Viewing behaviour now that we stream endlessly

[cobra kid]

Do you switch between different program series on platforms like Netflix/Prime?

If I start a series I often can't watch anything else until I've completed that one.

For example, I'm 5 episodes into 21 of SWAT and I want to watch the new Godzilla film but can't drag myself from SWAT first!

[Pistom]

Same here - except I wouldn't watch either of those.

[J77wck]

I mix and match unless it's really good.

[AB]

I flip between stuff unless I end up addicted. Finished watching Billions and went on to Tulsa King but watching Seal Team in between with the wife.

I don't watch any live TV anymore and have got rid of Sky and any recording capability as it's just not needed.

Pay for NOW/Netflix/Disney/Prime/Paramount+/ITVX/Channel 4 etc

Like being able to still move between TVs in the house, iPad, Macbook when I'm away, iPhone on train etc and just pick up where I left off.

[cobra kid]

I've kept recording with the VM box but it is currently 99% free storage.

[Muzzer79]

We tend to stick with one thing, rather than flitting between series'

Just spent several weeks going through 'The Americans' on Disney+ (which was excellent)

Now looking for something new - there's a couple on Netflix I've been queueing up.

[VeeReihenmotor6]

I mix a few things and watch depending on the mood, unless i get addicted to something. I also spend a lot of time watching YoyTube, more than an other platform. Rarely watch normal TV.

[sandman77]

I stick to one or two programs at a time. I even stick with them if I’m not really enjoying them like I am doing right now with Eric on Netflix and This is Us on Prime.

[tangerine_sedge]

I tend to watch live to air TV during the day as background noise, i.e. various news channels, then with my wife watch an episode from a different series each evening as a routine. I wake up early on weekends and often watch a couple of episodes of a series that my wife has no interest in. Also, I often have a Saturday/Sunday post Grand Prix Tv series that I watch with my son - usually sci-fi Star Wars/Marvel rubbish.

That's why it takes months to watch the latest TV show, it sometimes has to wait in the backlog before entering the watching schedule which then is 1 episode a week.

Currently on the go :
Rewatching Inspector Morse.
Just finished Ripley - need a replacement series.
Rewatching Midsomer Murders.
Just finished 'The Long Game' - need a replacement series.

So next week, we'll need two new series to watch - that's when the arguments begin

[Greg_B]

I’m an oddball. I find very little on streaming that I care to watch. Occasionally I find something I like such as Bosch or Clarkson’s Farm, but I find most of it either totally uninteresting (such as any of the fantasy/medieval warfare/dragons/sci-fi shows) or disappointing.

[lambosagogo]

I’ll have two things on the go at once - one thing easy and fairly brainless (for when I have no energy) and one thing a bit more involved (for when I do have energy of an evening). Films are a rarity now for me.

[xx99xx]

Greg_B said:

I’m an oddball. I find very little on streaming that I care to watch. Occasionally I find something I like such as Bosch or Clarkson’s Farm, but I find most of it either totally uninteresting (such as any of the fantasy/medieval warfare/dragons/sci-fi shows) or disappointing.

Similar for me. I've not watched a 'proper' series, start to finish, since Breaking Bad. Clarksons Farm is good but it's more of a documentary than some sort of drama.

What normally happens is that me + Mrs will start to watch something over a few nights. Then she'll crack on and watch the rest of the series without me whilst I'm working (she supposedly also works full time). Unless it's something amazing, I can't be arsed to watch the remaining episodes. E.g. Red Eye, I missed the last episode; Welcome to Wrexham, missed the last few.

[beambeam1]

I tend to watch one thing and stick with it until the end but find these days that I can end up checking the plot of a movie on wikipedia, reading it entirely and then deciding I've "seen enough" and not actually watch it. It's driving some members of my family mad as they are film buffs.

[okgo]

Switch between.

Pay for all of the streaming services and have Sky too. Still watch a lot on Sky and like the functionality of it.

[Randy Winkman]

Greg_B said:

I’m an oddball. I find very little on streaming that I care to watch. Occasionally I find something I like such as Bosch or Clarkson’s Farm, but I find most of it either totally uninteresting (such as any of the fantasy/medieval warfare/dragons/sci-fi shows) or disappointing.

Same here. Most of my TV viewing is one-off documentaries though I do like series where blokes with beards do up old junk and try to sell it for £50. But in each case I never binge-watch.