usually) then I watch an hour by myself in bed. Helps me wind down.

Weekends more - may watch a film and sometimes will veg out a bit on a Saturday afternoon.

This week a stupid amount as dds watching friends for the first time and have made me watch with them.

I watch The Chase most nights, usually on +1. Then usually leave the tv on for the news, but am no necessarily watching it.
Watch Gardeners World on catch up at some point in the week.
Antiques Roadshow.
Like Would I Lie To You & Mock The Week.
Might watch Only Connect and University Challange but haven't got into them this series. Similarly Masterchef and Bake-off (had there been one this year?).
Watch a film at the weekend when DP is over, or a series if we've found one.

So probably around 15 hrs on average.

Was a lifelong Corrie watcher, but have stopped in the last few months.

Compared with most of you I watch masses.

I usually watch something I have recorded when I have my lunch so roughly an hour then.

Usually turn the tv back on between 6pm and 7pm. I quite like the One Show but am usually cooking then (I can hear the tv in the kitchen).

Then me and DH watch something while eating and usually once we have cleared away carry on watching until about 11.30pm.

We watch quite a lot of stuff on Netflix and Prime. We love the foreign crime series with subtitles.

@Fashio

I never watch TV during the day, I was brought up to think that was working class and lazy. I think to be honest is a bit. No telly till about 8 o’clock at the earliest

Like being working class and lazy are linked? Odd.

There is a lot of snobbery around tv watching and a lot of stealth boasting about how much people don't watch. It's ok to watch tv if that's how you unwind. It's a way of consuming stories, information, news. Book reading was seen in a similar way in the 17th century. I watch it every evening. Love it.

Well said @HasselbackForLife.
I would like to know what worthy pursuits these people do instead of watching TV. I wonder of they ever go to the cinema or theatre or is that beneath them as well?

Bloody loads. I love it.

I used to watch more, now I waste that time surfing the Internet instead.
I'm also reading more again recently.

Every evening, so approx 30 hours per week

On a weel day maybe 4 or so hours in thr evening, during the weekend, it is on moat of the day we are home and waching films etc so maybe 8 hours

It really depends. I’m on maternity leave now, so spent most of last two weeks watching 3+ episodes of Orange is the New Black a day, plus one or two movies.
Now that I’ve finished it, I might go a couple of weeks or more without watching TV at all.

Over a year I would guess it averages out at about 3 hours a week but there is big seasonal variation

I don't tend to switch the TV on unless there is something specific I want to watch

I watch most in the winter especially during Strictly season!

I suspect that screens are still used in non TV households.

I prefer to watch something on TV rather than on a laptop, tablet or phone - better sound quality and better picture quality, plus if we watch something as a family it isn't much fun to huddle round a small screen.

Maybe 2, I hate TV

I never watch TV during the day, I was brought up to think that was working class and lazy.

Nasty judgemental comment. You were brought up to think you were better than people on a lower income, this is called snobbery. The misconception that people have less/are working class, because they’re lazy (and watch too much telly!)

I was brought up working class. My dad left for work at 5:30am and got home at 6pm. My mum worked whilst I was at school. Goodness knows when they’d have had time to watch day time telly!

It varies, because we watch specific programmes rather than routinely turning the television on at .

This week was probably fairly typical - DH was watching a series that was an hour a day on weekday evenings, and I watched a film last Sunday - so about 8-9 hours.

@RampantIvy

There is a lot of snobbery around tv watching and a lot of stealth boasting about how much people don't watch. It's ok to watch tv if that's how you unwind. It's a way of consuming stories, information, news. Book reading was seen in a similar way in the 17th century. I watch it every evening. Love it.

Well said @HasselbackForLife.
I would like to know what worthy pursuits these people do instead of watching TV. I wonder of they ever go to the cinema or theatre or is that beneath them as well?

Most of the replies haven’t said anything at all about thinking TV is beneath them. I don’t watch much tv because toddler DD takes ages to get to bed and wakes up really early, so I need to get to bed earlier than I previously would have because I’ll be woken up at half 5.

Very little. My TV isn't even tuned in to the channels. If we watch anything, we'll cast a film to it but even then only a couple of times a week.

I think Why Don't You..? is responsible for that - switch off your TV set and do something less boring instead!

I can't remember the last time I watched a terrestrial TV programme! Most of it is rubbish anyway.

I would like to know what worthy pursuits these people do instead of watching TV. I wonder of they ever go to the cinema or theatre or is that beneath them as well?

I don't think it's beneath me, I just find it boring. There's not much that interests me on TV except for documentaries but I've found even those have been 'dumbed' down over recent years. But I was a child who used to like Panorama and QED. I used to watch the BBC news in the morning before work but find even that has a subtext of "look at us, we don't know anything and we're all just a bit silly and clueless - just like you!" nowadays.

What do I do instead? Sit in the garden with my own thoughts; play a musical instrument; engage in lengthy conversations about all sorts with my children; listen to the radio; see my friends; talk on the phone...

As for the cinema and theatre. I don't go to the cinema. I like to be doing something else at the same time as watching a film and I dislike a lot of films for their obvious sexism so just find them irritating. I do go to the theatre but not often.

It totally varies. Right now none but a few weeks ago I got into a series and probably watched an hour or so a day. I would love to watch more but am too busy with other stuff.