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FROO now counts page views, and the privacy page says how

2026-08-26T00:00:00Z

Until today this site had no idea whether anybody was reading it, which makes it hard to know whether any of the work is worth doing. It now uses Cloudflare Web Analytics, which counts page views and nothing else.

It sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device, so it cannot tell whether two page views came from the same person and cannot follow you anywhere. It knows nothing about your watched list, your preferences or your sync code - none of that is readable from a page. The privacy page sets out exactly what is sent and what is not, and has been updated in the same breath rather than afterwards.

If a cookieless page counter is more than you want, an ad blocker will stop it and the site works exactly the same without it.

Every franchise page now explains itself

2026-08-26T00:00:00Z

The remaining twenty-seven franchises have caught up with the ten from earlier today. All thirty-seven now open with a few sentences saying what is on the list and why, and carry a longer section under the table: what was included, what was deliberately left off, where the ordering gets interesting, and which dates were hard to settle.

A few of them are arguments this site has never made out loud. NCIS explains that its own first episode refers back to a JAG episode which is not on that list, and links the wider one that has it. Jurassic Park / World explains that Camp Cretaceous happens during the film rather than after it. The X-Files has seven crossovers in three hundred entries, and says so rather than leaving you to wonder whether the research stopped early.

Where two lists cover the same franchise at different widths - the two Star Wars lists, the two Arrowverse lists, the three NCIS ones - each now says what the other contains and why you might want it instead.

The site will not let a new franchise go up without this from now on.

The Campaigns page is now an open letter

2026-08-26T00:00:00Z

That page had been promising a petition you could sign for about a year, and no petition ever appeared. Rather than leave the promise standing, it has been rewritten as an open letter to the streaming services, making the same two arguments in public where they can be pointed at.

The asks have not changed. Where a service holds a franchise, it should offer it as a release-order playlist - a sort order, not new content, over dates that are a matter of record. And the platforms where you buy things rather than rent them should let you build a list across films and episodes and hand it to somebody else, the way music has worked since the CD burner.

It is called Open letter in the menu now rather than Campaigns. If you tried to watch a franchise on a service and could not, the feedback form reaches me, and knowing which one is worth more than a signature would be.

Finding things, and following along

2026-08-26T00:00:00Z

The front page now has a box that filters the franchise list as you type, and it knows every series on every page - not just the franchise names. So typing Legends of Tomorrow finds the two Arrowverse pages that carry it, Warehouse 13 finds Eureka, and 9-1-1 is findable as 911.

Franchise pages have gained a How to read this table line above the table. It is closed until you open it, and it explains the Verse column, the schedule order that breaks ties within a day, what the three icons in the Notes cell mean, and that ticking a box is remembered and can follow you between devices.

There is also an Atom feed if you would rather be told when something changes than come and look, and the front page now says which franchises went up most recently.

The FAQ has had an overdue tidy at the same time, and gained an answer about where the dates actually come from.

The franchise pages now say why the order is the order

2026-08-26T00:00:00Z

A franchise page used to open with its name and go straight into the table. Ten of them now carry an introduction above it and a longer section under it - what is on the list, what was deliberately left off, where the ordering gets interesting, and which dates were hard to settle.

Some of it is the argument for the page existing at all. Eureka explains the Syfy Monday that ran three shows back to back, and why the order flips halfway through the second season of Alphas. Babylon 5 explains why Crusade is the one place on this site where release order is deliberately not followed. Man About the House explains why every date on it is a London one, and names the six Thursdays in 1978 that are still unsettled. Fast & Furious explains what Better Luck Tomorrow is doing on a page about street racing.

Some of it is what was checked and found not to be there. Not one episode of Scream carries a cross-over mark, and the note says why that is a finding rather than an unfinished page.

The other twenty-seven franchises will get the same treatment. The ten here are Eureka, Scream, Fast & Furious, How to Train Your Dragon, Alan Partridge, Man About the House, Buffy/Angel, Babylon 5, Battlestar Galactica and Doctor Who.

There is also an About page now, linked from the foot of every page: who makes FROO, what first release means here, where the dates come from, and the rule that a credited cast list is never evidence that a character appears.

