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Not to be confused with www.tvgenius.net, the company that the develop the technology so it can be used on their client’s websites.

Sorry for all the international visitors, but this is another UK friendly site that wouldn’t be as useful to those living abroad.

TV Genius is a fantastic site that does what it promises, and does it well. It’s a free online TV guide, but it’s better than any other I’ve tried for a few reasons. The guide lets you select your channels based on your criteria of your region and TV package and then, any that fit, can be manually added or removed. The site lets you look at your full list of stations or by a category such as films or sport.

Automatically your page will show today’s schedule within a few hours of what time it is when viewing the site. Thankfully there is a drop down list for the following ten days, and arrows opposite that to select previous and following hours so you can easily plan ahead. If that wasn’t enough there is also a search so you can find out when your favourite programme is on.

All programmes can be hovered over with your mouse for a brief description, and clickable for more in-depth information including how many shows will be on if it’s part of a series and how many times it will be repeated. Plenty of shows result in clips you can watch too.

Finally, a feature from TV Genius I highly recommend is their reminder service. There is a text option but it does cost money (although half hour before a show starts is a very handy reminder to have) and I haven’t used it. I have, however, used their free email reminders. Each morning I get an email listing all the programmes, films, actors, or keywords I wished to be reminded about that will be on that day. You can click on what you’re interested in and sign up for reminders individually through there or sign up for a free account so you can easily keep track on the website itself.

Since using TV Genius I actually remember when my favourite tv shows are on and rarely miss something new that has an actor or band I like in it. The searches and reminder services do sometimes give you more results than what you want, but the majority of the time it’s very accurate.

Who needs magazine tv guides when you can go online?