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An attempt to make a better TV Guide

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Any critiques would be helpful.

I would like to see less generalized showtimes. That's gonna be a doozy of a task, I know, what with the time zone scheduling thing that I've never thought to look into too closely.

And really, for my purposes it's not necessary because I know most shows will be available online if I tune it at the wrong time.

For anyone who, like me, watches just a few shows on a regular basis, this is the perfect program guide.

USA only?

That is a really good point. I want to go international, but there are two problems. One, I don't have a great data source. My data source is extremely limiting. Two, I am the only person, and I only write English.

Also I am at version 1, I am listening to all the feedback I get and I will continue to iterate to make a better site.

Acknowledged. I suspect that writing only English is much less of a problem than your data source(s). I can't critique, though, without seeing relevant TV programs.

Good luck ...

FWIW: I'm based in the UK.

I love it. Any chance of eztv.it integration?

emmmm, that's though. I use eztv.it, but I just am not sure if I want to go that route just yet. At this point I am really open to helping someone create a bookmarklette, or like a grease monkey script.

I am just fresh out of the gate and would love to do a small number of things with this site really well.

So maybe at some point, but I would look out for an aftermarket hack before it shows up on the site.

My comment was primarily tongue in cheek, but the grease monkey idea is excellent. The organization of your site is like eztv _in the future_ crazy future hands, and I'm using it daily to keep track of if I need to turn on the tv and/or head over to eztv.

Cheers

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