My whole issue is that I thought I would be back before it ended anyway. if I had seen that it was scheduled to end an hour early, I would have buffered it. But as Tony said, the Tivo is kinda pointless if you have to tell it what to do.

Plus, as I said for sporting events, most of the time you can predict how those will turn out. Plus, the networks usually schedule a reasonable amount of time for them. Fox schedules at least 3 hours for football games because they know it'll be that long at least. The Oscars have never been less than 3 hours