Sharing a FROO link now shows what it is

2026-08-26T00:00:00Z

Posting a link to a FROO page - on X, in a message, anywhere that shows a preview - used to produce the bare address and nothing else. Every page now carries the tags a preview reads, so a shared link arrives with the name of the franchise, a sentence saying what is on the list, and the franchise's own title card.

The cards are the same drawings the title cards page shows, one for each of the twenty-eight franchises that has a wordmark - Buffy on her moon, Alien's letters running off the edge of the frame, Scream burning red. The nine franchises without a mark of their own, and the pages that are not franchises, share a plain one.

Every franchise page has been given a description of its own at the same time. They used to share one sentence with the name swapped into it. They now name the shows, give the years the list spans, and where there is one, say the thing that is true of that page and no other: Babylon 5 has Crusade in the order its creator intended rather than the order TNT showed it, Man About the House is dated against the Thames listings, and Eureka is ranked by slot on the Mondays Syfy ran all three of its shows.

The site also now publishes a sitemap, so a search engine is told about every page rather than having to find them by following links, and each page states its own address so the same list cannot be indexed twice under two spellings.

Added on 26 August 2026

2026-08-26T00:00:00Z

Added Eureka, 183 entries from July 2006 to May 2014: all seventy-seven episodes of Eureka, all sixty-four of Warehouse 13, all twenty-four of Alphas, and two runs of web material - the eight Hide and Seek webisodes that went out alongside Eureka's first season, and the ten chapters of Warehouse 13's Grand Designs.

This is a list where the running order does real work, because for one summer Syfy put all three shows on the same night. From 11 July 2011 it was Eureka at eight, Warehouse 13 at nine and Alphas at ten, and that is the order they sit in here. On 20 August 2012 Alphas moved to eight o'clock, in front of Warehouse 13 rather than behind it, and the list turns over with it. The two Christmas nights work the same way: Eureka went first on both.

The crossover is a two-parter across two shows and three days. Fargo goes from Eureka to the Warehouse in Warehouse 13's 13.1 on the Tuesday, and Claudia comes the other way in Eureka's Crossing Over on the Friday. Three more entries are marked, including the one thread that ties Alphas to the other two - Doctor Calder, the Warehouse physician, turning up in her CDC role.

A Town Called Eureka is on the list, in the sense that it is the same programme: that was the UK title, chosen to avoid a clash with a BBC children's series, and the episodes and their order are identical.

A corner logo for it as well, which takes the rotation to twenty-six. Rounded sky-blue caps lit from the top like cloud, cut out in white and thrown forward off a deep blue extrude. It is full size on the title cards page.

Added Scream, 37 entries from December 1996 to February 2026: all seven films, from the original through to Scream 7, and all thirty episodes of the television series - two seasons on MTV, a two-hour Halloween special, and the six of Scream: Resurrection that VH1 burned off over three nights in July 2019.

Watch it in this order and the two halves of the franchise never meet, which is the honest answer rather than a gap in the research. Every episode was checked against the films and there is not one crossover: no character appears in both, the Woodsboro murders are never mentioned, and the Stab films do not exist on television. Seasons one and two do not even use the Ghostface mask. Season three picks it up, moves to a new town and a new cast, and still says nothing about the films.

Two dates on the list are worth knowing about. Halloween and Halloween II went out back to back on one night in October 2016, two months after the season had finished, and they are two entries here rather than one because they are two separately titled hours with two separate stories. And every television date comes from Wikipedia rather than IMDb, which stamps the whole of the first season a month late and the whole of the second a day late.

A corner logo for it as well, which takes the rotation to twenty-seven. Pale caps on black with red light burning out from behind them - the first of these to glow, and the reason the drawing code learned how. It is full size on the title cards page.

Added Fast & Furious, 66 entries from June 2001 to May 2023: all eleven films including Hobbs & Shaw, both of the bridging shorts, all fifty-two episodes of the Netflix series Spy Racers, and Better Luck Tomorrow.

Two of those need a word. The Turbo-Charged Prelude went out on a DVD three days before the film it sets up opened, so it sits one row ahead of 2 Fast 2 Furious rather than in the extras where most lists leave it. And Better Luck Tomorrow is on the page in a series of its own, because it is not a Fast film - it is Justin Lin's 2002 film, where he wrote Han three years before taking the character into Tokyo Drift. In release order that is where Han starts, which is the sort of thing this site exists to show.

