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

[Blueskies278 64]

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.

 

 

 

 

 

Edited 23 hours ago by Blueskies278

[roand7802 1]

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 64]

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 15 hours ago by Blueskies278

[buba 1]

Quedare atento para probarlo se ve muy interesante 

[Blueskies278 64]

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.

icon

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

The plain badge from the first version, no icon. Now with rounded edges.

Settings

Edited 12 hours ago by Blueskies278

[sh0rty 754]

I really appreciate that the Emby plugin section receives more love driven by the community. 

Well done! Happy to test this out when it becomes available.

Edited 6 hours ago by sh0rty

[Blueskies278 64]

47 minutes ago, sh0rty said:

I really appreciate that the Emby plugin section receives more love driven by the community. 

Well done! Happy to test this out when it becomes available.

Thank you. I will try to upload it today. still finding small bugs. 

[Blueskies278 64]

UPDATE 1: Hopefully, I should have the first beta up in a few hours. Right now, I'm trying to fix a bug relating to prepend status to show the description.Fixed.

UPDATE 2: Now implementing a hands-off refresh option for users with an Emby installation (Windows/Synology app, no SSH/Docker access) who have no easy way to force an immediate refresh after changing a setting. I am adding this so that hitting Save on the settings page automatically triggers an immediate refresh—no restart needed, for anyone.

Edited 20 minutes ago by Blueskies278