# So just what DO you watch? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 3, 2005, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256 "2005-05-03T18:20:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/21 "2005-05-03T19:30:29Z")
Sunday ~ _Desperate Housewives_. I refuse to watch Gray’s Anatomy, I’m still in mourning over _Boston Legal_ Monday ~ _Las Vegas_, _Medium_ Tuesday~ my son’s night to play Evercrack Wednesday ~ _South Park_ Thursday, Friday ~ flip around and watch whatever movie I haven’t seen in forever Saturday ~ TV is turned off ---
**Author:** ![Susie\_Derkins](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e47774/32.png) [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/22 "2005-05-03T19:32:20Z")
Oh, and I love to rent whole seasons of shows. Shows that I have watched exclusively on DVD: Buffy the Vampire Slayer Sex and the City Sopranos Angel Six Feet Under Deadwood and I am about to start in on Oz. ---
**Author:** ![Syntropy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/65b543/32.png) [@Syntropy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Syntropy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/23 "2005-05-03T19:33:15Z")
GAH! Thanks, **Susie**. The Sopranos when it starts up again, and also Nip/Tuck ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/24 "2005-05-03T19:33:47Z")
Well, I can’t really give specific days of the week, since I have the DVR set to record my shows and I watch 'em whenever, but the list is: All three _CSI_s Three of the four _Law & Order_s (gave up on the original) _American Idol_ _House, M.D._(I agree, **SR47** – I think this may be my favorite of the bunch) _Without A Trace_ _Numb3rs_ _The Simpsons_ _Cold Case_ _The Office_ _Monk_ _Jeopardy_ If it’s football season, then Sundays are spend on the couch from 1:00 to midnight, plus the Monday night game (add extra couch time if there are odd-day games that week). If it’s basketball season and my wife isn’t home, then I’ll try to catch the Knicks or Nets if they’re playing. If either team is in the playoffs, then I make a serious effort to catch every game. (grumble grumble frickin’ Miami Heat grumble grumble) ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/25 "2005-05-03T19:35:39Z")
**Deadwood** and **The Apprentice** are my only never-miss and must- watch-the-first-showing-when-it-airs programs. I Tivo **The Daily Show** and **Simply Quilts**. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/26 "2005-05-03T19:37:14Z")
Sunday: Baseball and news, movies on cable, History and Discovery channels Monday: Las Vegas, and let’s just assume any baseball game that is playing, all week Tuesday: Scrubs Wednesday: Lost Thursday: Friday: Battlestar Galactica Saturday: If we didn’t have a DVD player and digital cable… Oh, and the Food Channel. I like Alton, and have a serious crush on Rachel Ray. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![hawkeyejo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e19b73/32.png) [@hawkeyejo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hawkeyejo)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/27 "2005-05-03T19:38:14Z")
I try not to miss the Daily Show -Comedy Central and Jeopardy - ABC (stop screaming Geek!) And Fox News Watch - FNC. Scrubs - NBC Sometimes I catch American Idol (Fox), and a lot of random stuff on VH1, Discovery, DiscoveryTimes (which is a very good channel IMHO) and History. Usually if there’s nothing interesting on I just tune in to VH1 ---
**Author:** ![sleeepy2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e9a140/32.png) [@sleeepy2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sleeepy2)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/28 "2005-05-03T19:40:09Z")
Sunday: Nextel Cup Race or football as the season dictates. Fox from 8-10pm (Simpsons, Malcolm, Arrested, NOT the loathsome Family Guy). Monday: Inside Nextel Cup Racing (Speed Channel) Tues, Wed Thurs: Nothing Fri and Sat nights: My weekly videos of Scrubs, The Shield, Reno 911 if it ever comes back, and I’ll usually watch the previous Sunday’s Simpsons and Arrested again. Saturday a.m.: Petkeeping with Marc Morrone and the New Yankee Workshop\* \*I’d just like to mention that I could make a freakin’ grandfather clock too, if I had every freakin’ power tool ever created, a work room the size of a zeppelin hangar, and an unlimited supply of fancy-shmancy hard wood. No I couldn’t (sigh) ---
**Author:** ![Glory](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7cd45c/32.png) [@Glory](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Glory)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/29 "2005-05-03T19:45:53Z")
Sunday Grey’s Anatomy Monday Nothing - TV wasteland Tuesday Amazing Race is the only “must see” on Tuesday for me, I’ll catch AI if I happen to be around the TV Wed Lost, Alias - now Eyes, I used to turn off the TV after Alias Thurs Survivor, Apprentice (but really losing interest this season), ER Fri/Sat - nothing ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/30 "2005-05-03T19:50:51Z")
Well, let’s see…the only ones I take pains to watch live are: _Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Desperate Housewives ER Numbers Battlestar Galactica_ Huh. Less than I thought there would be. But, on other nights, I watch the stuff that accumulated on the DVR. That includes _The Simpsons_, _X-Play_, _Futurama_, _Invader Zim_, _South Park_, _Robot Chicken_, and the occasional movie. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/31 "2005-05-03T19:51:13Z")
I work in the evening, so I’m not a casual TV wathcer. I have to plan on taping a show before I go to work. Sundays: Fox’s animation line-up. I’ve been watching Gray’s Anatomy but I’m on the verge of giving up on it. Monday: Nothing Tuesday: Veronica Mars Wendesday: Lost. If Lost if a rerun, America’s Next Top Model. West Wing when it’s on. Thursday: Survivor. CSI. Friday: America’s Next Top Model if I didn’t watch it Weds Saturday: Nothing I was watching Aqua Teen Hunger Force everynight but I haven’t been since they rescheduled it. I also occasionally watch some late night cartoons on Comedy Channel like South Park, Drawn Together, Duckman, or Creature Comforts. ---