Spy Racers meets the films four times and no more. Dom Toretto turns up in person in the first episode and the last of the first season, then comes back for the two-part finale two years later. Everything else people cite - the plane drop, a car pinned from four sides - is the series restaging a shot, not referring to one.

A corner logo for it as well, which takes the rotation to twenty-eight. Heavy white caps leaning hard right, with the F drawn half again as big as the rest. It is full size on the title cards page.

Added on 25 August 2026

2026-08-25T00:00:00Z

Added Alan Partridge, from his first appearance as the sports reporter on On the Hour in August 1991 through to How Are You? It's Alan (Partridge) in 2025. Ninety-two entries: both Radio 4 runs of On the Hour, the radio Knowing Me Knowing You and its spoof making-of documentary, The Day Today, both the television Knowing Me Knowing You and the Yule special, I'm Alan Partridge, Mid Morning Matters on the web and on Sky, the one-off specials from Anglian Lives to Scissored Isle, Alpha Papa and Stratagem, both series of This Time, and the 2025 BBC One series.

Two things sit where you might not expect. The six Mini News trailers come a day ahead of the episodes of The Day Today they advertised, because that is when BBC Two showed them. And all six episodes of the 2025 series share 3 October, the day the whole run went onto iPlayer - the weekly broadcasts ran on to 7 November, long after anyone who wanted to had watched.

Every cross-over on Buffy/Angel now says what it is, where several of them used only to name the guest actor. Four more have been marked: the silent phone call split between the two 1999 premieres, Buffy's five minutes line in Something Blue, Wesley turning up in Los Angeles in Parting Gifts, and Spike materialising out of the amulet at the start of Angel's fifth season. Pangs and I Will Remember You are now marked as the two-hour event they were billed as.

Added Man About the House, 127 entries from August 1973 to March 1981: the Thames run, both spin-offs - George and Mildred and Robin's Nest - and both films. The American remakes are not on it; Three's Company, The Ropers and Three's a Crowd are separate ABC productions with no episodes in common.

Every date on that page is a London one. In the 1970s ITV was not a network in the modern sense - each region scheduled its own evening, so a Thames sitcom could go out on a different day, and in a different week, in the Midlands or the North. A fair number of the dates in circulation are a week out, including Wikipedia's for the whole of George and Mildred's third series, and they have been checked here against what Thames actually billed on the night.

Two more corner logos, which takes the rotation to twenty-four. Alan Partridge is heavy brass caps under a thin dark outline. Man About the House is the fat yellow of a 1970s comic, outlined in red, with a black extrude below it and a flat turquoise offset sitting behind the lot, and its letters lean their own separate ways. Both are full size on the title cards page.

Added How to Train Your Dragon, 233 entries from March 2010 to June 2025. The four films, the six shorts and specials from Legend of the Boneknapper Dragon to the Snoggletog Log, all forty episodes of Riders of Berk and Defenders of Berk, the seventy-eight of Race to the Edge, the fifty of Rescue Riders with its three feature-length specials, and the fifty-two of The Nine Realms.

Three shows on that list count their own seasons in ways that do not agree with each other. Race to the Edge is six seasons on Netflix and seasons three to eight of DreamWorks Dragons on Wikipedia; Rescue Riders ran two seasons on Netflix and then four more on Peacock under a different name, where the count started again at one. The list uses the numbering each show was released under, so an episode is where you would look for it.

Twenty-nine entries are marked as cross-overs. Most of them are on The Nine Realms, which is set thirteen hundred years after the films and spends eight seasons working out what happened in them - the Strike Class mark on a Viking helmet, the Book of Dragons in its buried capsule, and the moment Tom finally gets a name for his ancestor. Race to the Edge carries the rest, quietly fitting Stoick, Gobber and Hiccup out with the dragons, the sword and the flightsuit they already have when How to Train Your Dragon 2 opens.

A corner logo for it too, which takes the rotation to twenty-five. Heavy red slab caps under a black keyline and a dark extrude, and the R's right leg carried on into a dragon's tail that sweeps away under the two O's with its fins standing up along the way, before flicking up to a point past the last letter. It is full size on the title cards page.

