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Does anyone know, if I got a cheap DVD recorder, can I record one free-to-air channel, record another on video, and watch another? Wednesday nights in particular have been getting complicated, trying to keep everyone happy and not having something to watch on other nights. Also our best viewing time for staying awake is 8.30 to about 10pm, which doesn't seem to suit the channels any more, so need to time-shift!

• by kj on June 05, 2006 at 11:37 AM

There's no need for shows like It Take Two to run overtime. There's so much filler and garbage that goes on.
And sadly, the show is starting to look like drunk karaoke at your local RSL. Terasa is the hostess with the leastess.

• by Bereft Skerrick on June 05, 2006 at 12:37 PM

TM- Can you please tell me who's winning the 2006 ratings year so far? Is 9 doing so now that they've won 5 straight weeks in a row? Thanks!

Tribal Mind replies: Seven is still slightly ahead. Excluding Comm Games, Seven has averaged 36.3 per cent of the commercial audience, and Nine averaged 35.0. But Ten is improving, taking more viewers from Seven than from Nine, and that may be what ruins Seven's race.

• by Helena on June 05, 2006 at 01:07 PM

Kelli M, I think the lady that plays Alice Horton on Days of our Lives holds the record for longest time playing a soapie character... but I'm just guessing.

• by Libby on June 05, 2006 at 01:15 PM

I can not believe the figures for Answered by Fire. The ratings halved from last week and it was just as good. Why should ABC bother with good local drama content if no one is going to watch it. David Wenham is totally HOT.

Tribal Mind comments: The terrible news from Timor seems to have been a turnoff factor.

• by Jane on June 05, 2006 at 01:22 PM

Re: Answered by Fire - TM, shouldn't the recent news from East Timor have been a turn ON factor? ABF would have been a great way for people to play catch up very quickly on some of the basics on East Timor. Impress your friends at dinner parties and enjoy Australian drama at the same time...ABC should have marketed the show as a current affairs cheat sheet :)

Tribal Mind replies: I have heard this view: "Why should we watch a show that is sympathetic to these people geting their independence when all they do is fight each other?"

• by Kelli M on June 05, 2006 at 01:37 PM

In last week's blog, Angus Finlayson posted- "After feelings of total despair over the appalling state of commercial television in this country, I see here that the scornful ?Today Tonight? was last night?s highest rating programme, with 1.49 million viewers.
If Australia?s population is 20 million, this represents about 7.45%. This immediately makes me feel better as clearly nobody is watching this crap. (Either that or the ratings system is flawed.)
Perhaps Packer, Stokes and Falloon should consider rethinking their existing strategies, as they?re not working. If they were to start broadcasting some quality we?d all benefit.
Any of them got the bollocks to do it? I doubt it!"
Angus, to put a reality check on the rating figures... I did a quick poll of 50 of my workmates (it's useful at times to work in a Big Office) at lunchtime to try to find out how many people watch evening TV.
Of the 50 only 9 said they regularly watch free-to-air TV between 5.30pm and 7.30pm. Of those 9: 1 regularly watches SBS, 2 regularly watch 10, 1 regulary watches the ABC, 2 watch 7, and the other 3 "channel hop". (No one said they regularly watch 9.)
So, if the channel hoppers watched Today Tonight, and my dinky poll has any work, then you're potentially looking at one tenth (five fiftieths) of the given supposed audience, i.e. 0.149 million not 1.49 million.

Of course, advertising salespeople would have us believe that everyone watches TV every night - which I believe says more about who is chosen to have a ratings meter than the real viewing habits of Australians.

• by Kaz on June 05, 2006 at 02:10 PM

re: soapie longevity -
Helen Wagner (As The World Turns) holds the world record for appearing for the longest amount of time on one television show as the same character, playing the role of Nancy Hughes since the show went on the air on April 2, 1956.
Hasn't Alf been on H&A as long as Kate Ritchie?

