TED is basically a tool which scours the internet for torrents of TV shows that you ask it to and then lets you download them using a torrent client. TED does not download the files itself, nor does it host the files. It only searches for them.
There are separate versions of TED available for Linux, Windows and Mac OS X and the Windows version is the one that I tried.
Once you have TED up and running, click on the "Add show" button and you will be presented with a list of shows that have been filled in by the creators of TED. The list is quite long and includes most famous shows running right now on TV. You should definitely be able to find the show that you're looking for in this list.
Click on the name of the show, or search for it using the search box at the top of the window, and TED will give you some nice details about the the show, including the time it last aired and the time it is expected to air next.
Click on the "Add" button and this show will be added to the list of shows that TED will continuously watch the internet for. TED resides in the Windows taskbar and runs in the background all the time, checking back every hour till it has found the shows in its list and has the torrent ready for you. The hourly interval can be be adjusted using the Preferences menu item under the Edit menu.
Once TED finds a particular show, all it does is launch your default torrent client and hand over the actual downloading to that client, and then goes back to quietly looking for more downloads from the list of shows.
If you're looking for an episode that has already been shown, right click on the show's name and click Edit. From this window, you can tell TED to download a particular show by letting it know the season and the episode that you're looking for.
Even though TED comes with a pretty exhaustive list of shows, if you still find that your favorite show is not on the list, its easy to add it to the list. Just go to the "Add Show" window and click on the "Add a custom show" button. Enter the show's name and click on "Select from available episodes". Now, sit back and relax while TED does its thing.
If the show is out there, TED will probably be able to get it for you.
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