What's on your TIVO?

[Exiled_Devil]

To avoid hijacking the Heroes' thread anymore, I want to reply to a comment Jason Evans made about who like which shows.

Here are the shows I record and watch regularly:

The Office
How I met your Mother
Family Guy
American Dad
My Name is Earl (go Jason Lee!)
CSI (the real one, not the scab cities)
Battlestar Galactica
Grey's Anatomy
Lost
Heroes

Other shows I like but are not on my TIVO
The Daily Show
Scrubs (just started watching the reruns on Comedy Central)
Good Eats

South Park
Nip/Tuck


Shows I am optimistically waiting the return of:
Entourage
Weeds
Futurama
Arrested Development
Firefly

I know some of those are waaay too optimistic.

I can't tell what demographic I fit...Geeky something or other

I have just realized that I watch too much TV.

Exiled

[willywoody]

my dvr has 3 shows from acl on high def.

wilco/ bright eyes/jim james /m ward
calexico/shins
raconteurs/cat power

the shins stunk it up but the other performances are great.

my wife regularly tivos grey's anatomy but i have her get rid of them asap.

[hc5duke]

At my previous residence, it was:
- The Office
- Prison Break
- King of the Hill (new eps)
- South Park (new eps)
- 30 Rock

Right now I would probably add:
- Black Donnelys (the premier was excellent I thought)
- Heroes (saw it for the first time this week)
- Just Shoot Me (is that bad? hmm...)

[JBDuke]

My DVR is set to record the following:

1. Anything with "Duke" and "basketball" in the description
2. PTI
3. Full Court Press (local sports talk show)
4. Ebert and Roeper
5. Meet the Press
6. How I Met Your Mother

It also records a lot of the following as "suggestions" for me:

Family Guy
Battlestar Galactica
The Daily Show
The Colbert Report
Frontline
Star Trek (in its various incarnations)

[BlueDiablo]

Right now, these shows are being regularly recorded and watched:

LOST
The Office
Ugly Betty
Heroes
Veronica Mars
Scrubs
Spaced (BBC America)
Peep Show (BBC America)
Hustle (AMC)
The Sopranos (Bravo - because I never saw them on HBO)
Avatar, The Last Airbender (Nick)
ETA: House. (Though I think this season is weaker than the show was the last two seasons.)

Several shows were on the DVR queue earlier this year, but have been cut, including: The Nine, 24, Jericho.

I just added the Black Donnellys, but I haven't watched it yet and I'm nto sure if I'll stick with it.

Man, I watch too much TV. Good thing I can skip through commercials.

[devil84]

My DVR has:

Duke Basketball games*
Hometime*
American Idol
To Iraq and Back: Bob Woodruff Reports (to watch because it conflicted with Pat Summit's appearance at the UT game, then we got into the game)
Oprah's Building a Dream (for my daughter, as homework conflicted)
Grey's Anatomy*
Desperate Housewives*
House*
Family Guy* (for my son)
Mythbusters
Last year's Drum Corps International Finals (from September)

(* = series is recorded)

Movies are generally recorded on the desktop computer w/tv tuner card, which is hooked up to the big screen HDTV for easy viewing (we wouldn't dream of archiving to CD!).

- della

[ehdg]

Hi my name is Erich and I'm a TV Aholic.

On my TIVO or that I regularly TIVO:

Brothers & Sisters
How I met your mother
Class
Prision Break
Studio 60
What about Brian
House
Gilmore Girls
The Unit
Jericho
Criminal Minds
Grey's Anatomy
Men in Tree's
Monk
Psyche
Numbers
Charlie Rose

I think I have a problem watching too much tv. LOL

[OZZIE4DUKE]

Duke Basketball with Coach K/Football with Coach Roof
The Sports Reporters
Survivor
Lost
The Amazing Race
Heroes
24
Jericho
NCIS
The Unit
CSI (original)
Boston Legal (Denny Crane!)
Medium
Ghost Whisperer (for my wife)
Bones
Numbers
Desparate Housewives
Las Vegas (for me!)
Gray's Anatomy
Monk

I think I spend too much time watching TV at night...