A Stats page for the whole site

2026-08-24T00:00:00Z

Each franchise list can already tell you how big it is. Stats, new in the top menu, does it for all of FROO at once: 14,117 entries, 10,022 hours, 214 series and 175 films across 31 franchises, going back to 23 November 1963.

The figures at the top count each entry once. That matters more than it sounds: 3,094 of those entries are listed on more than one franchise — all 1,110 NCIS episodes are on three of them — so adding the franchises together would give a total nobody could ever actually watch. The table underneath does the opposite and counts an entry against every franchise it appears on, because that is what each franchise's own Stats popup says. The two numbers are both on the page so neither is a surprise.

Click any heading to sort the table. Running time sorts by the actual minutes rather than by the text, so 9h does not come out above 1,000h.

If you tick episodes as you watch, the page adds your own progress: how far through the whole site you are, and how far through each franchise, as a count or in hours — the same switch as on a franchise list. Nothing is sent anywhere to work that out; it is your list, read on your device, as it always is.

Three hundred and seven entries still have no running time recorded — short-form webisodes that no index carries — and the page says so rather than counting them as nothing.

How much of it you have watched, and how long the rest of it is

2026-08-24T00:00:00Z

Every entry on every franchise list now has a running time behind it, and the site can do arithmetic with them. The readout at the top of a list has always said how many episodes you have ticked; it now says what fraction that is, and it will say the same thing in hours instead.

"25 / 250 (10%) watched" is the count. Click the readout and it becomes "9h 12m / 84h 30m (11%) watched" - the same list, measured in time. The two percentages are rarely the same number, which is the reason for having both: a franchise with films in it, or with a run of five-minute shorts, is not 250 equal things, and being half way through by episode is not being half way through by evening. The choice sticks across every franchise, and if you sync your list between devices it travels with it. It can also be set in Preferences, under Show progress as.

Next to the readout there is a Stats button. It opens the whole franchise at a glance: how many entries there are, how long they run to in total, how old the franchise is, and how long a stretch of years it covers - then the same four figures for each series in it, films aside. Doctor Who is 1,025 entries and 531 hours, 62 years and 9 months old, spanning 61 years and 6 months of them. Buffy is 200 hours over 11 years and 9 months, and 34 years old.

The running times come from IMDb. Where IMDb records none - which happens most often with long-running network dramas - the median of that series and season is used instead, so a Chicago Med episode with no recorded length is counted as the 42 minutes the rest of its season runs to. A few hundred short-form webisodes have neither, and those are left out of the totals rather than counted as nothing; the Stats popup says so where it applies.

The running time of a single entry is in its Notes popup too, above the cross-over icons and the links.

Every logo now matches its title card

2026-08-24T00:00:00Z

The rotating logos in the top left corner have been redrawn to match the title treatments they are based on. Star Wars is the yellow outline with the hollow letters. Jurassic Park is white, with a thin red line riding inside every stroke. Star Trek leans, in heavy gold. The Terminator is the wide chrome of 1984, edged in silver. Supernatural is a pale classical serif with the red haunting it from behind, and The X-Files carries its red circle around one letter on a night sky.

Battlestar Galactica is the 1978 mark: yellow rounded letters with a line through them and double rules above and below. Stargate is pale green over a long underline, with the small ring hovering over the first O. Doctor Who is the blue and gold of the current diamond. MonsterVerse burns from orange down to red. Marvel is the two-panel studios lockup - FR cut out of a silver panel, OO between the rules. The Boys is black on white: colliding letters, a slash through the middle, edges eaten away. Planet of the Apes interlocks, the F dropping below the line while the R stretches above it. Babylon 5 rides an orange beam, The Vampire Diaries has a red swash sweeping over the word, Predator dissolves from the waist down, The Walking Dead is paler and further decayed, Buffy carries the swooping loop of the original B, and NCIS is plain heavy capitals over its spelled-out line - which is what the real one is.

The logo is also bigger. The header gave most of its vertical padding to it, so the corner mark grew by nearly two-thirds without the header getting any taller. On a narrow screen the subtitle still steps aside so the menu has somewhere to go. And it shows its true colours all the time now, dimming slightly under the mouse to show it is a link, rather than the other way round.

