Fuck you, Fox

[yendi]

American Asshole appears to have run about nine minutes over, meaning that Fringe, of course, got cut off with as many minutes to go (our Tivo switched to ABC to record Cupid at 10, of course). Fortunately, I found the episode already uploaded, but this is a great fucking way to treat a show that's been on the second huge hiatus of its run this season.

Comments

[coffeehouse.livejournal.com]

with all the technology you'd think someone would figure out how to make the tivo smart enough to know that stuff isn't always on the dot.

[yendi]

They can, but that doesn't stop Cupid from starting.

[laurel]

Unfortunately FOX sees American Idol running over as a win because it gets great ratings and they figure people are watching it live and will then stay on FOX after it ends late. Or something.

People are more likely to watch something like Idol live, but it's still silly and annoying given how many people now view via DVR. Since Idol is live, I suppose they'd argue they can't predict overruns precisely.

Has Fringe improved? I pretty much hated the first few and gave up. Keep meaning to check back in, but I'm experiencing serious TV fatigue right now. S'pose it's bound to happen given I watch so many shows.

[cscottd.livejournal.com]

Well, crap...

Thanks for posting about it though. I most likely won't watch it until this weekend, and that would've been an ugly surprise.

Fortunately now, thanks to you, I can go ahead and find it online.

Thanks!

[yendi]

Yeah, I see Fox's strategy (and it's a variant of the nearly-as-annoying "schedule shows to end two minutes late" trick used to mess with Tivos), but all it does is drive me to the Internet to get the show off-network.

Of course, the fact that I consider Idol one of the worst wastes of time on TV doesn't help.

Fringe has improved a lot; they've developed interesting long-term plotlines, fleshed out the characters nicely, and brought in some interesting secondary characters. Plus, Walter still has his cow.

[yendi]

No problem!

[salleesuewho.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I was pretty pissed when I switched over to check that my DVR was recording it and there was the lameass American Idol.

[yendi]

Do a quick Google Blog Search for "fringe" and sort by date, and you should find some good downloads.

[themaskmaker.livejournal.com]

I love Fringe. Which means they are probably planning to tank it.

[themaskmaker.livejournal.com]

Or go straight to the Fox site and watch it there.

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

got a summary of the last 9 minutes for me? (i had the same problem)

[hdaemon.livejournal.com]

While not as good as them keeping to the schedule, last night's episode is already up on Hulu.

[yendi]

I'm sucky at remembering all the details, but here's a good one.

[yendi]

I'm pretty sure it'll at least get a season 2 (especially with the announcement about Nimoy getting a guest run).

[zonereyrie.livejournal.com]

It is up on Hulu - I just watched the last ~9 minutes there after watching the first part of the show off my TiVo.

[supremegoddess1.livejournal.com]

thanks!