**Author:** ![Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/6f9a4e/32.png) [@Hey\_It\_s\_That\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hey_It_s_That_Guy)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/32 "2005-05-03T19:54:08Z")
> [@silenus](#): > > Oh, and the Food Channel. I like Alton, and have a serious crush on Rachel Ray. 😃 Me too, and ME TOO. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![kevja](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/aeb1de/32.png) [@kevja](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kevja)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/33 "2005-05-03T20:03:08Z")
Sunday – Arrested Development, Desperate Housewives Monday – Channel surf. Tuesday – American Idol, channel surf Wednesday – AI results show Thursday – Surf Friday – Surf, if I’m home Saturday – Cops and AMW, if I’m home Channel Surfing – will stop for several shows on HGTV, The Soup, Gastineu Girls, Sports Century, Biography, Growing Up Gotti, Chasing Farrah, FSN Sports List, Movies, old TV reruns, and MSNBC to fill in the blanks ---
**Author:** ![Kiros](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/439d5e/32.png) [@Kiros](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kiros)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/34 "2005-05-03T20:08:40Z")
The only shows I go out of my way to watch are new episodes of Family Guy and South Park. Additionally, I will generally watch any sports games that are on involving any of the following: Patriots, Ravens, virtually any other football team I remotely care about, Red Sox, Celtics, Bruins, UConn basketball (mens or womens). I would watch Pardon the Interruption daily but I am usually at the gym when it’s on. When my schedule is different, I make the effort. Same goes for Baseball Tonight - I love to watch it, but I’m usually in the middle of something at 10pm. There’s a bunch of stuff on the Cartoon Network that I will watch if it’s on and I’m bored, but that I won’t go out of the way for. That’s definitely the station that entertains me the most with a regular non-sports lineup, though. The only time my television touches any of the network channels is usually football season and March Madness (and Family Guy I guess now that it’s back) - for the most part, they are worthless to me. I also watch various West Wing, Sports Night, Futurama, and Firefly DVDs as a way to relax when nothing I care about is on. On a weekly basis I probably watch more TV-on-DVD than actual TV, unless there are a bunch of good sporting events on that week. I love being able to get through an episode in 20 or 40ish minutes, not having to deal with commercials, etc. - it makes the experience much more enjoyable for me. ---
**Author:** ![slortar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@slortar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slortar)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 8:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/35 "2005-05-03T20:11:57Z")
My television viewing habits are far too sporadic for me to watch shows regularly. Usually I’ll just watch whatever’s on History Channel when I’m eating. I just don’t have the attention span and discipline to watch a show regularly. I might catch the first two episodes, but I’ll slip very soon after, even if it’s something I really like, like Justice League. Can’t be too snobby about it, though, because I do watch dvd sets of tv shows, like Firefly (and Buffy, soon enough). 😉 ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 8:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/36 "2005-05-03T20:21:35Z")
Monday: Two and a Half Men, CSI: Miami Tuesday: House Wednesday: The West Wing Thursday: CSI Friday: Numb3rs Sunday: Simpsons, Arrested Development, Desperate Housewives That more than usual for me. Quite likely, the West Wing will drop off next season. I’m also beginning to find CSI: Miami a bit tedious. ---
**Author:** ![unclviny](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e274bd/32.png) [@unclviny](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unclviny)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 8:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/37 "2005-05-03T20:30:47Z")
Regularly as in apointment TV?: Letterman, Jeopardy, Conan and Cops. If I stumble across it when its on: Scrubs and Vegas. Unclviny ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 8:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/38 "2005-05-03T20:40:46Z")
Simpsons 60 Minutes, until our daughter discovered America’s Funniest Home Videosd reruns of Sherlock Holmes and Nero Wolfe on the Biography Channel Law and Order Tonight Show, especuially on Mondays Network News **Pepper Mill** has a longer list, with several Law and Order and CSO clones, Medium, House, E.R., What Not to Wear (US and UK editions) and Antiques Roadshow. **MilliCal** watches a lot of Nickelodeon and Cartoon Network and Disney, along with America’s Haunted Hotels on the Travel Channel. ---
**Author:** ![Lisa-go-Blind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7c8e57/32.png) [@Lisa-go-Blind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lisa-go-Blind)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/39 "2005-05-03T20:45:24Z")
Tuesday: **House** , **Law and Order: Special Victims Unit** Weekend: **What Not to Wear** , **Ebert and Roeper** That’s all I watch during school. Once the semester ends in a couple of weeks, I’ll surely be watching more, like **Boston Legal** and **The Simpsons**. I loved the first season of **Arrested Development** but I missed too many of this season’s episodes so I’m just waiting for the DVD to come out. ---
**Author:** ![vivalostwages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/d07c76/32.png) [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256/40 "2005-05-03T21:28:47Z")
Monday: Medium Tuesday: American Idol; House Wednesday: Lost; American Idol Thursday: ER Friday: Enterprise and Joan of Arcadia (taped due to conflicting time slot); sometimes I watched JAG but not religiously Saturday: reruns of Twilight Zone and X Files Sunday: Buffy rerun; Malcolm in the middle; Desperate Housewives; Boston Legal or Grey’s Anatomy–whichever one is on [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-just-what-do-you-watch/302256.md?page=3)