Addison is #18. But is there a bullet? RICHARD CARTWRIGHT / ABC
It’s pretty fascinating, the little tidbits of info about viewing patterns that TiVo is able to accumulate, if you can get past the creepy, a box-in-my-living-room-is-reporting-back-to-corporate-HQ aspect of it. For instance: after a summer full of hype and advance screenings for new shows, only two fall debuts are in the list of top 50 most common TiVo Season Passes: Private Practice (#18) and Bionic Woman (#43).
That’s the bad news. The good news is that your TiVo hated last fall season even more. Only one new show made the top 50 then. (Studio 60. You can delete that Season Pass now.) New shows–like Heroes, which started at #85 and eventually rose to #6–take a while to make it into the pantheon. And the top 10 this season is little changed from last year; Grey’s Anatomy and Desperate Housewives were #1 and #2 then and now. The full top-10 rundown:
1 Grey’s Anatomy
2 Desperate Housewives
3 House
4 Lost
5 CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
6 Heroes
7 American Idol
8 24
9 The Office
10 CSI: Miami
Three top 10 spots go to American Idol, Lost and 24, which don’t return until midseason. In other words, my TiVo wants to know what happened to Jack and Kate off the island, and wishes it were February already. Much like its owner does, except for the weather.
Those of you with DVRs–now that we’re a couple weeks into the season, what new shows have you given a Season Pass to so far? And have you cancelled any already?