I can still remember when PBS replayed The Forstye Saga sometime in the 70s. I’d missed it when it originally aired, and I really wanted to see it. This was before DVRs or even VCRs. PBS broadcast an episode a night five days a week for a month. It was really stressful making sure to get home every night for all those nights, but I did it. Yay, me. And I really liked the series, too.
Now? I don’t regularly watch anything live. As someone said, maybe John Oliver if I’m around when it’s on, but that’s no commercials. 99.99% of what we watch is either recorded or On Demand or streaming.
All my access to shows now is through streaming services, so I can’t really watch anything live. The closest I got to live most recently was when HBO was releasing Game of Thrones on a weekly basis, and I could stream it after the “live broadcast.” I would watch it as soon as it was available.
These days, I can’t really bother to remember when my shows are released. I just occasionally cycle through my streaming services to see what I have to catch up on.
I still watch the live schedule. Sundays on CBS from 7 to 10 for Equalizer,NCIS LA, SWAT.
I tried recording shows and usually never got around to watching them.
I’m subscribed to Paramount + and have to remind myself to watch it. I finally made myself a schedule to watch when I don’t like the live network shows.
There’s something about a network schedule that works for me. I’ve followed them since I was 7 or 8 years old.
The Marvel and Star Wars shows on Disney+ have a ton of people that watch them as soon as they’re uploaded for streaming. I see reaction/watchalong/review videos on Youtube within a hour of release.
I get off work at 6 a.m., so I typically catch them before I turn in.
Me too - other than this I don’t watch anything live. As I’m zipping through commercials, I always think to myself or say to my husband - I don’t think I could ever watch a show with commercials live ever again.
Well, I do watch the Minnesota High School Hockey Tournament live if any of our local high schools are playing in it. But that’s only one week per year.
The last scripted show I anticipated and watched live was the final episode of Gravity Falls in 2016.
Since then, some UCLA games. The only other stuff I watch live is news and the Olympics, but outside of the opening and closing ceremonies, those are “let’s see what’s on now”, not appointment TV.
I haven’t felt that strongly about any show in about a decade. There was a short-lived masterpiece called Terriers that I absolutely wanted to get to as quickly as it was available. And at least for the first couple of seasons of The Walking Dead, I was similarly champing at the bit. These days? I’ll put it this way: I love The Blacklist, but I couldn’t tell you what day of the week it actually airs on a bet. I just kind of wander over to the NBC website when I’m in the mood and see if there’s a new episode.