Looking to discuss possible options "Daily" style shows in latest TV Series

[access 11]

Hello!

So with the brilliant changes that have come in on 4.6.0.50 where Mixed Media is now listed as a TV series (rather than as a per episode), my Documentary and Anime could be all grouped nicely.

One of my old problems has reared it's head. 

There are whole categories of Television Shows where you don't watch every episode, you just watch the most current one. This typically relates to News programs, Talk Shows, Saturday Night Live, Award Shows, Panel Shows etc.  Many of these shows are on 3-5 times a week and effectively my entire "Latest Television" was always 100% filled with this type of content.

On any given day no "normal shows" would ever appear in the rotation as there are just so many episodes of "daily" shows.

Okay, so simple solution, split them into there own Library, now I have two rows, this works out really nicely.

 

However people tend to only watch SNL or a Talk show if that particular guest is good, usally these shows are never watched entirely. So you can see I haven't watched 1347 episodes of the Daily Show, but I have watched a lot.

 

When I click on the Daily Show, it shows the episode *after* the last episode I watched. So its quite difficult to find the most current episode, as it's listed next episode first. People usually want to just watch the Latest News or Latest Talk Show or Latest SNL etc.

 

I was using a nice hack prior where I was putting the "Daily" style shows in the Mixed media category.

This produced a really nice experience for my users where they could see just the Latest episode of that series and even review the Guest in the episode name to see if they wanted to watch it. This also allowed the user to if they wanted to, to select the series and just watch any episode they wanted.

 

I'm thinking this is still a really good experience, but I think I was probably the only one benefiting from it, and maybe there needs to be an official feature for this. Being able to toggle the view between episode and series view is obviously how I can get back to the above experience, but maybe there is another solution some where where we tag shows as Daily? Or something like that? Where the episodes are shown in reverse order where the latest episode is first, rather than the last one watched?

Just thought I would throw it out there as I'm not sure the best solution, and obviously I'm not requesting change it back to how it was, as this is by far the better default option.

Thanks

 

Edited May 25, 2021 by access

[ebr 16185]

Basically the concept of indicating some series are non-sequential, correct?

 

[access 11]

Looking at that other thread, I don't think that is the same problem.  That user is talking about rewatching old shows millions of times like Seinfeld or Star Trek and they just want it to never appear in the "Latest" widget. I think that's even a rarer case.

Keeping the items in the Latest Widget is the important part so users can see at a glance the content of the latest episode.


It's more about being able to see the always newest episode.

 

If there isn't much interest in making the Latest Widget support libraries having a toggle between Series and Episode view, then maybe a possible option could be something like where you specify a show as "Daily" and when you click on into it, instead of showing "Next up" it shows "Latest Episode"

And goes in reverse order?

 

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Edited July 6, 2022 by emdubya77