Any semi-experienced Tivo user knows to add extra time to any recording that follows football or any other sporting event. It's a rookie mistake! Certainly *not* Tivo's fault.

However... It would certainly be within the realm of possibility for Tivo to program in an optional "alert service" in the form of a "Tivo Message" that could warn the user whenever a sporting event comes before a show scheduled on the to-do list... I think this would be very easy to program. They have already handled the problem of odd length shows with the new overlap protection feature.

Yet another reason to hate organized sports.

This happens nearly every weekend with Cold Case. Since I use my DVR to record it (and not my Tivo on my main TV), I just set it to over-record an extra hour. Of course, not being a sports fan, I didn't realize there would be a sweaty homoerotic bump-and-grind sporting event scheduled prior to 24.

As for your question: Cancel it? It's what Fox does best.

Thanks to all! I haven't gotten around to watching "24" yet, confident that it was all there on my TiVo, and now... I do set TiVo and my VCR and Comcast DVR to record extra time when I know they won't end on time, but I wasn't even thinking of the game! If anyone out West would care to give a description of the last 15 min of the show, I'm sure the rest of us would appreciate it. I myself will aviod this site until I've played back the show in question.

Yeah we didn't know about the football game either because we programed our TiVo a while ago. If we padded every program on our season pass, we would only be able to tape like one show a night.

I also don't think they were saying it was a TiVo problem, it just affected any person who recorded it.

The last sentence of the post says: " I wonder what Fox will do to mend fences?"

I think it is a FOX problem. Maybe in their promo's they should have said..."24 right after the football game"

That's absolutely right. Yes, you can set it to record extra time at the end if you know about the game...but if you had set up your Season Pass a while ago you might not know about the football game.

And for those of you thinking, "how could you possibly not know about the football game?"...believe it or not some of us don't give a rat's a** about football.

I have both a TiVo and a comcast dvr, neither of which recorded the last fifteen on their own. I preplanned this, of course, since I knew football would run over. It would be nice if there was something the nets could do to alert your box that something went late.

Since he was Weblogs president he thought he was entitled to DirectTV subverting it's myriad of affiliate-appeasing contractual obligations by making the unprecedented move of technically enabling him to receive west-coast DirectTV feeds to his home (within less then 3 hours) because he missed his favorite tv show???!!

DIDNT THEY REALIZE WHO THEY WERE TALKING TO??? lol.

I would have loved to hear that support call.

Why is this considered a Tivo issue? Anyone taping using a DVR or, God forbid, a VCR would have missed the timeline.

In Tivo, if a TV show is dependant on another program possibly going into it's timeslot, you can set the options of "End recording" to continue recording past the allocated time. (Assuming you do not have another program to record later). I do this when I tape the award shows such as Golden Globes and Oscars.

And some of us have DVRs that make decisions on their own. I had properly scheduled my Comcast DVR to tape the next two shows after 24 just in case, but it decided, without informing me first, that since I had a season pass for The Shield it would tape that instead because my programming guide had it listed as a new episode (even though it wasn't). Funny thing is, I had also missed the last five minutes of that Shield episode the first time around because it ran long and my DVR didn't know it. Sigh... Technology both rules and stinks. So, uh, what happened at the end of 24 last night?

That's why you always plan for 30 minutes of over lap following a sporting even.