On average, Australians watch more than three hours of television a day, compared with 12 minutes a day spent by the average couple talking to each other.
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The average family spends 30 hours in front of a television, and they say they don't have the time to have a balanced, integrated life.
I probably watch less than one hour of television a week. And when I do watch television, it's usually a football game. Sometimes I'll watch a news broadcast for a few minutes. Otherwise, I don't have time.
It is commonly agreed that children spend more hours per year watching television than in the classroom, and far less in actual conversation with their parents.
I think it's terribly important to watch TV. I think there's a sort of minimum number of hours of TV a day you ought to watch, and unless you watch three or four hours of TV a day, you're just closing your eyes to some of the most important sort of stream of consciousness that's going on!
The fact is that daytime television is less valued than nighttime, and it's partly because of the product that we produce. We do a one-hour show in 12 hours. Nighttime produces a one-hour show in seven to nine days.
I write for a certain sphere of readers in the United States who on average watch seven and a half hours of multichannel television per day.
Hour-long TV is no joke. It tests you as a human being. It makes you a stronger person, but it's really crazy.
We have a lot of American TV in Australia. I grew up watching 'Seinfeld,' 'The Simpsons' and those prime time TV shows over the years that feature grown-ups and high school kids. We had a saturation of American voices.
Over the long hours of taping 5, 6 or 7 episodes a day, we develop a great sense of family.
When I was a kid, I just devoured TV 24 hours a day. Now that it's actually available 24 hours a day, I'm usually busy doing other stuff. But I do watch TV when I can.
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