Remo | The abused TV remote control

REMO is celebrating Valentine's Day by his remote lonesome...

This weekend is for those who have a Love in their lives, which I don't.

I am so jealous of all you Macho characters that have a lover in your lives, as you probably are going to be all soooo sweet to your honey and romantic all weekend.
And I will just sit here on the coffee table and expect to get my buttons pushed while the "love of my life" Marge is trying to find her favorite TV shows and movies.

I keep telling my "LOVE", Marge, please go to TVissimo.com and find one of the TV shows or movies listed by TVTango below, for any one of the most popular TV Shows and Movies of the last 25 years that may be available this weekend.

OH but no, she is still way too used to just channel surfing (BTW - she does need a new wet-suit in my opinion, but don't let her know I told you so) and little does she realize how much that hurts me in the process.

The rests of you can find all the best TV shows or movies about love by searching for shows with the word “Love” in the title, but there are likely lots of them and some may not be very worthwhile to watch.

That’s where my friends and cofounders at TVTango.com have helped us all. Maj Canton, a.k.a. the “Queen of TV movies” and Mike Vicic have painstakingly created a repository of information with all the details you would ever want to know about TV movies and shows.

So in order to not have to watch lousy movies or shows about the most important topic this weekend, Maj has reviewed the ratings and popularity for all the relevant shows and created the following list to help you chose:

Top-10-Rated, Original, Made-for-TV Movies with “love” in the Title from the Last 25 years:

And the Top-10-Rated TV Series with ‘Love’ in the Title that Aired in the Last 25 Years:

Rating is the average rating of all episodes, including repeats that aired since 2/5/1984.

Source: TVTango.com

So how do you find which of these shows is showing at what time and which channel in your local area and on your service?

Thats what my Daddy has done at TVissimo.com, to help all of you lovers find any show or movie anywhere in the USA on any service in any Zip code.

Simply go to TVissimo.com, enter your Zip code, pick your local service provider from a short-dropdown list, enter a title from the above lists (or as a matter of fact any other detail that comes to your mind about a TV show or movie that you would like to watch) and Bingo - - - you get a list of what’s showing, when and on what channel.

It’s the newest, most accurate, flexible and powerful TV schedule Search Engine available.

Try it, you’ll like it – and save my remote cousins and brothers from more pain and suffering.

And allow me to wish your own love a Happy Valentine's Day and some peace and quiet for your remote.

Remo did not win at BAFTA - but the OSCARS are still a possibility

Hello friends,
I am a little bit sad this week.
I don't want it to sound like "sour grapes" and I do know I am the new kid (so to speak) on the block, but to be so completely shunned at the BAFTA Awards this week was a heavy and undeserved blow in my own humble opinion. I was not fully expecting to win the Best Actor category, but to at least be among the nominees for the Animated Character Award, was not a bit too excessive in my own professional judgement. You must have seen my gut-wrenching performance in my most recent full (even if short) feature film Life of Remo and from all viewers I spoke with (at least a dozen of my most fervent fans at last count), it was described as a totally overwhelming and one-of-a-kind performance, matching those of other stars like Mickey Roarke, Kate Winslet, Heath Ledger and others.

Not wanting to be embarassed on stage without a few words to say, I even prepared a short speech (matching my own height of 6 inches), thanking my Father (Robert), my Godfather (Cliff), my mid-husband (Tim) and all my supporting cast members (whose names for the battery in me I can not remember).

In any case, as reliable industry rumor has it, that the OSCARS nominating committee in spite of what currently appears on their website, won't make the same mistake and you will see me sliding elegantly (as much as remotely - no pun intended - possible) on the red carpet on Feb 22nd, 2009. However if not, you can always vote for me on YouTube as many times as you wish.

AND as always, thank you for your unending support.
And to the many fans (I know of at least two so far) who requested T-Shirts with my image, they will be shortly available, or they will be available in size short, I am not sure which ( in any case - one size fits all).

