A general thread on viewing habits. Does anyone have the same problem as me? In that I really like Netflix, catch up etc and the idea of 'creating your own schedule' but I am always torn on what to watch of an evening and by the time I've made a decision on what I feel like watching, it's time to go to bed

That's why in some ways I still prefer sticking the telly on and just sticking with whatever is on. I don't mind the advert breaks, as it's good for a toilet or tea break.

Do you create your own schedule of an evening through Netflix, catch up skipping ads etc or do you still see what's on the TV and watch as it's broadcast?

No schedule. I seldom watch television.

I watch what I want when I want via on demand/Netflix/Amazon.
There's so much great content out there that I can just pick and choose to watch a few episodes or a film or two whenever I feel like it that I have no need for a schedule anymore.

The days of just sticking the telly on and finding something that is worth the time spent watching it, are long gone here.

Now there has to a specific programme that is good enough to entice us to explicitly switch on for. And after it's finished that is almost never anything else that deserves the time. TV is only one of many ways to spend spare time. At present there are few programmes that rate highly enough to defer some other passtime for.

Why not hit the pause button?

I'm quite old fashioned. Most of the time I watch TV to a schedule, often watch shows on catch up. But I haven't subscribed to the likes of Netflix, Amazon Prime etc.

Yep. Same here. The TV schedules have to be consulted in advance to see if there is anything worth choosing to watch later on. Otherwise the TV stays off or prerecorded stuff is caught up on.

Live programmes are very often watched on timeshift too - usually 20-25 minutes behind real time in order to provide enough time to zoom through all the ad breaks. Much easier.

I record *everything* I plan to watch and watch it near live if it is top my must watch list or leave until another time or day when nowt else is on (only got round to watching the last episode of The Fall yesterday). And of course I will always delay starting to watch a programme on a commercial channel by at least 15 minutes per hour so I can skip over the ads and hit real time as the end credits roll.

Once I buy the weekly What's on TV magazine, I circle all of the programmes I am interested in. I watch a few live, and a few on demand. I also fit in live football from Sky, and the occasional film from Sky as well.

I'm lucky that after Boxing Day there is not much worth watching in my opinion so will use those evenings to catch up on the programmes missed from Xmas Day and Boxing Day.

I like just sticking the TV on and flicking, Which is rare these days.

I don't have Netflix though.

Think i,m a dinosaur, i don,t have netflix, sky etc....i just put the tv on and choose from there. If i,m not interested in any of the hundreds of channels, i put Pink Floyd on the cd player and come on here

I get the tell mag on Saturday and carefully trawl through it, booking the programmes I want to watch on my Humax HDR. Big capacity for programming and memory.

I really only watch those programmes, in my own time. I may still have some left from the previous week. I won't just have anything on, other than those I think worth watching. I may add to the list during the week, or delete a booking, if I change my mind. I also delete some programmes I recorded I was going to watch, but later decide not to.
The only programme I watch live is the news and sport.

I've set my recorder to jump forwards 25 seconds for every press of a button and rewind in five second chunks, if I've gone forward too many times. You can avoid any adverts that way.

Haven't bought a listings mag in decades. (Well, I get the Christmas RT and that's about it.)

Record everything. Haven't seen an ad since 2002.

Snap. I look at what's on, watch what I fancy, and if there's nothing worth watching, watch something good recorded earlier.

I only have Freeview and just chug through the channels until I find something to leave on. Occassionally there will be a programme I am following and I will watch it at the date/time of original broadcast.

I love a good schedule. Jack Clinton Ditto.

I don't watch that many programmes, so I usually watch them live.

I stopped buying weekly TV listings about a year or two ago. It just got the point where there was not enough good stuff on television to justify thinking of a schedule anymore.

If I'm aware of a new series of a TV show starting I'm just sort of aware of the day it's on. For example I know I get an idea of what day The Apprentice is on and check my EPG to make sure I don't miss it.
But like I say there's just not enough good things on television to actually follow a days schedule any more.

I will pay more attention to Christmas television, and I always like to buy the Radio and TV Times at Christmas. I sort of collect them every year.

Sort of- even though most of my TV viewing is on-demand, I'm not a big binge watcher. Even for shows I like it's unusual that I can stomach watching two shows in one night- even if they're two different shows.

So if I've got a few shows on the go (as is frequent) they'll probably be in a list of some description somwhere, and I'll usually watch an episode of the first on the list today, then an episode of the second tomorrow and so on until I reach the end and go back to the top again.

Much the same here. Though I tend to record more things than I'll ever have time to watch!

The only thing I would ever watch live is the news.

I don't buy newspapers or magazines except the Radio Times, for which I have a subscription. I wouldn't be without it.

I would never dream of just turning on the TV and watching whatever it wants to throw at me. I decide what I'm going to watch in advance and the TV goes on and off around them if I'm watching live.

There are some programmes I watch on a regular basis (some quizzes, drama series etc.) and these are set up to series record, but I do like to watch live when possible. Otherwise the recordings tend to build up pretty quickly while I'm doing other things.

Since very little of my viewing is on commercial channels I don't get bothered by ads - for the few programmes I watch that do have them, I watch my recording either delayed or at another time.

I'll watch various BBC programmes as they go out assuming they are on at the right time for me but certainly nothing on the commercial channels due to ads. I don't do IP telly.

I tend to only watch TV live now if there's a big news story happening or it's a show there's a live thread for on DS. It's either a catch-up service, Netflix or one of the other streaming services I have subs for.

I check my favourite channels to see what's on first. If nothing of interest is on, I then go through the rest of the TV guide and only after that, do I search for something on-demand.

Adverts don't bother me much either, so I'm fine with watching the live broadcast of programmes on commercial channels rather than wait for the ad-free download to be uploaded.

I feel I've really lost touch with tv, due to my addiction to the internet. I don't know how to catch up, as I feel I've missed out on whole swathes of popular culture.