After reading the thread about the BBC series Around The World In 80 Days, it got me thinking. Most BBC dramas these days stream all the episodes on iPlayer, and yet on that thread it was clear that some people still watch each episode as it appears in the TV listings, usually waiting a week between episodes.
So, what do you do? Do you:
a) watch the whole series on iPlayer, either binge watching, or watching one or two episodes a night?
Or
b) do you watch one episode at a time, waiting patiently (or impatiently?) for the next episode a week later?
I’m definitely team a), mainly because I’m impatient, but also because I’d probably forget what happened last week if I had to wait that long . But anyway, if all episodes are available, why wait?
Exactly my thoughts Chillie. I’ll usually watch the first 2 episodes back to back, then watch one episode a night thereafter. Though often I watch the last 2 episodes back to back as well if the penultimate one is a real cliffhanger!!
I don’t get most catch up services given that programs are repeated all the time somtimes for years. I posted a Freedom of Information request to the BBC a few years ago asking what percentage of their peak time viewing as repeats and I as shocked by the response.
But to the question of the iPlayer I cannot remember the last time I used it as I watch very little on the BBC and certanly not the recent Round tye World in 80 Days as the first episode turned me off.
I am B, but know if I miss an episode I can watch it before the next weeks is on.
The only series I binge watch are ones I haven’t seen, like GOT, not on TV now or on DVD & I have the DVD’s.
Years ago, before we had all this streaming, catch-up, record, pause, etc. I used to ‘binge read’ books, and often forgot to go to bed until the small hours (or sometimes, the not so small hours ).
Guess books are old time equivalents to streaming. Each chapter is like an episode.
Yes you can get caught up in the story, just read another page, and poof the time has flown by
That is fine for those with a semi decent internet download speed, but mine is absolutely crap! Sometimes I’m lucky if I can receive 2meg but usually its just below 2, so iPlayer just bogs down. I have no option but to watch things live as it hits my TV aerial.
With any series, I will watch one episode a day, unless there is something else on I want to see on that day. I really can’t relate to people who binge-watch and see everything all at once. I only watch TV for a few hours a day and can’t sit in front of it continually.
Yeah, I guess there’s something to be said for delaying gratification . Not me, though, I’m too impatient!
Oh that’s a toughie LD, how frustrating. Anything in the offing to address the issue? Is it your provider, or an issue where you live? My brother had that problem where he lives, but it was sorted out a year or so ago and it’s made a huge difference.
Oh it doesn’t have to be too complicated for me to forget, haha!
Welcome to team a) Pauline
I’m generally pretty much the same. I get too fidgety to sit looking at the TV for too long, I need to be doing something. But sometimes, very rarely, I have been known to watch 3 episodes back to back. It is very rare, and only when the series is so very edge-of-the-seat stuff! Watching 2 episodes is less rare, but even then I don’t often do it, just one a night suits me perfectly.
Unfortunately for me, I’m connected by overhead wires AND I’m the last connection from the connection cabinet, then to compound already dire issues, my local connection cabinet is the furthest from the area repeater station. We were promised cable from the government’s broadband uplift, but that has only just started to be laid and even that is on the far side of town away from my location.
@LongDriver Oops, I have only just realised that my last comment could have been perceived as being rather critical, patronising even. It really wasn’t meant that way!! Just an observation of how massively our lives have changed over time to the point where a poor internet connection can quite severely impact our day to day lives.
. But anyway, if all episodes are available, why wait?
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. Not me, though, I’m too impatient!
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