Making Room in my Tivo for UnBox

So my wife is big on finishing things, completing projects, checking things off her list and cleaning slates. As anyone with a Tivo or DVR knows this is not something you can hope to achieve. But I have a new incentive - UnBox is here and Amazon's downloads can go straight to your Tivo. Finally I won't have to call my wife to make sure I programmed the season manager correctly.

Thank god for Tivo (We've had a Tivo for the past four years and I can't imagine TV watching without it) and now UnBox.

Here's my top ten shows that I'm staying up with this fall TV season:

1. Pushing Daisies – ABC – I can’t get people to watch this show. “Yeah, it’s on my Tvio but I haven’t gotten around to watching it.” I’ve heard this from many friends. Well, get into it it’s great TV. A beautiful fairy tale TV show where you care about everyone and production value that’s so thoughtful that every time we go to Olive’s apartment my wife says, “That wallpaper is fabulous!” – The Halloween episode rhymes for ten minutes.

2. House – FOX – Scripted TV takes a page out of the competition reality world as House thins a herd of hopefuls.



3. Reaper – CW – I’m a Kevin Smith fan even though I haven’t seen Clerks 2 and if he can make a little money from this show staying on the air then I’ll keep watching. And when I heard that some X-Flies writers were involved I was all over it.

4. Chuck – NBC – Wow, another slacker show with a slacker lead, a surprising less achieving best friend, an unbelievably hot girlfriend and an equally unfathomable overall premise to keep the show going (sounds like a winning recipe – Chuck and Reaper – KEEP IT UP!)



5. The Next Iron Chef – Food Network– As Top Chef and Feasting on Asphalt end this competition reality starts up and while I don’t like too much reality I’d watch Alton boil water and I’d watch with baited breath (I still Tivo Good Eats)

6. Life – NBC – I’m a bit of a sucker for this procedural. I’m not into CSI or Without a Trace but the violence that spills from a detective that spent a lot of time in the clink and his Zen-speak makes it a stand out. Will it stick around? I’ll let you know when they get their season ordered.



7. Numb3rs – CBS – I’m still watching this show. The Nerd in me loves to pretend to know what’s going on. And the Scott brothers have never done me wrong. (American Gangster is the next movie on my list)



8. It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia – FX – The beat box promo was awesome and every episode is tightly wound, irreverent genius. Way to go Rob, Glenn and Charlie (see that it sounds like I know those guys – maybe now they’ll take my calls).



And rounding out my top 10 are two of the four NBC “Comedy Night Done Right” comedies:

9. 30 Rock – NBC – They went to the “dog fighting joke” Vick’s jumpsuit still has that new jumpsuit smell. Who knew Alec Baldwin was so good at voices? Oh, James Lipton did.



10. The Office – NBC – As the Brach Wars heat up I get drawn in. I still love this show and I won’t rent the British original until our American version runs it course.



Next Time – Like it or Not - What’s gathering dust in my Tivo