Arrested Development moving to Mondays

At first, this news scared me, but now I think it's going to be okay. Monday Night Football just isn't the big scary beast it used to be. Other counter-programmed shows have done well against it (Everybody Loves Raymond), which could lead to new audiences finding the show. Those who are already fans will find it no matter when it's on. (If you're one of those fans, have you signed the pledge yet?)

Honestly, with Tivo, I'd have to think before I could tell you when most shows I watch are on live. There are things I can't wait to watch and I know what nights they show up on the Now Playing list, but it's nice not to HAVE to know, ya know?

Posted by tivogirl at 3:37 PM 0 comments  

Been meaning to watch Arrested Development? Here's your chance

Fox will be doing mini-marathons of Arrested Development for the next five Friday nights! They'll show all the episodes from the second season in order. If you've been meaning to watch this show -- the funniest thing on TV right now (followed closely by Scrubs and Reno 911) -- this is a great opportunity.

Don't want to jump in without seeing Season One? Head to the video store and rent it. Even if you have seen it, it's worth seeing for the terrific extras.

Posted by tivogirl at 11:10 AM 0 comments  

Great potential

Just heard about a new reality show debuting on ESPN on September 20. It's called Bound for Glory and will follow NFL legend Dick Butkus as he moves from Malibu to rural Pennsylvania to coach a high school football team. Now THIS has potential!

Butkus is hilarious and the team, which won just one game last year, has massive room for improvement. What do they get out of it? A new scoreboard, field maintenance and new uniforms for the team and the cheerleaders. Rumor has it former Laker Girl Paul Abdul may show up to at least temporarily coach the cheerleading squad, too.

ESPN's former experiments in original series have been hit or miss to say the least, but this sounds like a great idea!

Posted by tivogirl at 1:10 PM 0 comments  

Lost returns September 21st!

Ahh, summer. Crap on TV and nothing to do but wait for the good stuff to come back. At least we finally have a date to look forward to!

Posted by tivogirl at 10:44 AM 0 comments  

New place, new Tivos!

So we moved into a new place last weekend -- hence my absence from the site updates. I haven't watched much television lately, but seeing how Dancing with the Stars is the number one program in this country, I don't think I've missed much. The good stuff (Reno 911, Rescue Me, Sports Kids Moms & Dads) is waiting for me on my "old" DirecTV Tivo combo unit whenever I want to watch it.

Since we were moving, we took the chance to upgrade to HD, which means we purchased an HD DirecTV DVR (they don't call them Tivos anymore, but they do use the Tivo technology, or at least some of it). The first unit we got died two hours after we hooked it up. The HDMI port totally failed. Fun! So a trip to Best Buy and I had a replacement. The audio portion of the HDMI failed about three days later, but the video still works. Since it's all going through a receiver and Bose system anyway, we can live with it for now.

So far, HD is awesome and the new Tivo is really fast. Part of the reason is we haven't set up many season passes on it yet -- they're still running on the old unit (now in another room). The only drawback is we're in a condo and the contractors only ran one HD line to each unit from the dish on the roof, so we can't use the dual tuner capability. We may set up our own dish on the balcony to remedy this in the future (we already have an OTA HD antenna set up) but for now we'll just have to creatively distribute season passes amongst the three Tivos.

Did I say three?! Oh yes! Since we had a stand alone receiver for the bedroom, we purchased a stand alone Series 2 Tivo to go along with it! It's single tuner and non-HD, but we get all the nifty features that Tivo offers but DirecTV has yet to adopt. We can use our wireless network to get updates, transfer programs to our computers with TivoToGo and even schedule recordings remotely from the Web.

It rocks, but it makes us doubly upset that the other two Tivos don't have those capabilities just because DirecTV doesn't want to answer home networking questions on its tech support lines. If they'd step up, we wouldn't have to worry about which Tivo recorded which shows, because we could watch any show from any Tivo on any other Tivo in the place.

Oh well, maybe someday... tivogirl can dream.

Posted by tivogirl at 10:29 AM 0 comments