Patent ID: 8555320

Claim:
A method comprising: presenting, to a display device from a media recording device, a first graphical user interface that includes a selectable record season premieres option, selectable record pilots option, and a view recorded programs option, wherein selection of the record season premieres option indicates that only season premieres are to be recorded, and wherein selection of the record pilots option indicates that only pilot episodes are to be recorded; in response to a selection of the record season premieres option, searching electronic program guide information to identify season premieres; in response to identifying a particular season premiere based on the search of the electronic program guide information, storing a data record scheduling recording of the particular season premiere, wherein the particular season premiere is part of a particular series program that includes at least one subsequent episode, and wherein the at least one subsequent episode is not scheduled for recording; recording the particular season premiere at the media recording device based on the data record; generating a recorded programs list in response to a selection of the view recorded programs option, wherein the recorded programs list is associated with all recorded programs, wherein recorded season premieres are displayed in a second recorded programs list in a first color and recorded non-season premieres are displayed in the second recorded programs list in a second color that is distinct from the first color; presenting at least a portion of the recorded particular season premiere; and after presenting at least the portion of the recorded particular season premiere, presenting a second graphical user interface that includes a selectable option to schedule recording of the at least one subsequent episode of the particular series program that was not recorded in response to the selection of the selectable record season premieres option, wherein the second graphical user interface does not include the selectable record season premieres option.