This crap about running shows for 61 minutes is really starting to piss me off, primarily because it is totally messing with my Tivo's ability to record the few decent shows I want to watch. It started at the beginning of the season in September with Grey's Anatomy running until 10:01, and ER started either at 9:59 or 10:00, which caused an overlap and only one was being recorded. At least NBC got smart and pushed the start of ER to 10:01.
The reason for this rant tonight is because I look at my TV around 9:20, and notice the red record light is not on, which means that Heroes is not recording. I start freaking out, so I stop watching Iron Chef to go start recording tonights episode, such as it is minus 20 minutes. When I look at the guide, sure enough, it is running until 10:01, and overlapped with a repeat of Scrubs on Comedy Central. By the way, there is going to be a lot of conflict at home on Thursday Nov 30, when new Scrubs air at 9 pm against my wife's favorite show Grey's Anatomy. I bet I will be relegated to the second TV in the guest room. Oh well, such is life.
The other side bar regarding this new network feature of lengthening programs is that they are not adding 1 second of more content, but actually adding another 60-90 seconds of commercial advertisements. It is pretty annoying that they figure that they get sucker the audience into watching additional commercials on the top rated shows, and we are just force fed this garbage. None of these commercials are at all cutting edge or memorable. It would be nice if they put something memorable on to fill the extra time. But that is just me
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