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Guide and Tonight

Iain Smith edited this page Sep 1, 2026 · 2 revisions

Guide and Tonight

Tonight (the landing view)

You land on / — the Tonight dashboard:

  • On now — a card for every channel currently broadcasting, with the title on air and what's on next.
  • Films on soon — films starting in the next few hours.
  • Top rated this week — the highest TMDB-rated films across the coming week (needs Enrichment (TMDB) connected; hidden otherwise).

Every card opens the programme panel, where you can set a reminder or watch the title (see Search Watchlist and Reminders), or press Play to open that channel in your device's default media player (see Export Feeds).

The Guide

The full grid is at /guide (the Guide nav item).

  • Desktop: a virtualised grid with a live magenta "now" line, genre-coloured cells, and programme labels that stay pinned as you scroll through a long film.
  • Phone: a single-channel vertical agenda; swipe horizontally to scrub time, scroll vertically for channels.
  • Controls: date navigation, a source filter, a channel-group filter, and a channel search box.
  • Keyboard: arrow keys move the focus cell, PgUp/PgDn page the day, Home jumps to now. Full ARIA grid semantics; prefers-reduced-motion is respected.

Click any cell (or Tonight card, or search result) to open the programme panel — synopsis, genres, and when Enrichment (TMDB) is connected a backdrop, title-logo, ★ rating, director and top cast.

Installable

tvtimes is a PWA: install it from the browser for an app window and an offline shell. New versions surface an in-app "Reload" prompt rather than reloading under you.

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