Vera Klocke and Maren Hartmann focus in this article on television today as a highly networked medium. The social practice of watching television is no longer bound to a specific device, but can take place on various devices, some of which only result in 'television' when they are brought together. In this article, these different material articulations that can accompany television are analysed through a domestication lense, with a particular emphasis on the concept of ontological security. It is argued that the material manifestations of routines are an important element in the development and maintenance of a household's ontological security and that it is precisely the linkages of the various devices that sustain this. Based on this analysis, we ask to what extent the concepts and categories of the domestication approach can be used, but also extended, in order to profitably apply them to the study of contemporary media households. It is argued that precisely the study of the 'old' medium of television, which is accompanied by a conceptual blurring, provides useful insights into current domestication processes of technology. The article draws on an ethnographic study in Berlin households, which used participant observation, thick description and visual methods to investigate the processes of media appropriation. This article argues that it is precisely this kind of time-intensive investigation that is necessary to capture the small things that are part of the material articulation of television today.