Truth in start times, and an unexpected consequence

[futzle]

Lately I've noticed that IceTV's guide is starting to list starting times as 9.05 instead of 9.00, or 8.40 instead of 8.30, on the premise that the show that's on before it is reality and/or game show TV and historically runs over by that much.

Good.  Keep it up.

Indeed, I think there's a beneficial side-effect: possibly out of spite, Nine has noticed, and started playing shows "early" so that I miss the beginning of them when I set my IceTV recorder off the IceTV schedule.  Now that the networks have been called out on their scheduling liberties, they're acting all innocent and (somewhat) following their advertised start times.

I think it's hilarious.