I now give up on ESPN
I set the TiVo up to record another overnight rerun last night of TILT.
The show didn’t start until a half hour into its time slot.
There’s a reason I barely watch THE SIMPSONS anymore, even thought I think it’s still funny. I can’t stand not knowing when it’s going to come on. I’m not going to make severe contingency plans during NFL football season. I won’t record for two hours hoping to get the show I’m looking for, particularly not when there are other things on in given time slots that I know WILL be airing at their appointed time.
Likewise, ESPN shoots itself in the foot by trying to do a drama series. Let me give the geniuses up in Bristol a tip: If you’re airing a drama in a 3 a.m. time slot, you have PLENTY OF TIME to fix the schedule after a live sporting event runs late the night before. Why don’t you cut out of the fiftieth repeat of that night’s SPORTSCENTER to give your expensive drama a chance to air unmolested in the middle of the night? Really, SPORTSCENTER is half your programming day. Cutting out a few minutes early of just one of those hours won’t kill you.
I don’t know how TV executives keep their jobs.
I won’t try to record TILT anymore. Not worth the effort. If I hear good things about it, perhaps I’ll try the DVD, but this whole situation has me bitter enough to not want to bother with that, either.
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22. January 2005 at 08:22
I’m still waiting to get a full TILT myself (and I have to review the show, so it’s doubly frustrating).
As for THE SIMPSONS, it started on time all through this football season. Fox has been cutting their pre-SIMPSONS shows to compensate for football overruns.
Of course, like too many other shows lately, THE SIMPSONS sometimes goes a minute over, but since I’m TiVo-ing ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT too, I don’t miss anything.
22. January 2005 at 19:10
So they finally figured out how to save SIMPSONS, eh? Good for them. I’ll catch it on reruns here and there.
I’m a DVD guy for ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT, though, I’m afraid.
Sundays used to be a logjam with ALIAS. ALIAS is gone, but BOSTON LEGAL is now around. Thus proving the old adage — if it’s not one thing, then it’s the other. however, it does clear out the 9 p.m. time slot that used to block me from watching ARRESTED DEVELOPMENT. Too little, too late.
25. January 2005 at 17:17
I hate to say it, but with Videora, I may never watch broadcast TV again. Up here in Canada we don’t get ESPN, so I started torrenting Tilt, then I started torrenting the episodes of Arrested Development. When I met Videora and found out that you can schedule shows to be downloaded as they come online, I was pretty much done with TV.