• by par3182 on June 05, 2006 at 02:35 PM

So what is going to be on 8.30 sunday? is it going to be My name is Earl? or How I Met your Mother?

• by Maz on June 05, 2006 at 04:39 PM

Ryan D asks .."What are some amazing professions that would make good environments for a TV series?"
I suspect most have been done before, though not necessarily in the best form, but - Taxi driver, Hairdresser, Chiropactor, Telemarketer (Bollywood spectacular with a cast of THOUSANDS of Indians), in fact any industry which involves people contact. For an upmarket series - an Antique Dealer.
Generally speaking it isn't the basic background of the series that results in crap TV, it is the scripting and plotting that takes it downhill.
The trick is to decide whether the series should be a comedy or serious and the best guide to that one would have to be if the occupation is serious - make the show a comedy and vice versa.
I am certain everyone else will have their own ideas about this and everyone one of them will differ with every other, but as Ned Kelly said "Such is Life" and he didn't even have a TV!

• by David H on June 05, 2006 at 04:50 PM

What's on Ch9 at 8:30pm this Sunday. TV week says To Be Announced.

Tribal Mind replies: That's why you should be reading The Guide in the Sydney Morning Herald.

• by Lk on June 05, 2006 at 04:54 PM

Kate Richie has a fair way to go before she breaks any world records. Ken Barlow has been on Coronation St since the early 60's, and some of the other characters aren't far behind. Plus quite a few American Soap stars have been around for far longer than Kate has been alive.

• by tubbyk on June 05, 2006 at 06:57 PM

How many people actually tuned in for the Netherlands v Australia match?

Tribal Mind replies: The answer is in the column (above).

• by suzy on June 05, 2006 at 10:22 PM

Answered By Fire was affected by the Blue Heelers finale. Viewers who want to watch Aussie drama couldn't watch both. I watched BH and taped ABF this week.
Ch 7 wrecked it's chances of a bigger audience for the BH finale by burying the show on a Saturday night this year. It was getting half the finale audience on the Saturday night, so it's pretty good that they got 1.55m viewers on a competitive Sunday night. Especially considering it started 15 mins late and ended at a quarter to 11. Just proves to me that the show could have continued in a different timeslot with a healthy audience.
Meanwhile, it's pretty clear that movies don't work on TV any more. People aren't willing to put up with so many ad breaks and have usually seen most movies already at the cinema, DVD or Foxtel. I wonder if CSI viewers will have the irrits with Ch 9 again for stuffing around with their favourite show again, in the middle of winter, when they are more likely to tune in.

• by J Bar on June 06, 2006 at 09:57 AM

if grey's anatomy is going to be on mondays at 9.30 (excellent!!) where is commander in chief moving to? there's more than two weeks left in the series isn't there?

Tribal Mind replies: Seven says it will show all 19 episodes, so presumably there will be double eps in the next two weeks.

• by lauren on June 06, 2006 at 10:51 AM

"Meanwhile, it's pretty clear that movies don't work on TV any more. People aren't willing to put up with so many ad breaks and have usually seen most movies already at the cinema, DVD or Foxtel."
J Bar at June 6, 2006 09:57 AM
the ratings for love acctually when it was on on mothers day would suggest otherwise.

Tribal Mind replies: But at 1.4 million, it was the most watched movie of the year. Movies used to get 2 million.

• by dan on June 06, 2006 at 11:36 AM

TM - Can you please tell me what the ratings were for Boston Legal last night? Yes...putting on Grey's at 9.30 Monday is starting to look like a smart move now. I hope Seven doesn't put screen Boston Legal at an even later time.

Tribal Mind replies: 513,000.

• by Helena on June 06, 2006 at 12:13 PM

TM, have you heard anything about when the latest series of Alias will be screened? The last season was a bit of an effort to watch (any fans out there...do you agree the whole APO thing was a bit much?) but it had a fantastic ending, a real cliffhanger.

