Watch List
From MythTV Official Wiki
The Watch List feature on the Watch Recordings page creates a list of the recordings that would be most useful to watch in order to catch up on series and shows where you may have fallen behind. Choosing to watch and delete things from the top of this list will help you stay on top of things efficiently without having to examine the full list of recordings.
Settings options can be found on the 6th page of TV Settings->Playback. There is some verbose info about the filtering and scoring when using mythfrontend -v file
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