Displaying saved place in podcasts inside iTunes

The iPhone and iPod touch now display half-circles for those podcasts that are half-listened-to. They also display clearly how long the podcast is and how much time is left to go.
I can't seem to make iTunes display the same information. iTunes shows no half-circles. iTunes can display the date and time that the podcast was last fully played, but the "Last Played" column remains blank if a podcast hasn't been finished yet. I can't seem to find any column or other place where "minutes remaining," or other indication of a podcast not having been played all the way through is available.
Right now, when in iTunes, the only way I can see whether a podcast has been partially played is to look in the "Podcasts" item under "LIBRARY" and see if it has a blue dot or not. (Why doesn't the blue dot carry over to smart playlists?) Also, the only way I can determine how much of the podcast has been played is to actually start playing it (thus CHANGING the marker).
It seems strange that the iPhone and iPod Touch display more information about podcasts than iTunes does.
I will put this as a feature request to Apple in their feedback page, but in the meantime, has anyone figured out a way to display this information inside iTunes?

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http://www.badilishapoetry.com/
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