I recommend reading, learning or hobbies over TV.
I recommend sitting on the patio, smoking a fine hand rolled on the thighs of virgins cigar, a fine top shelf cocktail and some tunes. Do that enough, and you can come back in and watch Food Network with the sound off and make up the dialogue as you go. Vast improvement.
I dunno, I don't like TV and prefer to watch movies that I know I like over something I may not like because I can't get that time back. When you reach a certain age, you accept your mortality and I don't wanna go while watching some crappy TV show but the plus is if I don't give a damn how it ends, so why not? Not like croaking right before Dr. Richard Kimball finds the one armed man. That would piss me off enough to come back in a terrible mood and probably do some serious haunting.