Thu Mar 27, 2025 - Over 9000!

by santah

As is customary around here, a quick news flash to celebrate our latest milestone - we now have over 9000 TV shows with trailers on Next Episode! If you're curious why that's a big deal, check out our previous news post here.

The quest continues toward 10,000, and I'm always grateful for your suggestions on missing or improved trailers.

A big thanks goes out to our Premium members who make this possible.

Haven't given Premium a shot yet? Grab your 30-day free trial and help us keep making Next Episode better!

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Tue Feb 25, 2025 - Little update to the Browse filter

by santah

To help you discover new shows - in our Browse section - there is now a new status to filter by: In First Season.

Let me know if you find this useful.

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Fri Jan 31, 2025 - Recommendation Friday - Shrinking

by santah

I've recently caught up with this show from the creator of Scrubs and Ted Lasso and can't recommend it enough.

Shrinking - positivity and thought provoking comedy on Apple TV+

Watch out for Derek and let me know your thoughts!

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Thu Jan 16, 2025 - Minor change in Streaming Services

by santah

Until now, streaming service icons were displayed normally, except when filtering by "Streaming on My Services". In that case, icons for services not in "My Services" would appear grayed out.

I've made a small change: once you add streaming services to "My Services", those services will now be highlighted everywhere, while the rest will appear grayed out. Let me know what you think!

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Mon Dec 23, 2024 - This time of the year ...

by santah

... the snow is here! As is my traditional (for a second year!) chart of top 10 shows/seasons I watched in the past year.

You can see a quick chart of what you marked watched in 2024 on this page and create your own list, if you want, here.

So, what was 2024 in TV shows for you like? I know I have way more than 10 shows I can list there.

I appreciate you being part of Next Episode and I wish you and your loved ones happy holidays! Cheers!

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Thu Nov 07, 2024 - Updates to streaming services + filter and availability added to Movies

by santah

I mentioned movies will get the streaming services availability - and it's now done. Here's what's new:

• streaming services availability was added in all Movies lists (my movies, browse, hot, trending, search)
• you can now filter these lists by streaming services or "my streaming services" availability

Along with these specific updates regarding the Movies section, there are a few general improvements as well:

• when filtered by a streaming service, what you filter by is first and highlighted - the rest is grayed out
• many new countries are now supported so if yours wasn't there before - check again - it most likely is now

Please let me know how these work for you and if something looks weird on your device/browser.

Next - I plan to focus on improving how My Movies looks and works (both on desktop and mobile)

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Wed Oct 30, 2024 - New features - My Streaming Services, filter and streaming availability in lists

by santah

To help you navigate the messy world of streaming services availability, Next Episode has a few new features:

• All lists (search, browse, top/discovery charts, watchlist, track episodes) now also show streaming availability
• You can now filter by streaming services availability
• In addition, you can add the streaming services you use to My Services and filter through that as well

This is not just for US - your country should've been automatically detected, but if not - you can easily switch it here.

Basically, it should now be easier than ever to find out where your stuff is streaming and find new great shows on the streaming services you use. Our movies section will get the same treatment soon.

Let me know your thoughts and as always - if you appreciate my efforts here - consider getting Premium. Thank you!

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Fri Sep 20, 2024 - Downtime

by santah

Due to issues our hosting company currently has, this night (or at least for me it was during the night) - we experienced our longest downtime ever - about 4 hours.

I'll try and set it up so it'll automatically switch to a backup server in such events so this doesn't happen again.

Apologies to everyone affected. All should be good now.

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Fri Aug 16, 2024 - Smart show suggestion update

by santah

The newly added "show discovery through AI" (now renamed to Smart show suggestions) got smarter and more useful through a couple of additions:

• Now it remembers the whole conversation session, so you can iterate on it
• It knows your ratings so you can use that for more specific recommendations
• I've added details in the instructions, highlighting more strengths and limitations of the feature
• You can now find it in the Top section along with the rest of the discovery top charts

I'm still tinkering with it, trying to make it better and faster. Let me know how it works for you now.

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Thu Aug 08, 2024 - AI powered show suggestions

by santah

Here is something I've been experimenting with recently - show discovery through AI!

Try it out and see how it works for you. Don't hesitate to ask it broadly or for a very specific types of shows - even if you need to describe it in multiple paragraphs - you can.

For now, this is a Premium members only feature, but good news is Premium is free to try for 30 days (even if you had the trial before) and it's very cheap after - while giving you great features and supporting my efforts here.

My testing shows huge potential, but I'm still tinkering with it and figuring out where to link/integrate it on Next Episode.

So yeah, give this new feature a spin and let me know how it works for you!

Edit: There was a bug that was causing it to load forever for some queries. It's fixed now!

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