This I ask out of curiosity.
I consider tv to be a big time waster. The two hours I just spent watching reality shows could have been better spent on Greek declensions. Is there anybody here who doesn’t watch any television?
Again, just out of curiosity.
William
PS- I spend way too much time in front of the boob tube, an hour or two a day. I hope to cut it down to zero.
My TV watching has dropped drastically in the last year. I prefer talk radio. I will usually watch about 15 minutes of Fox News in the morning before work and maybe a few minutes of something on the History Channel at night.
My one weakness when it comes to TV is sports. I love to watch just about any sport and my favorite is college football so I do watch quite a bit of TV on Saturday (at least until Jan).
Rhuiden
If it stays off, it is off.
If it is on, it never turns off.
The only shows i try to catch are Good Eats (so darn cool) and Decisive Battles (the same). Sometimes I tune into Aaron Brown Newsnight. (I love that guy)
I watch none out of habit, but it’s not so great…I spend more time procrastinating on the computer than I used to watching TV 
(…er but recently like 4 hrs/day watching the red sox win! yeah!!!)
I nearlly never watch TV, so I can’t say like some many hours a day. I sometimes watch the news in the evening, or a film if there’s a good one on tv, but normally there isn’t. The only tv series I sometimes watch is Sex and the City 
(but only when I have time). I can’t be bothered with 8 min. of adverts every 20 min, I love films though and some tv series, but I just get them on cd or DVD.
TV is not a waste of time in my opinion. If you have fun then it’s not a waste of time. And the documentaries especially are not a ‘waste of time’, but I’ve seen most of them already only occasionally there will be a new one on ZDF.
I used to watch loads of tv, but now I hardly have time and but also there’s nothing good on any more. I really miss Kitchen with Max on MTV or shows moderated by Kafka, now it’s all just reality tv shows or crap songs from the charts, they don’t play any alternative music at all anymore. And the other tv channels are really bad too. My sister can’t stand the other tv channels any more, so they’ve really gone down market. She watches Eurosport of DFS (another sports channel) all the time. The new Simpson’s are bad too, there’s just nothing to watch, only trash.
Hee hee! I actually don’t watch TV! In fact, I refuse to pay to have garbage delivered to my house, so don’t have cable, which means at the moment that I don’t receive anything at all.
The TV gets used to show videos now and again, but otherwise, it pretty much collects dust…
Kilmeny
hee hee like Steven who has no TV either :0
I watch I’m Alan Partridge, Drake&Josh, Sleepover Club (like whiteoctave) and nothing else really.
I have no TV at all, not because I am more pious, but because if I had one I would lose my life to nature documentaries, the History channel and cooking shows, and maybe one or two SF shows. Stop looking at me that way. Yes, I already know I’m a nerd.
Also, ads make me homicidal.
Too much. I’m hooked on CSI Las Vegas. And I stayed glued to the TV when it’s a cooking show.
I, like Groucho Marx, find TV to be very educational – when someone turns it on, I run to the library!
No TV here, not that I am against it. Nobody wants to pay the bill 
It’s not worth it anyway unless you have UK tv. But Nickelodeon’s Drake & Josh might still be worth it. What a show the fat kid is so funny. Your of TV lack is amusing how will you ever check out the new Brandy video only joking she’s terrible nowadays. 
I watch hardly any. We don’t have a TV in our dorm room.
I don’t watch TV neither (unless Discovery or History Channel got something good)… And I ended refusing to all kind of distractions like PC games, PSX games… Now if I do something is read a little, or sleep, because the teachers at school want you to go insane and make you so tense all the day.
My house has about a TV in every room except mine and the garage. I watch less TV than the average American and more than the cool people here in textkit. I usually put the TV on mute when there the commercial is on and it usually annoys people around me. Heh-heh. I find it funny that people actually want to listen to commercials and that not listening to commecercials is uncomfortable. I would like to think that much of my TV viewing is pretty productive. I mean these are shows that some teachers would play in school anyways and it feels frustrating because I’m thinking I can sit at home and watch the same thing, what the hell am I doing in class?
But Nickelodeon’s Drake & Josh might still be worth it.
I refuse to argue about this. 
It might add up to 1 hr/wk.
TV? What’s a TV? Oh, you mean one of those visual displays not attached to a computer?
Yeah, no tv-watching happens unless my brother finds a particularly interesting thing on Comedy Central or Adult Swim, which might happen about once every month or two.
The computer has taken the place of the TV time, and now it’s being shared with viola, school, and Latin. But mainly I’m a computer geek. I think I can apply that term to myself. I use Linux (Gentoo, even), and understand a large portion of it (or at least enough to get myself into, and sometimes out of, trouble). I know c++ and java, and work on stuff like mandelbrot.
There’s no need, no desire, and no time for TV.
I may be a geek, but certainly not a computer geek.
I have never heard of Linux, Gentoo, c++ and mandelbrot. I have heard of Java (besides the Indonesian iland) but I don’t know what it refers to.
Oh well, at least I still live happily.
A worthy subject to discuss.
Anyone has read “Four arguments for the elimination of television”?
Though not all of his arguments are convincing, the final general impression is that tv is not only a general waste of time but a positive hazard to your mental health. I believe anyone who has spent a few days without watching tv for whatever reason felt that this was beneficial, but one tends to forget this as time goes by and as you tune yourself again to tv frequency. If I get the urge to turn the tv on (always when bored, that’s why it’s dangerous, as when you’re bored you don’t give a damn about anything) I grab a book - ANY book; it can be Harry Potter, it’ll be better than tv.
The main point is that literature, or even looking at the ceiling (though that takes more practice until you get rewards ), is an experience more enriching than watching tv, even if it’s for the news or documentaries. I’m not sure watching tv is even an experience at all, as your imagination doesn’t participate in it.
Just think if you watch tv when you’re paying more attention to life, e.g. when you’re in love, or if you’d watch tv if you were given a week to live. No, and that’s because you’d rather feel alive.