When you expand the program it should be in the order the programs aired with most recent being first.
Also go to manage recordings, series options, and you can select to record 1st run, but thus isn’t always accurate.
If you select a program from the guide you can press record, and if it’s a series press record again and it wi record the series and gives you the series recording options described above.
Do you get local programming through Direct, if so it will record, if you get them through an antenna, then no. You would have to get a converter box from Direct.
I have no problems recording. Its just that I want to see the list of recorded programs with ‘no folders’. List each program individually. Don’t bunch together programs with like names.