All twenty-two are full size on the title cards page.

The logo is twenty-two logos

2026-08-23T00:00:00Z

The FROO in the top left corner has been redrawn - twenty-two times. Each version is done in the title card style of something the site lists: the spiky brush script of Buffy, the wide-tracked capitals of Alien, the slab serif of CSI, that exact Star Wars yellow, Jurassic Park's amber, Marvel's white on red, and so on down the list. One of them is picked at random every time you load a page, so the corner of the site is rarely the same twice.

There is a new page, Title cards, linked from the footer of every page, where all of them are shown full size with the moon, the starfield and the data screen they belong on. It is there for no reason other than that they look better big.

Each one now carries its own subtitle, in the manner of the thing it is imitating - the Buffy version calls itself The Franchise Slayer, and the Alien one points out that in space no one can hear you stream. The logo also sits in a small coloured card of its own now, which is what lets a bright yellow or a deep red wordmark hold its own against the page rather than fading into it. On a narrow screen the subtitle steps aside so the menu still has somewhere to go.

Some of these took more than a change of typeface. Set four letters in heavy capitals and Battlestar, Terminator, NCIS and Predator all come out looking like each other, so each one keeps the thing that actually makes it recognisable: the band across Battlestar, the cut through NCIS, the red edge on Terminator, the stripes down Predator, the ring around a letter for The X-Files.

Nothing about the site got heavier. The letters are drawn rather than set in a typeface, so there is no font to download and no risk of the logo looking wrong on a machine that does not have it - the whole set weighs less than one small photograph, and they stay sharp on any screen. If your browser has JavaScript switched off you will see the plain FROO you have always seen, and every link still works.

Long lists open properly now

2026-08-23T00:00:00Z

The big lists were taking their time. The Go-to bar and the Watched column are added by the page after it loads, and on the Wolfverse — 2,906 rows — that was taking more than thirty seconds, with nothing on screen to say anything was happening. Doctor Who took eleven seconds and the Star Wars shorts were worse than either.

That was one bad line of code, and fixing it took the same pages to well under a second and a half. Everything else about them is unchanged.

The controls also arrive with the page now rather than dropping in afterwards, so nothing shifts under your cursor. On a long list they turn up greyed out and say Loading while the list is read, then come to life.

Syncing now happens on its own

2026-08-23T00:00:00Z

Syncing no longer waits for you to press anything. Once it is switched on, FROO sends your changes a few seconds after you stop ticking, and checks for changes from your other devices whenever you open a page or come back to the tab. Tick something on the sofa, pick your phone up, and it is already there.

It stays out of the way: a whole page of episodes ticked at once counts as one update rather than two thousand, a sync that fails because you are offline says nothing and simply tries again later, and the only time it speaks up is to tell you something arrived from another device. The Sync now button is still in Preferences if you want to force it.

One related fix, for anyone who has ever wondered why a change to the site did not seem to reach them: browsers were holding on to FROO's stylesheet and scripts for up to four hours after an update. They now pick up every change straight away.

Keep your list on more than one device

2026-08-23T00:00:00Z

Your watched list has always lived in the browser you ticked it in, which is fine until you want to carry on watching in another room. Open Preferences and there is now a Sync section: press Start syncing and FROO gives you a code. Put that code into Preferences on your phone, your laptop or anywhere else and both ends end up with everything either of them had.

You do not have to type it. Press Show QR code and point the other device's camera at it — that opens FROO with the code already filled in, and nothing has to travel through a message or an email to get there. The code sits in the part of the web address that browsers never send to a server, so scanning it does not put it in anybody's logs, ours included.

There is still no account, no email address and nothing to sign up for. The code is the whole of it, and it is the only way back to your list - nobody at FROO can look it up or issue you another one, so keep a copy. It is written into your exported file as well. Anyone who has it can read and change your list, so treat it the way you would a password.

Syncing is off until you turn it on, and "Delete synced copy" removes the stored copy for good whenever you want. The privacy page sets out exactly what is kept.

A privacy page

2026-08-23T00:00:00Z

There is now a privacy page, linked from the foot of every page. It sets out what FROO stores, where the site is hosted, and which pages involve anybody other than us.

