To want to bang my head against a brick wall regarding dh's TV habits?

[MerryMarigold]

So:

He is currently watching Dinner Date.
He watches that rubbish dating one Saturday...had to ask him what it's called...Take Me Out, that's it.
Also Britain's Got Talent and The Voice.

Occasionally silly films that he watches a quarter of, in between flicking between another silly film.

And nothing else. Nothing I would be interested in (not much anyway, but I'm sure I could find something more interesting).
Drives me bananas.
I suppose I should be grateful he doesn't watch Big Brother.

Tell me I am not alone.

[icclemunchy]

DP watches how it's made.

The puns make me want to stick pick axes in my ears

[sandgrown]

My DP would watch paint dry!

[butterflyballs]

Dp has found the shed programme. He is obsessed with sheds.

He also loves top gear, the car buying/doing it up/car selling type crap, formula 1 and the chase.

We both love NCIS, Bones and CSI plus holby/casualty and the bear grylls island thing.

[YourMaNoBraBackOfMyCar]

I can categorically say that if it wasn't for this house having a living room and separate dining room thus enabling our very different viewing tastes to be catered for individually we'd be divorced by now.
However. He regularly stands in the doorway of "my" room and asks in a disgusted manner "What's this shite you're watching now?!" I give him a quick synopsis. 3-4 minutes later... "Who is she to him?" "Whys he there?" "Does she know that's his dad?"

"Why don't you sit down and watch it with me?"

"I'm not watching this shite."

He then disappears for 20-30 seconds. Reappears at doorway.

"Is he dead now?"

"FUCK OFF!!!"

Grrr.

[blackheartsgirl]

I gave up with my dp and got sky multi room instead. oh wait..The kids watch constant kids films and cartoons on my telly now grrr

[CloserToFiftyThanTwenty]

DH will watch anything where a ball is being thrown / hit / kicked. Anything.

[Moanranger]

I feel incredibly lucky. DP & I watch 90% of our TV programmes together. Tonight was George Gently + Peter Kay car share. We watch maybe 1 hr a day & don't turn it on unless there is something specific.
It was same with XH, shared TV & no sports ( except World Cup, but that's every 4 years, so I can handle that! )
When I split with XH I lived in fear that I would end up with massive sports watcher, hate hours & hours of TV sports droning on & on, so I sympathise with those who have to put up with that.

[toomuchtooold]

Yay finally there is a Mumsnet thread where I can be smug! This week so far DH has put on Poldark, Vera and Grand Designs. OTOH he does channel surf which is just irritating. What are you doing down at 600? Have you ever found anything down there that you want to watch? Ever?

[AlternativeTentacles]

My OH watches wall to wall sport and on a weekend would take root if allowed to. Drives me to distraction.

[HagOtheNorth]

I'd quite like a DP who watched TV, rather than sitting there smugly reading something deep and meaningful and obscure and reading bits out over my diet of cop shows, sci-fi and the supernatural/fantasy delights.
He watched HIGNFY, University Challenge and Only Connect. That's it.
Married beneath him.

[starsandunicorns]

We have watch 85 % of programs together stuff we dont like goes on planner so we dont force the other to watch
he has storage wars anything red neck eg moonshinners etc and dog the bounty hunter on planner i have forever the 100 madam secuterty the american sherlock from up thread
we both watch walking dead ncis ncis la ncis new orlens bones big bang family guy scoprion and any really bad film off scifi all these progs go on planner and we together
im very as he hates all sport

[OnIlkleyMoorBahTwat]

Does anyone have a male DP who doesn't channel surf? Because every man whose TV watching I have observed does it.

I like Top Gear, cycling programmes and How it's Made, but I can't stand wheeler dealers and anything that falls under the Sci Fi and Fantasy genre, which is what DP LIkes. He also will watch the same film over and over.

I can take or leave TV and refuse to get a second one just so we can watch them separately. As long as I get to see what I want eventually I don't mind and will just read and go upstairs if the channel hopping gets too irritating

[starsandunicorns]

Plus the uk cops docs

[Eastpoint]

DH lived without a TV for 15 years and as a child. He wanders into the sitting room, asks irrelevant questions which could wait and then sounds irritated that I won't participate in a conversation. He won't sit in a room while the TV or radio is on so tends to spend his evenings reading books on economics, history or some other intellectual subject on his own. I think he wandered out of a monastery at some point

[LavenderRain]

Cricket here, on sky.....like watching paint dry
And reruns of air crash investigation. DH and DS sit and watch together guessing what made the plane crash-even tho theyve seen it before
They even watched it the day before our holiday!

[makeminea6x]

I don't think my DH channel surfs from memory. He likes to do something similar (to my mind) on his laptop which is listen to music, a video about something unspeakably dull on YouTube and read something else at the same time. But he wears headphones so it doesn't affect me. We don't have live TV, just watch iPlayer and then only things we both like (or maybe he doesn't and will be writing on this thread later!). We don't watch many hours of TV though because he works most evenings and I mess around on Mumsnet!

[scrappydappydoo]

Wheeler dealers or 'orange mike' as its known in our house always seems to be on. If not car programmers it's gardening or property shows which I wouldn't mind so much if it didn't give dh ideas that will start and never be finished

[HapShawl]

I have the opposite problem. Lots of things we both want to watch together stacking up on the recorder, but because during term time he works all the hours God sends I have to wait an avoid spoilers

[WipsGlitter]

DP likes Holby, Casualty, Eastenders (and gets really into the plots and tries to get me interested too), x-factor, strictly, take me out, Poldark and last night it was George Gently. We're both into House of Cards.

He refuses to use a TV guide to identify what he wants to watch.

[munchkin2902]

My DP is annoyingly highbrow about tv ( he won't let me watch X factor, strictly or eastenders!) but he LOVES take me out. I can't think why

[Thisishowyoudisappear]

LavenderRain I'm married to a cricket & Air Crash Investigation fanatic too. He's not a channel surfer, thank goodness.

[Mrsjayy]

My dh watches storage wars storage hunters (thought it was the same thing) time team and a programme about fish tanks that builds drama then turns out fine its a bloody fishtank .and he has also ruined Qi because its always on Dave and he has the cheek to tut when i watch celeb big brother twice a year.

[Pantone363]

No channel surfing here. We rarely put 'live' TV on unless it's for a specific programme (Bear Grylls ATM)

We mostly work our way through box sets together and then move onto another one.

[Pussycatbow]

Get an ipad. I love mine and often retreat to bed early with it to watch quality stuff.