TV Show Episode Guide & Search

How the TV Show Episode Guide Works

This tool connects to the TVmaze public API — a comprehensive, free television database with complete episode information for thousands of shows worldwide. When you search for a show, the tool fetches matching results and displays key details: network, premiere year, genre, and average rating. Clicking a show loads its complete episode list grouped by season, with each episode showing its air date, runtime, community rating, and plot summary.

TVmaze covers shows from every major network (NBC, HBO, BBC, Netflix, Amazon) and many international broadcasters. Data is cached in your browser for 24 hours so repeat lookups are instant.

Browsing Seasons and Episodes

Once you open a show, use the season tabs to jump between seasons quickly. Each episode card shows the episode number, title, original air date, runtime in minutes, and a rating out of 10. For ongoing shows, the next scheduled episode is highlighted with an accent border and a "Next Episode" badge so you can quickly see when new episodes drop.

The show stats bar at the top displays total episode count, total seasons, average rating across all rated episodes, and the show's current status (Running, Ended, or In Development). This gives you a quick at-a-glance summary before diving into the episode list.

About TVmaze Data

TVmaze is maintained by a community of TV enthusiasts and professionals. It covers over 50,000 shows and 1.5 million episodes across all major streaming platforms and broadcast networks. Ratings are community-sourced, similar to IMDb's model, and are updated as new episodes air.

The TVmaze API is completely free and requires no authentication, making it ideal for browser-based tools. All requests are made directly from your browser — no data passes through our servers. Episode data is accurate as of TVmaze's last update, which typically happens within hours of a new episode airing. Last updated: March 2026.

Finding the Next Episode Air Date

The most common reason people open an episode guide is not nostalgia — it is wanting to know when the next episode lands. Search the show, open the current season, and the newest entries carry their scheduled air dates; a running series lists episodes that have not aired yet, so the first entry without a rating is usually the one you are waiting for. Dates come from the network's published schedule, which means two things worth knowing: they shift when a network moves a slot, and they are shown for the original broadcast region, so an international release on a streaming service can land hours or a day later than the date listed here.

Three limits to read the results correctly. Episode numbering follows the broadcast order, which for some anime and imported series differs from production or streaming order — a mismatch with your streaming app's numbering usually means the platform re-ordered, not that data is missing. Specials are filed under season 0 rather than inserted into the main run, so a gap in a season's episode numbers is often a special sitting elsewhere. And ratings are community averages, so episodes that aired in the last few days can swing until enough votes accumulate. Data is supplied by the TVmaze API. Updated 2026-08-25.

Why an Air Date May Not Match Your Local Schedule

Air dates here are the original network air dates — the day an episode went out in the broadcaster's own country and time zone — not the date it reaches you. That is the convention episode guides use, because it is the date reviews, discussions and episode numbering are all keyed to. It is also why a US show listed as airing on a Sunday can turn up on a UK or Australian service on the Monday, and why a series that streams globally at a fixed hour may show yesterday's date in one region and today's in another.

So treat the date as the reference point rather than your personal reminder. If you want the moment an episode drops where you are, convert the network's air time with the Time Zone Converter, and remember that streaming releases often land at midnight or 00:01 in the platform's home time zone rather than at a broadcast slot. For a show still running, the next unaired episode is the one to convert — the guide marks it for you above.

Show Status: How to Tell If a Series Is Cancelled, Renewed or Just on a Break

Every show in this guide carries a status field, and it answers the question people most often go looking for after "when is the next episode" — is it coming back at all? The three values mean specific things:

• Running — the series is in its active life. This does not mean an episode airs this week. A show sitting eleven months between seasons still reads Running, because the label describes the series, not the schedule.
• Ended — no further episodes are planned. This covers both a planned final season and a cancellation; the status alone does not distinguish them, so a show pulled mid-run and a show that finished on its own terms look identical here.
• In Development — ordered or announced, but nothing has aired yet. Episode listings may be sparse or missing entirely, and dates at this stage move often.

The practical test for "cancelled or just between seasons" is to combine two things the guide already shows you: the status and the last aired episode date. Running plus a last episode within the past few months is a normal hiatus. Running plus a last episode more than about eighteen months old usually means the show is in limbo — networks are frequently slow to formally announce a cancellation, so the status can lag reality by a year or more. Ended plus a last episode that closes a storyline suggests a planned finish; Ended plus an abrupt mid-season stop suggests the other kind.

One caveat worth knowing: because status is community-maintained through the TVmaze API, a renewal announced in the last day or two may not have propagated yet. For a decision that matters — whether to start a long series — check the status here first, then confirm a recent renewal against the network's own announcement.

Why Episode Numbers Differ Between Sites

Two guides can list the same series and disagree about which episode is which, and neither is necessarily wrong — they are counting differently. Air order numbers episodes in the sequence a broadcaster showed them, which is what this guide uses. Production order numbers them in the order they were made, and networks reshuffle episodes often enough that the two diverge for whole seasons of some shows. Specials are the other common gap: pilots, recap shows, Christmas episodes and webisodes are usually filed outside the numbered run, which is why an episode you clearly remember watching can be missing from the main list. Streaming services add a third layer, sometimes merging two broadcast seasons into one "season" or splitting one into two parts, so a Netflix season number may not match the broadcaster's at all. If a number here does not match the source you are comparing against, check which of those three schemes that source uses before assuming the data is wrong. Episode data on this page comes from the community-maintained TVmaze API, which indexes by air order. Updated 2026-09-18.

Tips for Finding Shows

Use the exact show name for the most accurate results. If you're searching for a show with a common word in the title (like "Office" or "House"), try adding the network name or year to narrow down results. The search returns up to 10 matching shows ranked by relevance. For animated series, anime, and international shows, TVmaze has excellent coverage — try searching for "Attack on Titan" or "Dark" for German language shows.