Latest and Upcoming TV Shows

Learn and practice how to get the latest, airing today and on-air TV shows along with their watch information using TMDB API.

Latest TV show

If an individual has already watched all the TV shows in their bucket and they are looking for something new to watch, then most probably they will start with the latest TV shows. TMDB’s latest TV show endpoint allows us to fetch the latest TV shows they have on the platform. This endpoint doesn’t take any path parameters.

The latest TV endpoint

The base URL in focus is as follows:

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/tv/latest?api_key={ourTMDBapikey}

The latest TV show endpoint is helpful because it shows the users that their application is up-to-date and they are not missing out on anything.

Request parameters

The input query parameters supported by this endpoint are as follows:

Name

Type

Category

Description

language

string

optional

This is an ISO_3166_1 code used to get the translated data as per the specified language. This is applicable to only the fields that support it. The default value is en-US.

Let’s run an example of the latest TV shows endpoint. The widget below has code to get the most newly created TV show. Click “Edit” to enter the value for API_KEY if not entered earlier. Next, click “Run” to execute the code.

Note: The resultant response will be a live response and will continuously change. ... ...

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