What's on your DVR?

[libraryvixen]

Originally Posted by Babette

Waaaa! I miss Veronica Mars, but at least we will see some of the actors on other shows. Veronica on Heroes, Logan on Moonlight and Piz on Private Practice. Remember the great line in the spin-off set-up on Grey's Anatomy? The ladies watched Piz/Dell leave to go surfing at lunch and one says something like, "The show repeats in an hour, only it's wet."

I miss Veronica Mars too. That was the bedrock of my Gilmore/Mars night. Now they're both gone!

Don't forget, Kristen Bell (fondly, Veronica) is the narrator in Gossip Girl as well!
PS... Piz is all that and a bag of chips with no shirt on. Though... I'd eat that bag of chips off his chest muscles.... *sigh*

[AllyOops!]

With the Fall Season arriving, it's time to start programming my DVR (which I always refer to as "TiVo" for some reason)!

What's on my DVR at this moment?

The Simpsons~ Both first-run & repeats. I never remove The Simpsons. I have so many episodes saved that I watch again & again.

My Boys~ It's time to remove My Boys since they just ended their season. I love this show!

Almost everything I watch is syndicated. I love repeats. I rarely tune into the major networks- I'm far too cable happy. I watch endless Simpsons, Friends, heavily edited Sex & the City, all of the Law & Orders, and Family Guy on KTLA, Fox, TNT & TBS. It doesn't matter if I have them on DVD- I still tune in. I must have familiarity issues! I'm almost always doing something else when watching TV whether it be reading, crossword puzzles, chores or anything else, so with repeats I'll never really miss anything I haven't seen before.

I have to add Heroes. I'm obsessed with that show, but Monday Night Football comes first. I tuned into Gossip Girl the other night. I was instantly hooked! I love girly shows like The Hills, too, and I love the E! channel. Golly, I watch a lot of TV!

[Ghoulish Delight]

I would like to thank Katiesue for making my list look downright sparse.

[libraryvixen]

My TiVo, like Netflix, is a cesspool of my guilty pleasures. I won't lie.. I'm WAY over the MTV demographic age yet I watch a ton of it. I secretly watch My Super Sweet 16 and Engaged & Underage when B is nowhere around. These shows are horrible like a vat of lard on a hot day, yet I watch them.

[Capt Jack]

DVR...thats like....TV..right?

pass

[katiesue]

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I would like to thank Katiesue for making my list look downright sparse.

There are actually a few more but I can't remember what's been cancelled or not.

[Kevy Baby]

Originally Posted by Alex

It is probably best if you just let that one [Comedy Central William Shatner Roast] slide by as a missed opportunity. I watched about 20 minutes of it and it was truly painful.

The Comedy Central roasts definitely have no redeeming value and are an insulting reminder of the old Dean Martin ones.

I guess this one is a guilty pleasure then. I have watched it a couple of times and love it. There are a few parts I skip (Andy Dick is an idiot), but there are some real gems in there (Betty White!).

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

Grumble.

So it turns out we had a Season Pass for "Survivor: Fiji", not "Survivor". Curse you CBS for embedding a variable in your show title when consumer DVR UI's aren't exactly offering regular expression searching at this point (though I don't doubt someone's got a Linux DVR solution that does). There are ways around it (which I will now have to do), but it would seem to be in CBS's best interest to just keep the title the same across seasons so it can be recorded using defaults without the extra steps of doing a keyword-based subscription.

Ah well, the upshot is that I thought to do a paranoia check a couple minutes in and caught that it wasn't recording. Just missed some of the intro hype (whcih I like to watch on Episode 1), but I can catch that online tomorrow.

If you are on TiVO (I can't recall if you are or aren't), create a keyword wish list set to record any program with "Survivor" in the title.

Originally Posted by Ghoulish Delight

I would like to thank Katiesue for making my list look downright sparse.

If I were to post my full list, it would be longer than Katiesue's. Which is sad.

[Ghoulish Delight]

Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

If you are on TiVO (I can't recall if you are or aren't), create a keyword wish list set to record any program with "Survivor" in the title.

See, that's the problem. That will get ANY show with "Survivor" in the title, not just Survivor. Of course, I could do "Survivor:" or, as I ended up doing, "Survivor" in the title, narrowed by genre to Action Adventure/Reality. That cuts out things like "Survivorman" or "Ultimate Survivor" (I don't know if that's a show, but I bet it is).

But that's all beside the point.

Like I said, I know how to get around the problem, but it's dumb of CBS to make me need to. Why would they want their show to NOT be recorded season-after-season by default?

[libraryvixen]

Bump.

I TiVoed "Chuck" last night and watched it later on in the evening. I absolutely loved it. Chuck is so dang loveable. I want nerd love.

Anyone else TiVoing any new shows this season?

[mousepod]

I'm checking out 22 new (scripted) series this season. I'm going to check out Chuck this afternoon. Of the 5 shows I've seen so far, none have jumped out as "instant classics". I'm going to give it a couple of weeks before the TiVo culling begins...