Televisionary Quoted About TiVo

Time for a brief aside on this cold, snowy Sunday morning in Aspen. Imagine my surprise when I discovered that Televisionary had been not only mentioned, but quoted no less, about TiVo on technology site CNet's Blogma, a sub-site devoted to "hot blog topics, chosen by editors and readers."

Referring to a story about the announcement that TiVo could soon be giving away their set-top boxes in exchange for higher monthly service fees, Blogma chose Televisionary to represent the blog community and gave us the first release of TiVo Series 3 later this year (hopefully), which utilizes cable card technology, they will effectively clear up space on our cluttered entertainment consoles by doing away with the ubiquitous digital cable set-top box altogether... and allow users with two cable cards to record digital and/or HD programs simultaneously (and has a nifty little digital display on the front to show which program(s) you're recording).

Now if only Blogma's article didn't contain a broken link back to Televisionary...

What’s On Tonight

8 pm: Cold Case (CBS); The West Wing (NBC); Charmed (WB); Extreme Makeover: Home Edition (ABC); The Simpsons/The War at Home (FOX)

9 pm: Feature: How to Lose a Guy in Ten Days (CBS; 9-11 pm); Law & Order: Criminal Intent (NBC); Charmed (WB); Desperate Housewives (ABC); Family Guy/Free Ride (FOX)

10 pm: Crossing Jordan (NBC); Grey's Anatomy (ABC)

What I’ll Be Watching

8 pm: The Simpsons.

Yes, I know what you're thinking: how can I still be watching this show. It's really more out of habit than anything else. I've been watching for so long--even yes the recent sub-par seasons--but this season has been marginally better. Comparatively, anyway. At least I have my DVDs of the show's glory years.

9 pm: Desperate Housewives.

Um, kidding! Everyone knows my views about how unwatchable I find Desperate Housewives to be these days.

10 pm: Big Love.

While I won't be watching The Sopranos (I stopped watching that series years ago), I am excited to watch the pilot of HBO's latest drama offering, Big Love. After the classical glories of Rome and the metaphysical angst of Carnivale, I can't wait to see HBO's take on Mormons. Oops, I mean polygamists-who-live-in-Utah-but-aren't-Mormons. You know what I mean.

Comments

John Roberts said…

We're fixing the link. Sorry about that.

John Roberts
CNET News.com product development

3/13/2006

Jace Lacob said…

Many thanks, John!

3/13/2006

What's Done is Done: The Eternal Struggle Between Good and Evil on the Season Finale of "Lost"

Every story begins with thread. It's up to the storyteller to determine just how much they need to parcel out, what pattern they're making, and when to cut it short and tie it off. With last night's penultimate season finale of Lost ("The Incident, Parts One and Two"), written by Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse, we began to see the pattern that Lindelof and Cuse have been designing towards the last five seasons of this serpentine series. And it was only fitting that the two-hour finale, which pushes us on the road to the final season of Lost , should begin with thread, a loom, and a tapestry. Would Jack follow through on his plan to detonate the island and therefore reset their lives aboard Oceanic Flight 815 ? Why did Locke want to kill Jacob? What caused The Incident? What was in the box and just what lies in the shadow of the statue? We got the answers to these in a two-hour season finale that didn't quite pack the same emotional wallop of previous season

Continue reading full story...

Have a Burning Question for Team Darlton, Matthew Fox, Evangeline Lilly, or Michael Emerson?

Lost fans: you don't have to make your way to the island via Ajira Airways in order to ask a question of the creative team or the series' stars. Televisionary is taking questions from fans to put to Lost 's executive producers/showrunners Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse and stars Matthew Fox ("Jack Shephard"), Evangeline Lilly ("Kate Austen"), and Michael Emerson ("Benjamin Linus") for a series of on-camera interviews taking place this weekend. If you have a specific question for any of the above producers or actors from Lost , please leave it in the comments section below . I'll be accepting questions until midnight PT tonight and, while I can't promise I'll be able to ask any specific inquiry due to the brevity of these on-camera interviews, I am looking for some insightful and thought-provoking questions to add to the mix. So who knows: your burning question might get asked after all.

Continue reading full story...

Pilot Inspektor: CBS' "Smith"

I may just have to change my original "What I'll Be Watching This Fall" post, as I sat down and finally watched CBS' new crime drama Smith this weekend. (What? It's taken me a long time to make my way through the stack of pilot DVDs.) While it's on following Gilmore Girls and Veronica Mars on Tuesday nights (10 pm ET/PT, to be exact), I'm going to be sure to leave enough room on my TiVo to make sure that I catch this compelling, amoral drama. While one can't help but be impressed by what might just be the most marquee-friendly cast in primetime--Ray Liotta, Virginia Madsen, Jonny Lee Miller, Amy Smart, Simon Baker, and Franky G all star and Shohreh Aghdashloo has a recurring role--the pilot's premise alone earned major points in my book: it's a crime drama from the point of view of the criminals, who engage in high-stakes heists. But don't be alarmed; it's nothing like NBC's short-lived Heist . Instead, think of it as The Italian

Continue reading full story...

[Televisionary]

Search This Blog