Managing Shows

What Shows Do

A show in InterviewCue represents one podcast series or branded interview program. Shows do two things: they organize your interviews by series, and they supply the metadata embedded in every MP3 you produce.

When you press Produce on your post-production page, InterviewCue reads your show's title, hosts, genre, language, copyright, and artwork and writes them directly into the ID3 tags of the finished file. The show assignment is what transforms a produced audio file into a properly tagged podcast episode -- with the right album name, artist credits, cover art, Apple Podcasts category, and content rating baked in. Without a show assignment, the Produce button won't run.

Shows are optional if you're not using the Produce feature. If you're exporting raw timelines, CUE sheets, or EDL files and embedding metadata yourself, you can work without them. But if you want InterviewCue to produce your final MP3, you need a show.

Creating a Show

Go to Shows in the navigation and click Create Show. The form has two sections.

Core Information

Title is your podcast name exactly as you want it to appear -- in podcast apps, on the episode card, and as the ID3 album tag. Keep it consistent; variations create duplicates in directories and apps.

Hosts takes one or more names. Add additional hosts with the Add Another Host button; remove them with the minus button. You must keep at least one. Host names are joined with "and" for the ID3 artist tag, so "Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken" is what podcast apps display as the episode's artist.

Image URL is a link to your show's cover art hosted externally -- on your CDN, S3, or any public image URL. InterviewCue downloads and caches the image, then serves it through its own proxy so your episodes load reliably. Square images at 1400×1400px or 3000×3000px are standard for podcast directories. On the edit form, a Refresh Cached Image button forces a re-download if you've updated the image at the same URL.

Website URL links to your show's homepage (preferable) or RSS feed. It's embedded in the ID3 URL tag.

Podcast Metadata

This section fills in the fields that podcast directories and apps care about:

• Genre and Subcategory -- Apple Podcasts taxonomy. The subcategory dropdown updates based on your genre selection. These populate the ID3 genre and grouping tags.
• Language -- The primary language of your show. Common languages are in the dropdown; select Other to enter a language code manually.
• Content Rating -- Clean, Explicit, or not set. This controls the explicit content flag in the ID3 tags.
• Publisher -- Your network, company, or publishing entity.
• Copyright -- The copyright string (e.g., "© 2026 Talk Python To Me"). If you leave this blank, InterviewCue generates one automatically from your show title and the current year.

Assigning Interviews to Shows

During import: The import form includes a show dropdown. Select your show and the association is set at creation.

From post-production: On the post-production page, the Produce button dialog includes a show assignment step if the interview isn't already linked. You can also assign or reassign a show from the interview details page at any time.

An interview can belong to one show, or none. Changing the show assignment on an existing interview takes effect immediately and will be reflected the next time you produce an MP3 from that interview.

Finding Interviews by Show

The search box on the interview list searches show names and host names alongside interview names. Type a show title or host name and the list filters instantly. This makes it easy to find all episodes for a particular series without any separate filtering UI.

Editing and Deleting Shows

Edit any show from the Shows page by clicking Edit. All fields can be changed at any time. If the show has linked interviews, a notice reminds you that host changes will affect the metadata embedded in future productions from those interviews.

To delete a show, open its edit page and click Delete Show at the bottom. Deleting a show removes the show record and clears the association from any linked interviews -- the interviews themselves are not deleted. The delete option is also available directly from the Shows list.

What's Next?

Post-Production Timeline - Producing your final MP3 with embedded show metadata
Export Formats - All eight export formats and when to use each
Managing Interviews - Creating, importing, and organizing interviews