Frequently Asked Questions
What is this platform?
Entertainment Intelligence is a research, discovery, and monitoring layer for movies and TV shows — not a news publisher. Instead of writing articles, we track claims about specific titles (casting, production status, release details, renewals, and similar), attach the evidence behind each claim, and record how that claim's status changed over time.
What does the platform track?
For each show or movie we track: claims (specific assertions, like "Actor X is attached"), the evidence for and against each claim, discovery signals (raw observations that haven't been investigated yet), and a claim's full status history, not just its current state.
How is this different from an entertainment news site?
A news site publishes articles. We track claims as structured, evidence-backed data: what's currently known about a title, what supports it, and how it got there. You can trace a claim back to the specific source and evidence behind it instead of reading a new article every time something changes.
What can I research here?
You can browse a show or movie's page to see what we currently know and how it changed, or ask a free-form research question about any title we track. Answers are synthesized strictly from the evidence we've collected, with every factual sentence citing the specific evidence it came from.
How does the platform determine whether something is confirmed?
A claim only reaches Confirmed when an official or studio source is behind it. Status changes aren't a feel-based judgment — each status requires a specific kind of evidence, and the system checks that the evidence actually justifies the status before it's recorded.
What does "reported" mean?
Reported means at least one source has said this. It is the earliest stage a claim can reach once there's real evidence behind it — not yet corroborated by a second independent source, and not yet officially confirmed.
What does "corroborated" mean?
Corroborated means two or more independently sourced reports support the claim. We're upfront that this isn't a perfect measure of independence: outlets frequently repeat each other's reporting, and we don't currently have a reliable way to detect when several outlets are all repeating one underlying report rather than reporting separately. Our corroboration counts approximate independence by counting distinct sources.
What does "unconfirmed" mean?
Unconfirmed (along with the related Speculation status) covers something circulating without evidence that rises to a reported claim — a possibility worth tracking, not yet a claim we're willing to call reported.
What does "debunked" mean?
Debunked means a claim was reported and has since been directly contradicted by evidence. We keep the original report in the claim's history rather than deleting it — the status history shows both what was reported and what later contradicted it.
How does the platform handle conflicting information?
Evidence is recorded with a stance — it supports, contradicts, or merely mentions a claim — so contradicting evidence doesn't overwrite anything. It's kept alongside the supporting evidence, and the claim's current status reflects the balance of what's been recorded, not just whichever piece of evidence arrived last.
Can the platform be wrong?
Yes. A source can be wrong, a report can be incomplete, automated matching can misfire, and discovery signals can be noisy. We try to make that uncertainty visible instead of hiding it behind a clean-looking status — see how we build this for the fuller list of ways this system can fail. If you spot something that looks broken or wrong, please tell us.
What sources does the platform use?
A mix of source types: official studio/network announcements, trade and entertainment publications, interviews, podcasts, a curated set of YouTube channels, and other reporting. Today's live automated monitoring covers a curated set of RSS feeds and YouTube channels; broader coverage (including social platforms) is a direction we're building toward, not something already running at scale.
How are sources attributed?
Each piece of evidence is tied to a specific article, its source, its publish date, and (where relevant) an excerpt — visible wherever we show you a claim's supporting evidence, not just referenced in the abstract.
Does a social media post count as confirmation?
No. A social post can be a useful discovery signal — a lead worth investigating — but it is not evidence of anything being true on its own, and it cannot move a claim to Confirmed. Confirmation requires an official or studio source.
How are rumors tracked?
A rumor typically starts as a discovery signal or an Unconfirmed/Speculation claim. If real evidence shows up supporting it, it can become a Reported claim, tracked and cited like any other. If it's contradicted instead, the claim's history reflects that too — a rumor doesn't just quietly disappear either way.
How does the platform handle information that changes over time?
We keep a claim's full status history rather than only its current state. A claim that went Reported, then Corroborated, then Confirmed keeps every one of those transitions on record, each dated, so you can see what was known at each point rather than only the final answer.
What can I follow?
You can follow any show or movie we track, without creating an account — following is scoped to your browser. Followed titles show up in a combined digest of the meaningful updates recorded across everything you follow.
What counts as a meaningful update?
A meaningful update is a recorded claim status change — a claim moving to Reported, Corroborated, Confirmed, or Debunked — not every new article that mentions a title. That's a deliberate filter: a dozen articles repeating the same report is not a dozen updates.
How are updates different from simply publishing another article?
An update is tied to an actual change in a claim's tracked status, with the evidence behind that change attached. It's not a new article restating something already known — if nothing about a claim's status changed, there's no new update, even if new coverage of it appeared.