Here are a couple of quotes from the Desiring God blog on the dangers of Television. While Piper may overstate his case a bit I think there is truth in his statements and a warning to be considered.
From “Take Care How You Listen! Part 2“:
It astonishes me how many Christians watch the same banal, empty, silly, trivial, titillating, suggestive, immodest TV shows that most unbelievers watch–and then wonder why their spiritual lives are weak and their worship experience is shallow with no intensity.
From “Advice to Pastors: How to Help Your People Be More Satisfied in God“:
Help your people to turn off the television. Few things in our culture are more spiritually numbing than the television. Even the so-called “good” shows are by and large banal and low-minded and anything but cultivating of a rich, deep capacity to enjoy God. And when you add to that the barrage of suggestive advertisements that accompany virtually every program, I do not wonder why so many of our professing Christians are spiritually incapable of experiencing high thoughts and deep emotions.
From “The Children, The Church, and the Chosen“:
Fathers are worked to a frazzle and so are too dogged to spend quality time with children; mothers are lured away from their little children to the work force; children have their own activities, and the one thing that pulls them all to the same room makes zombies out of them all: the television.
Television is one of those things that can be a gift of God but can also very easily become a vehicle for our sinful hearts to express and indulge themselves. We must learn to be discerning regarding both the quantity and the quality of the television we view.
May we live carefully and purposefully for the glory of Christ and the enjoyment of God.