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What are we counting as "watching TV?"
If we're talking about traditional broadcast or cable TV, or online services like YouTube TV or Hulu live TV, etc. it's basically 0 and has been that way for years. Pretty much the only things I watch that way are the Superbowl, random bits of the Olympics, maybe the ball dropping on new years Eve if I'm at a party that I'm not hosting, some of the world series if my local team happens to make it, the very occasional breaking news story, and whatever my parents have on when I visit them.
If we're talking about sitting in front of the TV streaming something, it's significantly more.
If we want to split hairs, I work every other weekend, so on those weekends it's still pretty much 0. On weekends or other days that I'm off (the way my schedule works, my "weekends" might also be a Monday & Tuesday or a Wednesday & Thursday,) it could be a few hours. I work a weird night shift (3pm-3am) and I usually pretty much keep to that same schedule on my days off, while my wife and pretty much everyone else I know works a normal 9-5 kind of job, so it's usually pretty much just me and the dog left to entertain ourselves between about 10pm to maybe about 4 or 5 AM when I go to bed, and often a good chunk of that time will be spent in front of the TV in some fashion, sometimes actively watching stuff, sometimes just to have background noise while I work on other stuff.
I won't usually spend much if any time watching TV during the day until about 6PM or so, then my wife and I will usually watch something while we eat dinner.