I prefer football highlights (then I can choose not to watch if Everton lose).

I don't crave knowledge before hand about music so much, I prefer the thrill of hearing that as unencumbered as possible but prior to purchasing films on D.V.D. I do my research. We cannot get out to the cinema due to our caring obligations so over the years we have built a pretty substantial film library (currently stands at 1500+ titles) It makes perfect sense to check new films out before parting with any cash.
I do the same with books and electronics.....and like Jack, the footie!

and look up the ending. Odd, I know, but I often find it easier to relax and enjoy something if I know how it finishes.

you are a strange bunch - what happened to the joy if surprise at the the ending to a movie, ha!

IMDB is certainly the most used app on our iPad, thanks to Mrs. Dadwardo's obsession with casting and demanding the answer to "where do I know him from?"

If I ever have time to kill in the afternoon I sometimes go to the cinema and select any movie and pay to see it.

I saw Total Recall like that and walked out absolutely buzzing with excitement afterwards, "It was set on Mars it was!"

Another time I saw a Dennis Quaid film called "Frequency" and half way through convinced myself it was about aliens. They kept looking up to the sky and that was enough to convince me. There were no aliens in it.

The best though was the time I saw The Sixth Sense knowing only it was massively popular and had not heard a whisper about any surprise ending or anything else. Two minutes from the end the plot had resolved itself and I was thinking "What a massive waste of time" and then his ring hit the floor and my jaw went with it. The credits started rolling and I thought "That is a masterpiece" I was extremely lucky to see it like that.

It is without question the best way to see a film, no preconceptions, no unfulfilled expectations, just let it wash over you.

"Etre et Avoir", because a chum fancied seeing it. Knew nothing about it, just went along for the hell of it.
Spent the first part of it thinking "This is an interesting narrative style - unusual way to start a film" etc etc, till I realised (later on than you'd expect) that it was, in fact, a documentary and not fiction. Oops!

My wife hates watching anything that is designed to keep you in suspense with me; I'm banned from the soaps for instance (a good thing really!)because I like to know the plotlines weeks in advance. I will google a film as I'm watching it, and at the least read reviews, at worse read the plotline somewhere.

But also I've sat through too many films/tv programmes that were a complete waste of time, where the outcome was not worth the time spent watching it. I don't mind avoiding that these days.

There are exceptions to that, Christopher Nolan, Tim Burton; those guys I will go in cold and let them take me wherever they're going to go. But mostly I hate (bad)surprises.

for you sick sick people

On a slightly different tack, I was at university with a girl who was thoroughly plot dyslexic. We watched Die Hard 2 together and she was constantly asking very basic questions about why Bruce's car was being towed away, who was he talking to now and the "twist" half way through completely blew her mind she couldn't understand what the frick was going on.

I may sometimes look up the outline of a film simply becasue of the number of times that the opening half hour has been so tortuous that having an inkling why something is being shown, helps to follow the plot.
As far as television is concerned, I don't understand it at all. I'm a Corrie watcher and it now seems to be the case that the fact that the makers "leak" story lines in advance allows them to signpost the upcoming plotline with knowing metaphorical winks in the preceding episodes. I'm now not sure what info I'm expected to consume in advance and which ones I'm not. I had a discussion on Usenet last year when I complained that someone discussing a tram crash should have said it contained spoilers only to be told that "everyone" knew about it so it wasn't really a spoiler! It seems that if you watch certain television shows (I don't, and can't remember which they are now) then hearing soap spoilers is pretty impossible to avoid.

Any film where the ending has already been spoiled (like that one), I won't watch. A friend is eager for me to watch the Dewey Cox comedy, but he's already told me a load of the jokes, which means I now don't want to watch that either.

If a new book comes out by someone I like, I make a point of not reading the back cover before I start it.

Pretty much the opposite then!