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.

[Mrsjayy]

Thing is if there is nothing on i dont mind the tv being off but he flicks and tuts and flicks till hefinds something usually QI that ive seen a million times

[Hakluyt]

Why is one person in charge of what two people watch?

[HellKitty]

Nazi documentaries and Nazi war films. I'm scaring myself now when I catch one and say, 'well he doesn't look much like Goebals'.

Anything of mine is 'shite'. As in, The Great British Bake-shite, the Great British sewing-shite, Coronation Shite, Master-shite..
I haven't dared tell him my dirty little secret of watching TOWIE when he's at work

[TheUnwillingNarcheska]

OnIlkley no channel surfing here.

Anything that the other person doesn't want to watch is viewed at a different time. Evening tv is something we have in the planner (sky) or catch up or streamed in.

We are lucky that we like the same stuff. Although he does love Don't Tell the Bride because of all the feckless males and the almost in tears bride when she sees the dress he bought her. I have watched a few but it stresses me out. The bride has a folder of how she imagines her wedding and the groom blanks all that out and has an alien abduction wedding theme. Even typing it makes me hyperventilate

We watch tv as a family and we love How it's Made! The children are 12 and 9 so we have to be careful in our choices but YouTube is full of good stuff.

Dh isn't into sport which is great, I grew up in a football supporting household it is a relief not to have to watch every flipping match going regardless of whether "our" team was playing.

[Minus2seventy3]

Works both way... DW will watch any soap, any time, five through eight or nine o'clock; pretend shows about pretend "normal" lives - why don't we just enjoy our own, you know, real life together?! Corrie I can just about stand, there is at least some humour and likeable characters, but the rest are obsessed with extra-marital shagging and (sometimes not so) low level violence. Don't start me on Eastenders - there's not a single character with any redeemable qualities; scum and villainy all. How the fuck has Phil Mitchell spent the entire run of the show at large, rather than at Her Majesty's Pleasure?
Then there are "medical dramas". Why do the casualty docs never bump into the Holby ones?
I tend to retire upstairs once I've put tyke to bed for xbox games /Netflix.
We do watch stuff together, usually post nine pm when the pretend lives shows have finished (though some of them should be post-watershed) - Game of Thrones, the Walking Dead, the Following, Arrow; Sky Atlantic stuff. Time was we'd spend evenings with shagging (pre-marriage), dvds or blu-rays, not a fucking soap opera in sight. Oh well, what a difference a decade makes :-\

[Mrsjayy]

Nobody is in charge this thread is about rubbish tv nothing about whos in charge

[sebsmummy1]

Awww DP and I both love trash TV, so watch Dinner Date, Millionaire matchmaker, Take Me Out, BB together. It's cute

[sebsmummy1]

OMG I can't believe I've just come on another lighthearted thread to find the same poster is trying to derail it again. Hak I know you've been here a long time but bloody hell you really do like to create a negative atmosphere!

[Shodan]

We're quite lucky in that we like a lot of the same shows (Bones;Criminal Minds;Grimm-even Downton Abbey) but we have one sticking point-Sports.

And I am in charge of The Zapper No channel surfing here.

His default is to switch on some dull sport like golf/darts/football but it gets switched over when I come out of my bath. It's really only background noise for him anyway since he's always stuck behind his laptop (usually reading news updates about the dull sports).

However. He has carte blanche to watch football matches with his own team in, or big things like the World Cup (if England, Scotland or South Africa are playing). He stays up late on his ownio to watch golf stuff like the Masters. Very occasionally the sport will clash with my --bad mood- something else and I will hever-so-gracefully allow him to watch his choice. Which according to him makes me Wonder Wife or something

[OnIlkleyMoorBahTwat]

I've never actually thought of watching TV on the ipad , but I don't think our broadband connection would stream 2 things at once anyway.

I am grateful that DP doesn't like football, or any other sport that is on all the time. He does like motorbike racing but we don't currently have the channel it is on. It's up to him to sign up to BT Sport if he wants it.

I visit a lot of factories for work so half my life is a real life version of How It's Made and once I saw one of 'my' companies on there. Twas vair exciting .

[Songofsixpence]

My DH's viewing habits can be summed up with one channel - Dave.

Top Gear, Storage Hunters, police camera action type guff, Ax Men, Ice Road Truckers.

I don't mind some of it, but when you're watching the same episode of Top Gear for the 5019358th time, I'm tempted to beat him to death with the TV remote.

Thank the lord for Sky Multi-Room.

He's not a channel hopper, but he does scroll up and down the blue bar on the bottom of the screen constantly, but only ever about 10 channels away from the channel we're currently watching. Drives me nuts

[PetraStrorm]

I live on my own with my 2 kids, so once the little one is in bed the TV is shared between me and teenage DS. We have worked out a compromise where we watch stuff we both like on the nights he's here (walking dead, twin peaks, modern family, gogglebox) and save the stuff the other one dislikes for when he's at his dad's (that's when I have bake-off / sewing bee / Buffy binges )

We've also started taking it in turns to choose a film that the other one hasn't watched but we think they should. That has thrown up some interesting choices on both sides.

[limitedperiodonly]

DH watches the same films over and over again - Jerry Maguire, Shawshank Redemption, Life of Brian, Dirty Rotten Scoundrels and Roxanne. I hate Jerry Maguire. Ironically, when it came out I wanted to go to see it but he vetoed it because he thought it was 'a boring film about the IRA'. Instead it's a boring film about a sports agent.

All football and F1. The noise from the crowd or the engines eventually drives me from the room.

