The advent of Digital Television and the “Connected Home” has led to an information overload to the viewer. A lot of research has been conducted towards developing interactive program guide services and products that attempt to simplify the television viewing experience. Closed captions that are part of the transmission signal of the programs aired have been identified as a good source of information [1]. Information Retrieval techniques may be applied to closed caption transcripts to create applications such as the one we describe here, called the “Similar Program Guide (SPG)”. Such a guide would notify the user of programs being aired on other channels, similar to the one he/she is currently watching or similar to the ones in the user’s profile. Additionally, this guide would allow users to compile their favorite programs and thus maintain user profiles. In this paper we discuss the approaches for development of the application. We use Information Retrieval techniques as the basis for this application.