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Latest and Upcoming TV Shows

Explore how to use The Movie Database API to retrieve details about the latest TV shows, those airing today, and currently on air. Understand how to fetch watch provider information to know where to stream your chosen series. This lesson equips you to integrate these endpoints into your application for up-to-date TV show data.

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 parameter.

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 users are not missing out on anything.

The input query parameters required 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.

The objects in the resulting JSON response are the same as we get for the TV show details endpoint.

Let’s run an example of the latest TV shows endpoint. The widget below has code to get the most newly created TV show. ...