diff --git a/core/automation/blocks.py b/core/automation/blocks.py
index 161e4652..536003ac 100644
--- a/core/automation/blocks.py
+++ b/core/automation/blocks.py
@@ -260,6 +260,8 @@ ACTIONS: list[dict] = [
      "description": "Full reconcile of the TV library: re-read every show from the server and drop ones it no longer has (a read, NOT a Plex disk-scan; never touches movies)", "available": True},
     {"type": "video_deep_scan_movies", "label": "Deep Scan Movie Library", "icon": "search", "scope": "video",
      "description": "Full reconcile of the Movie library: re-read every movie from the server and drop ones it no longer has (a read, NOT a Plex disk-scan; never touches TV)", "available": True},
+    {"type": "video_refresh_airing_schedules", "label": "Refresh Airing TV Schedules", "icon": "calendar", "scope": "video",
+     "description": "Re-pull the latest TMDB episode schedules (air dates, stills) for the still-airing shows on your watchlist, so the calendar the airing automation reads is current — newly-announced or rescheduled episodes get picked up instead of being missed. Skips ended/canceled shows. Pair with a daily Schedule a couple hours before the airing run.", "available": True},
     {"type": "video_add_airing_episodes", "label": "Wishlist Today's Airings", "icon": "calendar", "scope": "video",
      "description": "Sonarr-style: add every episode airing today (for shows you follow) to the wishlist, skipping ones you already own. Also tidies the watchlist by dropping shows that have ended/been canceled.", "available": True,
      "config_fields": [
diff --git a/core/automation/handlers/registration.py b/core/automation/handlers/registration.py
index 178c6011..e78893fc 100644
--- a/core/automation/handlers/registration.py
+++ b/core/automation/handlers/registration.py
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ from core.automation.handlers.download_cleanup import (
 from core.automation.handlers.run_script import auto_run_script
 from core.automation.handlers.search_and_download import auto_search_and_download
 from core.automation.handlers.video_auto_wishlist_airing import auto_video_add_airing_episodes
+from core.automation.handlers.video_refresh_airing_schedules import auto_video_refresh_airing_schedules
 from core.automation.handlers.video_scan_watchlist_people import auto_video_scan_watchlist_people
 from core.automation.handlers.video_scan_watchlist_channels import auto_video_scan_watchlist_channels
 from core.automation.handlers.video_process_youtube_wishlist import auto_video_process_youtube_wishlist
@@ -232,6 +233,12 @@ def register_all(deps: AutomationDeps) -> None:
         'video_add_airing_episodes',
         lambda config: auto_video_add_airing_episodes(config, deps),
     )
+    # Keep the calendar honest: re-pull TMDB episode schedules for still-airing watchlist
+    # shows (the airing automation above reads the LOCAL calendar, so it needs this fresh).
+    engine.register_action_handler(
+        'video_refresh_airing_schedules',
+        lambda config: auto_video_refresh_airing_schedules(config, deps),
+    )
     # ── Watchlist → Wishlist pipeline ─────────────────────────────────────────
     # Stage 1 — SCANS that fill the wishlist from what you follow.
     # People: wishlist every un-owned movie followed actors/directors made (catalog + upcoming).
diff --git a/core/automation/handlers/video_refresh_airing_schedules.py b/core/automation/handlers/video_refresh_airing_schedules.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..d2dbd34a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/core/automation/handlers/video_refresh_airing_schedules.py
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+"""Automation handler: ``video_refresh_airing_schedules`` action.
+
+Keeps the TV calendar honest. The "Wishlist Episodes Airing Today" automation reads the
+LOCAL ``episodes`` table — which is only refreshed from TMDB on initial enrichment, a manual
+re-match, or lazily when you open a show's page. So a newly-announced or rescheduled episode
+can sit unknown indefinitely, and the airing automation misses it.
+
+This runs daily (a couple hours before the airing run) and re-pulls each still-airing
+watchlist show's season/episode schedule from TMDB (air dates, stills, overviews) so the
+calendar is current when the airing automation reads it.
