The man says they don’t have any proper conversation in his family because they spend too much time watching ______.

W: Did you watch the movie on TV last night?
M: No. I’m thinking of getting rid of our TV set.
W: Why?
M: That’s not the point. The problem is that all our free time is taken up by the TV. We don’t have any proper conversation any more. The kids come back home just to have time for TV programs.
W: Yes. But don’t you think some of the programs are interesting?
M: Occasionally yes, but most of the time they’re rubbish. They’re either silly comedies or the sort of films filled with crime and violence.
W: But television is not to blame for that.
M: I’m sure it is. The TV has killed children’s creativity. It’s so easy to sit there watching others working.
W: I don’t quite agree with yon. Too much television is bad. But I think it is also teaching children many things. For example, what is going on in the world and how people live in other countries.
M: But that is the exception.
W: Anyhow, television is absolutely a good company to those who don’t work,  like housewives and lonely old people.
M: Well, you have a point there, but TV programs are full of lies.
W: You can be selective after all. You can always switch the program off if you don’t like it.