Everyone on TV seems to be touting an affiliated Web site, where viewers can vote for some celebrity or unravel some deeper mystery beyond what aired on the boob tube. Web-TV links have been trying to push beyond marketing into storytelling for years, with modest success.

Now comes a new Internet service dedicated to passions for TV that extend past regular broadcasts and span all genres of shows. TV.com, launched Thursday by media company CNet Networks Inc., aims to create an online hangout where couch potatoes can research and explore TV programming and actors while socializing with others who share their enthusiasm for favorite shows. CNet revamped a site it bought in January called TVTome.com. TV.com boasts information about 2,500 TV series dating to the 1940s, including plot summaries for most episodes aired during that period. It includes video trailers, biographies of characters and actors, and tools to let users communicate by writing reviews and chatting in message boards.

The site seems easy to navigate, letting visitors browse shows by genre, popularity or time period. You can also search for names of performers or keywords in a show’s title.

Part of the idea is to create a lively hangout online where advertisers can explore ways to reach TV viewers, who increasingly are zapping past commercials using digital video recorders.

Click on the link for buffy section :

http://www.tv.com/buffy-the-vampire-slayer/show/10/summary.html

Click on the link for angel section :

http://www.tv.com/angel/show/12/summary.html

Click on the link for firefly :

http://www.tv.com/firefly/show/7097/summary.html