When you are an expat one thing you miss is TV from home. For me I can get tv shows via torrent, but a more legal way is to buy a TIVO and have it setup at home on your home network. At first it seems daunting, but its really quite easy.

1. Buy a Series 2 tivo, at the moment they are $30 for a refurb unit on tivo.vom
2. Set it up at home in my case it was setup in the master bedroom.
3. Login to your router, setup the port forwarding to point towards your tivo, in my case we have the tivo setup at on ip 192.168.1.104, and I have forwarded http port 80 and https port 443 to it. (each router is different on how to forward ports so it cant be explained here)
4. You need to find your actual ip address www.whatismyip.com from one of your home computers will show you this.
5. Now type in https://your ip here:443 , it will ask for a username and password, the username is the same for everyone so enter:  tivo , the password is your mak (media access key) you get from your account at www.tivo,com .
6. You now can see what you have recorded on your tivo! and download them.
7. Another good free program is http://tivoplaylist.dyndns.org/ its a great little program that lets you queue your programs for download.

One big problem is you need someone at home to delete the programs you no longer want, I havent found a way to do this yet, it must be possible, I just havent figured it out.