The answer depends on whether or not it is NFL season. I usually watch at least one NFL game, sometimes two or three.
Add about 7 hours a week to the NFL games.
I watch a lot of TV. My DVR is always on the verge of full. And I also have 4 nights a week devoted to socializing by watching tv shows with various friends. OTOH, unless the show is hard to follow if it doesn’t have my undivided attention, I’ll usually watch at the same time as internet surfing. I don’t bother to fast forward commercials, I just surf more intensely during them.
I hardly watch it. Not to be trendy or pseudo-intellectually ‘superior’, just because I don’t really have the attention span. I like TV as a participatory event - X Factor, The Apprentice, Dragon’s Den - where I can chat about the program while it’s on, but if I’m on my own I would rather fuck around on the internet or read a book. I tried watching two episodes of Phone Shop last night (new and fucking hilarious funny British comedy), but only managed about 50% of each one as I got distracted each time. The radio is on almost 24/7 though.
A lot…2-4 on average, sometimes more, sometimes I go a whole week without any, if it’s a busy one. However, 90% of the time I’m watching TV, I’m also multitasking - cleaning the house, doing stuff on the computer, etc, so I don’t consider it to be brain-rot time.
I watch everything online aside from The Price is Right, which can also be seen online so I don’t even know why I have a tv, really. (I did watch the World Series when I wasn’t working.)
Our TV is practically always on, but I am always reading, and look up at the screen now and then. The only shows I watch without a book are House, Community, and 30 Rock.
I’ll usually watch 1.5 hours of news in the evening; CNN plus the NBC national and local broadcast. Then I’ll catch something educational like the Smithsonian or History International or Discover or something. Then on the weekends and Monday I’ll catch one college and probably half the NFL games.
My one series indulgence is Wednesdays where recently I’ve started watching Modern Family and Cougar Town.
Shit. I need to change my vote. I hadn’t read the OP. Why the hell don’t movies count? I have HBO, Showtime and Encore. If there wasn’t a sports match of some sort on the TeeVee every once in a while, movies would be pretty much all I’d ever watch.