Sorry...but I have to vent. I recorded American Idol tonight and because someone at Fox doesn't know what 2 hours means - the show went into overtime. For people like me who record American Idol - that means we miss the ending of the show. Yes, it was a positive show helping those in need - I am certainly always for helping others. But, please FOX get your act together. This has happened several times on your show. I'm frustrated because the ending is what I am most interested in. ( :
UPDATE: Thank you for everyone's comments. I don't have a lot of time when it comes to watching TV and entire shows. So I do fast forward all the commercials and any part that seems boring. For a typical one hour show it takes me about 35 -40 minutes to watch. So I obviously missed Ryan S. Tuesday night comments about Wednesday night going into overtime. There are shows that are very important to me so I do record the show after it - just in case. I'll have to do this with the finale. I remember when my DVR stopped recording when Ryan announced "the winner of American Idol is ...." and the show had stopped recording at that very special moment : )
I was extremely happy that AI does give back. That was wonderful to see all the effort and money going to help those in need : ) I just wish AI would have just made it a 2 1/2 hour show. There were a lot of GLEE fans that missed part of their show due to recording AI.
that happens to me all the time too so I just set my dvr to record for 3 minutes after the end of the show and it resolved the issue for me...hope it works for you...
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ReplyDeleteWe set our DVR to record 6 minutes after all shows - because of previous shows going into overtime. And of course, usually the best part of the show is the ending. But unfortunately - american idol went way overtime and those 6 minutes didn't help.
Thanks for the comment : )
Toni
i feel ya! same thing happened to me... we end the show watching simon doing something that he was most likely forced to do. not cool.
ReplyDeleteThe same exact thing happened to me last night. Big ole bummer...I still don't know who got kicked off! :-(
ReplyDeleteToni, you are so right. It wasn't just over by 5 or 10 minutes...but a full half hour! They should have better planning than that.
ReplyDeleteYeah what the heck i thought i was going crazy or something and i was like "ugh what just happened...wheres the rest of the show ....grrr"
ReplyDeleteI was glad Ryan Seacrest actually reminded everyone at the end of Tuesday night's show to set their DVR's accordingly because Idol Gives Back would probably go into overtime. I guess you all must have missed that :)
ReplyDeleteIt was announced several times on Tuesday night that the show would be going quite a bit over schedule. Unfortunately, that doesn't work if you missed Tuesday night's show :( The results sent Tim Urban home...and he left smiling as big as ever with his trade-mark grin!
ReplyDeleteI always set mine to go 10 minutes overtime with American Idol since two seasons ago when I got, "And the next American Idol issssss.....*BLIP*"
ReplyDeleteAfter months of watching and even attending the previous night LIVE in Hollywood (and I live in Utah), I was SO FRUSTRATED! I can totally relate.
I haven't seen last night's episode to see if my 10 minutes were enough or not, but thanks for the heads up that I might have more frustrations to deal with again!
I'm sure you can find the ending on you tube. That's what I always do!
ReplyDeleteIt happen to me too! I was so bummed!!!
ReplyDeleteThis season it's happened so many times, that we just record the show after American Idol. It's saved us a few times since (last night being one such occasion). Give it a shot...you'll love the fact that you don't have to worry about whether or not you've got the ending.
ReplyDeleteIt is a bit strange that they can't figure out their timing?!?!
I was upset about that as well as the night before they went over so the show after it got messed up... and I love Glee.... they went over by about 5 mintues.... that just makes me mad.... I totally agree with you on the venting.
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