If you are an IceTV subscriber with the right device at home, you can schedule shows to record right from your Mac or PC’s web browser—from anywhere! Plus, IceTV makes the task of discovering what’s good on the box more enjoyable and a whole lot quicker.

TV Guide

We challenge you to find a TV guide that's as quick and easy to use as ours. Search by show name, actor name, director name or description. Or, simply view what's on at a certain day and time.

Most Popular

The most popular free-to-air TV shows in Australia, according to IceTV users. Any shows selected as a favourite or recorded help build this list, so it's a pretty good indication of what everyone likes.

My Upcoming Shows

My Upcoming Shows is your own personalised weekly TV guide, containing only shows you've chosen as favourites or scheduled to record.

My Shows

My Shows is where you can manage, delete or change settings for all your series recordings, favourites, keyword recordings and keyword favourites.

Seeing a show's details and recording options

To see the description, recording options and other details, simply click on the show's name in the main list.

Series Record

Series Recordings let you automatically record your favourite programs whenever they're aired. Our series record is smart enough to know when a show's time-slot changes or when a show comes back from being off air. Just hit series record and watch your library fill up as the shows are broadcast.

To record a series, open the show's details in the TV guide or My Upcoming Shows, then click Show Series Options, then ensure the options are as you'd like, then click Record Series.

Favourite

Favourites are just like series records, except they don't record. This is handy for keeping an eye on shows you might not want to record every episode... just certain episodes you haven't seen.

To set a show as a favourite, open the show's details in the TV guide or My Upcoming Shows, then click Add Favourite.

Keyword Record

Keyword Recordings are a great way to record shows by actor name, director name or by general concepts. To add a Keyword Record, search for something in the TV guide, then click on "Add a Keyword Record or Keyword Favourite", set the desired options (including setting Action to Record), then click Add Keyword Record.

By default, searches only match keywords in the show's title. To include the description, actors, and director, change the search options and search a second time before clicking "Add a Keyword Record or Keyword Favourite".

More advanced users may wish to take advantage of quotes and minus signs, allowing for powerful search terms. Here are a few examples:

Use multiple keywords to search for shows containing all of the keywords. For example, the following will match "The Surfing and Boating Show", but not "The Surfing and Golfing Show":

surfing boating

Surround keywords with quotes to search for an exact phrase, such as a person's name. The following matches "Ricky Gervais" but not "Ricky Smith and Bob Gervais":

"ricky gervais"

Add a minus sign before keywords or phrases that should be excluded. The following matches "The Surfing and Boating Show" but not "The Surfing, Boating, and Golf Show":

surfing boating -golf

Use multiple keywords and minus signs for more complex searches. The following matches shows containing "Ricky Gervais" and surfing but only if they don't contain the word boating or the exact phrase "the office":

"ricky gervais" surfing -boating -"the office"

Keyword Favourite

Keyword Favourites are just like Keyword Recordings, except they don't record. This is handy for keeping an eye on specific actors or concepts.

To add a Keyword Favourite, search for something in the TV guide, then click on "Add a Keyword Record or Keyword Favourite", set the desired options (including setting Action to Favourite), then click Add Keyword Favourite.

Keyword options

Device. This is the device you'd like to record to. You can have up to 3 devices per IceTV account.

Action. Set this to “Record” to record shows that match the search terms or “Favourite” to only display them in My Upcoming Shows.

Limit Results. This limits how many results per day. It's useful for searches that are likely to give a lot of results.

Quality. Setting the quality to “Standard Definition” will record only the standard definition version of the show if both a standard definition and high definition broadcast exists. If no standard definition version exists then the show will not record.

Setting the quality to “Prefer High Definition” will record only the high definition version of the show if both a standard definition and high definition broadcast exists. If only a standard definition version exists, then it will record.

What do all those icons mean?

Throughout this site we use icons next to program names to let you know why they might be important to you. All scheduled recordings and favourites will appear in My Upcoming Shows with all your other recordings, so you know when new episodes are being aired. That way you can decide to record or watch the episodes.

A single recording.
A single recording that's being broadcast right now.
A single recording that's waiting to be scheduled on your PVR, Mac or Media Center PC.
A series recording. Every episode of this program will record.
A series recording episode that's being broadcast right now.
A series recording that's waiting to be scheduled on your PVR, Mac or Media Center PC.
A favourite series.
A keyword recording.
A keyword favourite.
A recommendation. We think you might like this!
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