# New episodes available alert notifications
**URL:** https://forums.plex.tv/t/new-episodes-available-alert-notifications/587276
**Category:** Feature Suggestions
**Created:** [May 8, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/new-episodes-available-alert-notifications/587276 "2020-05-08T14:48:10Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Guillermo\_Avalos](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Guillermo_Avalos)
#### Post date: [May 8, 2020, 2:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/new-episodes-available-alert-notifications/587276/1 "2020-05-08T14:48:10Z")
It’d be an awesome feature if Plex alerted us about new available episodes from the shows in our libraries. Having lots of shows makes it difficult to keep track and add new ones.
I’m thinking about a little flag in the show’s poster indicating that new episodes have been released and are not in the library.
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/new-episodes-available-alert-notifications/587276/2 "2020-05-09T03:33:21Z")
> [@Option to show MISSING seasons and episodes](https://forums.plex.tv/t/option-to-show-missing-seasons-and-episodes/77834/1):
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> I have access to a friends shared library and every time I go into a episode "folder" I have to carefully look if there are missing ones before starting to watch anything(I hate starting to watch a show, to only find out that there are missing episodes in-between them all). It would be so much easier is there was an option in Plex, that the client could turn on/decide if he wants to show missing episodes ("Make missing episodes visible") The missing episodes could be just listed as normal o…
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### Author:  [@OttoKerner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/OttoKerner)
#### Post date: [May 9, 2020, 3:33am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/new-episodes-available-alert-notifications/587276/3 "2020-05-09T03:33:26Z")