09 February 2012

5 more minutes

So there is this show that I love to watch - I admit it and I'm not ashamed to say it... it's American Idol.  I love music and even though we had a parting of ways for a short period of time due to some of the "choices" that were made and disagreeable contestants that were aired, we reconciled during Season 9.





Now, it seems as though we have a new challenge.  It started with Season 10 and it has only been getting worse.  Networks air shows in time slots.  Those are the parameters for when it will be on the television - and those are the default parameters for when my DVR will record them.  Yes, I can change it to read more or less but if I have it set to "when program is scheduled to start/end", wouldn't you believe that it will record all of the show?  Yeah, me too but guess what - it doesn't when the show doesn't notify the rest of the world and simply runs over.




American Idol is horrible at running past their scheduled time.  I'm not sure how it is allowed but it seems to be impossible for them to stick to the 60 minute time frame.  It's getting to be 63 or 65 minutes which means that I am missing the conclusions to the show... and we all know that they keep the best stuff for the last five minutes.  Do you see my predicament?

Yes, I have adjusted my DVR now to run 5 minutes past since I am not recording anything else afterwards on those days but what if I was - you can only record two things at one time.  American Idol, consider this me asking nicely that you please, please, pretty please stay within your scheduled air time... because just once this season I'd like to actually see the ending of your show.

4 comments:

  1. Amen to that! My daughter and I like to watch American Idol together, typically the day after it's on. Thank goodness for Youtube, so we can watch the last bit of the show that doesn't get recorded. I've adjusted the end time on my DVR. I hope 5 minutes is enough.

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    1. I watched the last 2 minutes on Youtube this morning too! Fingers crossed that tonight it will be enough. I plan on having the right channel on, watching the taped version and then if I run out of tape time frame, I can 'rewind' what has been on in the background... at least it's my plan.

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  2. I laughed out loud reading your post! Did what happen to me last night while watching AI with my daughter happen to you, too? I think we must have had only 2 minutes left of the taped show and BAM ... it cut off so we missed the final minutes. Boo!

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    1. Yep, exactly the same thing! I was so ticked because they were doing such a good job thus far in the season with staying on time... oh well, heaven help us when they go to live broadcasts - we'll run over for sure then!

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