Tribal Mind replies: Seven will not give dates for shows more than three weeks ahead. Alias has not been mentioned in Seven's recent publicity, which suggests a silly season slot.

• by Kelli M on June 06, 2006 at 12:53 PM

Commander In Chief might be moving to the Saturday night graveyard, where TV series go to die on Ch 7. Now that Blue Heelers is gone, there's room for another casualty.
They better not stuff up Boston Legal by showing it any later.

• by J Bar on June 06, 2006 at 01:03 PM

Monday night is one of my favourite viewing nights, but I must say that I think Close To Home will run out of steam fairly quickly.
The emphasis on the hardworking prosecutor balancing her private life/baby with the court room drama is not exactly original.
TM - how many Boston Legal's are left in this season, and what do you think Ch7 will do with it when they double up CIC, please??

Tribal Mind replies: I have no idea on either question. If you google BL plus the words "episode guide", you will find where we are up to.

• by pete on June 06, 2006 at 01:29 PM

Channel 7 got sucked in to the hype surrounding Commander-in-Chief in the US( where it was perceived as an attempt to get Americans used to a female Democrat President), when it flopped in the US and the series got canned, Channel 7 does know what to do with it.
I hope they are not stupid enough to schedule Commander-in-Chief at the Boston legal timeslot, BL has some dedicated viewers and surely they will go to bed early or watch in another channel if Channel 7 replaces it.

• by Greg H on June 06, 2006 at 01:47 PM

Thanks TM. Took your advice - there are 13 further episodes in the current season of BL. Hopefully Ch7 won't muck us around with it too much!

• by pete on June 06, 2006 at 01:54 PM

It has just been announced in the US that CIC has been axed by ABC (its US Network) at the end of its current season, so i dont think Seven will need to show it in Double Episodes at all...... they just wont have anything to show!!!
It Takes Two is sooooooooo boring!!!! I agree with what someone said above it is like Karaoke at your local RSL.... except that i work in an RSL and the Karaoke singers we have are soooo much better and dont look like Ken & Barbie. Stick to the weather Grant your better at it!!

• by JM on June 06, 2006 at 03:30 PM

pete, if you're a fan of american shows, you only need to remember 8 letters "epguides". Type any reasonably well know show with "epguides" into google and bobs your uncle. It shows the american viewing dates for a large number of shows (even if they were shown in some obscure date like in the 1960's). A vital resource if you're a rabid leecher.
Assuming that channel 7 has been a good boy and hasn't been swapping episodes around or leaving any out, and considering that last night's episode had a fixation with breasts. It would be safe to say that the episode shown is "Breast in show", episode 14 of the second season.
On a different note, Its amazing how well channel nine is doing without any dominating shows in the top 20 like channel seven and channel ten.
I'm not up to date with channel nine's future lineup, but the ones i know about are Invasion and Rome. Invasion is a reasonably suspenseful sci fi show(which just got cancelled), but it is wayyyyyyy too slow for australian audiences to give it a chance. Same thing with Rome, another quality production by HBO. Alot of sexual politics and history, but not alot of action scenes(abit surprising considering the 10 million US per episode cost). I doubt either will rate very well.
Channel seven on the other hand has some quality action drama on the way with 24 and the Unit on the way. I know that recent series of 24 hasn't rated well, but this season..... WOW, the first four episodes had so much action going on, and the rest of the season there is non-stop biffo, no more stupid Kim subplots(well,not really). If seven is clever with promotion for the first four episodes, I'm sure that audiences will grow.
The Unit is another quality action drama produced by everyone's favourite dialogue writer David Mamet and that guy who did the Shield. A show about the american anti-terrorism special forces Delta Force and is unique as there is particular focus on their families.
I know quality american shows doesn't necessarily rate well, as in the cases of Veronica Mars and Everybody hates chris but it seems that channel seven has poached just about every high rating and quality new show from the american tv schedule as show in your previous blog entries.
Channel nine may well have the last laugh as aussie tv viewers are fickle and don't always follow the normal trends but their international tv scouts should be sacked. Channel ten can be excused as they are targeting a different market segment than the two big dogs.