Speak with you shortly...
(I can't help if I am short, now can I?)
Remo

Remo wants to host a TV show dinner party with friends

Last night I was looking at the stars through the living room window. If I could ask for one thing I would wish my owner would sign up with TVissimo. I heard over the grapewine the neighbors had signed in and now they get together with their friends and have TV parties. They have Pizza Dinners instead of eating out. Even now I can hear them all the way across the street laughing at a Seinfeld's marathon while my owner is pressing my channel buttons without being able to find something fun to watch. Oh there's the Seinfeld marathon, it's on this channel! No wait don't change it! It'll be on after the commercials are over! Nooo! She changed it. Oh well here we go again, up and down changing channels into the rest of the night. If she had only searched all available shows on all available channels on her cable or satellite service and saved those programs of interest to her own Favorites list for the future, this wouldn't have happened. Then she could have simply clicked on Search My Favorites for Tonight between 7 and 11 and the precise schedule of the favorite programs showing tonight would have appeared – AND - we could have seen an entire movie by now! If only she... Oh no! It's the news channel... Fiuf! She changed it. Thank you commercial brake.
I bet we could have so much fun if we threw one of those TV Dinner Parties. Because my owner is an excellent host and I, well I would polish my buttons and put on my biggest smile. All the family and friends would be together enjoying a meal and a laugh. But my owner just won't listen.
She has just pressed my 'Off' button. 'Nothing interesting to see' she says with that sad face shown when she is disappointed with TV. My owner gets up and throws me on the coffee table.
I 'm looking at the stars now. If she would only subscribe to TVissimo...

Remo is unsure how to find something interesting on TV

Yes, yes, I know I look a bit sad and tired. Can you see the black rings under my buttons? The thing is I've been having this recurring dream for the past few nights and I can't get much sleep. You want to know what it is?

Well I'm laying on the couch, peacefully as we remotes should be, then my owner comes, excited to watch some TV, as owners should be. She presses my 'On' button, and everything is fine. Then she presses the 'up channel', the 'down channel', then the 'up channel' again. I'm dizzy and she can't find something interesting to see. We go through romantic movies, animals running on open pastures, waterfalls, a lady selling earrings, a series, an action movie, a comedy show, a man on a treadmill...the news! She stops pressing my buttons! Oh no! We're going to watch the news again! Hours and hours of depressive talk about how bad the economy is and boring explanations of how this happened. I can see my owner is getting restless. The words "Credit Crunch" flare up in fat red letters across the screen. My owner starts scratching her head, nervously. A man with a mustache appears on the screen and says "Sorry fellows but we're all going down, this thing called the economy is never ever going to get itself together....we're doomed!" and he stars laughing, his mustache shaking like the hips of a Hawaiian dancer. I can see my owner is so nervous and frustrated she is now pulling at her hair. She grabs me, I think she is about to change the channel but she pauses. She looks so sad! She takes a big look at me and then....fium! I'm flying like a wingless bird through the skies.

And then I wake up.

You see why I'm so tired... If we cold only have a way of finding something interesting on TV without all this hassle ... (something like TVissimo, so we could simply go to a channel and let me take a well deserved snooze, is that too much to ask for?)

Hello People. This is Remo.

Hi everybody!

I wanted to introduce myself, I am Remo TVissimo, the formerly abused TV remote control.
Look at my first video on YouTube.

Now that my family at TVissimo created a search engine for TV shows and online videos, I can finally enjoy life and not have to be constantly abused by having my channel buttons pushed up-and-down, over-and-over again, all the time.

I can't even begin to tell you how painful that was and how much it hurt, especially on weekends, when everyone wanted to watch their favorite programs, but did not know either the channels or the times for their shows.

Well things are better now and I have more time, so I can share some of my life with all of you and tell you how to better enjoy your TV watching times.

So stay tuned (no pun intended), same time, same station and I will be blogging at you again real soon.

In the meantime spare your own remote some pain and sign up for TVissimo (its well worth it, since its all free) and enjoy your TV leasure times.

Ciao.

Your friend, Remo