TV Suggestions Needed
 

I admit to watching a lot of "reality based" tv. Amazing Race shut down production due to the virus and a lot of other shows are having issues filming and I may have fewer options in the next couple of months... We are pretty caught up with the series we usually watch like Gold Rush, Wicked Tuna, or Life Below Zero, even Forged in Fire and Dr. Pimple Popper. Deadliest Catch premieres in a couple weeks! I watch a lot of home/garden/cooking shows too.

I'm really hoping that we do get all the way through the Masked Singer show on Fox without a shut down because that has become a great favorite of mine. I'm really pleasantly surprised by the quality of the masked singers, wish the panel had a bit less time on air but they are part of the package. I've figured out a couple each season, but not so good at "you tube personalities" but I'm doing good on the older artists! I believe I know who the White Tiger is this year. If you have fun with popular culture or music, and haven't checked it out -- it might be worth a binge.

We have pretty extensive cable through Comcast but no HBO or Showtime, and what I think of as pretty good On Demand programming, but very little that way for our local Canadian channel which I can only get live (through the tv). Same thing with BBC. Without streaming (which we are working towards but the tv in the bedroom is not currently set up and I/we don't want to watch from our computers), what shows do you recommend and why, especially those on the major networks?

There are a couple of drama series I'm behind, haven't picked up Manifest again since last season. I just started History Channel's Project Blue Book -- hubby says it's ok but I can watch that one without him. I do like quirky X-file stuff, him not so much.

We don't have any comedy shows especially we are currently watching. I'm still missing Big Bang and have left Young Sheldon on his own so far this year... Hubby goes to bed so early with his 4:00 AM start time that tv time usually ends by 9:00, and 8:00 isn't always certain that he will stay awake.

Except for PBS, local and national news, we watch very little cable TV. We stream via Roku. British programs are absolutely the best.

We unhooked cable 3 years ago. DH agreed to it, but he was in a cold sweat with this “drastic” move. I couldn’t understand paying that bill when he slept through every show & I hardly watched anything.
Now we get our news on iPads & watch movies together on Netflix. He’s even awake ! Sometimes we just read a book.

I just typed out a whole list of all the stuff we watch, then realized that you probably wouldn't be able to watch anything I recommend because we're 95% Netflix and Hulu, no cable or satellite. Sorry. :(

I've been watching some great shows on PBS, (they are on youtube, too)
The wartime kitchen and garden
The wartime farm
They are a series about WWII victory gardens and there are some recipes and cooking techniques..I really like them. Along that same vein is a series called Landgirls...also about wartime gardens and the women billeted onto estates to grow food, but it's not a documentary, it's got more of a soap opera feel, but still ok.
I never realized how many shows and movies there are on youtube, once you start watching they get addictive. I am a history buff, so I enjoy that genre.

The only reason I have cable is because my husband likes to watch the news. That's it! Expensive huh?
We watch Netflix, Prime, and MLB to see the Yankees but I don't know when that's going to happen. Sigh..........

I record and watch any episode of The Great British Baking Show. I also record and watch Josh Gates Expedition Unknown. I like mysteries and record and watch Father Brown.

I am so far behind on my technology that I have nothing to record tv with! I do have a combo vcr/dvd attached to the small/off cable tv in the sewing room but I don't think it can record even if I had tapes around -- but I love The Great British Baking Show. The Canadian version too. I've noticed that Food Network has noticed and tried to make the contestants "nicer" on like the Spring Baker show, (our "Great" version got quickly and quietly shut down during the #metoo period) but the American ones are just not nice. They are about "cut throat competition" and "building your brand" and not pursuing the art of what you love. Plus you've got to love the pacing of a show designed without commercials for 50+ minutes instead of 40 minutes interrupted by commercials.

I also listen to audio books usually 2-3 a week that I download from the library, that fills most of my drama/action needs. It's amazing how "visual" some authors are, some books are just action sequences connected by small bits of plot.

Hubby and I were discussing this last night, with the shut downs there is already a lot less fresh programming on tv. Pity your sports addicts! There isn't going to be anything new for quite awhile yet.

I love Survivors! The original Reality show. Since it is filmed earlier there is not likely to be a shutdown this season. We also just picked up Sling, Formed, and Disney+. We don't have cable TV os Roku it is. But this is still more than enough TV. We are doing a whole lot of binge watching right now.

