Ooh, I (or rather, edna the telly computer) can do actual data for this...
Top 10 for the last 12 months:
| Shows | | | Rank | Channels | | |
| Title | Recorded | Last Recorded | # | Title | Recorded | Last Recorded |
| Numb3rs | 144 | December 2 2010 | 1 | BBC 1 London | 228 | December 5 2010 |
| The Mentalist | 82 | December 5 2010 | 2 | FIVE | 201 | December 6 2010 |
| Scrapheap Challenge | 63 | December 5 2010 | 3 | BBC 2 England | 159 | December 4 2010 |
| House | 54 | November 11 2010 | 4 | BBC FOUR | 133 | December 4 2010 |
| Click | 52 | December 5 2010 | 5 | Five US | 124 | December 6 2010 |
| Hex | 47 | November 1 2010 | 6 | More4 | 98 | December 5 2010 |
| Mad Men | 47 | December 4 2010 | 7 | Channel 4 | 85 | December 1 2010 |
| Damages | 46 | November 11 2010 | 8 | BBC 1 NI | 64 | December 6 2010 |
| Panorama | 45 | December 6 2010 | 9 | BBC THREE | 58 | December 6 2010 |
| See Hear | 40 | December 1 2010 | 10 | ITV3 | 54 | December 1 2010 |
Unfortunately, that's our most commonly *recorded* TV rather than what we actually watch. It's biased towards frequently broadcast programmes that get auto-expired to free disk space and then later re-recorded, so the stuff we *really* like (and therefore doesn't actually spend that much time hanging around on disk) is under-represented.
As such, a lot of these programmes are the sort of thing we like to have a couple of recent episodes recorded in case we retrospectively find out the programme was interesting (Click, Panorama, See Hear), and those where due to inconsistent listings MythTV has been unable to determine that a showing is a repeat of a previously-recorded episode (Numb3rs, Mentalist, Scrapheap) and recorded endless duplicates.
Peering at the full list (that's the limit of my patience for munging HTML into SMF markup), in terms of what's actually watched, I'd say the top ten ought to go, in no specific order:
Mad Men
Doctor Who
NCIS
Survivors
Being Erica
Heroes
Being Human
Spooks
Ashes To Ashes
Flashforward
The list is, naturally, biased against programmes with fewer episodes, which includes films and all the random documentaries we've watched, which cumulatively add up to quite a lot.
I assume actual programmes-watched stats are a work in progress. I look forward to seeing them (and hopefully using the data for weighting scheduling priority).
The channel stats are, I think, a reasonable representation of our viewing habits. BBC1 appears twice, as MythTV has all the regions in the database (it's a DVB-S tuner) as variations in timing are occasionally useful for avoiding scheduling conflicts.
