Until recently, I used yahoo's tv listings page, which was quick, clear and detailed. But several weeks ago it got redesigned and is now an absolute mess: covered with ads that make searching for practical features aggrevating, slower to load, and a "search" feature that's useless. All I want is a site where I can easily search the listings: type in "hockey" or "monk" and find out when programs with those words in the title or description are going to be on. The yahoo one used to do that but now it's an overadvertised, confusing and unhelpfully designed page. What do people use?
I download tv listings to my handheld using the Palm app Pocket TV Browser. It has full text search and you can download 14 days at a time. You need PTVB, the XMLTV grabber and a zap2it account, all of which can be had for free. You can view listings on your desktop as well as your handheld.
Pocket TV Browser:
http://www.doublebit.com/ptvb/XMLTV:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/xmltvZap2it:
http://labs.zap2it.comZap2it also does online listings, grid style:
http://www.tvlistings.comI haven't used this, but it looks relatively clean with minimal ads.