The present invention relates to a television program selection system, a recommendation method for recommending a selected television program and a recording method for recording a selected television program. Therefore, in a storage face data of one or more users and preference data associated to the face data are stored, wherein said preference data indicating preferences of the user. A camera captures an image of a user. A recommendation device then searches the attribute data of television programs currently available and selects in case that the captured image corresponds to one of the stored face data at least one television program having attribute data matching the associated stored preference data for display, recommendation, recording or other processes.