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Poll: How many TV shows do you make sure to catch every week?

What shows do you mark on your scheduled?

CHRISTMAS IS PROBABLY the best time of year to get stuck into some TV watching.

Time off, a roaring fire and an endless supply of food means there’s no better time to take to the coach.

It also often acts as a reminder of how infrequently people are a slave to TV schedules nowadays. Over the last decade, watching TV at your own convenience has become the norm.

But away from streaming and be it Fair City, Planet Earth or Match of the Day, how many TV shows do you make sure to catch every week? 


Poll Results:

1-3 (3870)
0 (3126)
4-6 (1271)
10 or more (321)
7-9 (319)

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    Dec 28th 2016, 8:47 PM

    Careful lads. It could be the tv license inspector in disguise.

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    Dec 28th 2016, 8:36 PM

    The news – more celebrity deaths than all the soaps put together

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    Dec 28th 2016, 9:27 PM

    The purple and bright green people, you don’t have jobs? Get up from the front of that TV or laptop. Be useful.

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    Dec 28th 2016, 9:04 PM

    None to be honest haven’t bothered to connect my tv to the Arial in 2 years, No interest in the shite that passes as entertainment to be honest.

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    Dec 28th 2016, 9:24 PM

    MOTD.Thats about it apart from the news.

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    Dec 29th 2016, 10:32 AM

    @Kerry Blake: Same as my family. Got rid of TV from house. No Eastenders, no Corrie, no teen USA garbage, no Kardasians, no reality junk, no constant ads trying to get us to buy, no RTE biased news.

    Our children play more – they communicate more – they use their artistic skills more – they read more. We get to teach them far better without material junk and low behaviour being greater witnessed and undermining influencing them.

    Best decision we ever made.

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    Dec 28th 2016, 9:25 PM

    Bullshittery all of it

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    Dec 28th 2016, 8:37 PM

    Not too many at all. I would watch a few on showbox after the American release but not as many as I used too. Designated Surviver, Madam Sectary, The Blacklist and The Path would be the only ones I watch as soon as they come out. I would watch more older shows lately. Currently working my way through OZ :)

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    Dec 28th 2016, 9:49 PM

    Coronation Street and Fair City on Player. I know. I know. I am lame. Its the only drama in my life. Beats watching Paw Patrol.

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    Dec 28th 2016, 10:38 PM

    @Seany: Double sided tape.

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    Dec 28th 2016, 10:17 PM

    Red rock, the news, MOTD, late late, peppa pig, only fools, friends, netflix and streambox

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    Dec 29th 2016, 12:13 PM

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