CBS Reality Shows (Big Brother, Survivor, Amazing Race)...

Just thought I'd pass along the response I got from TiVo regarding the OnePass situation and CBS reality shows. I've written to TiVo (to complain about the uselessness of the OP's) before the most recent seasons of TAR and BB. Here's what they had to say...

The response is pretty laughable, considering OP's used to work the way they were supposed to, and have only started to require a new one to be set for every season, just recently. For a time I was starting to think it was because of CBS using different cover art for every new season. But it looks like it may go a bit deeper than that.

Guess it's time to write (and complain) to CBS (if I can figure out which inbox to direct that ire).

 

Yep, that was one of the things that had me confused as well. I couldn't understand why Gotham/FOX could figure it out, but not CBS (and/or TiVo).

But as pointed out by @kpeters59, Gotham (and probably a few other shows) was able to add a theme to each of its seasons and still have it get picked up by the same OP. Also, Survivor has been switching the sub-name of their seasons since the very first one (Survivor: Amazon, Survivor: Pearl Islands, etc etc) and it's only been within the last couple years that the OP's got really flaky for those. I have no idea why TAR and BB don't get picked up every season. There should be no excuse there.

 

Until I can find an alternative contact, I'm going to complain to CBS via this email form (in case anyone else would like to pile on).

 

Got a random email from Tivo support, in reply to what (I believe) may have been a complaint I submitted back in Sept (way to be on the ball, Tivo support). It was over the whole Survivor OnePass mixup where they had episode one and two being picked up by two different OPs.

The response pretty much blames CBS (same as the other email in the original post, above)...

I dunno. The whole "cast changes with every season" argument doesn't really float... since Dancing With The Stars (and other shows) have different casts every season, and they all seem to figure out how to make it work.

I can maybe see why Survivor might need the separation, since it's almost an entirely different game from one to the next, but Amazing Race and Big Brother are fairly consistent with what each season is about. Obviously BB:Celeb should get it's own OP, but the rest should collect under one.

Bottom line, it looks like CBS is the cause of this. And I, for one, will start focusing my complaints towards them (at this feedback form, I guess??) instead of Tivo. I'm determined to keep b*tching until this gets fixed. I might even write my Congressmen, the BBB, and the Pope. Harrumph!