New feature! Your watchlist

Happy new year, Tank Top TVers!

When you sign in to Tank Top there's a new watchlist atop your dashboard, to help you keep track of the shows you're intending to view.   New episodes of your favourite programmes automatically get added to the watchlist (and you can also add shows manually).

Where possible we now also track the expiry date for each episode, so you can see at a glance how long the shows you want to watch will be available.

We have also made some pretty significant changes to the site's performance, so we hope you'll find it's a lot more responsive.

Let's do this right!

Tank Top TV first came about a couple of years ago, when Phil built himself a simple website that showed a list of all the programmes available on BBC iPlayer, except for anything he dismissed as not interesting.   We've come quite a long way since that first text-based list of programmes.

After a year or so concentrating on other things, we're looking at Tank Top TV again with a fresh eye and a whole bunch of ideas for making it awesome.  A lot of it's going to be rebuilt from scratch.  Our users are going to see some big improvements, and the people who aren't our users yet are going to hear about it as the best discovery engine for online TV content!

We're looking for people to help - so if you're interested in online TV and want to help build Tank Top the way it should be, we'd love to hear from you.

Telecom Council Next Gen TV event

Next week I'm moderating a panel on Customization, Discovery & Search at the Next Gen TV event run by the Telecom Council of Silicon Valley.  If you'll be there and you've got specific questions you'd like the panel to answer, just get in touch!  

Our other project

OK, we'd admit it - things haven't been changing all that much on Tank Top TV for the last few months.  The reason? We got involved in a project called Thrutu.

It's a mobile app (for Android to start with) that makes it really easy to share rich content with other people while you're talking on the phone.  Check it out and let us know what you think!

And if you have things you'd really like us to sort out on Tank Top TV, then drop us a line to encourage us :-)

Expiry info for all channels!

Tank Top TV now loads the expiry date for shows from all supported channels!  So if you mark a show as a favourite, you can get a notification before it expires, whether it's on BBC iPlayer, 4oD, Demand Five or ITV Player.

Show expiry information

Episodes - now showing expiry dates

We're starting to import information about when TV shows will expire - that is, when they will no longer be available to view online.  At the moment we're importing this info for Channel 4 and Channel 5, but not for any other channels, but we hope to get to this soon.

From Your Account, you can now opt to have an email sent to let you know when one of your favourite shows is about to expire.  No guarantees that we will always get this right (and it will only work for the channels where we've imported the expiry info), but hopefully it will help!  Let us know if you have any problems.

Demand Five, and expiry dates

Demand Five listings should now be working again.  Let us know if you find programmes missing.

We're also gradually adding expiry dates to the episode listings, starting with Demand Five and 4oD (so far).