One of my favorite sites for TV show information, TVTome.com was acquired a while ago by CNET. They have now integrated the old content and relauched the site as TV.com. It still appears to have the same database funtionality as the old site but is arguably a bit slicker and (at least to my eyes) seems to play the populist card a bit more than it did before. What I mean by that is that in the past hit shows were treated the same as those that weren't. The revamp highlights The O.C., Desperate Housewives and such a bit more heavily. TV.com launches
One of my favorite sites for TV show information, TVTome.com was acquired a while ago by CNET. They have now integrated the old content and relauched the site as TV.com. It still appears to have the same database funtionality as the old site but is arguably a bit slicker and (at least to my eyes) seems to play the populist card a bit more than it did before. What I mean by that is that in the past hit shows were treated the same as those that weren't. The revamp highlights The O.C., Desperate Housewives and such a bit more heavily. 
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6-15-2005 @ 11:55AM
Jason Bret Fahlman said...
Today Tvtome.com switched over to TV.com, and it has been an utter disaster. The data on the shows is nearly empty, and the layout for that data is cryptic at best. Add to that the extremely complicated page structures and it brings my AMD XP 3000+ 1GB computer with high speed Internet to a shcreeching halt. Just scrolling up and down a page is nearly too much effort for my system to handle, although every other page on the web works just fine. This is a classic case of a huge company swallowing up a great small company and turning it into garbage.
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6-15-2005 @ 11:55AM
Brian said...
Yea, this is pretty shitty. First they ruined allmusic.com, now this. So slow, and alot of the functionality was removed. And i hate it how the main page has all the different subsections minimized/summarized. They did that when they changed allmusic.com, and no buddy likes it.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:19PM
chuck said...
oh no, not tvtome!!! i HATE c|net, they will ruin the best tv-oriented site on the net.
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6-16-2005 @ 4:19PM
SN said...
Um, tvtome is still there? maybe they'll run both in parallel with a common database behind them? maybe...
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6-24-2005 @ 8:01AM
frantik said...
I wonder if anybody at cnet has done a google on tvtome and seen the extremely poor response tv.com has recieved. i think they would make more money going back to the old site and selling tv dvds with amazon links than whatever they're trying to do
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6-29-2005 @ 12:57AM
Mike said...
Oh fuck off you stupid money-grubbin bastards, give me back the old site, it was more efficient and had a better layout, either change your piss-poor excuse for a site to the same damn site or just fucking kill yourselves.
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7-02-2005 @ 9:28AM
Tim said...
I have to agree with what I've read concerning cnet's takeover of tvtome. The new site sucks ass. I liked tvtome because you could find out anything and everything about nearly any show past or present. You weren't inundated with ads for what shows or people cnet wants you to check out. Cnet is only interested in the almighty dollar and not what people are going to the site for. I wanted to check out a cartoon for my kids and it took forever just to locate what I was looking for. The old site had tons of info that we'll never see again. It's too bad that they just couldn't leave it as it was and just add to it. I'm very disappointed in it now, but still, I'm stuck with having to use it because there aren't many other sites to go to.
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7-03-2005 @ 12:02AM
Man said...
It's been one month since this was posted and I gave TV.com a chancee to get better and it hasn't. I loved TvTome and used on a daily bases now I can not quickly navigate through the TV.com site it has hardly any info and I'm reverted back to imdb. I mastered copy & paste why didn't they.
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7-19-2005 @ 9:39PM
james said...
why couldnt they leave tvtome.com alone. you were able to find any information on any tv show and if they had dvds and such and people would buy them now its all just bunch of crappy searches no informationm bout any of guest stars and such. what happened bring back tvtome it was way better then this crappy site.
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