[Angelinas]

Just gave that version a try, but it seems to strip everything from the search string, including the actual programme title (not just 'New:') I tried on 3 different 'New' shows and had to do a manual look-up for each of them as no artwork appeared. When the search dialog appeared, the programme title was blank.
One of the shows had 2 'New' episodes playing back-to-back and after I searched for it, poster artwork also showed up for the 2nd episode as well. Don't think that would have happened previously, so there is some progress 

Your settings have wrong old character.Need to write new...

Code:

<setting id="pvr_art_stripchars" default="true">New:|(|)|:|;|\&quot;|`|_new|new_|\&apos;"/</setting>

Yeah, I'm using local artwork for my next up items as well, especially my (Now-Next TV Channel View). Then I realised this was also affecting my Next-UP dialog pop-up that appears 30 seconds before the next programmes starts. If skin helper definitely can't fetch 'next-up' items, then I'm happy to continue with using local artwork.....Something, is better than nothing! 

OK