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TV Show Status — TMDB-powered Returning/Ended/Cancelled badges for series


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Blueskies278
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Hi all,

I've built a plugin called TV Show Status that adds a status badge to TV series pages, showing whether a show is:

  • Airing (with the next air date, if known) or Returning Series if no date is confirmed yet
  • Last Aired (with the date, for ongoing shows without a confirmed next episode)
  • Ended (with the last aired date)
  • Cancelled (with the last aired date)
  • In Production

This data comes from TMDB and updates automatically once a day, so a show that gets renewed after being cancelled will flip back to the correct status without any manual action.

How it works:

  • A background task fetches the status for every series in your library from the TMDB API and caches it locally.
  • On the web client, a small badge appears next to the rating/year/network row on each series' detail page (matching the native look of that row).
  • Optionally, the status can also be prepended to the show's real Overview/description. This genuinely updates the library metadata on the server, but it doesn't currently display in the app versions I've tested — I'm hoping this could be picked up by the native apps in the future.

Setup: Just enter a free TMDB API key in the plugin's settings page (Settings → Plugins → TV Show Status) and it does the rest.

 

 

 

 

 

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roand7802
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Hi, I'd like to try the plugin. Do you know how I can get it? I can't seem to find it in the plugin catalog.

Blueskies278
Posted (edited)
5 hours ago, roand7802 said:

Hi, I'd like to try the plugin. Do you know how I can get it? I can't seem to find it in the plugin catalog.

Not available yet. still in working progress.

Edited by Blueskies278
Posted

Quedare atento para probarlo se ve muy interesante 

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Blueskies278
Posted (edited)

Update: Badge style options added

You can now choose how the badge looks. A new "Badge style" setting is available on the same settings page:

  • Icon + colour — A small coloured square with a calendar icon (green for Airing/Last Aired, orange for In Production, red with an X through the calendar for Cancelled).
  • Original pill — The plain badge from the first version, no icon.
  • Text only — Just the status text, no background or icon.
  • No badge — Hide it entirely (e.g., if you only want the Overview/description prefix).

The setting is on the same page as before (Settings → Plugins → TV Show Status); just scroll down to find it.

Also worth noting: the plugin can now display Airing, Last Aired, In Production, & Cancelled (text only) on Android and tvOS next to the TV information, but this is a limitation beyond my control.

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Text view. Currently Android & TVOS can only display text view Android .png

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