Movie Night: party games for the TV
Movie Night turns your TV into a party-game screen. Guests join from their phones by QR code, and the questions come from your own Beebo library. It is a beta, and it has been tested only with simulated phones.
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Beta (Windows) Status: Movie Night has been in Beebo for Windows since 0.1.58 and is still a beta. It has been tested only with simulated phones, not on real phones, a real TV or a real Wi-Fi network. The Android app’s Movie Night tile is Beta, in the Android test download since 1.40, and has not been checked on real phones.
How it works
The TV shows a big QR code and a short room code. Up to 12 people join by scanning it with a phone browser on your home Wi-Fi. The questions are made from your own library: the posters, taglines, cast and years your PC has already saved.
Start a room
On the desktop app, open a film’s page and press Start Movie Night, then show it on the PC or on your TV. Or open the Movie Night page from any TV browser:
http://<pc-address>:47811/tv.Guests scan the QR code
They pick a nickname and a colour. No app, no account and no internet. The first guest to join can start games and skip from their phone, and the TV remote can do the same.
Play
Pick a game from the menu, or start a group vote on what to watch. Scores and a final scoreboard appear on the TV, for players or teams.
Watch tonight’s film
If you started from a film’s page, Play tonight’s movie starts it, and an Intermission quiz can ask about it.
The games
| Game | What happens |
|---|---|
| Blurry Poster | A poster starts as chunky pixels and gets clearer in stages, with the tagline, top cast and year as clues. Pick the title from four. Earlier answers score more. |
| Cast Match | Which of these actors was in a given film? |
| Year Guess | Slide to the year a film came out. The closest guess earns a bonus. |
| Before or After | Two posters: which came out first? |
| Trivia Night | A mixed round of all of the above, plus taglines and who played which character. |
| Intermission quiz | Three quick 15-second questions, about the film that just played first. |
| Pick Tonight’s Movie | A fair group vote. Each person says Yes to any film they would be happy with and may veto one. A tie is settled by a fair random draw, and the screen says which rule decided it. |
| Portrait Party Planned | A private, personalized portrait guessing game. Each guest chooses or takes one photo, approves a playful game portrait, and joins a local group board. See the planned experience. |
A game only uses films that have enough saved (for example a poster, a year and some cast). If your library has too little saved, the lobby says what a game still needs. Team scores are averaged so a bigger team is not favoured.
What you need
- Beebo for Windows (0.1.58 or newer; the current download is 0.1.113) on the PC that holds your films, with posters and details already saved from TMDB (see the TMDB key guide).
- A TV or screen with a web browser, or the PC itself connected to the TV. There is no Movie Night app for Roku, Samsung, LG, Xbox or Apple TV; Roku and LG have in-development tester apps, Samsung, Xbox and Apple TV apps are In development, and none of them includes Movie Night.
- Phones with an ordinary web browser, on the same home Wi-Fi. By default only your home network can join.
- No internet during the game, once your library’s details have been saved.
Families and privacy
- Parental controls and a rating limit apply. Only titles the room’s host profile may see, and that are within the owner’s rating limit (PG-13 by default), go into a game. Films with no saved rating are left out unless the owner allows them.
- Guests need no account. They give only a nickname, which is typed by them, limited in length and cleaned of odd characters. The host can remove anyone and lock the room. There is no chat and no free text apart from the nickname, so supervise the room as you would any group activity.
- Games use your own cached library data. They read only what your PC has already saved, and make no requests to the internet. The rooms live in memory on your PC and end with the night.
- No accounts, ads, analytics, cookies or third-party requests. The phone remembers your nickname in its own browser storage only.
- Movie Night is a family activity, not a children’s product.
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. Posters shown are the ones already saved for your library.
What is not tested yet
- Real phones on a real Wi-Fi network. Movie Night has been run with simulated phones only.
- Real TV browsers, and the remote-control keys on them.
- The Android app’s Movie Night tile (a window that can only visit your PC) is in the Android test download since 1.40: Beta. It has not been checked on real phones.
- A rare wrong answer in Cast Match may in truth have a small part in the film, because it checks the saved cast list, which holds the top-billed actors only. The question says “was in”, not “was billed in”.
Questions
What is Movie Night?
Party games for the living-room TV, played from phones and made from your own Beebo library: guess the movie from a pixelated poster, match the cast, guess the year, and vote fairly on what to watch. It is a beta in Beebo for Windows (added in 0.1.58).
Do guests need an app or an account?
No. They scan a QR code with a phone browser on your home Wi-Fi and type a nickname. Up to 12 people can join.
Does Movie Night need the internet?
Not while you play, once your library’s posters and details have been saved from TMDB. The games read only what your PC has already saved.
What data does Movie Night collect?
It keeps no accounts or profiles of guests. Guests give only a nickname, the room lives in memory on your PC and ends with the night, and there are no ads, analytics or cookies.
Is it suitable for children?
Parental controls and a rating limit (PG-13 by default) apply to the films used. It is a family activity, not a children’s product, and there is no chat, so supervise the room.
Has it been tested?
Only with simulated phones. It has not been tried on real phones, real TVs or a real Wi-Fi network yet.
This product uses the TMDB API but is not endorsed or certified by TMDB. First written for Beebo for Windows 0.1.58 and the Beebo Android app 1.40 on September 21, 2026. Version references updated Oct 5, 2026, 7:02 AM Eastern for the October 5 downloads (Windows 0.1.79, Android 1.51-tester11). Found something that does not match what you see? Tell us at testers@beeboentertainment.com. It is a plain email, with no form and no sign-up.
Parental-control changes · In development
Updated Oct 21, 2026, 3:43 AM Eastern. In the Oct 21, 2026 release, a Live TV link stops when its profile is restricted, and Movie Night removes blocked titles from a room when limits tighten. These fixes are in Windows 0.1.97, published Oct 21, 2026, 3:43 AM Eastern, and have not yet been tried on a real PC. If a parental check itself fails, viewing continues; this is the owner’s choice.
What is left to reach 100%: check restricted and normal profiles on a real PC after release, including changes to limits during viewing. Dated testing evidence.