Patent ID: 8701139

Claim:
A method, comprising: retrieving a list of programs associated with at least one user at a computing device, wherein the programs in the list are available from a media service, and wherein the list comprises at least one first serial program selected by the at least one user and at least one second serial program selected by a recommendation engine; determining, on a first date, whether each serial program in the list has a new and unviewed episode available from the media service, including: determining a second date that an episode of the serial program was added to the media service; determining that the episode is a new episode of the serial program in response to determining that a sum of the second date and a threshold number of days is later than the first date, wherein the threshold number of days corresponds to a frequency at which new episodes of the serial program are scheduled to be added to the media service; determining whether the new episode is unviewed; and sending from the computing device a display of the list to a display device associated with the computing device, wherein the display includes an entry for each program in the list and a first selectable indicator associated with each serial program determined to have a new and unviewed episode.