+
+Scope: the EFFECTIVE watchlist's continuing LIBRARY shows (follows ∪ airing library shows,
+skipping ended/canceled — they'll never air again, and skipping tmdb-only follows, which have
+no episodes table to refresh). Like the other video handlers it owns its progress reporting
+(``_manages_own_progress``); the show fetch + per-show refresh are injected seams, so the
+handler is a pure function tests drive with fakes.
+"""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+from typing import Any, Callable, Dict, List, Optional
+
+from core.automation.deps import AutomationDeps
+
+
+def _default_fetch_shows() -> List[Dict[str, Any]]:
+    """Production wiring: the still-airing watchlist shows that live in the library."""
+    from api.video import get_video_db
+    from core.video.sources import resolve_video_server
+    return get_video_db().watchlist_continuing_shows(resolve_video_server())
+
+
+def _default_refresh_show(library_id: Any) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    """Re-pull a library show's TMDB season/episode schedule (the lazy on-view backfill,
+    invoked deliberately). Re-matches + cascades episodes, so air dates/stills refresh."""
+    from core.video.enrichment.engine import get_video_enrichment_engine
+    return get_video_enrichment_engine().refresh_show_art(library_id) or {}
+
+
+def auto_video_refresh_airing_schedules(
+    config: Dict[str, Any],
+    deps: AutomationDeps,
+    *,
+    fetch_shows: Optional[Callable[[], List[Dict[str, Any]]]] = None,
+    refresh_show: Optional[Callable[[Any], Dict[str, Any]]] = None,
+) -> Dict[str, Any]:
+    """Refresh the TMDB episode schedule for every still-airing watchlist library show, so
+    the airing automation's calendar read is current.
+
+    Returns ``{'status': 'completed', 'refreshed': int, 'failed': int, 'shows': int, ...}``."""
+    fetch_shows = fetch_shows or _default_fetch_shows
+    refresh_show = refresh_show or _default_refresh_show
+    automation_id = config.get('_automation_id')
+    try:
+        deps.update_progress(automation_id, phase='Finding shows to refresh…', progress=8,
+                             log_line='Reading your watchlist for still-airing shows', log_type='info')
+        shows = fetch_shows() or []
+        total = len(shows)
+        if not total:
+            deps.update_progress(automation_id, status='finished', progress=100, phase='Complete',
+                                 log_line='No airing shows on your watchlist to refresh', log_type='success')
+            return {'status': 'completed', 'refreshed': 0, 'failed': 0, 'shows': 0,
+                    '_manages_own_progress': True}
+
+        refreshed = failed = 0
+        for i, s in enumerate(shows):
+            title = s.get('title') or ('show %s' % s.get('library_id'))
+            deps.update_progress(
+                automation_id, phase='Refreshing TV schedules…', progress=10 + int(i / total * 85),
+                log_line="Pulling the latest episodes for '%s'  (%d/%d)" % (title, i + 1, total),
+                log_type='info')
+            try:
+                ok = bool((refresh_show(s.get('library_id')) or {}).get('ok'))
+            except Exception:   # noqa: BLE001 - one show failing must not stop the rest
+                ok = False
+            if ok:
+                refreshed += 1
+            else:
+                failed += 1
+
+        done = 'Refreshed %d show schedule(s)' % refreshed + (' · %d failed' % failed if failed else '')
+        deps.update_progress(automation_id, status='finished', progress=100, phase='Complete',
+                             log_line=done, log_type='success')
+        return {'status': 'completed', 'refreshed': refreshed, 'failed': failed, 'shows': total,
+                '_manages_own_progress': True}
+    except Exception as e:  # noqa: BLE001
+        deps.update_progress(automation_id, status='error', phase='Error', log_line=str(e), log_type='error')
+        return {'status': 'error', 'error': str(e), '_manages_own_progress': True}
diff --git a/core/automation_engine.py b/core/automation_engine.py
index ff4a35c5..3f3fa1e4 100644
--- a/core/automation_engine.py
+++ b/core/automation_engine.py
@@ -175,6 +175,15 @@ SYSTEM_AUTOMATIONS = [
     # are queued overnight. A fixed wall-clock 'daily_time' (not a rolling 24h interval
     # that drifts with restarts) — the seeder now arms timed system triggers, and
     # _fix_airing_automation_schedule migrates the old 24h-interval row.
+    # Runs before the airing automation so the calendar it reads is current — re-pulls
+    # TMDB episode schedules for still-airing watchlist shows (the airing read is LOCAL).
