I either do that cave76 or to take it one step further I use XBMC which allows me to watch any TV show (or movie) I want at any time without any commercials to even have to skip through.
I had to google XBMC. Sounds interesting but since I'm dependent on Closed Captioning or SDH I wonder how well they handle that. I looked at some of the links on XBMC about that and got a bit worried when they talked about 'subtitles' which isn't always the same thing as Closed Captions or SDH.