• by donnay on June 06, 2006 at 04:39 PM

There are 13 more episodes of Boston Legal.
See http://epguides.com/
for details of most shows.

• by Sal on June 06, 2006 at 06:16 PM

paora, I'm with you. Hard to believe what happened to Nate - I actually feel bad blogging about it because it was so sad. Wasn't it just devastating? Even sadder was last week's episode...the final scene left me thinking for days about what was being represented, and the silence during the credits were a stroke of genius soundtrack-wise (so glad 9 didn't just play a voiceover promo for the next show to fill the silence, or at least WIN didn't). It actually left me feeling very empty, and hollow, and the next day I felt real grief (!) which I'm sure was intended. RIP Nate.

• by Kelli M on June 06, 2006 at 07:24 PM

Who the hell is Nate?

Tribal Mind replies: A character in Six Feet Under.

• by Helema on June 06, 2006 at 08:09 PM

Excuse the ignorance, but who is this Nate that Kelli and Paora are talking about?
I saw on Amazon that Boston Legal season 1 just came out on DVD. I'm tempted to get it. The few season 2 eps I've caught on 7 have been a lot of fun.
Thanks for the info knucklehead.... I knew that the networks were tied to output deals by studio but didn't know who had what.
Nine have blown it with a few good HBO shows..... Entourage, Curb Your Enthusiasm etc.... great shows but don't fit their over 50 demographic.

• by downloader on June 06, 2006 at 09:06 PM

Hey
Some people frantic over nothing. Annoyed at Channel 7 because Commander in Chief will move there or when CIC doubles up or whatever and Boston Legal will be inconvienenced.
Whoa! Hang on!
Boston Legal is staying right where it is. It is scheduled every Monday night for the forseeable future. Commander in Chief will have a total of 4 unaired episodes when it is pulled next week for Grey's Anatomy. Those 4 eps have not been scheduled at all. They may pop up late night somewhere else soon or may just be used later in the year or summer.
So don't jump to conclusions. Boston Legal is fine.
Stargate and Atlantis fans should start jumping for you. Both shows will be back in 3 weeks at around 11pm.
Go Channel 7 - showing American Dad, Family Guy, Scrubs, Arrested Development, Airline USA, Mile High, Point Pleasant, Stargate, Atlantis, Accoding to Jim and even Passions early in the morning.
AARON

Tribal Minds replies: Aaron, with your uncanny predictive powers, can you tell us the timing of new shows such as Bones, My Name Is Earl, Criminal Minds, 24, etc?

• by Aaron on June 06, 2006 at 11:34 PM

* I must say that I already find the news & current affairs services of commercial TV networks to be wretched (Yes, that is Ch 7, 9 and 10). It would be hard to imagine how appalling Ch.9 news would become by cutting 100 jobs.
* Maybe Eddie's plan is to make the news so bad, that people start talking about it at work and then tune in to see how Ch.9 will stuff up next.(Example- the Jessica Rowe and Brigadier Mic Slater incident on the TODAY show. I know you all tuned in the day after downloading the clip, to see how Jess reacted to such a stuff up).
* Looking at the Oztam ratings though, it appears that less, and less people are even turning on their TV sets. I mean, the most watched show of the week at 1.67mil? and last week was the coldest and wettest I can remember for months!!
Have we moved so fast in the age of broadband media that we are witnessing the slow painfull death of FTA TV?
* All I can say is, careful MacBank, you do not want to be the next Alan Bond, to the next Packer?

