Before I got married, I didn't even have a TV. Enough other activities took up my time. I find most TV programming quite vapid, personally. We now have two TVs, one in the family room, one in my wife's sewing room. My wife went on a quilting cruise and neither of those TVs were turned on in the entire 11 days she was gone.
If you get to thinking you’re a person of some influence, try ordering somebody else’s dog around.