Personally, as someone who only watches new series, I feel the current situation is more than adequate.
You can set a series to ‘current/new series and later’.
For example, the New season of SWAT, series 4, has just started so the following has exactly the same effect as TiVo New:

This will pick up series 5 when/if it comes along.
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