Earlier today I was Googling trying to find out what the fall line up is going to look like this year.
While doing so, I discovered TWO sci-fi shows that had previously been left off my radar (good. because I was running out of stuff to watch. lol)
This left me wondering how many shows am I missing?
Anyway, how do you guys keep up to date?
I used to depend on the Dope to keep me updated. But you guys aren’t exactly doing a bang up job. 
Great question. Because I relied on the “society in this café”, too.
Oh, and the guys I play poker with… but now we’re zooming instead with less talk of “Whatcha gonna be watchin’?” I guess I should bookmark someplace like The A/V Club, or other sites that have that news…
I’ve been using this site for a few years. I don’t always find new shows through it but it’s very close to a “catalog of all shows” so it’s been pretty useful.
I don’t. Every now and then I’ll find a new show on Hulu or Netflix and it’ll be a nice surprise.
I watch more TV than anybody else in my immediate social circle, so I’m not missing out on being able to chat with friends about new shows. They’re not watching at all.
Me too. It is very good for US shows, tries its best with UK shows (I don’t think it’s run by a Brit despite the URL, possibly just an anglophile), other countries get very little look-in. You still have to be vigilant and keep an eye out, they do notify of new shows being added to their calendar via a highlighted link, but if you aren’t aware or miss the notification you can still overlook a few gems very easily.
Once you’ve picked a few for your list, it gives time and date of each episode, and some info about each show, but it’s not comprehensive. You have to be a bit of a TV fan to properly keep up.
This is pretty much what my wife and I do— just look through the “new” or “trending” categories on Netflix or whatever the Hulu equivalent is.
I also go to a site called ‘avclub.com’ sometimes when I’m bored. It’s about all things entertainment-related, and has alerted me to an interesting-sounding show or movie at times.
For Netflix/Hulu/Amazon, I often just Google “Best comedies Netflix August 2020” or “Quirky shows Hulu now”.
That’ll often link me to an A/V Club article.
But I’ve started putting a date in my search, so I don’t get excited that hey, Adventureland is on, only to realize I was reading an article from 2018.
A lot of the time the streaming services will push the new show in my face by various means. Occasionally something will slip through the cracks, but if I don’t learn about it from media or friends it doesn’t really matter to me that I don’t discover the show until it’s been out a while.
Of course, if no one else notice it, that might affect its viability, but that’s not my problem to solve.
An occasional look at metacritic.com is usually enough. And the ratings prevent me investing time in crappy shows. There is so much good stuff now that I rarely bother with things that don’t rate in the 80s unless I have some particular attraction to it.
Mostly through reddit (and /r/television in particular). And sometimes through the streaming services themselves which will say their new shows when you click on them - that’s how I found out about “The Great” on Hulu and various things on Netflix.
I don’t watch new shows. I watch the same old favorites over and over again til I can say the dialogue along with the characters. 
I don’t really. I mean, sometimes there’s enough buzz about something that I’ll hear about it, but mostly I go by friends’ or algorithms’ recommendations.
There’s people like my sister that live to consume everything about TV. Not necessarily TV (though she does), but everything about it. She can tell you more about a show you’ve been watching for 6 seasons than you can, even though she’s never seen it. That’s a bit of a hyperbole, but not by much. But if you can mention a shows she’s never seen and she’ll know who’s on it, who directed it, if it’s won awards and so on. For someone like her, knowing when shows start back up and what new shows are on is second nature. I’ll sometimes find out one of ‘my’ shows is back on when she asks me if I watched it last night.
Then there’s me. Unless it’s a show I’m really looking forward to, I don’t pay a whole lot of attention. I rely on my Tivo to start recording it as soon as it airs. If I didn’t have cable, I could, if I wanted to, still use the tivo. The season passes pull not just from cable, but from hulu and netflix and whatever other streaming shows. So, for example, when GLOW finally puts their next season out, it’ll pop up to the top of shows on my tivo and I’ll see it there.
The downside to that is that if I don’t go out to the Tivo/Amazon/Hulu interface (which I don’t have to do this way), I don’t see other shows while looking for the one I want. Navigating those apps is how I find new shows.
That’s kinda the same with a tivo though. If you only ever watch recorded shows and never see commercials, you don’t know what else is out there.
Someone I follow on Twitter just asked this same question and got a reply from the developer of an app that does it. It’s called WatchWorthy. I don’t know if I’ll need it, the confusion of networks isn’t as bad in Australia as it is in America, but you may all find it useful.