• by seam on June 07, 2006 at 01:42 AM

From the bigfooty msgboards, I don\'t know how accurate it is but who watches more tv than couch potato sports nuts >,>
How I Met Your Mother premieres 7:30 Wednesday 21st
My Name is Earl premieres 8:00 Wednesday 21st
24 will be Wednesdays and Thursdays at 9:30, double eps 21st/22nd, single eps after that
that means Family Guy is at 11:30 on the 22nd, 10:30 after that (5 eps left from memory)
and Stargate SG1 goes to 11:00 Thursdays from the 29th
which means Scrubs is gone from Thursdays after the 15th

• by daria on June 07, 2006 at 09:22 AM

Oh dear. Last night's episode of The Wedge was dire. I suffered through it for about 15 minutes before I concluded that it is already rehashing tired, unfunny material - 2 weeks into its run.

For Australian comedy to succeed, it needs one thing only - to be FUNNY!

• by pete on June 07, 2006 at 10:07 AM

Hey
I would let people know to be wary of some of the info posted here. Someone about 2 or 3 posts below has said that How I Met Your Mother and My Name is Earl will premiere Wednesday June 21st. That is incorrect information. Beyond Tomorrow is still scheduled.
The post is correct about 24 BUT that is not giving away much. The actual adverts say June 21st. So it will have a double ep on June 21st at 9:30 and also again the very next night at 9:30 as well. Then single eps from the following week.
In regards to Criminal Minds and Bones etc - way too early to give people info. If I was to say a date in July then people would be commenting for weeks but because it is so far in advance - Seven may change their mind and then people get annoyed. Lets wait until its a couple of weeks out.
AARON

• by Aaron on June 07, 2006 at 12:34 PM

SPOILER ALERT
RIP NATE.
Absolutley brilliant... absolutely devestating...SFU

• by dan on June 07, 2006 at 01:19 PM

Would someone give a newbie step by step guide to bittorrents please ? Some time ago Tribal Mind offered a book prize for the most informative guide to torrenting , but maybe I missed it ? I've searched the archives but couldn't find reference to it . Thanks in advance

Tribal Mind comments: Nobody won the prize because nobody explained it in language a moron like me could understand. Those who responded felt they had to use jargon. The prize is still on offer: please explain in normal english how a person with an ordinary computer can download programs that have been shown on American television.

• by jane doe on June 07, 2006 at 03:21 PM

Can i please know how many people watch sbs world news?

Tribal Mind replies: You said please, which is more than Fairfax does, so here goes: World News Australia did not get into the top 50 programs of yesterday, but a little research revealed that last week it averaged 239,000 viewers in the mainland capitals.

• by proper news plz on June 07, 2006 at 04:55 PM

I was surprised to stumble upon Mile High at 11pm Tuesday night. I wonder why Seven wasted this show at such a late time? Mile High is comparable to Nine's Hotel Babylon (was at 9.30pm Monday) and I believe is as good as, if not better than HB. If properly promoted, it could get up to 1 million viewers, I reckon. Any fan of this show (last shown in 2004) out there?

• by ozboy1999 on June 07, 2006 at 06:06 PM

This may seem stupid, but I would have thoguht that Channel 7 would have scheduled Bones on Wednesday 7.30pm. Because since you have PB and 24, which are two action shows, they should've tied in with the themem instead of putting on a comedy show. let us know someone when you're sure of the dates.

