I used to watch loads, I'd just be left in front of the TV for entertainment. My dad used to watch the news and documentaries, and thought everything else was crap, so loads of my earliest memories of TV are based around Northern Ireland, strikes, Cold War, etc. I remember all this (now) obscure stuff, like this bloke mistakenly getting shot by the cops, who thought he was some bank robber called David Martin, and Operation Bluestar, etc, and a heavy documentary about these joyriders in Belfast under attack from the IRA / UDA. I still get a tear in my eye whenever I hear 'The World At War' theme tune. Also used to love 'Bullseye' (laughing at it - we thought Jim Bowen was a cunt), 'Grange Hill' (I'm still in love with Justine) and 'The A Team', what a doss.
My mum watched a load of shit too depressing to mention. She used to stay up to watch all these horror films on BBC2, but she was too scared to watch them on her own, so she'd wake me up and make me sit there watching "Psychomania", "The Omen", "Blood on Satan's Claw", etc etc etc til closedown.
It's only really been the last couple of years I've completely stopped watching anything except the odd bit of 'Newsnight', cookery programmes, football / superbikes or documentaries that look interesting. Can't remember the last time I switched on Channel 4, it's like some vile, vicious pantomime for smug fucking halfwits. "Can fat mums on the dole get by in a Pakistan village, eating healthy, dahl-based dishes?" (that was actually on). All this from the channel that used to stick on 'Midnight Underground' and 'Devil's Advocate' in the 90s...sad.
I ought to get Sky, 'The Daily Show''s meant to be good.