Friendship is Magic animated media

This is a sortable list of My Little Pony Friendship is Magic episodes, films, and shorts, divided by seasons and initially sorted by original air date, and other installments. Differences between original air date order and production order are noted with italics.

Season one
Episodes of season one premiered on Fridays at 1:30 PM Eastern Time, with the exception of the "sneak preview" of the season premiere, which aired on the same day The Hub debuted.

Season two
The first three episodes of season two premiered on Saturdays at 9:00 AM Eastern Time, the following fifteen episodes premiered at 10:00 AM Eastern Time, with the exception of the seventeenth episode, which premiered at 10:30 AM Eastern Time after the We Heart Ponies Fan Favorite Mare-a-thon, and the remaining episodes premiered at 1:00 PM Eastern Time, with the exception of the twenty-sixth episode, which premiered at 1:30 PM, directly following its predecessor.

Season three
Season three premiered on November 10, 2012. The first episode aired at 10:00 AM Eastern Time, 7:00 AM Pacific Time, and the second episode aired at 10:30 AM Eastern Time, 7:30 AM Pacific Time. The rest of the episodes aired at 10:30 AM Eastern Time, 7:30 AM Pacific Time, directly following a repeat of the previous week's episode.

Season four
Season four premiered on November 23, 2013. With the exception of the first and twenty-fifth episodes, both of which aired at 10:00 AM Eastern Time, 7:00 AM Pacific Time, the rest of the episodes aired at 10:30 AM Eastern Time, 7:30 AM Pacific Time.

Season five
<!--Teasers for the upcoming season were provided by the show staff at the 2014 San Diego Comic-Con, including episodes centered around the following:
 * Twilight dealing with the destruction of the Golden Oak Library by Lord Tirek
 * The entire Pie family
 * A 100th special episode focusing on background characters
 * Princess Luna having a nightmare

At BronyCon 2014, it was announced that G.M. Berrow, the author of the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic chapter books, would be writing an episode. At BronyCAN, it was elaborated that Berrow's episode will be Pinkie Pie-centered.

On October 27, 2014, Tony award winner Lena Hall, who ended her acceptance speech with "Friendship is magic", announced that she recorded an episode.

On December 2, 2014, Lena Hall posted on her Twitter account a brief video showing the recording session of a new song.

On January 18, 2015, when asked to give small teasers for the fifth season, Jayson Thiessen responded with several tweets, stating:
 * "There will be 26 episodes in season 5."
 * "there will be episodes that focus on the 7 main characters as well as others."
 * "numerous songs by @dannyimusic will be featured throughout the season."
 * "we will see more of the new castle revealed at the end of season 4"
 * "Rainbow Dash will say "woah woah woah""
 * "Pinkie Pie will break the 4th wall"
 * "somepony will die" (later stated to be a joke)
 * "maybe some confetti explosions"

On February 25, 2015, it was announced at Australia's 2015 PonyCon that the show's fifth season will contain a second Hearth's Warming-themed episode starring Maud Pie and that none of the main characters will be present in the one hundredth episode. --> The first half of season five premiered on April 4, 2015. The first episode aired at 11:00 AM Eastern Time, 8:00 AM Pacific Time, and the second episode aired at 11:30 AM Eastern Time, 8:30 AM Pacific Time. The other eleven episodes aired at 11:30 AM Eastern Time, 8:30 AM Pacific Time, directly following a repeat of the previous episode.

On July 8, 2015, Hasbro first announced via Twitter that the sixth season will premiere sometime later in 2015. However, a day later on July 9, 2015, Hasbro corrected by tweeting that the second half of season five will be coming sometime later this year.

Equestria Girls: Friendship Games
On January 29, 2015, Australian home media distributor Beyond Home Entertainment stated via Facebook that they had obtained distribution rights for seasons 4 and 5 of the show, in addition to Rainbow Rocks and the "third Equestria Girls [movie]". Further confirmation was given during Hasbro's investor presentation at the 2015 New York Toy Fair, during which the film was announced for a theatrical release in Fall 2015.

On July 1, 2015, a trailer by USA Today announced the film's Discovery Family premiere on September 26, 2015.

Similar to the release of Rainbow Rocks, a series of animated shorts based on Friendship Games is slated to release prior to the film's premiere. On July 27, 2015, Rudell tweeted that they will be released "within the next 3 months."

Season six
A Discovery Communications article about Discovery Family's 2015-16 upfront season mentions "My Little Pony Friendship is Magic Season 6" as part of its daytime programming lineup. Jim Miller stated in a Twitter reply regarding this on March 31, 2015, "I think that's a typo." Hours later, "#MLPseason6" was tweeted by both Meghan McCarthy and Michael Vogel, and both "Don't believe it. #MLPseason6 #conspiracy" and "Believe? #MLPSeason6 pic.twitter.com/GcHUkEjPHu" were tweeted by Josh Haber. Miller later confirmed the announcement to be true on Twitter. On July 8, 2015, Hasbro stated on Twitter that season six would be "coming later this year" but the following day, it was revealed to be an error.

The Movie
On October 20, 2014, Hasbro and AllSpark Pictures announced a feature-length My Little Pony film slated for a theatrical release sometime in 2017. Joe Ballarini (Ice Age: Continental Drift) was originally announced to be writing the script. Meghan McCarthy will write and act as co-executive producer.