atari2600

damn, apprentice or survivor? i dont have tivo or anything like that (just a lame vcr) and i wont be home at 8, so i can only tape 1.

which one should i tape? i like both shows a lot.

Y2K Falcon

Do you have CNBC? They are replaying the Apprentice episodes, it looks like at 10pm Eastern Friday and 3 hours later at 1am Eastern Saturday.
http://moneycentral.msn.com/Content/...o/Schedule.asp

Red Dog

What I don't understand about Apprentice is that tonight's episode, thanks to NBC's goofball scheduling, starts at 8:42 and ends at 9:59. The repeats on CNBC run for only an hour. What's up with that?

atari2600 - if you have cable, CNBC is your answer. If you don't, go with CBS and say F-You to NBC and their goofball scheduling antics.

mookiemeister

Definitely Survivor!!!

Groucho

Apprentice is the better show, but if you can pick up the repeats on CNBC you can just grab it there.

briank

Tape Survivor, NBC will more than likely play the Apprentice again.

briank

just checked, and tonight's episode of the Apprentice is scheduled to re-air on NBC next Wed at 8pm.

atari2600

excellent advice people! thanks!

QuikSilver

I like the Apprentice better than Survivor but NBC repeats the Apprentice on CNBC and everyweek on Wednesdays on NBC.

Roto

I can't watch the Apprentice. It pushed out two of my favorite shows from their regular timeslots. How the hell can they move Scrubs and Ed for one show? They have plenty of crappy shows they can just cancel.

POWERBOMB

I'd say skip'em both and tape Smackdown!

auto

No brainer.

Survivor!!!

Y2K Falcon

Having seen both (3 tivos = 5 available tuners) I would say that The Apprentice was the more entertaining last night. If it wasn't re-aired, it would have been the one to tape, IMHO.

Downside: Actually, CSI was surprisingly good (not a slam, it is one of my favorite shows, but this one broke the usual pattern as the antiquities story unfolded). So recording the "extended" Apprentice would have caused someone to miss CSI as well.

So, recording Survivor + CSI + the encore Apprentice is the obvious best solution. Now, without reairings, it would be a tough call for me to decide whether to have taped the CBS two hours vs. the NBC 1.25 hours.

Red Dog

I asked this yesterday but nobody answered. Is it safe to assume to that the encores of Apprentice are edited down versions?

Groucho

After seeing last night's episode, I'm going to guess they'd have to be. There wasn't an abnormal amount of commericials.

Y2K Falcon

I didn't time it (I wonder if I deleted it), but if they chopped down the "previously on...", they could get there in a hurry. Almost the first 2 minutes were the end of the previous show. My TiVo was on minute 9:00 before any new content started.

Also, I remember some out of place little speech by "The Donald" that could be removed, as well as cutting down the trip to Yankee Stadium (it felt like they showed the whole drive in real time ). Also, it seems like each commercial break was a solid 7 clicks of the "30 second skip". Perhaps CNBC wouldn't have as many programs to whore as NBC during sweeps (though I may be wrong). If edited correctly, they could easily get this to 44 minutes of content without sacrificing much.

As a matter of fact, I got the feeling that what WAS added for the "supersizing" was scooped up off the cutting room floor.

There are a few scenes that could be whittled...

Red Dog

Well I'm fortunate that I watched CNBC's airing live last night. It ran over by 10 minutes. If people are relying on recording the CNBC reruns in the future (when the original showing is more than an hour), you better pad your recordings.

Y2K Falcon

Wow... That is surprisingly stupid of them. Especially given NBC's exact "9:59" start times on the main network.