Comments | jlormberget: Excuse my French

jlormberget

Excuse my French - Fucking TIVO

May 23, 2007 21:56

Who the hell won American Idol.

For those of you on the west coast. Don't click on Comments if you don't want to know. Someone please tell me.

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blessed02 May 24 2007, 03:06:35 UTC

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070524/ap_on_en_tv/tv_american_idol;_ylt=Av_HBdmzzr_xm9C.RL5FD2Ws0NUE

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blessed02 May 24 2007, 04:15:45 UTC

Eric just now cussed out loud (VERY LOUD) because our DVR just cut it off, too. Is it the same channel as The Office? The Office does that to me, too.

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blessed02 May 24 2007, 04:26:19 UTC

I looked on the NBC.com website last time it happened, and The Office was scheduled to start, according to NBC.com, at something like 7:42 (???) and my DVR guide had it starting at 7:40. So it taped the DVR-guide schedule, plus 1 minute over, which of course was 1 minute LESS due to NBC.com's wacky schedule.

My DVR definitely taped 2 hours and 2 minutes of AI tonight, but to no avail.

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_vivace_ May 24 2007, 07:38:04 UTC

It wasn't TiVo's fault it was Fox's fault. The show ran :10 minutes long! Typical competitive channel scheduling, comething you can easily exploit on live shows - I remember it happening way back when I worked in tv news.

Anyway, if you want to view the segment that ran over just so you can enjoy Jordin's repeat of her crying at the end of that awful This is My Now song, the clip is posted all over the place. Like here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6hIS3rCKR8

Now that that's over, I can move on to So You Think You Can Dance. I presume you're gonna watch?

jlormberget May 24 2007, 13:55:44 UTC

Yes, I guess you're right it is Fox's fault. It is just easy to blame Tivo.

I already have TiVo set up to record SYTYCD. The early shows are kind of lame because bad dancing isn't as funny as bad singing, but I'll really get into it once they narrow it down to the really good people.

mobwife May 24 2007, 16:57:51 UTC

I see it paid off to skip Tivoing AI all together in favor of LOST! I just turned on the last 5 minutes - which of course turned into the last 10+ minutes! - of AI to see who won. I have thwarted TiVo for once!

jlormberget May 24 2007, 21:31:31 UTC

I'm so mad at myself for not just fastforwarding past the BS so I could just see who won. If I'd done that I would have caught it in time to watch it live. Doh!

spedtchr May 24 2007, 17:54:48 UTC

You're the second person I've seen who's TIVO didn't catch the winner. I'm wondering if our DVR did the same. Of course Stupid MSN had the winner plastered on their homepage, so I got my info that way this morning. Eh...

spedtchr May 24 2007, 21:29:30 UTC

You probably missed it too. The show ran 10 minutes long!!! Most DVR's are just hardwired to record for the scheduled time. There would be no way for the DVR to know that the show ran late unless the network had let them know ahead of time. I know I can't be the only one who got the shaft.

jlormberget May 24 2007, 21:30:09 UTC

Oops, that was me. I guess I wasn't logged in to my own page.