+    {
+        'name': 'Refresh Airing TV Schedules',
+        'trigger_type': 'daily_time',
+        'trigger_config': {'time': '23:00'},
+        'action_type': 'video_refresh_airing_schedules',
+        'owned_by': 'video',
+    },
     {
         'name': 'Auto-Wishlist Episodes Airing Today',
         'trigger_type': 'daily_time',
diff --git a/database/video_database.py b/database/video_database.py
index 23d55726..c3fd61be 100644
--- a/database/video_database.py
+++ b/database/video_database.py
@@ -2308,6 +2308,30 @@ class VideoDatabase:
         finally:
             conn.close()
 
+    def watchlist_continuing_shows(self, server_source=None) -> list[dict]:
+        """Effective-watchlist shows that are IN the library (so they have an episodes table
+        to refresh) and still airing — the set whose TMDB episode schedules the 'Refresh
+        Airing TV Schedules' automation re-pulls so the calendar stays current. Skips
+        tmdb-only follows (no episodes to refresh) and ended/canceled shows (no new episodes
+        coming); unknown status is kept (never skip on uncertainty)."""
+        terminal = ("ended", "canceled", "cancelled", "completed")
+        conn = self._get_connection()
+        try:
+            rows = self._effective_shows(conn, server_source)
+        finally:
+            conn.close()
+        out, seen = [], set()
+        for r in rows:
+            lib = r.get("library_id")
+            if lib is None or lib in seen:
+                continue
+            if str(r.get("status") or "").strip().lower() in terminal:
+                continue
+            seen.add(lib)
+            out.append({"library_id": lib, "tmdb_id": r.get("tmdb_id"),
+                        "title": r.get("title"), "status": r.get("status")})
+        return out
+
     def remove_from_watchlist(self, kind: str, tmdb_id: int) -> bool:
         """Un-follow. Stored as a 'mute' tombstone (not a delete) so an
         actively-airing library show — watched by default — is not silently
diff --git a/tests/test_video_refresh_airing_schedules.py b/tests/test_video_refresh_airing_schedules.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..f673fdc9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/tests/test_video_refresh_airing_schedules.py
@@ -0,0 +1,96 @@
+"""Refresh-airing-schedules automation: re-pull TMDB episode schedules for still-airing
+watchlist shows so the airing automation's LOCAL calendar read is current. Pure handler with
+the show fetch + per-show refresh injected, plus the DB scoping query + the wiring contract."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import pytest
+
+from core.automation.handlers.video_refresh_airing_schedules import (
+    auto_video_refresh_airing_schedules,
+)
+
+
+class _Deps:
+    def __init__(self):
+        self.progress = []
+
+    def update_progress(self, automation_id, **kw):
+        self.progress.append(kw)
+
+
+def _logs(deps):
+    return " ".join(p.get("log_line") or "" for p in deps.progress)
+
+
+# ── handler ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+def test_refreshes_each_show_and_tallies():
+    shows = [{"library_id": 1, "title": "A"}, {"library_id": 2, "title": "B"}, {"library_id": 3, "title": "C"}]
+    seen = []
+
+    def refresh(lib):
+        seen.append(lib)
+        return {"ok": lib != 2}                       # show 2 fails to match
+
+    deps = _Deps()
+    res = auto_video_refresh_airing_schedules({"_automation_id": "a"}, deps,
+                                              fetch_shows=lambda: shows, refresh_show=refresh)
+    assert res["status"] == "completed" and res["shows"] == 3
