Add a user-controlled hiatus column on the series page

I have a long list of shows (over 100) and the “on-air” and “hiatus” shows are mixed in together. It think it would be useful to have a user-controlled hiatus column so we can sort all the shows that are currently airing at the top, followed by “On hiatus” and then Ended. It would make finding shows quicker and look more organized.

What I mean by “user-controlled” would be to have the user to keep track of what’s airing and what isn’t. This way the programming should be easier too being it’s either true or false for each show.

Sort by Next Airing? Or is the issue they aren’t sorted alphabetically?

Besides sorting this seems like a largely unused feature, which I don’t see a lot of value in, especially since it would need to be managed managed manually.

I am curious though, do mid-season breaks or only end of season breaks? If something like this was added I don’t see why it wouldn’t be done in a more automated fashion.

There seems to be a trend in production to air half the season and wait up to 4 months later with some shows, to air the second half. During this time, there are a lot of blank Next airing dates of summer and non-summer shows being on hiatus.

To answer your question, I would like both, mid-season and end of season breaks for the hiatus column. If you could automate this, that would be cool but I’m not sure how you could do this bring that air dates are constantly changing. This is why I suggested user-controlled. Now I’m curious, how would you automate it?

Mid-season break we could determine by knowing that the season that most recently aired is continuing, but is taking more than X time off (more than a month maybe?). I know Suits is a show that does split seasons, Sonarr usually has the information that there are more episodes in the season, even if they don’t have air dates, worst case with the mid-season break, would be it getting classified as having no more episodes in the season and would be picked up for another season by seeing that there are episodes in a future season (no episodes have aired) or that its hasn’t been cancelled.

The continuing status is pretty broad right now, but in reality I think it really means, no more episodes this season, but there will be some in a future season (unless its cancelled), then other things get a new status as required to fill in the gaps.

I filled a GHI for it here:

I see where you’re going with this. Yeah, using the month parameter probably would work well being almost all of the shows skip December. Another possible option is to create code to check for how many episodes were aired in the prior season since most shows are consistent from year to year. I’m beginning to see how you could automate this.

I’m new around here. What’s a GHI that you filled?

GitHub Issue, its the issue tracker we use, best to follow that issue for updates/changes, as we will update there if it gets implemented.

Found it, thanks

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