The difference with watching repeats is that it is the viewer's choice if he watches something he has seen before or knows the plot to.

Yeah, but how am I supposed to do entertain myself during those extra 4.8 years I'm alive if not by watching repeats of Kojak?

To stop my children watching endless repeats on the bloody disney channel in the morning I insisted that they can only watch the news in the morning.

And the real Thesiger is seen in the film as Brendan Fraser, as Whale's gardener, sits at a bar watching televised repeats of the original 1935 Bride of Frankenstein.

The only ghetto Maija had ever seen was watching repeats of "GoodTimes".

Later we check into a Tudor coaching inn with sloping ceilings and low beams, and drift asleep watching endless repeats of Come Dine With Me.

When you start watching repeats of The Good Life and Yes Minister it is probably time to go home.

I wasn't dressed and was watching repeats of 'Ally McBeal,' and I heard, 'It's Dean,' " Ms. Levine remembered.

So now I just sit at home all day watching endless repeats of Murder She Wrote and smoking crack.

And they know there are alternatives to watching repeats in the summer.