I search for a show on smart search
Find it and the channel that it is first run on
Tell Genie or hd recorder to record first run - all episodes.
Sometimes, and this has happened on DVR''s HD DVRs and now on my new Genie
A show (this week Bones) has a new first run happening on next wednesday but the to do does not show this and the only way to record it is to select it and manually record ajnd in this case there were two first runs available, one for the following week and I had to also manually record the second one as well.
I have also seen where a first run is available on a wednesday at 8pm and it doesn't set to record that episode but records a saturday at 4am
AND
there was NOT a scheduling conflict of more shows showing at the same time, not recording the least priority.
It was available but waited to record until a different time forcing me to manually record the actual first occurance.