[Exiled_Devil]

)
Hustle (AMC)
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Awesome show!
It should have been on my" optimistically waiting" list.

I haven't seen it on AMC lately-do you know any news about it?

Exiled

[BlueDiablo]

Awesome show!
It should have been on my" optimistically waiting" list.

I haven't seen it on AMC lately-do you know any news about it?

Exiled

I'm not sure. I'm not sure how many seasons it ran in England. A typical BBC series is only six episodes, but shows sometimes last several seasons (and sometimes with long waits in between seasons - witness the long-running and excellent Prime Suspect with Helen Mirren).

IMDB claims that it's gone 3 seasons so far (which seems about right) and that there will be a fourth season to air in 2007 (without air dates). I don't know how much of a delay there is between the show airing in England and it hitting AMC.

It really is a fun show. It's clever and well-acted, even if the whole "nice guy con men" seems like it requires a huge suspension of disbelief.

[mr. synellinden]

Looking over these lists, I am shocked that I don't see House or Friday Night Lights listed very often, if at all. To me, they are by far the two best shows on television. House is one of the most brilliant characters of all time and the writing is consistently the best on TV. If they could make the supporting characters more 3-D, it could be historically good.

Friday Night Lights is the best thing on TV right now. In fact, it is the best TV drama that I can remember. I know that it doesn't get the ratings, and probably never will due to how real and sometimes depressing it is, but it is the most unique TV show out there in almost every aspect: subject matter, plot, story and character development, writing and most of all, the way it is shot. One reviewer acknowleded this in a review of this week's episode: http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethe...g_out_of_.html. Every episode of FNL is available on nbc.com and I can't recommend it highly enough. The good thing is that regardless of the ratings, I think it is here to stay because it supposedly has strong support from the top execs at NBC.

Other shows on my DVR are:

1. Lost - more and more disappointing with every week that goes by showing that there is not a clear direction of the story. This week's episode was atrocious

2. How I Met Your Mother - I have no idea why I watch this show every week but I do

3. Survivor - not sold on this season/cast yet but that may be because so much time has been spent with the losing tribe, and we don't know enough about the luxury tribe yet

4. The Office

5. Sports Reporters - My Sunday morning feels empty without it

6. High Stakes Poker - if you play or like poker, there is nothing more entertaining and educational than watching the top pros play cash poker with hundreds of thousands of dollars of their own money. I have learned more about hold 'em poker from watching this show than all the playing I could ever do.

7. American Idol - yes, I'm hooked

Sometimes: Criminal Minds, Shark, Boston Legal

[elvis14]

I'm not sure I can even remember it all:

Duke basketball games (duh)
Heroes
The Office
24
Prison Break
American Idol
Medium
Bones
House
One Tree Hill
Survivor
Desperate House wifes
The Shield
Rescue Me
Nip/Tuck
Gray's Anatomy
Brothers & Sisters
Art Mann Presents
Studio 60
Dancing with the Stars
Black Donnelys (just added)
Dora the Explorer
Go Diego Go
Kim Possible
The Wonder Pets

I'll watch Men in Trees, Scrubs, Smallville, Las Vegas (Sam wow) but I don't DVR them.

[OZZIE4DUKE]

I'll watch ... Las Vegas (Sam wow) but I don't DVR them.

I like Sam, but it's Molly Sims that gets me

[tbyers11]

Shows the wife and I DVR

Heroes
Studio 60 (not anymore I guess. After SportsNight and West Wing would watch anything Sorkin does, although this show has been surprisingly uneven)
Anthony Bourdain:No Reservations (great travelogue focusing on food)
House
Gilmore Girls
Friday Night Lights
The Office
Scrubs
Grey's Anatomy
Monk
Psych (surprisingly good)
Desperate Housewives
Simpsons
Family Guy (going downhill fast)

Favorite Shows are The Office, Scrubs, and to echo the above poster Friday Night Lights. I think Friday Night Lights is the best drama on TV. I've read the book and seen the movie and was initially skeptical about how you could make a series out of the material. I watched it a couple of times and the show is about so much more than just football. The storylines and relationships feel so realistic, especially the interactions between Coach Taylor and his wife. Great writing and great acting. Check it out.