The short version: no accounts, no cookies of our own, no analytics and no tracking. Your watched list is kept by your browser and is not sent to us or to anyone else.

The site's ads.txt went with it. Adverts came off FROO back in March; that file was the last thing still claiming otherwise.

Unticking an episode now survives a backup

2026-08-23T00:00:00Z

Loading a saved copy of your watched list used to put back episodes you had since unticked. The file remembered them as watched and had no way to record that you had changed your mind, so importing quietly handed them back.

It records that now, and importing merges in both directions: episodes you have ticked since saving stay ticked, and episodes you have unticked stay unticked. Old export files still load exactly as they always did, and there is nothing you need to do.

This page

2026-08-23T00:00:00Z

Every change to the site now gets written down here, newest first. Content entries say what was added or corrected and link to the lists it happened on; feature entries explain how a new bit of the site works, with a picture of it.

One entry per day for content, so a busy day reads as one item rather than twenty.

Added on 23 August 2026

2026-08-23T00:00:00Z

Filled in missing IMDb, Wikipedia and fan wiki links on Buffy/Angel and the Wolfverse, where Homicide, New York Undercover and a stretch of Angel had been left short.

Added on 23 August 2026

2026-08-23T00:00:00Z

Ten new franchises in a day, all with links and cross-over flags from the start: Doctor Who — 1,025 rows, counting Torchwood, The Sarah Jane Adventures, Class and K9 — The Vampire Diaries, Terminator, The Boys, Yellowstone, Power, Supernatural, Battlestar Galactica, the MonsterVerse and Planet of the Apes.

Yellowstone also picked up Lawmen: Bass Reeves and The Madison shortly after going up.

Added on 22 August 2026

2026-08-22T00:00:00Z

Links, cross-over flags and notes added across Star Wars and its shorts, Marvel, Grey's Anatomy, CSI, Alien / Predator and both Arrowverse lists, core and extended.

The whole NCIS block was done in one pass so the four lists agree with each other: NCIS, Bellisario-verse, Lenko-verse and Bellisario-Lenko-verse.

Notes hidden behind a spoiler cover

2026-08-22T00:00:00Z

A cross-over note explains what the cross-over is, which on an episode you haven't seen yet is exactly the thing you don't want to read. Notes now come covered: the text is there, blurred, and one click reveals it.

There is a Hide Spoilers switch at the top of every list if you would rather not bother, and it is remembered separately for each franchise — so you can be careful on the one you're part-way through and relaxed on the one you know by heart.

Watch tracking

2026-08-22T00:00:00Z

Every row now has a Watched box. Tick episodes as you go: the list keeps a count, dims what you have seen, and will hide it entirely if you turn on Hide Watched. "Next unwatched" jumps you to where you got to, which on a 2,900-row list is the only sane way back in.

Because a lot of episodes appear on more than one list — all 1,110 NCIS episodes are on three of them — ticking an episode marks it everywhere it appears. Ticking one with unwatched episodes above it offers to mark those too.

None of it leaves your browser. That does mean clearing your browsing data wipes it, so the new Preferences link in the header will export your watched list to a file, and import it back on another device.

Added on 21 August 2026

2026-08-21T00:00:00Z

A big day of filling in. The X-Files, Babylon 5, Jurassic Park / World and 9-1-1 all got IMDb, Wikipedia and fan wiki links on every episode, plus researched cross-over flags and notes. The Walking Dead got links on all 426 rows and cross-overs on 86; Stargate 392 rows and 32 cross-overs; Star Trek the same treatment. The Wolfverse's fourteen series were done in one go, including the three Law & Order titles that turned out to be two titles each.

New arrivals too: 9-1-1: Nashville joined the 9-1-1 list, and Marvel, Jurassic and Star Wars picked up Daredevil: Born Again season 2, Chaos Theory season 4 and Young Jedi Adventures season 3.

A new look

2026-08-21T00:00:00Z

The site was redesigned end to end: a quieter, more readable theme, tables that hold together on a phone instead of falling off the side, and a dark mode that follows whatever your device is already set to.

The Go to bar is now pinned to the top of the window, so it stays reachable however far down a list you have scrolled.