+    assert res["refreshed"] == 2 and res["failed"] == 1
+    assert seen == [1, 2, 3]                          # every show attempted
+    assert "Refreshed 2 show schedule(s)" in _logs(deps) and "1 failed" in _logs(deps)
+
+
+def test_empty_watchlist_is_a_clean_noop():
+    deps = _Deps()
+    res = auto_video_refresh_airing_schedules({"_automation_id": "a"}, deps, fetch_shows=lambda: [])
+    assert res["status"] == "completed" and res["shows"] == 0 and res["refreshed"] == 0
+    assert not any(p.get("status") == "error" for p in deps.progress)
+
+
+def test_one_show_raising_does_not_stop_the_rest():
+    def refresh(lib):
+        if lib == 1:
+            raise RuntimeError("tmdb timeout")
+        return {"ok": True}
+
+    res = auto_video_refresh_airing_schedules(
+        {"_automation_id": "a"}, _Deps(),
+        fetch_shows=lambda: [{"library_id": 1, "title": "A"}, {"library_id": 2, "title": "B"}],
+        refresh_show=refresh)
+    assert res["status"] == "completed" and res["refreshed"] == 1 and res["failed"] == 1
+
+
+def test_top_level_error_is_caught():
+    def boom():
+        raise RuntimeError("db down")
+
+    res = auto_video_refresh_airing_schedules({"_automation_id": "x"}, _Deps(), fetch_shows=boom)
+    assert res["status"] == "error" and "db down" in res["error"]
+
+
+# ── DB scoping ────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+from database.video_database import VideoDatabase  # noqa: E402
+
+
+def test_watchlist_continuing_shows_skips_ended_tmdbonly_and_dupes(tmp_path, monkeypatch):
+    db = VideoDatabase(database_path=str(tmp_path / "video_library.db"))
+    rows = [
+        {"library_id": 1, "tmdb_id": 10, "title": "Airing", "status": "Returning Series"},
+        {"library_id": 2, "tmdb_id": 20, "title": "Done", "status": "Ended"},          # terminal → skip
+        {"library_id": None, "tmdb_id": 30, "title": "Tmdb-only", "status": None},      # no episodes → skip
+        {"library_id": 1, "tmdb_id": 10, "title": "Dup", "status": "Returning Series"}, # dup lib → once
+        {"library_id": 4, "tmdb_id": 40, "title": "Unknown", "status": None},           # unknown → keep
+    ]
+    monkeypatch.setattr(db, "_effective_shows", lambda conn, ss: rows)
+    out = db.watchlist_continuing_shows("plex")
+    assert [s["library_id"] for s in out] == [1, 4]
+
+
+# ── wiring contract ───────────────────────────────────────────────────────────
+def test_seeded_before_the_airing_automation():
+    import core.automation_engine as ae
+    order = [a.get("action_type") for a in ae.SYSTEM_AUTOMATIONS]
+    assert "video_refresh_airing_schedules" in order
+    # must run BEFORE the airing read so the calendar is fresh when it runs
+    assert order.index("video_refresh_airing_schedules") < order.index("video_add_airing_episodes")
diff --git a/webui/static/video/video-automations.js b/webui/static/video/video-automations.js
index 9059c206..91628c22 100644
--- a/webui/static/video/video-automations.js
+++ b/webui/static/video/video-automations.js
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@
     var _SYS_ORDER = [
         // Stage 1 — scans that FILL the wishlist
         'video_scan_watchlist_people', 'video_scan_watchlist_channels',
-        'video_scan_watchlist_playlists', 'video_add_airing_episodes',
+        'video_scan_watchlist_playlists', 'video_refresh_airing_schedules', 'video_add_airing_episodes',
         // Stage 2 — processors that DRAIN it (download)
         'video_process_movie_wishlist', 'video_process_episode_wishlist', 'video_process_youtube_wishlist',
         // Library scan / sync