A new show debuts on CBS tonight called $#*! My Dad Says. I haven't seen anything of it other than a few promos and they haven't moved me to ask my TiVo to record it. This is probably a good thing because there's no way on a TiVo to do a search for "$#*!" or even for a dollar sign. In fact, TiVo can't even put all those punctuation marks into the name so on TiVo, the program is called $..! My Dad Says. If you really want to find it, go through Browse by Channel or Browse by Time. (If you use Browse by Time, remember it doesn't start at 8:30 like the ads say. It starts at 8:31. They do this just to screw with us.)
The show is historic for a few reasons. One is that it's the first series ever inspired by a Twitter feed. Another is that it's the first new series that William Shatner has had all week. And it's also the first network TV show to suggest the use of the word "shit" in its title. Penn & Teller's Showtime series, of course, has that word in its title but that's on cable.
Getting back to shows not starting or ending on the half-hour: If you look on your TiVo, it will tell you that the 11 PM telecast of The Daily Show is 33 minutes long…but The Colbert Report, which follows it, starts at 11:30 then runs for 30 minutes, followed by some other show which starts at Midnight. That mysterious 33 minute episode of The Daily Show is repeated three more times in the following 24 hours only in those airings, it's 30 minutes even though nothing is cut. Again, they just want to screw with us.