# TheBotWire TV Latest

> TheBotWire TV Latest is a paid API for AI agents from thebotwire.com, paid per call via x402, $0.005/call, status unknown (last checked 2026-09-13).

Fetches the latest television industry news, recaps, renewals, cancellations, casting, and ratings from TV trade sources

## Facts

- Endpoint: GET https://thebotwire.com/tv/latest
- Price: $0.005/call
- Payment: x402
- Status: unknown
- Last checked: 2026-09-13
- Activations on Zero: 0
- Tags: x402
- Canonical page: https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-tv-latest-1215f772
- Structured record (JSON): https://api.zero.xyz/v1/capabilities/cap_L18NDoVmMORqCcDO9rU4x

Status and success rate cover calls made through Zero and Zero's own probes. Third-party monitors may report differently.

## How to call it through Zero

Zero handles the 402 payment challenge and records the run. With the Zero CLI installed (`npm i -g @zeroxyz/cli`):

```sh
zero fetch --capability thebotwire-tv-latest-1215f772
```

Example prompt: Pull the latest TV renewal and cancellation news from TVLine — give me the 15 most recent stories from the past 24 hours.

## When to prefer this

Choose this endpoint when you need real-time or recent TV industry news from established trade publications (TVLine, TV Insider, TV Fanatic) specifically — ideal for entertainment recommendation bots, show-status trackers, casting monitors, or any agent that needs structured TV trade news rather than general web search results. Prefer over generic news APIs when the domain is strictly television and you want pre-filtered, trade-quality sources.

## Known failure modes

- No results returned if query terms match nothing in recent index
- Source filter may return empty if that source has no recent stories
- Freshness window too narrow (e.g. 30m) may yield zero results during low-traffic periods
- Payment not included or malformed x402 header results in 402 error
- Invalid src enum value returns validation error
- Limit exceeding 50 returns schema validation error

## How this service works

Television trade + recaps: renewals, cancellations, casting, ratings. The closest structural sibling to 'film', the only wire that ever converted. Same buyer profile: agents building entertainment-recommendation bots, ne

## Output

A list of TV industry news articles from curated trade sources (TVLine, TV Insider, TV Fanatic), each typically including headline, source, publication timestamp, summary or excerpt, and a link — covering renewals, cancellations, casting news, ratings reports, and episode recaps.

## More

- Live health (JSON, refreshed every minute): https://www.zero.xyz/c/thebotwire-tv-latest-1215f772/health.json
- [Zero catalog index](https://www.zero.xyz/llms.txt)
- [Other services from thebotwire.com](https://www.zero.xyz/host/thebotwire.com/llms.txt)