Until now mostly young people have been cancelling their cable TV service in favor of watching TV online.
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They could sit in their rooms watching TV while the phones ring off their hooks, the dirty dishes pile up in the sink, dinner burns on the stove and the babies scream their lungs out.
But think about how much time you spent immobile: in a car or cab, in an airplane seat, on a bus or shuttle, in a meeting room or at a restaurant, watching TV in your hotel room.
"You sit in your house watching TV, but you're not even watching it, you're dreaming about scoring, " he told BBC Radio Cumbria.
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In the latest study, the researchers from the Harvard School of Public Health asked 189 young men who were students at a university in New York to record how many hours they had been spending doing physical activity and watching TV in a typical week.
That's what happened to 18-year-old Stephanie Milan, who was watching TV in her family's Evansville, Ind.
They could be watching TV in their house, filling out the form and mailing it back out.
Men spend about five more hours per week in leisure activities like watching TV, playing games and sports, and others.
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But what if, instead, you could get that life-saving drug by slapping on a patch while sitting in your living room watching TV?
De La Rosa said he was watching TV in the trainer's room just before his start Tuesday night when he saw Blue Jays pitcher J.
Others who have studied the issue say the problem may lie as much in the act of watching TV--or playing videogames or surfing the Web--as opposed to playing outside.
In Tom Callahan's book on Woods, "His Father's Son, " he writes about the time Woods saw Garcia in the clubhouse watching a TV monitor and trying to cheer a player's putt out of the hole.
In the past, watching television meant tuning in to a TV network live.
Prisoners in Scotland's jails are spending too much time watching TV instead of taking part in activities to cut reoffending, MSPs have warned.
In time, fans began debating the benefits of going to the game in person versus watching it on TV.
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Mr. Rao notes that Brazilians like to use social media while watching TV, in particular soccer matches and soap operas.
And today I was playing almost three hours on court, and my opponent was watching the TV in the locker room.
By 2007, when I was juggling a two-year-old and a newborn, a little TV watching in the pre-early morning seemed pretty appealing.
Growing up, I always got in trouble for watching too much TV.
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In other words, small alterations in lifestyle - like watching less TV and doing something active - can bring about significant health benefits.
The company did say, however, that in the past year there has been a 157% increase in time spent watching movies and TV on Xbox.
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"I was sitting about six o'clock in the living room, watching TV, and I noticed a woman walking past the window with two dogs, " she said.
After spending a lot of time looking at the actual data coming from the federal government, I actually wrote on the subject in 2007 after watching Bernanke on TV, and watching how his face was saying one thing and his words were saying another.
You sit in the living room watching a cable TV talk show aimed at women.
More TV-watching in childhood was also linked to a greater likelihood for aggressive behaviors, negative emotions, and antisocial personality disorder.
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Mr. Peterson, 50, says he spends most weekends in the garage, watching the Packers or other games on TV with friends or working on motorcycles in his shop.
In the besieged towns, drinking, smoking, listening to music, watching soccer on TV and playing video games have been banned in what now seems to be a preparation for the creation of an Islamic state.
Anyway, this is from Paul Ream, who is probably watching this on TV somewhere in Madrid.
Ironically, overall TV watching, both in the United Kingdom and in the United States, is up.
Some other children were stricken later, when watching excerpts from the scene in TV news reports on the earlier victims.
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