• by Maz on June 07, 2006 at 06:16 PM

Newbie guide to bit-torrents:
1 - get a "torrent client" - good ones are uTorrent and Azureus - look on google.com.au to download. This program acts as a "download manager" and you can easily set up where to store the files (TV shows) you download in a directory of your choice on your hard drive. (Options|Preferences|Downloads in uTorrent)
2 - find the TV shows you want to watch (these are called torrents). You can get good torrents from mininova.org and tvtorrents.net - again, typing in "tv show torrents" in google will help you immensely.
3 - This is the important one for show junkies - buy a DVD player than can play DivX ($80 or so at Dick Smith) - that way 10 or more episodes can fit on one burnt DVD. Alternatively, you can simply watch the shows on your computer monitor, with programs such as Windows Media Player or VLC. Again, google.com.au will help you find these. WMP should be standard on Windows machines.
4 - when you find a file you want to download on mininova or tvtorrents.net, if you are using Windows right-click on that file, save-as and keep the small torrent file on your desktop. Then double-click on that file and it should now be in your download manager (such as utorrent).
5 - If you're on dial-up - give it up now. You won't keep up and it will be like treading water out to sea. If you're on 1500 ADSL, you can get a file in less than 1 hour - 2-3 hours if you're on 512 ADSL.
6 - when the file is finished in your download manager (100%) - find the file in the directory you used in the setup (see 1) and double-click to play on computer. If you want to watch it on DVD, make sure it plays DivX and burn the episode in Nero onto DVD+RW. That way you can erase the disc and use it again.
Hope that helps you. About as simple as I can make it I'm afraid.

• by Mark on June 07, 2006 at 06:35 PM

Well despite Mark's admirable attempt to explain Bit Torrents my mind still boggles at an alarming rate.
Here's another one for the techheads:
I've noted in various stores some DVD players that claim to be 'multi-zoned' (e.g. there is a Sony unit at my local BigDubya). Are these the same as multi-region and could I play region 1 DVDs on such an animal?
I ask as there is a plethora of TV available in the US that is not presently available here.
Forever in the responder's debt.
SS

• by Slippery Sam on June 07, 2006 at 08:14 PM

Something is wrong at the ABC, during Spicks and Specks, they spelt "received" as "recieved". It may be one of their more popular shows, but still there is no need to dumb it down. Either that or all their proof-readers had the night off. Spelling mistakes are one (acceptable) thing on blogs, but the ABC?

• by tristan on June 07, 2006 at 09:39 PM

You don't really need to "save" the torrent file. Once you've installed the torrent program (such as uTorrent, or I recommend using "BitComet"), open it, and then you can go to the torrent sites such as mininova.org or torrentspy.com and search for the shows you want to watch. After searching, simply click on the name of the file of the show you want to watch, and you will arrive at a new page, then click on the name of the file again, or the button that says "download torrent." Then when the next prompt pops up, just press open, and the file should open in the program you had installed and opened. Click "ok" (at this pop up window, you can select where the downloaded show will be saved to) and it should start downloading the file.

I think Limewire(a program where you can directly download files rather than downloading torrents) is great for songs, and some shows. I can never seem to find "House" using Limewire

I guess you can say a torrent is an unique id for a file.

• by Jasmine on June 07, 2006 at 10:20 PM

On second thought, William down below is right, the basic bittorent client is best to use for beginners instead of azureus or utorrent.
William has given the link below.
http://download.bittorrent.com/dl/BitTorrent-Stable.exe
This way, you don't have to worry about setting your upload and download speeds. It might not be at its maximum potential but it should still run good.
However you still have to worry about portforwarding and also remember to be patient.

• by donnay on June 08, 2006 at 01:16 AM

Thanks to those who responded with bittorrent advice . William's was brief and I still couldn't have " torrented" from his advice , whereas Mark and Donnay offered in-depth advice even a newbie like me could follow . Thanks to all . Could they share a book maybe , LOL !! Limewire is crap for anything but mp3's

• by jane doe on June 08, 2006 at 09:55 AM

I ask as there is a plethora of TV available in the US that is not presently available here.
Forever in the responder's debt.
SS
Posted by: Slippery Sam at June 7, 2006 08:14 PM

go to amazon.com, type in an tv show you can think of even the older shows from the 70's 80's etc and oyu will find most are now available on dvd long before they are released here some most likely will not be released here as they don't think there is a market for them

• by dan on June 08, 2006 at 10:20 AM

Spectacular ratings for TGYH and what a huge boost for House. But I'm glad that McLeods Daughters was mostly unaffected. I assume Beyond Tomorrow must have been the real disaster for Ch 7?
Does anybody know anything about those David Tench quotes that Ch 10 keep slipping in everywhere? I assume that they are tease for a new show, rather than an advert but can't find anything on the net. I haven't heard about any new Aussie shows that they have planned apart for a mini-series called Tripping Over for much later in the year. Any ideas?