I've been a Survivor fan since the first Season, but I have never liked Sandra. That's all I'm going to say about this season in my non-spoiler way.

I didn't start watching Amazing Race until a few seasons, there are reasons why it wins more awards than Survivor but it's very different so maybe that makes it easier. I think it was up against Lost or something though... that's the usual reason I can miss really good shows is because I'm watching something else.

Oh dear, talking about Amazing Race brings up the "watermelon to the face" which has become a bit of a family meme. Easy to google. It's worth reading the full story.

Iceblossom- I am, quite frankly, addicted to baseball. I watch nearly every single Yankee game. I'm really going to miss that. Who knows when they will be able to play? But it is what it is.
I love audiobooks. I must go through 4-5 per week, no joke! I have Audible but get whatever I can from the digital library first.
But for me, Audible is awesome.

My current favorite is Homestead Rescue on discovery channel. If you like Life Below Zero you might like this too.

Britbox or Acorn??
 

I love British shows! Have been trying to decide between these two. Which one do you prefer?

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Great song for all of us stuck at home.

Thank heavens for audiobooks and digital books, am I right? My library has shut down but I can still check out books in my jammies. :D

We have been watching Bob Hearts Abishola. It's a fun new comedy. Other than that I keep up with all of the Dateline, 2020 and 48 Hours. My hubby watches news.

Peckish, I second that. We can still get our books and audiobooks.
I'm with Onebyone on cable. My husband won't get rid of it and we watch about one hour a day (the news) That's it!
We have Netflix, Amazon Prime, and MLB. Those are what we watch.

However, it's not a deal breaker. As long as he doesn't mind paying for it I'm not going to worry about it.

Claire, Hubby has been watching Bob Hearts Abishola, it's ok. Doesn't really make me laugh but it's ok -- which is better than the comedies that annoy me.

Movie-wise we just watched Tag, that did make me laugh. I do like ensemble pieces.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2854926/

Masked Singer was finished before it was shut down, so no more worries on that. Hubby got one right! First one in 3 seasons.

About 5 out of the next 7 books I have coming off hold are non-fiction. Last night it was Humble Pi, A Comedy of Math's Errors
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/39074550-humble-pi

Tonight I have a fiction, author I like but new-to-me series.

Still open for suggestions -- I need more input!

We hook our laptop up to the TV with an HDMI cable and watch streaming on the TV screen.

To hook up the tv in the bedroom, our wifi is not strong enough and it's actually pretty simple, we just need to clean out a closet and drill a hole from the closet in my son's old room into the corner of the master bedroom. When son left home 10+ years ago, this was the stuff he left behind and says that I can do with it what I will. I just haven't had the will yet. It is about 3 feet of solidly packed closet of stuff that will then be dispersed. Only with the Seattle shut down, thrift stores are closed and my husband has still been working his "normal" 6-7 days a week, 10-12 hour days. Oh yeah, you can't put out extra trash either because the drivers don't have helpers with them.

We will stream, we are technologically able -- both us and the tv. We even have the connections, wireless keyboard/mouse ready. Up until now, it just hasn't been that much of an issue to find 1-2 hours of programming I want to watch each day.

I can find plenty of stuff to stream or watch on the computer, but that's not so much what I'm looking for. I get books downloaded from the library. I still get actual disks from Netflix. I was hoping to get some suggestions on network shows that I've missed but can easily get by On Demand (Comcast).

Do you have Netflix ? 10 episodes of “Good Girls”. 3 women who need money & get in a pickle. Quite funny.

I subscribe to Britbox. I open it on my laptop then attach to the tv with a HDMI cable. It's different and there are no pandemic updates.

Just subscribed to Acorn and love it.

check out you tube TV. Different than regular YouTube. Lots of news.

Thanks, Alyce, I'll check it out.

We just finished watching "The Roosevelts," a Ken Burns series, on PBS. No special channels needed -- it's on the computer. It seven long episodes and interesting.

I loved The Roosevelts! That was fantastic. Ken Burns never disappoints.

We just watched Broadchurch, a British mystery. The first 2 seasons were good, the last one not so much.

Whew! We got through the Masked Singer and Survivor with no production shut downs. I've found a few crime type shows to start watching, but more things are starting.

Currently I'm catching a lot of Grand Design, Australia which I'm enjoying. Comes on right at my usual afternoon tv break time so that's fantastic because it is Canadian tv station that I don't get in my Comcast on-demand even though I get the airplay.