passive viewing 

Passive viewing, watching TV programme or parts thereof, not of your choice to which you've been "exposed."

It is passive viewing if you are watching a television programme you don't particularly want to see, either because you've caught a part of it while changing channels, or by selecting the wrong channel.
Suffering a programme because you are in the company of someone who wants to watch it is passive viewing.

passive viewing by Doghouse Riley October 14, 2007