1.15.2.793 removing metadata for TV movies

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Made the mistake of updating to 1.15.2.793. A couple hours later was scrolling through my movies and noticed that some had lost their metadata, ie. poster, cast, plot, as if they were unmatched. A little more digging and I noticed it is only happening to TV Movies(made for TV movies or miniseries if you will).
A couple examples are:
Creature, 1998, imdb-tt0156205, themoviedb-47096-creature
Stephen King’s IT, 1990, imdb-tt0099864, themoviedb-19614-it

These both have been in my library for a long time and matched correctly before. Now, when I try to Fix Match, or Unmatch and Match, Plex Movie Scanner will find the correct title, but wont download any of the metadata. When I rerun those using The Movie Database as the scanner, they wont even find the correct title. I’ve tried removing them from the folders, cleaning bundles, emptying trash, re-adding them and matching with no success. Analyzing and Refresh Metadata doesn’t work either.
I have a second Plex server running on a different machine. It is still running 1.15.1.710. I checked both of those movies on it and they are still matched correctly with all the correct metadata.
Has anyone else experienced this issue?
Yes, I know that technically IMDB and Themoviedb consider these TV series with each part being an episode, even though they were released on DVD as a single file long movie.

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Thanks for the information Trumpy81, it’s much appreciated.
I’ll upgrade the other box after I lock all the fields I can for the existing made for TV movies in case it wants to erase their metadata as well.
IMHO it’s a bit asinine to have to take a 90 minute movie and throw it over into TV Shows where it’ll be created as a show, then as a season, then as a single episode in that season just because it was cut in two and shown over a two night period. (Creature 1998 is that example)
That movie, btw, has always been listed on IMDB and themoviedb as a TV miniseries, so not sure what they are changing in their databases to make it unmatchable as a movie now.
Maybe the coders will figure out a way in the future to get this working correctly.

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