As an introvert, I find it stressful to watch TV shows about relationships after spending a day around people. Watching some sort of documentary/news/etc. is ok though. However, I hadn't thought consciously about this until reading the link.
Conversely, my extroverted wife enjoys watching shows about relationships, even when she's tired.
i know this position often comes off as smug, but I make an appeal to fellow hackers: try not watching TV for a few months as an experiment and see how creepy TV watching becomes.
Especially all the violence will shock you. Usually you get used to it when watching TV frequently and don't feel much when witnessing all the murders, beatings and rapes.
From the headline, I was expecting the correlation to be that more TV watching equals more loneliness. At least, that's been my experience. The years I spent without a TV were the most productive, and least lonely, of my life. (Of course, those years were also before the advent of the web, so there was a lot less time online, as well, which may be a factor.)
As David Mamet put it, "Everybody makes their own fun. If you don't make it yourself, it isn't fun. It's entertainment."
Try to use the time you watched TV to meet real people. It's very difficult at the beginning but after a few weeks or months you'll have a social life you never had before.
Back when I still used to watch TV, the only channel that I really liked simply brought either very early TV programs (from the days where TV was new to everybody), or documentaries/interviews from 20-30 years back in time.
Maybe nobody would believe it nowadays, but TV people (on both sides) were very different then (more attention to details, more patience, more regard to each other).
Every year coming, the whole scene is freezing a little more, they even take away both colors and light nowadays (in current movies), this whole artificial spectacle will finish in the dark...
Conversely, my extroverted wife enjoys watching shows about relationships, even when she's tired.