I don't have cable so I don't see that stuff. I don't watch much on commercial television, so I miss most of that. I use NetFlix a lot and if guests are over and we turn on the TV to stream something we always look for a film everyone will enjoy. If I pick a movie to surprise someone with, it's because I know them so well that I'm sure they'll enjoy it (you should have seen a couple of friends the first time they saw Peter Sellers' Being There - it was as much fun to watch them as it was to watch the movie.)

It was a bit naive to play all of those programs without sounding out the group first, but perhaps the person with the recordings was very young? Maybe your friend should have limited his daughter to sharing just one episode.

SRS