21-06-2019 8:58
Hello
I relay quite heavily on the entertainment catch up short cut. I go to see what I have missed last night and found to my surprise that the short cut is no longer there!. Have checked on ipad and smart tv.
Why has this disappeared?
14-07-2019 9:00
some of my programs have stopped appearing in the continue watching which is why its more annoying the the catch up filters gone
14-07-2019 9:12
I decided to give your suggestion a go which is why I haven't replied yet. I have found the whole experience frustrating. As to surfacing more content to me, nope, I was "surfaced" to more with catch up. The way you described using Continue watching doesn't really work. New episodes are rarely shown as new.
I have no idea what personas you were using to make the changes, of if you even listened to your behavioral insights team (if you have one). All I am seeing is last years content, and not being surfaced to new seasons starting. I am frustrated and find myself watching much less of NOW TV and wondering over to Netflix and Prime, which have done a much better job of implementing something you are obviously trying to emulate.
We had one menu to search through, now we have numerous and too any clicks to find something new to watch. I really hope you consider bringing back catch up.
14-07-2019 13:56
Getting rid of the option to view every added episode is entirely counter productive. It smacks of wanting to be like Netflix without investing in a sophisticated algorithm to recommend shows. In the absence of a decent recommendation system being able to see every new episode allowed you to stumble upon new shows that you had never heard of. Now you have to know that a show is on to go and find it.
I hope that someone at Now TV can see sense and quietly reinstate this option.
16-07-2019 23:20
Ok. Now tv really doesn’t want to be user friendly.....
Was looking for new season Elementary which I only discovered was back from an ad on a box set I was watching. So duly went to the new amended ‘recently added’ aka replacement for ‘catch up’. Guess what.....that is now gone also!
So started the trawling through the lists
Was not in ‘shows for me’ (which incidentally has not got anything I would want)
Was not in ‘new on now’ (why it should it be? Oh - I know because it’s new??)
Onto list number 3......Found it! It was hiding in ‘Hot right now’ (what criteria determines if something is hot right now? Just curious)
Then wanted to catch up on latest NCIS New Orleans. Not a problem....having accidentally found out it was back and started watching the new season....at least that would be on my ‘continue watching list’! Silly me. Of course it wasn’t
So the hunt began again. Luckily found on first attempt when trawled through ‘new on now’
Please explain where an new episode of a programme goes once shown live. The two examples above demonstrate there is no clarity of thinking when compiling lists. One latest episode on ‘Hot right now’ and another latest episode on ‘new on now’.
Another example of my point is Tin Star is on the ‘new on now’. That has been available for months. I know as I watched it ages ago. Same for Deadwood. These are not current series so why are they not in box sets as that alerts you there is are complete seasons available
I know in theory they will appear on continue watching once started but as a consumer (remember us?) we need the basic information of knowing they are there in the first place. We can not spend each and every day scrolling through each list on the off chance there is something we have missed.
It is really simple. Put a fresh new episode on in the evening and later that night or the following day pop it into a list called ‘Catch up’. Leave for a couple of weeks and then re-categorise it thereafter
No wonder I’m watching Amazon Prime or Netflix more and more.
17-07-2019 8:59
I agree with the others on here, I used "catch up" a couple of times a week to see what was new, what might be worth having a look at etc.
The "recently added" doesn't replace it.
I've no idea why NOWTV doesn't listen to its customers and reintroduce the catchup feature.
17-07-2019 19:27
Me again
After my comments from yesterday......just watching downstairs with a Now tv black box and noticed the lists are ‘recently added’ and ‘trending’ ie the new replacements for catch up. I was moaning yesterday they had gone which may confused everyone.......sorry for that
..........But my white box in the bedroom has ‘new on now’ and ‘hot right now’ but not the other two. Hence my rant yesterday
Anyone know why the difference on two different boxes? Was confused before....now really confused
Could perhaps now tv drop all their customers an email explaining the definitions of all the lists over all the different types of boxes?
18-07-2019 2:17
04-08-2019 22:33
Ridiculous, absurd they’ve taken it away!!!
Needs to be brought back ASAP!!
03-11-2019 15:49
Hi
I am new to this Now TV App on Samsung Smart Tv and like others not sure what I am looking for or how to look for it. Neither am I sure what My TV is or how to add progs to it, could someone help me with this please? Also I do not see a button to click for recently added? Sorry but I ma not tech savvy really and find the app very frustrating? Also how do I purchase a pass for Sky now? Thanks. I still have a black Now TV box so could I plug that in my smart Tv and use as usual?
03-11-2019 17:01 - edited 03-11-2019 17:12
Asked three times now, and answered once:-
Except if you have rows labelled My TV and Recently Added, you must have a different version of NowTV App from mine, on your Samsung TV.
Though My TV on this iPad is the same as the Continue Watching on the Stick and the Samsung TV App.
Recently Added, as its name implies, is a selection of the programmes that have been recently added to the NowTV roster.
I have individual Recently Added rows under Movies, Entertainment, etc., on this iPad, the Stick, and the Samsung TV App.