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Pluto TV favourites and the Watch List solve different problems

Save a Pluto TV channel you return to or an on-demand title you want to finish, and use the browser guide to tell which you found.

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Save the channel or save the title

You land on Pluto TV halfway through a film and want to come back later. The first question is whether you opened a channel or the film’s own on-demand page. A channel favourite saves a shortcut back to that channel in Live TV. Its schedule keeps moving. Saving the film itself requires finding its on-demand listing and adding that title to the Watch List where the option is offered.

Pluto TV puts its channel favourites in the Live TV section. This works well for the channels you browse repeatedly, such as a channel of classic sitcoms, a crime marathon or a rolling news feed. A shorter favourites view saves the repeated scroll through the full guide.

Read the programme line before you leave

On a browser, Pluto TV has a programme information control for a Live TV item. Open it and write down the full title and the episode name when the guide supplies one. Then search On Demand. A channel named after a show can be running one episode while search returns a collection of others. The episode name gives you a better chance of finding the specific programme you saw.

What you want next timeSave or record this
The same live channel regardless of the programmeAdd the channel to Favourites
A particular movie you found under On DemandAdd the movie to the Watch List
One episode that is playing in a marathonRecord the episode name and look for that entry on demand
A repeat later in the channel’s scheduleNote the date and time shown in the guide

A quick check when a saved item seems to vanish

Go back to the area where you saved it. A channel favourite is in the Live TV part of the app. A movie you added from its detail page belongs in the Watch List. If the list looks different on a second screen, compare the signed-in account and the type of listing before searching again. A working channel shortcut can coexist with a film that no longer appears on demand.

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