How many hours of television do you watch per week

[FleetwoodRaincoat]

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?

Lots, and I'm not going to say "ooh, too much!" Cos I love TV.

I watch 1-2 hours in the morning with my coffee - this will be a Netflix or Prime series.

Then we watch a episode of Frasier or Gogglebox after dinner.

Then we'll watch another couple of hours Netflix/Prime or a terrestrial TV drama from 10-midnight or so.

At the weekend we'll have cooking shows or similar light entertainment on in the background.

Plus I work with TV, so I'm "watching TV" the entire time I'm working, in a way.

Most of the replies haven’t said anything at all about thinking TV is beneath them.

Not on this thread @Knittingupastorm, but it happens a lot on threads like this.

Loads. Love the Monday evening BBC2 quizzes. I usually have a box set on the go for when I'm cooking and cleaning the kitchen - Baptiste currently. Often watch an episode of something with the teen DC as well - Drag Race currently, Ghosts, Stranger Things. Might have a weekend binge sometimes, especially if watching something subtitled that needs full attention. So probably 2 hrs daily, more at weekends?

Typically the lunchtime news at 1 and one episode of something on Netflix late evening.

I love watching tv but never seem to have enough time to do so.

About an hour or two a week.

I just don't have much time and prioritise sleep! We have the kids in bed for 7/7:30, eat dinner around 8, by the time we have tidied up from dinner, we don't have much time. Sometimes we will watch an episode of something but we also need to fit in things like Skype calls to family and life admin, sometimes we read in the evening

No more than 10 hours a week. Was certainly more before I had kids. I hope to get back to my old TV watching habits one day!

Actually watching and absorbing the programme around 1 - 2 hours per evening. We have the TV on in the background low a fair amount whilst we are chatting or reading.

@RampantIvy

Too much I have a deeply unsociable husband who never wants to go anywhere, I'm not into arts and crafts, jigsaw etc, I don't have young children, nor do I lead a busy lifestyle. We both love watching crime dramas, so we record them and watch one most nights.

I also read, but prefer to read in bed.

I don't understand the moral superiority of some people who think that watching TV is beneath them.

I wasn't trying to be morally superior, I enjoy watching telly, and it's as valid a medium as any other. I was just surprised that some seem to have time to watch 6 or so hours in a day.

Obviously if you're housebound or have reasons why you can't do much else then it's perfectly understandable. But I was referring to friends of mine who work outside the home. Where do they find the time?

Including streaming (I don't tell the difference between live & streamed) -- about 12 hours/week, 10 hours or so is sport. Seasonal sport so down to just 1 hour/week in winter.

Very little at this time of year except for some sport. But more more in the dark evenings in Winter. Light a fire and watch quizzes, house programme Netflix and love it. Find it difficult to pit on TV on bright evenings. Never have it on during the day.

I wasn't suggesting that you were beingmorally superior at all @FleetwoodRaincoat

Often these threads draw the "I never watch TV posters" in.

About 3-4 hours a week. There is not too much on I enjoy at the moment and I don’t have any extra things like Netflix.

I had no TV at all for over 7 years and I could do without it again.

None usually (and I've been to the cinema once in the last 10 years and the theatre maybe the same to answer a PP.) The habit broke about 20 years ago and never came back.

I spend way too much time on the internet though and generally have a couple of books on the go.

It varies massively. In a working week maybe an hour or two after dinner but I'm often doing something else at the same time, at the weekend it can be quite a lot more if we watch a film or a few episodes of something.

When the Olympics were on (and I'm on holiday from work) hours and hours and hours - but somehow I don't think that counts.

Dh and the dcs - loads more. Dh defaults to TV whenever he sits down. It drives me nuts.