Tuesday, May 10, 2011

If you are what you watch on TV...


...I'm one confused soul.

I WATCH
  • Top Chef
  • Hell's Kitchen
  • Nigella Feasts
  • Man V. Food
  • And any other cookery show on TV
Going by that, I'm sometimes a gourmand, a gourmet, a closet-chef, a foodie. But I'm none of that. I actually spend more hours watching cookery challenges/shows than I do in the kitchen! And I have no idea why...

I ALSO WATCH:
  • The Amazing Race
  • Roadies
  • Bigg Boss
  • Khatron Ke Khiladi
  • And sundry reality shows
Does that make me a drama queen? A vain voyeur?

AND I ALSO WATCH:
  • Balika Vadhu, a Hindi soap on child marriage
  • Re-re-re-re-runs of Friends
  • How I Met Your Mother
  • And shows like the Modern Family
Does that make me a couch potato? A soap junkie?

AND I ALSO WATCH:
  • News channels
  • Debates
  • Travel shows
  • And Discovery
Does that make me an intellectual, a thinking viewer, a half-geek?

What kind of a person are you, if we judge you by what you watch on TV?

16 comments:

Soulmate said...

My favourite channel is NDTV Good Times which ,unfortunately, we dont get here..
Plus I love to watch all the travel related shows on any channel.. And ofcourse anything to do with Indian Army like Mission Army on Nat Geo.. Previously there was a Jai Hind on NDTV Good Times.. :-)
I watch Roadies and Splitsvilla as well sometimes.. Mostly channel surfing to catch up with some good song or movie.. Nothing in particular.. Not a TV buff..

Mumbai Diva said...

I watch Dexter :O

and also Big Boss...am kinda waiting for the next season. And anything that makes me laugh - Friends, How I met your mother.....

SMM said...

I watch anything which catches my fancy when I am surfing. It could be an old/ recent Bollywood movie/ anything on HBO/ Star MOvies/ UTV World Movies/ MGM/ Zee MOvies or any reality show. rarely do I get around to watching news though -p prefer the newspaper or updating myself online

The Soul of Alec Smart said...

Mostly all the soaps you listed.. yes, even Balika Vadhu but stopped watching it after the girl was threatened to be thrown out of the house the nth time.. lost its limited novelty very quickly.

Plus, Masterchef when it's on + Dexter + download Big Bang Theory. I think I'm just a couch potato too :)

D said...

@Soulmate: I'm not a TV buff either. I think I can live without TV.

@Mumbai Diva: Hey! How are you? Long time....

@SMM: Watching the news is a conscious act of knowledge upgradation for me. Otherwise, I'd skip it mostly.

@Alec Smart: I'm far from a couch potato actually!

jayashri said...

I watch any program which has to do anything with CIA, FBI, NYPD. Few shows I watch are criminal minds, white collar, covert affairs, law and order suv etc

Pooja Mahimkar said...

Not much of a tv buff. But ya a nice movie on tv is enough to keep me happy! :) and ya I do watch sometimes the shows u mentioned some of them of course

Chandni said...

dude, if u're watching all this on TV, you're a TV junkie, best defined!!!!

I watch movies on TV mnostly, coupled with HIMYM, Friends, Modern Family, Animal Planet and Nat goe.

D said...

@jayashri: Those are just the programmes I never watch - use too much of my brain :P

@Pooja: I hate movies, especially if I have to watch them on TV.

@Chandni: I don't watch all these shows everyday, all the time. In fact, I watch TV on mute usually! So, no way am I a TV junkie.

Indian Home Maker said...

I like to keep NDTV 24X7/CNN IBN/Times Now/Headlines Today/Discovery and Fox History channel on even while not sitting and watching.

Love heated discussions on subjects of interest,on any news channel.

And I enjoy watching movies sometimes, sometimes randomly, sometimes planned and waited for.

Iya said...

All i have to say is that you watch a lot of TV!! LOL

I watch desperate housewives, and re runs of friends and sex and the city, and i dont want to think what that makes me!

mysoulitude said...

Like Soulmate, my fav is NDTV Good Times, which so much like her, I don't get in my PG. I also watch lot many cookery shows, but like you don't spend much time in the kitchen. And even if I do, the dish turns out to be a flop, or I forget half of the ingredients! What's the use of watching, I don't know. I also watch NDTV 24/7 and Big Boss. And yes, strangely, now Balika Vadhu, I never thought I would find it so interesting one day.

D said...

@IHM: I love debates too, as long as the questions aren't rhetoric.

@Iya: But I don't watch too much TV! I could easily live without television actually.

@mysoulitude: Sounds a lot like me.

Ayan Roy said...

I don't have a TV right now, but I catch up on some TV shows on the Internet (recorded). I used to watch a lot of TV in my school and college days, till about 5 years back. Whenever I have got a chance in the last few years, this is what I have seen, or have been hooked to over the years:
1. Star Trek "The Next Generation"
2. Star Trek "Voyager"
3. Babylon 5 (one of the best science fiction series of all time ever)
4. Whose Line is it Anyway, U.S. series (too funny)
5. The Apprentice, UK (Lord Sugar) -- one of the best ever "business" reality shows. Really classy and educative.
6. Any cricket match anywhere - past or present
7. English Premier League Football
8. UEFA Champions League Football
9. Indian Premier League Cricket
10. History Channel - random shows
11. Animal Planet - random shows
12. "Lie to Me" a classy psychological detective series
13. I too have watched 1 season of MTV Roadies and 1 season of MTV Splitsvilla, 2 years back.
14. Occasional English movies on Star Movies and other movie Channels like Zee MGM, Hallmark etc.

I don't like the shrill news channels too much. I also don't watch any of the "Saas-Bahu" serials English soaps.

Looking at this I can say that I am a science fiction junkie, a cricket fanatic and a football lover, with lighter interests in few more diverse areas.

Monika said...

I dont watch TV.... used to watch master chef when it was coming the aus and the US version not Indian...

sometimes when I put it on it is usually either friends of NDTV good times

..Insane.. said...

I used to watch NDTV Good Times most of the time when I was in India. Here I am not privileged to have it, So I have to rely mostly on the stuff which is uploaded on Internet..!

You are spending good amount of time watching the stuff :)

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