1. An apparatus comprising: a processor that: receives a request for a television media program; sends the television media program to a monitor for display thereon; receives a command to filter an interactive programming guide; determines that the command is received during a predetermined time period defined to begin with an end of the display of the television media program on the monitor and to end with a media provider scheduled start of another television media program; filters, in response to the determination that the command is received during the predetermined time period and based on one or more attributes of the displayed television media program, the interactive programming guide to generate a filtered interactive programming guide in which information about one or more television media programs is removed from the interactive programming guide; and delivers the filtered interactive programming guide in which the information about the one or more television media programs is removed to the monitor for display thereon; wherein the filtering of the interactive programming guide based on the one or more attributes of the displayed television media program is configured to be applied once by providing for display the filtered interactive programming guide in which the information about the one or more television media programs is removed, and, unless an additional command is given, to be automatically rendered inoperative the next time the interactive programming guide is delivered to the monitor for display thereon by automatically providing for display the interactive programming guide in which the information about the one or more television media programs is not removed.