Well, I’m glad I’m not the only one. I’d cancel my cable subscription altogether if my husband wasn’t so addicted to ESPN.
We’re catching more and more shows on the web lately. A lot of it has to do with only having bare-bones cable and SO being a rabid SyFy fan. I don’t know what we’re going to do when Doctor Who returns as BBCA was the first to go when we cut back 
That said, I regularly watch:
The Amazing Race
Castle
Deadliest Catch (runs April - July, I think)
What I sometimes catch but it’s no big deal if I don’t:
NCIS
NCIS LA (I’m really beginning to like this better this season)
No Ordinary Family
Survivor
mostly everything on Discovery
mostly everything on on Food Network
What I’d still watch without fail if we hadn’t cut back to basic cablel:
mostly everything on Bravo
mostly everything on BBCA
mostly everything on NatGeo
Needless to say, when I’m not at work, I’m either surfing the web or walking the dogs or doing SOMETHING as opposed to sitting there.
I stopped watching TV about 20 years ago.
I have a screen with a built-in DVD player so I can watch movies, no cable of any kind.
I the last few years I’ve seen a couple episodes of Big Bang Theory, House and Seinfeld, due to friends loaning me boxed sets. They were fun, but I could only watch 2 episodes and then boredom set in.
I also enjoyed Rome, and Deadwood.
So much better to have the DVD and not worry about commercials.
Oddly enough, the older shows that I grew up with, Bewitched, Wild, Wild West, Barney Miller, Hogan’s Heroes and Jonny Quest have all aged well and continue to entertain me a great deal.
What I know about today’s TV shows comes from hearing other people talk about them.
A few years ago we had Dish Network and were thinking about canceling. The only new show we were watching was Monk. Not worth $70/month. Then the box died and they told us it’d be $50 just to come out and look at it. That was the nail in the coffin; we weren’t going to pay to fix a service that we’d been thinking of dropping.
Haven’t missed it much. We have Netflix and our own DVDs. I watched Obama’s inauguration at a friend’s house. Get news and weather online.
When my mom came to stay with us this summer after surgery, Mr. S installed a digital TV setup because she’s a total TV junkie. She missed out on cable shows, but there was plenty of other junk for her to watch. (And yes, she watches JUNK.) At first I was excited to be able to watch Craig Ferguson, maybe some live news. But even that tapered off and lately the only time I turn on the TV is to put in a DVD. I just don’t have time to lie around channel surfing. Even my entertainment time is pretty sharply targeted these days.
The only stuff that qualifies as “must-see TV” for me is PBS’ “Antiques Roadshow,” college & pro football (pretty much any teams; I’m a pigskin slut), new episodes of “60 Minutes,” “Masterpiece Theater” most of the time, and bits of the late-night talk shows (esp. the opening monologues and some of the musical guests).
I also enjoy some of the history- and science-themed shows on PBS, network crime procedurals (the CSI shows, when I happen to come across them, like late on Sunday nights) and “Medium” (even though I normally don’t care for stories that rely on a mystical or supernatural element); I’ve also watched a few eps of “What Would You Do?” and I still watch “House” once in a while when I happen to stumble on it. But that’s mostly it.
Pretty much restricted to some of the AMC series, a couple of Showtime series and one HBO series. Oh, and a few PBS things, most notably lately: Circus. We read a lot.
I find that I have a real hard time getting into new shows when I’m not already familiar with the characters. Of course that makes me watch less and less TV as the old shows I watch keep getting cancelled. Right now there’s only one show I still watch regularly: Desperate Housewives. And it’s more because I know the characters than because it’s all that good.
My wife has been watching Glee and Raising Hope, so I’m just barely starting to like those shows too.
No.
There are plenty of good shows on TV. Let’s see, what I have my DVR record each week:
Daily: Jeopardy, The Late Late Show w/ Craig Ferguson
Monday: House, Hoarders
Tuesday: Glee, Dirty Jobs
Wednesday: Survivor, Modern Family, Top Chef, Law & Order SVU, Law & Order LA, Circus.
Thursday, The Big Bang Theory, CSI, Bones, Project Runway, The Apprentice, The Office, 30 Rock
Friday: Law & Order UK
Saturday: The Graham Norton Show
Sunday: The Simpsons, The Amazing Race, Family Guy, Dexter, Boardwalk Empire, Masterpiece
So… no, I already have too many things to watch.
Awww, ‘Medium’ is cancelled. I loved that show since day one. Well, that’s one less on my must-see list.
There’s another lame reality show about brides coming up. A review said "it’s as shallow as a kiddy pool and as filled with whiny brats: :p. Pass on that, thank you.
Supernatural? It’s first season was weak compared to 2-5(I’m on the fence about 6 so far).
TV? I walked away from those boxes about 25 years go. However, when I go to someone else’s home, I end up being fascinated by the commercials because I so rarely see any.
Not a bad thing? No… It’s a great thing.
I’m filling a couple of sketchbooks a month now, listening to more audiobooks (Girl w/Dragon Tattoo now), and reading real dead tree hardcover books!
I just finished The Hunger Games, then the sequel, then the sequel to the sequel. Couldn’t do that while I was watching Lost and BSG and Arrested Development.
Fortunately for you, President Obama has promised that during his second term, should he be elected to one, he will repeal the frankly unConstitutional law banning citizens from reading and watching TV in the same lifetime.
Ooh, that hurts, cause I’ve always prided myself on my multi-tasking. In fact, I never do any TV watchin’ without Straight Dopin’ concurrently (right now, it’s Monk and Café Society). I think they use slightly different circuits in my cerebrum.
But TV or The Dope really slow down my reading.