missing time

Watching the 24 season premiere on the East Coast thanks to the beauty of TiVo? Well, hold onto your fan mail. You'll miss the last 15 minutes of the show.

Why? When you set your TiVo to record the show, it only records for the time period for which the show was originally scheduled. Fox's coverage of the NFL playoffs went 15 minutes into that timeslot, and the season premiere started 15 minutes late. But TiVo recordings across the east stopped at 10:00... with 15 minutes left to go.

Brian Alvey, Weblogs, Inc. President, was pretty miffed and called his provider, DirectTV/TiVo. The response? The show will be repeated later in the season... so you can watch it then! They wouldn't offer him the West Coast version of the show due to company policy.

When a similar issue happened with the WB - they let Gilmore Girls go an extra minute - the network repeated the episode shortly thereafter. I wonder what Fox will do to mend fences?