UNGH, that is hard to deal with.
If I really want to get into the dirty laundry, she subscribes to People magazine and (because she's not teaching school for the summer) she watches The View. And if a show's remotely related to something like The Bachelor(ette), she's not going to miss a moment about and then wants to talk about the contestants (about whom I know nothing and care even less).
And she has to watch the evening news to get her weather because she doesn't trust the weather from the internet.
I frequently worry about her.