News can be used to share major TV news events with the TVmaze community.
News items should be reported with a title, a short snippet, the URL where you sourced the news item, and then a detailed description of what you are reporting.
Titles should be eye-catching and descriptive. "Hawai'i Five-0 Renewed for a Tenth and Final Season" is better than "Hawai'i Five-0 Renewed", for example.
The snippet can be either an abstract or first paragraph from the target article in a maximum 250 characters.
Please make sure you include the URL where you found the news item. We want to be able to credit the source.
Lastly, the body section is where you can write up the details of your news piece. This can either be copy/pasted if your source is an official press release or a short blurb written yourself if the information is from another source. We prefer original sources, so please use a press release whenever one is available. A list of press sites for various networks is listed on our Primary Sources page.
- A Note About Press Releases: Press Releases usually contain a lot of extraneous information such as a description of the program in question, details of the production company making the show, and/or links to press agents. We don't need that information since the news item is directly linked to the show. Feel free to delete that information when posting your news item.
News can be reported to TVmaze up to 7 days after it was originally published on the source.
The title and snippet must be in English. The article may be written in a foreign language if no English version is available.
Show news
For news linked to a show, only the following events are permitted:
- Announcement for a new show that is allowed under our inclusion policy
- Renewals for the next season, or additional episodes ordered in the current season
- Announcements for the show's premiere date, or the next season's premiere date
- Production for a season starting or finishing
- Changes in the show's main cast, or recurring stars
- Changes in the showrunner, executive producer, or head writer
- The show's end/cancellation
- The show moving to a different network or web channel