Moving from TV Time
TV Time is shutting down. Your history doesn’t have to go with it.
If you’ve spent years marking episodes watched, that log is more than data — it’s the shows that got you through long winters, the series you watched with someone, the seasons you counted down to. Losing the app that held it hurts. You shouldn’t lose the history too.
Filmarian can take it in. Request your data export from TV Time before the lights go out, and bring your episodes, shows, and ratings here — the import is free, your data stays yours, and anything that doesn’t match automatically can be matched by hand.
What transfers
Episodes you’ve watched
Every seen episode becomes a diary entry with its watch date, logged per episode — matched to real episode pages where we have the episode data, with manual matching for the rest. Nothing is silently dropped.
Shows you follow
Your followed and tracked shows land on your Filmarian watchlist, so the series you were keeping up with are waiting for you — including ratings, when your export includes them.
And what you gain
Filmarian tracks films and TV side by side, with per-episode logging for what you’re currently watching, a following feed of people whose taste you trust, taste matching that finds members like you, and a community that treats a watch history as something worth keeping.
How to move, step by step
Step 1 — Request your data from TV Time
In the TV Time app, look under Settings → Account for a “request my data” (or “download my data”) option. If you can’t find it — the menus have moved around over the years — you can email TV Time’s support or privacy address and ask for a copy of your personal data under GDPR. Either way, they’ll send your export to your account email. Do this soon: once the service closes, so does the door.
Step 2 — What arrives
A ZIP file containing several CSV spreadsheets. The ones that matter here are the seen episodes file (your watch history) and the followed shows file — the exact file names vary by when you exported. Unzip it; you’ll upload those CSVs one at a time. Files we don’t recognise are skipped with a note, never an error.
Step 3 — Join the waitlist
Honest note: sign-ups aren’t open to everyone yet. Join the waitlist and the import is ready the day you’re in — your TV Time export doesn’t expire, so requesting it now and importing later works fine. What matters is getting your data out of TV Time before it closes.
Step 4 — Upload, preview, confirm
Go to Import your data in your account, pick TV Time, and upload a CSV from your export. You’ll see a preview of exactly what we parsed before anything is written — untick anything you don’t want, then confirm. Re-running an import is safe: rows are tagged with their source, and duplicates are detected and skipped.
Questions you’re probably asking
- Is my data private?
- Yes. Your import is yours alone — the file you upload is parsed to build your own diary, watchlist, and ratings, and every imported row stays tied to your account. We don’t publish, share, or mine your upload.
- What if a show doesn’t match?
- Manual matching is built in. Anything we can’t match automatically — a renamed show, an episode we don’t have data for yet — lands in an unmatched list you can resolve by hand, row by row, whenever you like. No row is thrown away.
- Is it free?
- Yes. Importing your TV Time history is free, and so is keeping it here.
Years of watched episodes are worth carrying with you. We’d be glad to give them a home.
Imports are ready the day your account opens — request your TV Time export now so it’s waiting.