For some reason I never use the season pass manager. Since I'm home all the time I just go in and select what I want to record for that night. Usually the same stuff every week but soemtimes different. I had two one hour blocks recorded at 7-8 pm central. Surface on NBC and King Of Queens/How I Met Your Mother (an extremely good comedy BTW) on CBS and then at 8 it was all set to record 24 on Fox and WWE Raw on USA and it didn't record 24 but did record Raw.