[365Duke]

With the benefit of a T/W DVR that can record 2 shows at once,downstairs, and a tivo upstairs. So the potential of recording 3 shows in the same time slot is there. Anyhoo here is.

24
Prison Break
The Unit
Mythbusters
Everybody loves Raymond Re-runs (Did not watch until it was off the air)
American Idol*
All my children*
According to Jim
Deal or No Deal
Lost
Live with Regis and Kelly*
Desperate Housewives*
Friends*
Dancing with the Stars*
Shark Hunters
America's Funniest Videos
Country Fried Home Video's
TVLand's Myth's and Legends
Forensic Files
E's True Hollywood Stories
Orange County Choppers

Keyword recordings: Duke sports, Clint Eastwood

Several manual recordings on the History Channel and Discovery Channel.

*denotes my wifes shows alone, I could not tell you a thing about any of
these

As I am sure is true with many, it is rare that we ever watch live T.V.

365 "DVR/TiVo is possibly the best invention ever" Duke

sorry jason

[DevilAlumna]

My husband and I have eclectic tastes, and rarely watch live TV. (If I do, its usually Law & Order.) Our Tivo has mainly his shows, including:

AMA Motorbike racing
Mythbusters
American Chopper
Deadly Catch
Dirty Jobs (big Mike Rowe fans...)
Anything with "Duke" in the title
Battlestar Galactica
Family Guy
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Rocketboom (via Podcast RSS)
This Old House

Our HD DVR picks up:
Heroes
24*
Top Design
Project Runway
Top Chef
Rome
Sopranos
Entourage
Weeds
Big Love
Scrubs
The Office
Studio 60 (snif)
30 rock
Grey's Anatomy
ER
Law & Order SVU (new only)
Smallville
Duke HD Games

* We've only started watching 24 this season; will have to do what we did to catch up with Heroes -- download, then stream to 50" TV via XBOX360 + Vista Media Center.

[billybreen]

Looking over these lists, I am shocked that I don't see House or Friday Night Lights listed very often, if at all. To me, they are by far the two best shows on television. ...

Friday Night Lights is the best thing on TV right now. In fact, it is the best TV drama that I can remember. I know that it doesn't get the ratings, and probably never will due to how real and sometimes depressing it is, but it is the most unique TV show out there in almost every aspect: subject matter, plot, story and character development, writing and most of all, the way it is shot.

Huge dittos! It is a rare week that the wife and I only watch the show once in a given week -- the episodes are so good that we re-watch them several times. I love that show.

The ratings are getting better week by week, so hopefully we'll have this show around for many seasons.

[billybreen]

Friday Night Lights
Veronica Mars
Late Night with Conan
The Office
30 Rock
Jericho
Heroes
The Simpsons
Iron Chef America
Anything I can find in 1080i (loving the Tivo Series3)

Haven't made up the mind on the Black Donnelys. I wasn't really won over by the pilot.
Earl fell off of the list this year. Scrubs fell off a few years ago but I'm tempted to add it back this year -- it's been pretty good recently. And of course, as I remind people with no prompting, Lost has been banished since the start of season 2. Worst. Show. Ever. :-)

[DankeShane]

If you're not tivo-ing Battlestar Galactica, you're missing out on the best show on television right now.

[BluBones]

Our DVR has been taken over by our two kids, a nine-year-old boy and a five-year-old girl.

Nine-year-old boy
The Simpsons (which isn't nearly as good as it used to be)
The Yankees Network (whatever is on it)
Lots and lots of obscure sports shows in HD which fill up the hard drive

Five-year-old girl
Sponge Bob (which is brilliant)
Dora the Explorer

The Parents
24
Rome (which isn't nearly as good as Deadwood, The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Weeds or Entourage, but, hey, we're hard up.)
A couple of great movies that were on Turner Classics which we'll never get around to seeing before they're erased by the nine-year-old boy (see obscure sports shows, above).