Adult Sims are less likely to autonomously watch Kids Network if Toddlers/Children/Teens aren't nearby.
Fixed in Patch 1.58.63
Added back
This has been an issue for me too now that my children are toddlers/children. I don't mind if the family wants to watch the children's channel together when they're idle, but it really bothers me when it cancels out the queue I have and takes priority over EVERYTHING. Sometimes my sims are doing important things or needing to satisfy a really low need but they cancel their actions to go watch TV (or play with the doll house).
I hope this gets balanced a bit in one of the next patches.
I can confirm that as of the latest patch and Laundry Day, this is still a problem in my game. My Sims just had their baby age into a toddler on my current file, and now neither of them will stop watching the kids channel autonomously. Prior to his age-up, one of them would usually default to the sports channel, which made sense given that she's a bro. The other one typically defaulted to the cooking channel, I assume because she's creative and has the master chef aspiration. When it wasn't those channels, they would often turn on a movie. Now it's all kids channel all the time and they keep giving themselves that annoying bored moodlet because of it. Neither of them have the childish trait. The first one has the Bro, Loves the Outdoors, and Self-Assured traits. The other one has the Family-Oriented, Creative, and Good traits.
