[Feature Request] Option to separate TV Show premiere year from status / toggle off "- Present"

[lianqq 0]

Hi Luke and Emby Team,

Currently, Emby displays the airing period for ongoing TV shows by forcibly concatenating the premiere year and the status as [Year] - Present (or 2022 - 现在 in localized languages).

Pain points:

1. Visual Clutter: For users who prefer a clean and minimal header layout, having "- Present" appended to the year looks bulky and cluttered.

2. Misleading for Hiatus/Anthology Shows: For many shows that take multi-year breaks between seasons (e.g., British dramas, anthology series), showing "- Present" gives the false impression that it's actively airing new episodes right now.

3. Inconsistency: Movies only display a clean single release year (e.g., 2022), while TV series are forced to show the date range / status.

Suggestions / Proposed Solutions:

1. Display Toggle Option: Add a display setting in User / Display Preferences, such as "Show premiere year only for TV series" (allowing users to display just 2022 instead of 2022 - Present).

2. Or Decouple Year and Status: Separate the Status into an independent badge/tag (e.g., displaying 2022, followed by a separate badge like [Continuing] / [Ended], similar to the TV-MA content rating badge), rather than hard-binding them together.

This would give users much more flexibility to customize their Emby details page and make the metadata display much cleaner.

Thank you for your consideration!

[Luke 43033]

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• Inconsistency: Movies only display a clean single release year (e.g., 2022), while TV series are forced to show the date range / status.

HI, this is comparing apples to oranges. We wouldn't force the movie display into something just because tv shows is doing it, or vice versa.  TV shows are ongoing. Movies are not.

But an option to control is fine.

[lianqq 0]

2 hours ago, Luke said:

HI, this is comparing apples to oranges. We wouldn't force the movie display into something just because tv shows is doing it, or vice versa.  TV shows are ongoing. Movies are not.

But an option to control is fine.

Thanks Luke! Ideally, having an option to simply drop the "- Present" suffix for ongoing shows (so they just display the start year like "2026", while ended shows still keep "2007 - 2019") would be the absolute best experience! Really looking forward to it.

Edited 31 minutes ago by lianqq