How we track releases.

How Status Bus sources, verifies, and dates every release status, and how estimates are kept separate from confirmed facts.

Status vocabulary

Release Date Confirmed: Officially dated by the rights holder.
In Production: Confirmed and actively being made.
Announced: Officially confirmed to exist. No date yet.
Rumored: Reported, but not officially confirmed.
Not Announced: No official confirmation exists yet.
On Hiatus: Paused indefinitely.
Cancelled: Officially will not happen.
Released: Out now.

Sourcing

A status changes here only when it changes at the source: the official account or site of the production, studio, publisher, or network; a first-party press release; or a direct on-the-record quote from someone attached to the project.

Every dated claim links to the source it came from. If the only thing behind a claim is a trade report or an insider, the status is Rumored and we say who reported it.

Estimates

When there is no official date, the expected release is our estimate and is always labelled as one. It is usually a gap analysis: how long previous seasons took, what the studio's slate looks like, how much source material is banked.

Estimates are excluded from the structured data we hand search engines. Only officially confirmed dates are ever published as machine-readable release dates.

Corrections

When we get something wrong we fix it and move the date. Status Bus is an independent tracker, not affiliated with any studio, network, publisher, or rights holder.