Prime Time Rewind: One stop shop for online network TV

by Brad Linder Mar 5th 2008

NBC, Fox, ABC, CBS and the CW all make some of their shows available for free on the web. But you've got to remember which network a show airs on, figure out if it's online at all, if there are full length episodes, and how many episodes the network keeps on its web site. Wouldn't it be nice if there were one place where you could just find all the network TV shows available at once? Well there is. Kind of.

Prime Time Rewind is a site with links to most of the network TV shows available on the web. You can browse programs by flipping a cube from side to side to display network shows, or you can flip it up and down to browse by genre. Defying all known laws of physics, the cube appears to have more than six sides, as you can find a few shows from the TNT and USA networks, but for some reason The CW is missing.

Probably the smartest move the folks behind Prime Time Rewind made is to basically ensure that the site takes you to the original network web site when you click a show. You'll still see a Prime Time Rewind navigation bar on the side of your screen, but since you're also seeing any ads that the network wants you to see, there's no reason for anyone to sue the site.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

Tags: online-video, prime-time-rewind, tv

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

jenajill said 4:06PM on 3-07-2008

3pm Central
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scienceontv said 12:42PM on 3-09-2008

This site is actually pretty cool and very concise. Great post.

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