Poll: What's the best night to watch TV?
By Richard Lawler 
posted Nov 21st 2009 2:00PM
posted Nov 21st 2009 2:00PM
posted Nov 21st 2009 2:00PM
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The ONLY program I have recording on Tuesday is "V." It has to be either Monday or Thursday. But Maybe Thursday just looks fuller because of the NBC comedy. 4 programs covering 3 hours.
what about Sunday? HBO...
@Justin Brown "I'm Larry David and I happen to enjoy wearing women's panties."
Thursday all the way. Parks & Rec, the Office, Grey's Anatomy, 30 Rock. I spend all week trying to catch up on what I miss on Thursdays
can't seem to vote, but i'd say Thursday. fringe and 30 rock.
Dexter airs on Sundays, so None of the above ;)
@Epyon
Doh, that was supposed to be there, adding.
@Epyon yeah dexter is fantastic. although i'm really not sure how i truly feel about using the dad as often as the show does... still a great GREAT series.
I don't even know when any of my shows are on anymore. DVR controls my life
@delphinus87 Yep, I am the same way. I pretty much have no idea when shows air. The only thing I watch live is Football on sundays.
Any night you want. When you DVR it baby..
How about any or ALL of them. As I have a DVR and I could careless about when my favorite show airs. As I never watch it the night it airs in the first place!. I have a TIVO HD! :)
Depends on the time of year and if you're a football fan . Sundays right now with Curb , Dexter , Simpsons , Family Guy , and Sunday Night Football . Mondays now has Monday Night Football , the CBS comedies and Heroes (I know it's slipped badly , but soon Chuck will be back which is the better show anyway). Thursdays with Survivor , The Mentalist , Office and 30 Rock on NBC - Community stinks and Parks and Rec is an Office ripoff - not funny at all !
I don't understand the question... ;p
How about Saturday? Why is that day not included in the list?
Friday for me I have star wars clone wars, Stargate Universe, Monk, White Collar, Sanctuary, and Smallvile.
What's the best day to watch TV? Whenever I have time. Haven't DVRs rendered this question irrelevant?
@mmaestro The question is, which night has your DVR recording the best shows.
@Will I don't even know. Occasionally I'll notice something I want to add to the DVR list, but I really don't know what's on when. I just look to see what's been recorded and start from there.
I agree with several other posters. The question should be: "What's the best night to RECORD tv?"
And in the case of most networks other than ABC, NBC, CBS, FOX then even that becomes muddy since most of the others re-air episodes multiple times after the original airing. So if you have limited ability to record more than one thing it becomes less of an issue since on USA, TNT, Discovery, etc you can pick and choose multiple options to record an episode of your favorite shows.
That having been said, I usually have all 6 of my tuners recording just about non-stop on Mondays, Thursdays, and Fridays.
People watch TV when things are aired? So much for the TiVo generation. Dumb poll.
For me, right now at least, Monday (How I Met Your Mother, Anciently On Purpose [I didn't think I would like this, but it has grown on me], Two and a Half Men and The Big Bang), Wednesday (Glee, Modern Family, Mythbusters) and Thursday (Bones, Fringe, Office and Community).
Though, since Bones is my favorite, I would have to pick Thursday.
Can't wait for Chuck and Rules of Engagement to Ruturn next year.
Looks like a lot of you are completely missing the point of this poll. Of course there are many people who don't watch the show when it airs. I don't have any kind of dvr or even cable, yet I tend to watch all of my shows for the week on Sundays. Its not about what day you actually watch it, its what dayhas the best programming. For me it's Thursdays. I go from Seinfeld (fox syndication) to Flashforward, then the office, then 30 rock if i'm at home. If i'm out then I download all of that plus community, and up until last week I grabbed project runway for the wife.
@Punchdrunkbrian Also does nobody care at all that no matter who you get service from you get a drop in quality every time you record something? I'd rather watch something live than the recording any day of the week.
@Punchdrunkbrian: Um, why would you get a quality drop from recording? The age of analog TV is basically over - almost everything I record is in HD, and DVRs just capture the digital bitstream to disk instead of pushing it to a decoder. So it doesn't matter when you watch it, the quality will be 100% the same as when it was recorded. If it doesn't, there's something wacky about your DVR.
@demon righ, because your dvr saves a completely uncompressed copy of the original broadcast, that's logical. I'm not talking about playing a vhs too many times and wearing it down, i'm talking about maximizing hard drive space when recording. I promise you, the quality is lower.
@Punchdrunkbrian actually...that is how they work. Your DVR doesn't have the horsepower to transcode or compress anything.
@RichardLawler i'm just going off of my experience with comcast and my tech support experience for fios. With comcast I noticed more compression artifacts and a drop in audio quality on the recording vs the live broadcast, and when I worked for fios we were trained that compression is the name of the game.
@Punchdrunkbrian I've heard of dynamic range compression on audio on dvrs, but for the video that is not true. It's a direct copy, on FiOS and Comcast. I'm pretty sure they use the same hardware.
@RichardLawler I suppose I could concede that I was looking for video compression and tricked myself into finding it, but the one thing I know for sure is when watching a recording of Lost one week the rain in the surround channels kept cutting out randomly, while it didn't do it live. So the audio I will hold my ground on, but with video i'm reluctantly willing to compromise. Since I only have OTA right now I can't test it, so i'll leave that up to everyone else.
Tuesday is my favorite night, but only for a couple more weeks. V and Sons of Anarchy are both awesome shows, but they will both be over soon. After they go, then Thursday becomes my favorite night with Fringe!
It's between Sunday and Thursday...Sunday has Showtime and HBO...Thursday has NBC comedy not to mention FX...It's Always Sunny is the funniest show on TV and the League is a great new show as well actually hilarious new show. But really how could nobody have said anything about It's Always Sunny yet?
@milksteak I started watching Sunny a couple weeks ago and i'm just about to start season 5. I absolutely agree with you though, I hadn't seen real comedy until this show. But so far, I have no idea what night it airs on, because i've only watched the downloads since then.
I definitely think Monday has the best line-up, regardless of what demographic you're in.
I personally like House and How I Met Your Mother.
For women there's Gossip Girl and One Tree Hill.
For sports you've got Monday Night Football.
Something for everyone.
Far and away, most of what I watch is originally aired on Friday.
Monday: Big Bang Theory and Heroes
Tuesday: V
Thursday: Fringe
Friday: Star Wars: The Clone Wars, Eureka (off-season), Dollhouse (off-season), Smallville, Sanctuary, Stargate Universe, Doctor Who (off-season, and recently doing one-shots instead of regular seasons) and (which I don't keep on the DVR - watch and delete) Wolverine and the X-Men and Batman: The Brave and the Bold (comic fan).
Saturday: Torchwood (off-season; last season was all in one week, with 5 1-1/2 hour shows instead of the normal BBC 7-episode seasons) and Primeval (also off-season)
Sunday: My church TV show (which I edit, and watch to verify it was aired correctly), and Merlin (off-season)
Easily SUNDAY.
Entourage
True Blood
Dexter
Amazing Race
Bored to Death
Pawn Stars
Sunny is on Thursday. It's only a happy coincidence that 30 Rock, Fringe, and The Office are on the same night. If only Modern Family were Thursday night it would be perfect.
Not that it matters, I download them all anyway.
NBC Thursday Night is the dominate force of TV
Sunday- Dexter and Family Guy
Tuesday- V
Wednesday- Glee
Thursday- Flashforward