• by J Bar on June 08, 2006 at 11:16 AM

Slippery Sam -
Multi Region and Multi Zone are the same thing, and will allow you to watch DVDs from the USA.
It's usually possible to unzone your DVD player by entering a code via your remote. These can be found at http://www.videohelp.com/dvdhacks

• by par3182 on June 08, 2006 at 12:25 PM

Thanks to those who posted BT guides... I did one a few months ago on here and couldn't be bothered doing it again. Sorry!
Some tips though;
I find www.torrentspy.com to be great for finding torrents. If I can't find it there I use www.mininova.org and there are new ones popping up all the time.
One problem with Bit Torrents though is that there is a tendency for seeders (file sharers) to drop dramatically in the weeks and months after the show has aired.
Once a season has completely aired in the US you tend to find the whole season in one BT file easier than you can find all the individual episodes. That means you can be downloading a 5 or 6 gig file (to get a complete season) instead of a 350 meg file (for anindividual ep).
If you are only after a handful of episodes (and they aired a while ago) it's probably easier to find them on Limewire instead of BitTorrent.
I totally disagree with Jane Doe's assertion that "Limewire is crap for anything other than MP3s"
Case in point: Channel 10 yanked Veronica Mars partway through the season here with no sign of it coming back soon. Searching the above stated BT URLS (as well as the others mentioned by various guides) proved useless. That season had aired a year earlier in the US so individual eps were poorly seeded or unavailable for download anymore.
I found all eps I needed on Limewire... the key is to know how to search for them. Instead of just searching for Veronica Mars, search more specifically like Veronica Mars 1x09, Veronica Mars 109 hdtv, or Veronica Mars s01e09 hdtv.
By putting the season and episode number in the search field as well as hdtv (most of the good files being shared are captured from hdtv broadcasts) you can generally find plenty of users sharing the eps you want.
Personally , as a general rule I use BitTorrent for recently aired shows and Limewire for older ones.
If BT intimidates you or you can't be bothered trying to learn how to do it (sure its easy but effort is involved) I recommend Limewire. Its easy to use. BT is definitley the way to go if you want to download something within hours of its airing in the US though. Limewire generally takes a little longer to get newer files (still only a day or two though.)
Good luck... I recommend it. No ads and you can watch it whenever, you don't ahve to wait until our networks decide to air (or not air in many cases.)
PS I don't get the hate towards Kate Langbrook... sure her skit was the weakest but Fifi has been overused. I'd like to see the woman from the bed/mattress (?) commercials again though. She's funny.

• by downloader on June 08, 2006 at 01:03 PM

btw, I forgot to respond to the question about American TV shows.
to check whats new I often look at
www.cbs.com
www.nbc.com
www.abc.com
www.fox.com
www.hbo.com
Thats the major networks sites, plus HBO (cable TV)
If I see something there that appeals to me I either look on Amazon for the DVD set or I download it.
Another good site is www.tvshowsondvd.com for news on releases etc. Region 1 (USA) specific but worth checking out for importing from Amazon and others.
A good Region 4 (Australia) site for DVD reviews and comparisons to Region 1 releases is www.michaeldvd.com.au (of whick I am a humble unpaid DVD reviewer... TM isn't the only one who works for love!!)
Anyway, hope this helps!!

• by downloader on June 08, 2006 at 01:32 PM

Prison Break is a bloody good show.However,for me,it drags on to long and thats my reason I stoped watching it two weeks ago.That may be the reason why most viewers turned of it.
I fail to understand "Fast Eddies Hit list". How can you have quality with limited staff? What do you think TM?

• by Winstone Robinson on June 08, 2006 at 03:21 PM