But this wouldn't really help Tony. Since he doesn't want Buffy as a season pass, the recording "future history" won't say why future episodes won't be recorded.

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Tony, the other solution to your problem is this (which I'll just offer in case you didn't know about it): when you have a show where you aren't concerned with getting all the episodes, go ahead and add the season pass. As you add more season passes, go into the season pass manager and move the pass for that show to the bottom of the list. That will always set the show for the lowest priority. From there on, it's a simple issue of deleting episodes you don't want from the Now Playing list.