TV Junkie

I love TV.  I've mentioned many times that I watch way too much TV.  It's a way for me to relax, though, so I justify it for that reason.  I limit the amount my daughter watches, since the last thing I want is for her to become a couch potato.  It isn't too much of a problem, though, since she has a couple of hours of homework every night, and she has a much greater social life than I do.

Every once in a while, I'll check out and review my season passes on my Tivo to see what I'm recording.  The following is a list of shows that I'm currently recording (though not necessarily watching):

The Big Bang Theory
The Amazing Race
The Walking Dead
Grimm
Last Man Standing
The Blacklist
Sleepy Hollow
Modern Family
Homeland
Parenthood
Marvel's Agents of SHIELD
America's Funniest Home Videos
Brooklyn Nine-Nine
The Goldbergs
The Crazy Ones
The Michael J. Fox Show
The Neighbors
The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson
Finding Bigfoot
Destination Truth
Fast N' Loud
Swamp People
Top Gear (History)
Top Gear (BBC)
Counting Cars
Big Rig Bounty Hunters
Falling Skies
Impractical Jokers
Wipeout
Only In America With Larry The Cable Guy
Rods N' Wheels
Duck Dynasty
MythBusters
AmeriCarna
Chasing Classic Cars
Overhaulin'
The Car Chasers
Diners, Drive-Ins and Drives
Treehouse Masters
Jungle Gold
Auction Hunters
American Restoration
Fast Food Mania
Modern Marvels
America:  Facts vs. Fiction
Making Monsters
Comic Book Men
MuscleCar
Chaos in the Skies
Brain Games
Outrageous Acts of Science
Rick Sebak*
The Three Stooges
Happy Days
Gravity Falls
Phineas and Ferb

That's a LOT of TV watching.  I should point out again that this is just what I record, not all of it is watched.  I also only record new episodes of the shows, not repeats, except for older classics like The Three Stooges and Happy Days.  There're a lot of similar shows, and you can likely figure out where my interests lie.  I love classic cars, especially the muscle cars from the late 60s and early 70s, so I watch a lot of shows about cars.  I watch only a few major network shows.  Like the books I read, I watch mostly nonfiction stuff.

It's still a lot of TV, though, and I hate that it makes me appear to be a couch potato.  I used to be a bit more anal and hated to miss an episode of the shows I watched regularly.  I guess you could have called me a manic completest.  But I'm over that now.  There's a lot more to life than watching TV.  But I figured I'd share what I like to watch.

Have a great evening, everyone.

* - Rick Sebak narrates quite a few documentary shows that originate out of Pittsburgh's PBS station, and he has a very laid back style that I enjoy, along with the road trips and subjects that he features.  My season pass automatically records anything on PBS that he does.