TVSquad

There are dozens of ways to find out what's on TV tonight. You could check the TV listings in your local paper, or in TV Guide. But honestly, I don't know anybody who actually does that anymore. There are hundreds of web sites with TV listings as well. But mytvrss provides one of the simplest web-based solutions for keeping track of new episodes.

When you visit the mytvrss web page, you're presented with a list of a few dozen popular TV shows. If a show you watch isn't listed, just contact the site and they might add your show to the list. All you have to do is click the check boxes next to the shows you want to follow and mytvrss will create a custom RSS feed for yu. Pop it into your RSS reader, and you'll receive an update every time there's a new episode of one of your shows.

You don't get a ton of information in your RSS reader, just the series and episode titles and an episode number. But there's also a link on each item that you can click to receive episode summaries.

[via MakeUseOf]

Zap2it, everyone's favorite online TV listing site (you know, until they killed the free listing data that had been used by MythTV, GB-PVR, and Media Portal) has announced support for online TiVo scheduling.

There's no shortage of ways to schedule your TiVo recordings on the web. You can do it from TV Guide's web site, Yahoo! TV, or even TiVo Central Online. That's right, when you first bring home your TiVo, you're given the option of viewing TV listings online and scheduling your recordings whether you're at work, on vacation, or sitting two feet from your TiVo.

Still, if you happen to prefer using an alternate TV listing site like Zap2it, I suppose it's nice to have a TiVo integration option.

[via TiVo Blog]

Pretty much every television network offers a way to watch full streaming episodes of popular TV shows these days. But you need to jump through a series of hoops and a dozen websites to find each show you're looking for. While companies like MeeVee, and Veoh have created streamlined interfaces for finding your favorite programs online, I have to say, I'm pretty impressed with TV Guide's new Online Video Guide.

TV Guide has been beta testing its new video guide for months, and the video directory goes live today. The front page features a list of popular shows and a column showing programs you may have missed last night. You can also search or browse for shows. If you were busy watching Prison Break and missed Chuck, TV Guide can help. Of course, so can NBC.com, but I really like the idea of having one place to go, not one for each network.

And unlike VeohTV, TV Guide's directory takes you directly to network websites to watch the video. In other words, you're exposed to every banner ad the network wants you to see and there's absolutely no reason for the networks to get upset and sue anyone.

[via lost remote]