When I would try to get him to do something else other than sit in front of the mind numbing set, he would object, sometimes strenuously.
Boy do I know that feeling!!!!!!!!!!!!! Once I even turned the TV off to try to talk to him, and he immediately turned it back on. We actually had a sorta fight over that which caused me to walk right out the room. He is obsessed with TV. I have even, in the past, tried to seduce him in which he only craned his neck around me to watch the tv and ignored me. In the early years, if I would even talk while a show was on, he would get highly annoyed with me. So it has become his life *sigh*