Apple TV - purchased TV shows not showing up in “Up Next”

If the Apple TV app shows a next episode for your chosen TV show through a different content provider (not your library), then the Apple TV app have may been confused for the available options of content providers. To correct that, please note which episode is next up, then remove the show from Up Next, and start the wanted episode from the library. That should put it back in Up Next, which a corrected link to the applicable content provider (Apple’s iTunes Store in this case).

I have a similar experience. The new Apple TV app will show the next series episode in "up next" but it will not allow me to play only purchase, despite having the content already purchased and in my library. Something is definitely broken, and happened following their decision/work to transfer the movies and tv series from itunes store app to the apple tv app. I notice this on both iOS and apple TV devices.

I have this exact thing happening to me just now, after I tried loading up the next episode of Star Trek Voyager from the Home Screen. And now, every single next episode in my tv shows list (which is a lot) “is not available”. The ones on my Home Screen insist that I watch purchased shows on another streaming platform. They definitely broke something.

That doesn’t work. It’s broken until Apple fixes it.

Find the tile for the show in the Apple TV app.

- For the Up Next row, click-and-hold, then select View Details,

- For anywhere else in the app, just click the tile to go to the Details page.

On the Details page, scroll down to How to Watch, then select the “tv” option, instead of other content providers. That should fix the preference for preferred content provider from then on. If not, then Remove from Up Next, and Add it again.