iTunes TV shows cost to much for you? Quality too low? Ok with the illegal act of downloading TV shows via BitTorrent? Then TVShows is for you!

TVShows is a helper application for the Mac that automatically grabs your shows for you, in Tivo speak, it's a season pass that works via bittorrent. TVShows doesn't do the actual downloading, it hands off the task to your preferred BitTorrent client. There is some intelligence to TVShows in regards to what it is supposed to download, and what is available - it will loosen the restrictions if it doesn't find exactly what you want (quality settings) in a reasonable time, and it will download the next best alternative. I've tried it out and it works really well. Wait, I mean, people have told me that it works better than they expected.

If, like me, you have epileptic seizures at even the thought of having to watch commercials, then this is even sweeter because the torrent rips of TV shows on the net have all of the commercials stripped out already.

All popular (and many not so popular) series are listed, you go through and select which ones you want to snag, and set your criteria and off it goes and does its thing. No more checking and rechecking to see if a show is available for download, TVShows snags it as soon as it's available. TVShows also tracks which show you've most recently downloaded and only grabs new material.

I don't have an AppleTV but think it would be cool if there were an option to feed this into iTunes for your aTV automatically.



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