I was looking forward to the shield, then discovered that those wonderful schedulers decided to play one each evening, which basically meant it just started filling up the Sky+ box, and after a few weeks just ended up deleting all the one's it had recorded and the series link. I just wish schedulers would sort things out, we ended up missing an episode of Bones because in the middle of the series they just decided to show two episodes back to back, and Lost skipped one week to then a few weeks later have the season finale air back to back.
I've yet to not watch a program due to the ending but I have given up on some programs due to the mess schedulers make, it's one of the reasons I'm looking forward to getting Apple TV when we move (I'd be even happier if you could rend a series and be given like a month to watch it, rather than buying them)