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"Airing questions"
Posted by byoffer on 11-24-06 at 03:59 PM
Is it just happening in my local market, or is this show running past 10:00 most weeks? I haven't been able to get my DVR to record to 10:10 each week, so I am having to record the next show to get the ends of each episode. Last night it seemed to go way past 10. I am glad I taped the next show, or I would have missed Burke closing the door.

Anyone else having this problem?


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"RE: Airing questions"
Posted by HobbsofMI on 11-24-06 at 04:32 PM
I did a few weeks ago when I switched to DTV DVR instead of TiVo....so now I add 5 to 10 minutes to all the shows I tape because I don't think it has the times right.


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"RE: Airing questions"
Posted by flipxcyd on 11-24-06 at 05:53 PM
I'm mostly having problems taping ABC, oh wait....LOL. Never mind. BUT...the last Grey's ep was recorded in its entirety. I've got Directv Tivo.

Shoot...I had a problem taping Heroes - that's it! I just add about 2 minutes to the recording.


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"RE: Airing questions"
Posted by aquariaqueen on 11-24-06 at 10:32 PM
November 23rd's episode was advertised as an extra long episode....

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"RE: Airing questions"
Posted by aquariaqueen on 11-25-06 at 01:54 PM
Oh, and by the way, ER has always been a minute or two early. This is planned by the execs to make you switch over, or stay with what you're watching. It's ratings, but what can ya do???

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"RE: Airing questions"
Posted by Snidget on 11-25-06 at 08:23 AM
ABC in general seems to love the run the big shows over time by at least a minute or two more often than not.

It isn't just this show, they do it for a lot of shows.

My DVR usually catches the overage for any show when it is scheduled to happen. I don't know if all of them will, but the cable I have it through seems to know when they schedule ABC shows to go a few minutes over and records until the end of the show.

Having to tape two shows to see all of one is a pain. It also messes up trying to record or watch other shows on other stations, but I guess that probably is the point of running the high rated shows over to start with.

"RE: Airing questions"
Posted by dreamvsreality on 11-25-06 at 07:01 PM
No I haven't but I think last week was particularly longer. I guess it was due to the holiday.
"RE: Airing questions"
Posted by Bebo on 11-26-06 at 01:44 PM
November is a sweeps month, and ER has been doing much better than expected, so ABC probably wanted to shake things up to use one of its top shows.

My DVR has a setting where I can set whether the show tapes over the designated show time. I learned about it after I lost the end of a TAR episode because of football. My DVR will let me indicate to tape a few minutes - or even a half hour - over the scheduled end date. I don't know TiVo, but it's worth checking your settings to see if you can change that.


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Posted by udg on 11-26-06 at 06:06 PM
I have TAR set to record for a full hour after it's scheduled to end, due to stupid football!


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"RE: Airing questions"
Posted by MKitty on 11-30-06 at 02:05 PM
You are absolutely correct. Last week's episode was a special Thanksgiving episode, and it ran, on purpose, until about 10:10 or so.

However, it typically runs until 10:01 or 10:02. I think it is so stupid and goofy how so many shows now start a minute early and run a minute later than the regular programming. For me it doesn't matter as I set something up to tape on my DVR and it just tapes based on the cable guide...I don't set the time myself.

Good luck trying to tape it again..but I think last week was an anomoly.



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