Filtering television content based on viewer classifications

A system for filtering content items in a streaming service, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• one or more memories that are coupled to the one or more processors and storing program instructions, which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to perform operations comprising:
• classifying a user of a streaming service into one of a plurality of groups based on watch behavior of the user in a first past period, wherein each of the plurality of groups is associated with one of a plurality of tags;
• recommending a plurality of channels to the user based on watch behavior of the user in a second past period, wherein each of the plurality of channels is associated with one of the plurality of tags;
• removing one or more channels from the plurality of recommended channels to the user, wherein each of the one or more removed channels is associated with a tag contrary to the tag associated with the group that the user has been classified into;
• and
• displaying one or more content items from each of remaining channels of the plurality of recommended channels on a streaming device of the user.

A method of filtering content items in a streaming service, comprising:

• classifying a user of a streaming service into one of a plurality of groups based on watch behavior of the user in a first past period, wherein each of the plurality of groups is associated with one of a plurality of tags;
• recommending a plurality of channels to the user based on watch behavior of the user in a second past period, wherein each of the plurality of channels is associated with one of the plurality of tags;
• and
• displaying the plurality of recommended channels on a streaming device of the user, wherein the displaying of the plurality of recommended channels includes flagging one or more channels from the plurality of recommended channels to the user that conflicts with a classification of the user.