****EDIT 05Jun2010*****
Available in maemo.org appstore now. In Extras. Thanks to all who tested and voted. Please continue your vote here.
http://maemo.org/downloads/product/Maemo5/Showtime/

****EDIT 25May2010*****
repackaged for PR1.2 and promoted. http://maemo.org/packages/package_in...howtime/1.2-3/
website : http://showtime.passiongarage.co.uk

****EDIT 18Mar2010*****
New Version 1.2-1 released. Check the Release Post here
User Guide is here. Please read this before you try.
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****EDIT 07Mar2010*****
New Version 1.2 released. Check the Release Post here
User Guide is here. Please read this before you try.
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****EDIT 27Feb2010*****
New Version 1.1 released. Check the Release Post here
User Guide is here. Please read this before you try.
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Happy to announce SHOWTIME 1.0 is in extras-devel Extras now.

I dont watch too much TV but I never like to miss my favourite programmes .
I could always do with an app like this to display TV channel listings with a facility to set reminder/remote record.
This does exactly that and only that.
Its not intended to be a multimedia player if you know what I mean

Main Highlights

• Remote record feature ( for SKY users in UK only ). I can add it to other regions if users can let me know if its available or not in their region.
  
• Adds events/alarms to your N900 under a new calendar named SHOWTIME.
  
• Can configure favourite channels or programmes.
  
• Can configure region ( countries available now are )
  UK - United Kingdom
  IE - Ireland
  AU - Australia
  NZ - NewZealand
  DE - Germany
  FR- France
  IT - Italy
  ES - Spain
  SE - Sweden
  NL - Netherlands
  DK - Denmark
  NO - Norway
  FI - Finland
  BE - Belgium
  PL - Poland
  HR - Croatia/Serbia/Bosnia/Yugoslavia
  SI - Slovenia
  RU - Russia
  MY - Malaysia
  ZA - South Africa
  SK - Slovakia
  CZ - Czech
  
• See programme listings upto a week in advance and the previous day.
  
• Orientation is configurable (Portrait/Landscape/Auto)
  
• Three modes of operation
  • daily mode - check listings by date
  • search mode - search listings for favourite programme
  • current mode - check tv listings that are current.
• Set your default mode of operation.
  
• Caches downloaded files locally and deletes them when they are a couple of days old.
  
• All settings are stored locally so its reloaded when app starts.
  
• Search for a programme for upto a week , search strings for each channel can be saved.
  
• Prime Time settings and you can set to show/hide past listings.
  
• for the fun of it, added some icon sets
  but mainly because my wife spent a couple of sleepless nights with me to make them so didnt want to discard them.

countries can be added very easily as long as there is a data source in XMLTV format.

US/Canada - I know that SchedulesDirect has a service that provides data but they charge about 20$ per year. I couldnt find a free service.
You could either send me a link to a datasource or users from there could either buy a subscription or pool in to buy one and send me a link if they wish to add it to the app.

On the other hand anybody can go ahead and generate their own XMLTV data.
http://wiki.xmltv.org/index.php/XMLTVProject
just try the above link or google. basically you need to run a script on a daily/weekly basis that gets a data and upload them somewhere on a daily basis and provide me a link if you want me to add it , as simple as that.

Last but not the least, Andrew Flegg (Jaffa) is the man who hosts XMLTV data for UK, big thanks to him for allowing us to use the data he hosts.

As always, suggestion/comments/criticism welcome.

*EDIT*
If you have used it and like the app please help me promote it to extras by voting HERE

cheers