Series Reminder Notification Types
Series Reminder offers three types of notifications to its users.
Series Reminder is an online platform designed to keep track of your favorite streaming and TV shows and sends you alerts when new episodes are released. You can easily add shows to your favorites list and configure the notification preferences for each series individually. Notifications are sent early in the morning on the day the episode(s) drop, so when you wake up your inbox will contain some excitement. Some shows I want to know every time an episode airs, and others I just want to know when the final episode of the series drops so I can binge watch the series.
How many notifications are sent?
If more than one series triggers a notification on a particular day, you will receive one notification for each series based on the individual settings for that series. When multiple episodes of a series drop on the same day only a single reminder is sent, for each series, which contains information about all the episodes that dropped on that day. Similarly, overlapping notification types will only send a single email per series. For example, if you have Season Premiere and All Episodes selected, only one notification will be sent for the season premier.
Season Premiere
You will only receive a notification when the first episode of a new season airs, and no others. This notification is useful if you want to start watching as soon as a new season drops. Special episodes will not be included.
All Episodes
All Episodes lets you know about every new episode of a particular series, including all Special episodes. Not all series drop new episodes on a regular schedule like network TV. Sometimes, episodes only drop once a month, or every couple of weeks. Shows that air through the holidays often take a mid-season break. I like this setting because I don't have to think about when they drop, I can just wait for the notification and tune in.
Premium users can toggle sending notifications on or off in the Account Preferences page.
Season Finale
The "Season Finale" notification, only notifies you when the last episode of the season airs. It will not send notifications for any other episodes and no Special episodes will be included. Some shows I want to binge watch, and I only want to subscribe to the service when they are all available. I like this option especially for network TV where it might take 3 months for all of the episodes to drop.
NOTE: The Season Finale setting may produce some false positives from time to time. The crowd sourced nature of the data at The TVDB generally gets more accurate as the air date of the episode arrives and more episodes may yet drop, but they have not been updated in The TVDB yet.