Do you have a Comcast DVR? If so there are directions you can find online so you can program one of the remote buttons into a 30-second jump forward button.
I use the yellow triangle “lock” button.
Sounds like a whole lotta nothing to me. Something tells me we’ll still see Heroes, 30 Rock, and The Office debut “around” fall, and stuff like Willy and the Talking Lemur Who Gives Him Advice in summer. Call me cynical. 
This doesn’t sound like they’re giving up on TV seasons to me. Rather, it simply sounds like they’re not adhering to the traditional season scheduling. As stated earlier, various cable stations (the USA network, for example) use “seasons” that don’t coincide with those of NBC, ABC, CBS or FOX.
I find it hard to see how they would decide on whether a program should be renewed or not without *some * concept of a season.
Maybe they now realize that “no one watches TV in the summer” is a load of crap?
OMG! Thanks! I just followed the directions, and now I have a 30 second jump *and *a way to unmute the cable without playing a recorded show! (I had no idea that our quirky little “getting stuck in mute” problem was a widespread one.)
That probably made sense 25+ years ago when we would actually go outside and have barbeques, play softball and hang out under the starlight chasing fireflies or some such thing. Now we’re fat and lazy all year round.
With a Tivo, the code to activate the 30-second skip function is Select-Play-Select-3-0-Select.
I’m surprised it too them so long. Why have your new show starting up against all the other new shows, rather than starting up against a bunch of repeats? There have been successful summer replacements for a long time - I believe the Smothers Brothers variety show started in the summer and got picked up for the season.
Well, I have this to say to NBC: PBBBT! (I actually want to tell them to screw themselves)–they cancelled my show Las Vegas. 
When I first heard of their idea for a 52-week season, I thought maybe there’d be some hope that they would keep certain shows on the schedule, but apparently that was a false hope. Bah!
Yet another reason why the Washington Post has become the best paper in the U.S…
It’s a bit of a hijack, but here’s the story on 30 second skip.
Two DVRs were introduced at the same Consumer Electronics Show - TiVo and ReplayTV. Each had a huge number of patents, and each had features the other lacks. I use both, and have to say that the TiVo is better for finding and recording, but the ReplayTV is better for playing back. ReplayTV has always had a 30 second skip, and later introduced a really amazing feature that allows the viewer to press one button and skip the entire commercial break. You can even set “autoskip” and watch an entire show with no commercials at all.
Obviously, from the point of view of the networks, it had to die. ReplayTV was sued several times, was sold several times and is no longer in the hardware business. They sell a software version of their interface that can be used with PC TV cards.
TiVo was more careful. They hid their 30 second skip. They have also been very successful at “branding”, but sadly not quite as successful at selling boxes. I’ve met people who have those horrible, horrible Scientific-Atlanta cable boxes and the new DirecTV DVR and foolishly believe they “have a TiVo”. They do, but only in the sense that a Yugo is the same as a Mercedes. All the patents owned by TiVo and ReplayTV cover nearly every decent way of running a DVR, and the miserable imitations had to work around them. I’ve yet to meet anyone who has used a TiVo or ReplayTV who has subsequently used (or, in the case of HD DirecTV, been forced to use) the ersatz boxes who has not complained bitterly.
My DVD recorder has a 1 minute ‘commercial skip’ button. It also does not record the HD channels. There’s always a turd in the punchbowl.
Aw, shit! And they left it on a cliff-hanger.
Yeah, it was cheesy. The main reason I watched it was because of James Caan, and Tom Selleck was actually a very decent replacement for him. And Josh Duhamel and James Leisure had chemistry as Danny McCoy and Mike Cannon. I hope NBC at least gives us a TV movie to wrap up the cliff-hanger. I’d like to know if Delinda gives birth to her baby. And what of Danny and Delinda’s wedding? And more importantly, I guess, Sam and Vic’s wedding, since Vic is challenging Cooper for ownership of the Montecito?
Another slight hijack, but yes, what of the unanswered questions?! Plus, there were shows planned for this season that never got made due to the writer’s strike. Apparently, Dean Cain was scheduled to make a return appearance (even though his character died?!). This show was definitely my guilty pleasure, even though I frequently missed it on Fridays at 10 PM–which meant I usually ended up watching it online (which is not a bad option). Huh, one of the main reasons the writers went on strike. I will probably write a letter (not email!) to TPTB at NBC and hope that -maybe- we’ll be able to get a movie that will at least answer the questions left hanging in the Season (now series) finale.