Yes, we did cave in and buy a dual tuner TiVo this weekend and it is, perhaps, the best thing we have ever done in our entire lives. The feeling we got when we were programming the sucker, and we got the message telling us the Season Pass we were trying to set up wouldn't be recorded because it interfered with two other programs at the same time, and we realized we could just set that Season Pass on the TiVo in the bedroom--OH!--it was heavenly.

That very thing happened when we tried to set a Pass for "Runaway," the CW's entry into the "mysterious disappearances" genre (see "Kidnapped," "Vanished," and "Without a Trace") which premieres tonight at 9 p.m. In this case the show is focused on those who have disappeared, not those looking for the disappeared. Donnie "Don't Call Me a New Kid" Wahlberg stars as a father falsely accused of murder who decides to go on the run--with his family in tow. Leslie Hope (Jack Bauer's wife on season one of "24") is the wife and mother. Darren Star, he of "Sex and the City" fame, had a hand in the series, so that's something. But so far we just can't drum up any real enthusiasm for the show. We'll have to see how the pilot plays out.

Also premiering tonight is "Heroes" at 9 p.m. on NBC. It's another one of those "group of strangers brought together by something mysterious" shows, with the mysterious something being superpowers. It seems some ordinary people have found they now have extraordinary powers like, oh, indestructibility and the ability to stop time. But why? And what will they do with their powers? Despite some fears that the series will fall into disappointing Unbreakable territory, and the presence of the always insufferable Milo Ventimiglia, we're kind of excited about this one. Also: Adrian Pasdar!