Should I get rid of my TV?

[Spectral Morn]

ive not had one yet.

I suppose one replies to the renewal email and says you no longer need one.

[struth]

I suppose one replies to the renewal email and says you no longer need one.

I phoned them and enquired about not needing one etc. they asked me a few questions and said i didnt need one and would sort it their end. Ive not heard from them since

[Joe]

We were TV-less for several years, until a couple of years ago when my elder daughter's then-boyfriend gave us his old TV as he was upgrading. I hardly watch it; any TV I see these days is via iPlayer on my laptop. I'm down to University Challenge and Have I Got News For You, plus the odd art/music programme on BBC4, and if I was told I could never watch TV ever again it wouldn't bother me. Sometimes I try a new drama series but inevitably stop watching it after an episode or two.

[Marco]

I know it's not for most people, being single it's easier for me to do what works best for me. I'm sure if I had a wife/kids, I'd never get away with it - probably wouldn't want to either. If I was into football it would be an issue too. I go to the local when a good rugby game is on, more fun with a crowd and a pint. I love going to the movies as you know and where most people would watch TV for entertainment most days, I go to the cinema instead and as I walk most of the way, or use a bus/train, then it gets me off my arse and out the house. Easy for me I know, it's only 4 miles away and it's a great 15 screen theatre. I also read a lot, go to live gigs and theatre, then listen to music the rest of the time, so I don't actually have time for it.

I guess it's a habit I've just got out of through circumstance and I've found I don't miss it. Of course if I ever lost mobility and was less able to get out and about, then I'd probably get one, if only to watch films.

Not a problem, mate. We have different interests and lifestyles. Even if I were single, I'd still want a TV, for precisely the same stated reasons. Del's TV usage doesn't come into it, as married or single, I'd still be 'me'!

Totally get watching sport in a pub, whilst enjoying a few beers, especially with others who are 'like minded', preferably friends. It's a good vibe

Marco.

[Marco]

We were TV-less for several years, until a couple of years ago when my elder daughter's then-boyfriend gave us his old TV as he was upgrading. I hardly watch it; any TV I see these days is via iPlayer on my laptop. I'm down to University Challenge and Have I Got News For You, plus the odd art/music programme on BBC4, and if I was told I could never watch TV ever again it wouldn't bother me. Sometimes I try a new drama series but inevitably stop watching it after an episode or two.

All these fussy fuckers, eh?



Marco.

[Joe]

All these fussy fuckers, eh?



Marco.

Dramas are either adaptations of 'classics' (like the current dramatisation of 'War of the Worlds'), where they monkey around with the plot, introduce extra characters, and drag in some ahistorical politically-correct stuff, or, if they're 'new' drama series, they pile on the blood and gore, which I can't watch. I've never been a huge fan of television anyway, and I don't keep harping back to some supposed Golden Age of Television, because TV was just as shite back then, but for different reasons. I had to watch it back then, at least in the winter, because the TV was in the only room in the house that was actually warm!

[Marco]

Lol - I just chuckle, Joe, because we're *so* different!

I'm not a big reader, so chances are that any of the dramas you're referring to I won't have read 'first time round' (or seen in some other format), so have nothing really to judge them against. Plus, I tend not to scrutinise things that deeply... As long as there's some good 'action' and I'm kept entertained, I'm happy

So, among other dramas, I'm loving War of the Worlds, World on Fire, The Dublin Murders, and most recently, His Dark Materials: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b1v2

There so many shows I enjoy watching on TV that it would take me ages listing them all... Looking forward to watching The Repair Shop, which is on BBC1 shortly, followed by Flog It (anything involving antiques is of great interest), and later on, The Walking Dead, which is currently one of my (and Del's) favourite programmes!

Marco.

[Oddball]

All those murder things are essentially the same story. I avoid any TV show that is about a murder mystery and anything set in a hospital. The only problem with that is it means there are no drama shows that I watch anymore as they are all one or the other. And don't get me started on that Scandanavian crap that seems to be all the rage now. Like watching paint dry.

Even though I've got all the channels it gets harder and harder to find anything worth watching. I don't like any of the new shows and all the old stuff I've seen a dozen times.

Documentries are most of my watching but the new series of 'Ancient Aliens' is just re-treading old ground. And whilst Hitler, WW2 and the Nazis is a big topic to cover I get the feeling that even that is almost exhausted.

So might get rid myself if it doesn't pick up in the next 6 months.

Jamie Theakstone trying to find the Holy Grail or eek out a bit more about how the Nazis were inventing flying bells/saucers .. I expect most of it is probably bollocks!!!

However I do like Impossible Engineering World War Wierd and stuff like that !
The only problem is my knowledge of Tenna pants , simplicity funerals and dating for over 50,s is extensive ,and my son says the demographic Dad relates to you


Mind you , my Bargain Hunt , Antique Road Trip viewing is extensive too. If not for glimpses of Roo, or that Kate Southern in her tight trousers

[Barry]

Lol - I just chuckle, Joe, because we're *so* different!

I'm not a big reader, so chances are that any of the dramas you're referring to I won't have read 'first time round' (or seen in some other format), so have nothing really to judge them against. Plus, I tend not to scrutinise things that deeply... As long as there's some good 'action' and I'm kept entertained, I'm happy

So, among other dramas, I'm loving War of the Worlds, World on Fire, The Dublin Murders, and most recently, His Dark Materials: https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000b1v2

There so many shows I enjoy watching on TV that it would take me ages listing them all... Looking forward to watching The Repair Shop, which is on BBC1 shortly, followed by Flog It (anything involving antiques is of great interest), and later on, The Walking Dead, which is currently one of my (and Del's) favourite programmes!

Marco.

+1 to the "Repair Shop". I'm totally addicted to it. "Flog it" is not bad, but I prefer "Bargain Hunt".

Regarding TV presentations of "classics" - all of them deviate to some extent from the books, as do film adaptations for the cinema. Some are better than
others and with the most of recent TV adaptations, the production values are very good - they look good, thus: "The Name of the Rose"; "The War of the Worlds" and "His Dark Materials" (although I didn't really enjoy reading Pullman's trilogy).

[walpurgis]

I've made a point of not watching 'The Name of The Rose' series. I think it would be disappointing after the superb 1986 movie and the novel by Umberto Eco, of which I still keep a copy.