Most Addictive Daytime Wallpaper

I've watched more TV in the last 7 weeks than ever before. Though I have to say that either the quality has improved or my brain has rotted through lack of intellectually stimulating conversation in the village local. My top ten time occupiers are:

Abandoned Engineering
Ancient Aliens
World at War
Judge Rinder
English documentaries on PBS America that were never screened on BBC or ITV
How I Met Your Mother
Historical mini series presented by Bettany Hughes, Janina Ramerez or Lucy Worsely
Inside the Factory
The History of Jazz
Secrets of the Solar System and similar low-brow, dumbed-down space documentaries provided they don't include Brian Cox.

If anyone feels I've gone beyond the pale, please kill me now.

Addicted to Hochanda a craft shopping channel :o
Some good old stuff on talking pictures tv just discovered Smithsonian channel & PBS America

I'm a big fan of Talking Pictures and a lot of stuff on the Yesterday Channel, mostly trains or engineering. I also get stuck watching Brooklyn Nine Nine on E4 if I catch it. I've also discovered Smithsonian and PBS recently.

For mindless pap "Find it, Fix it, Flog it" can be fun and there's sometimes good simple stuff on Forces TV, old sitcoms, Dukes of Hazzard, Quantum Leap.

Acceptable wallpaper:

BBC Four’s music archive
Come Dine With Me
Generic American sitcoms
Gordon Ramsay losing his mind in awful restaurants
Heir Hunters (not seen it for ages)
Homes Under The Hammer
Jeremy Vine (was better with Matthew Wright though)
Judge Judy/Rinder
Michael Portillo’s railways
The World At War
Top Gear
Weakest Link
Who Wants To Be A Millionaire


Zzz...:

Countdown
DIY/home refurb programmes
Escape To The Country
Masterchef
Pointless
The Chase
Time Team
Watchdog/Rogue Traders


Get it off my screen at once!!!:

Any David Dickinson vehicle
Friends
Jeremy Kyle
Loose Women
This Morning
Tipping Point

Do you people not have at least 10 years worth of accumulated minor household tasks to complete that you've never got round to because of all the pubbing every weekend??

Maybe that's just me!

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Originally Posted by Quinno

Do you people not have at least 10 years worth of accumulated minor household tasks to complete that you've never got round to because of all the pubbing every weekend??

Maybe that's just me!

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No, it's not!

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Originally Posted by ETA

I've watched more TV in the last 7 weeks than ever before. Though I have to say that either the quality has improved or my brain has rotted through lack of intellectually stimulating conversation in the village local. My top ten time occupiers are:

World at War
Judge Rinder

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World at War suggests your intellect is holding up, but immediately Judge Rinder's show appears!
If you want to get your score up, have a go at watching the seminal Civilisation. It's amazing what's available on iPlayer, but you have to find it by chance as there's no directory or listings, as far as I can make out. I can't boast as I've been watching previously missed episodes of Spooks, Silent Witness and...erm...Jonathan Creek.

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Originally Posted by Quinno

Do you people not have at least 10 years worth of accumulated minor household tasks to complete that you've never got round to because of all the pubbing every weekend??

Maybe that's just me!

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Yup. I've had a broken loo seat for around eight years and couldn't remove it because you need a special 'key' to undo the mounting nuts. The second mount failed, meaning I could undo the seat and get a smart new one - every COVID has a silver lining!

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Originally Posted by Quinno

Do you people not have at least 10 years worth of accumulated minor household tasks to complete that you've never got round to because of all the pubbing every weekend??

Maybe that's just me!

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No, but my wife has taken the opportunity to bring me up to date on 26 years' worth of things I've done wrong.