{"id":575546,"date":"2026-08-21T05:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T05:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/575546\/"},"modified":"2026-08-21T05:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T05:00:17","slug":"netflix-hit-with-long-episode-runtime-glitch-fix-is-on-the-way","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/575546\/","title":{"rendered":"Netflix Hit With Long Episode Runtime Glitch; Fix Is On The Way"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Netflix<\/p>\n

Photo by Samuel Boivin\/NurPhoto via Getty Images<\/p>\n

If you\u2019ve logged into Netflix today and thought you were in for the longest binge-watch of your life, you aren\u2019t alone. A widespread, somewhat comical glitch is currently affecting users across the platform, particularly on TV devices, displaying episode runtimes in the hundreds\u2014and sometimes nearly a thousand\u2014hours.<\/p>\n

Viewers booting up their favorite shows are noticing something very wrong with the playback interface. According to screenshots circulating online for the past six or so hours, episodes of standard 40-minute network dramas are displaying staggering, impossible runtimes.<\/p>\n

In one instance, a viewer watching\u00a0Supergirl\u00a0(Season 6, Episode 8) paused to find the UI proudly declaring there were\u00a0\u201c706 hours and 51 minutes remaining.\u201d\u00a0Another viewer hit pause just two seconds into an episode of\u00a0Grey\u2019s Anatomy, only to be met with a total episode runtime of\u00a0719:09:57. The longest we spotted was for 1806 hours.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\"Time<\/p>\n

\"Long<\/p>\n

The issue quickly gained traction in my inbox, across social media and the r\/netflix subreddit today<\/a>, with users reporting even longer durations and broken playback bars.<\/p>\n

\u201cI was watching a show and realised at the bottom of the screen, it says it\u2019s 906 hours long,\u201d one confused user posted. \u201cThe little red bar that shows you how far along you are doesn\u2019t move either, I\u2019m 12 minutes in and it looks like I just started the episode. Wtf is going on???\u201d<\/p>\n

Fellow subscribers were quick to chime in with their own experiences, confirming it was a widespread issue rather than an isolated device error. One user noted, \u201cHappened to me too at the same exact time as you, probably some bug in the servers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Others took a more humorous approach to the glitch. \u201cWatch a few hundred hours and tell us what happens :),\u201d one commenter joked, while another rightfully pointed out that the r\/softwaregore subreddit would absolutely love the visuals of a 900-hour television episode.<\/p>\n

Is Netflix working on a fix?<\/p>\n

The good news? You won\u2019t actually have to block out a month of your life to finish a single episode of\u00a0Grey\u2019s Anatomy.<\/p>\n

A Netflix spokesperson confirmed that the Netflix technical team is already aware of the runtime glitch and is actively working on a fix behind the scenes. Because this appears to be a server-side metadata and UI bug, there is likely nothing you need to do on your end. You shouldn\u2019t need to reinstall your app or reset your TV\u2014just sit tight while the engineers deploy a patch. The episodes themselves still play normally, even if the progress bar refuses to budge.<\/p>\n

Have you been hit by the infinite episode glitch today? What\u2019s the longest runtime you\u2019ve seen pop up on your screen? Let us know in the comments down below!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photo by Samuel Boivin\/NurPhoto via Getty Images If you\u2019ve logged into Netflix today and thought you were in…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":575547,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,111,139,69,437],"class_list":["post-575546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tv","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575546","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=575546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/575546\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/575547"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=575546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=575546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=575546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}