Television system with aided user program searching

An interactive program guide system for aiding a user identifying media assets for viewing, comprising:

• a user device on which an interactive program guide is at least partially implemented, wherein the user device is configured to:
• display video of a current media asset being received from a first source;
• allow the user to sequentially browse media asset listings for available media assets by selectively displaying media asset listings in an overlay that is displayed while the video of the current media asset is displayed;
• limit which media asset listings are displayed in the overlay based only on various media asset attributes of the video of the current media asset being displayed;
• and
• allow the user to adjust the relative importance of the various media asset attributes of the current media asset that are used to limit the displayed media asset listings, wherein the adjustment of the relative importance is performed by adjusting a weight factor for each media asset attribute.

In an interactive program guide system, a method for aiding a user in identifying media assets for viewing, comprising:

• displaying video of a current media asset being received from a first source;
• allowing the user to sequentially browse media asset listings for available media assets by selectively displaying media asset listings in an overlay that is displayed while video of the current media asset is displayed;
• limiting which media asset listings are displayed in the overlay based only on various media asset attributes of the video of the current media asset being;
• and
• allowing the user to adjust the relative importance of various media asset attributes of the current media asset that are used to limit the displayed media asset listings, wherein the adjustment of the relative importance is performed by adjusting a weight factor for each media asset attribute.