Two interesting reads

[brooms]

- African-Americans propel prime time TV hits like 'Empire' (source: CNN)
- Most Young People Say They Have Stopped Watching TV (source: Business Insider)

& total digression, but here's a BTS look at Penny Dreadful S2. (source: TV Guide)

Comments

[wendelah1]

My son, aged 28, has stopped watching TV altogether. He says it's because all of the shows he used to watch are over. If they're still airing, they've become so unrelenting grim that he can't watch anymore.

I'm old so I don't count in the ratings anymore. I'm only watching a handful of shows now and I'm on the verge of quitting two of them.

[veritas_poet]

I can only go by what I see in my very, very limited circle of family and friends, but I've noticed this as well.

If no TV at all (or at least very limited TV) it is indeed a trend among people and especially younger people, what do they do in place of TV, then?

[wendelah1]

I write, read, take walks, plan trips and travel. We have tickets to the opera. My husband writes poetry, reads, listens to music. He's studying Italian. I have family responsibilities, too. There's always more to do than there is time to do it.

My son is in graduate school. He's very busy studying. Before that, he was busy working and saving for grad school. In his off hours, I think he plays computer games and visits with friends. He plays basketball and golf. He listens to music.

[veritas_poet]

Hm, interesting. If it is indeed a trend, and if it increases, I wonder what will happen to TV in general...

Don't mind me. Just thinking out loud.

[ninetydegrees]

In my country they watch all sorts of stuff on other 'screens': music videos, video game commentaries, vlogs, cat vids, etc. as well as movies and series they've downloaded. Add to that FB, texting, chatting, skyping, and being involved in all sorts of social media. They actually spend a lot of time in front of a screen, much more that I ever used to or simply was allowed to.

That's what I got from the survey too: they still watch TV, just not necessarily on a TV set. That's what I do too. I don't actually have one.

[veritas_poet]

"That's what I got from the survey too: they still watch TV, just not necessarily on a TV set. That's what I do too. I don't actually have one."

It does seem the wording was strange. I think they meant we watch TV in different ways than we used to. It used to be people would all be sitting down at 7:00 to watch a show, because that's the only time you could get it. That started changing way back when VCRs came along, but it's even more true today.

And yet, I effectively don't have a TV either. I have one, but it doesn't work. And I've never had cable.

[ninetydegrees]

For some reasons I missed the rest of the article *facepalm* My apologies. Yeah, you're right. It's a tiny bit different in my country because quality on-demand TV is much more recent (except for people who have been on Netflix US for a long time) and we have a long-established 'tradition' of *cough*illegally*cough* downloading/streaming foreign stuff so people haven't really stopped doing that. But yeah DVRs and integrated recorders play a part too.