NBC Direct -- Full and free episodes of The Office, Heroes -- and (pay for?) Life, Bionic Woman, 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, Conan O'Brien, Jay Leno
by Paula Neal Mooney For a person who writes a web site about where to download TV shows online , this new NBC Direct program, where you can soon download free and full episodes of 'The Office' and 'Heroes' is the best news I've heard all day. (Let's hope and pray Mychal Bell being fully exonerated will be the next best news I hear today.) NBC Direct is getting it right. With NBC Direct, TV viewers will be able to download full episodes of shows like Life, 30 Rock, Friday Night Lights, Late Night with Conan O'Brien, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (will they all be free?) and keep them on their PCs for a week before they expire. When is ABC going to get smarter and offer something similar (for shows like Oprah and The View ) akin to NBC Direct ? I get hits all the time searching for full and free episodes of The Oprah Show (like this popular recent one about Jenny McCarthy, Holly Robinson Peete and their sons with autism) that don't exist! They are l...