Obscure foreign team playing another obscure foreign team in European football competitions because 'they might draw Arsenal later.' He doesn't support Arsenal or any specific football team which means he watches them all.

Most sport. He was once watching basketball while I was getting ready to go out. I finished and he said: 'Can I just watch the end of this?' I asked how long it would be and he said there were 11 minutes on the clock so I thought I'd use the time to fiddle with my hair a bit more.

Sneaky bastard. He knew the rules of basketball and he knew I didn't. I'd heard of Time Out but didn't realise that it's used as a tactic for stretching the match out. So 11 minutes on the clock doesn't necessarily mean it will end in 11 minutes. I lost track of time and after about 30 minutes it dawned on me that the match was still going on with no end in sight.

Wakes up in the small hours and instead of turning over and going back to sleep, gets up and watches How Things Work or are Made or whatever and repeats of Top Gear or basketball. Then complains that he's tired.

Won't watch anything like The Wire or The Sopranos because they require too much concentration.

Did watch a Italian crime series called Romanzo Criminale, not because it's fantastic but because it's set in Rome, which is one of his favourite places. So while I was trying to read the subtitles and follow the plot he'd nudge me and say: 'Ooh look, that's the big building on the way in from the airport.'

Misses the point of TV dramas. We were watching Case Histories where Jason Isaacs is private investigator involved in complicated mysteries. His character occasionally goes running. DH, who's a keen runner, seems to think it's a documentary about running and critiqued Jason's style for me.

Luckily for Jason, DH approved and said it was obvious he was an experienced runner - there is no higher accolade - unlike with other films where someone might break into a run and he whinges: 'Look! Look! He runs like a girl. No technique. He's going to break down. See, I told you he'd have to stop.'

He watched the first series of Game of Thrones because he likes Sean Bean. When the baby dragons appeared in the final episode he scoffed in disgust and said: 'I'm not watching the next one. The dragons are pathetic. They've made them cute. Everyone knows dragons aren't cute.'

Dragons, as we know, are mythical creatures. They can make them look however they like.

[limitedperiodonly]

He also watches Casino Royale and 300. He approves of Daniel Craig and Gerard Butler. So do I

[MerryMarigold]

Ed China tinkering with cars I love that one (love Ed, sometimes watch it in pm with ds1)

limited, Jerry Maguire is dh's favourite film! Haven't seen it for a while though.

I just hate the mindlessness of reality TV, which makes me want to scream and slap people around the face, but I think he needs it to wind down. He's an intelligent man with a very good job. I sometimes wonder what his work colleagues would think. Maybe I should out him!!

I don't even want to watch TV. I want to talk, or DO something (now there's a thought) or watch something TOGETHER.

[exWifebeginsat40]

cars. and war. any war. cars during the war. it never stops.

[Mrsjayy]

I once caught him watching the history of the motorway

[YourMaNoBraBackOfMyCar]

My dh watches cycling races or cycling programmes while cycling on his bike rollers. These are the most annoying piece of fitness equipment in the world. Noisy and make the radiators hum for some reason. Plus we only have thin wooden doors between the rooms so I can hear everything. Plus he talks to the tv as if having a conversation with someone. I shout and say "who's on the phone?" Knowing full well it's just him talking to the tv.

He also likes history programmes, anything technical, he watches ANY sport. When he's watching football or rugby he screams at the tv. I was hanging washing out and our neighbours 5or6 doors down could hear him. ''Twas embarrassing.

I shout shut up they can't fucking hear you y'know?

[YourMaNoBraBackOfMyCar]

Dh would love that Mrs Jay. So would ds. In fact ds is turning into a mini version of his dad. They were enthralled by Pete Waterman and his series on steam engines. I remember hearing raucous laughter. Walked in and they were watching that. Ds was also obsessed with airships. Our filters are very strict and when he complained that he couldn't access pictures of airships I understood why. He'd googled 'big fat blimps'. I can't tell you the pictures it wanted to show. I'm sure you can imagine.

[SevTSnape]

DP and I have similar interests, so it's not much of a problem. If one of us doesn't want to watch something that the other does, we both have other things we can do - gaming, reading, go upstairs to watch TV. It's not a problem, and if there is something I want to watch or he wants to watch that the other one doesn't, we'll just record it to watch another time.

[limitedperiodonly]

He'd googled 'big fat blimps'



OP Jerry Maguire is a favourite film of loads of men. It's probably because it's about sport and thrusting ambition.

It's boring wank and Cuba Gooding Jnr's character is not endearing.

[EvilTendency1]

I'm reading through this thread with a and face - why the hell don't people share the TV ?

No way would I live with someone who hogged the tv all night and kicked up at watching programmes to be enjoyed by both (if both want to watch TV) that or get another TV ?

[limitedperiodonly]

I sometimes like Big Brother but usually get bored as it goes on and the interesting characters are voted off.

The last one I watched all the way through was the CBB that Jim Davidson won. It was fascinating to see someone I strongly suspect is very unpleasant manage to portray himself as likeable and reasonable while easily manipulating the others.

It inspired a lot of threads on MN where some fellow Telly Addicts and I were defending it against people who clearly hadn't watched it but didn't like Jim Davidson. We didn't like him either. It was just interesting to watch. Chilling, even.

I also quite like I'm A Celebrity but again, the last one I watched properly was the one that Charlie Brooks won, which was 2012.

DH and I agree that Ashley Roberts from the Pussycat Dolls was robbed .

[limitedperiodonly]

If there's a telly hogger in this house it's me. The planner is almost full - 3% left - and every programme on it is mine.