Not sure if this has always been the case, or it’s something new.
I added a new TV Show library (using the new tv show agent), let everything match and fully populate. I then went in and adjusted the content ratings to be correct (for the UK). I set this at a TV show level, however i’ve noticed that individual episodes have kept their original ratings.
Does setting the content rating at a TV Show level not trickle down and set them for the episodes too?
I have noticed this too. I think this was always the case, but we never saw the age rating per episode. With the new update and modern layout, which is a great UX improvement thanks Plex, we can see the age rating for each episode before playing. As the episode age rating is now readily seen, I think it would be good if Plex changed the logic so that changing the age range of a series automatically changes all the ages of all episodes.
No, it is very frustrating when I change the top TV show menu to the correct Australian audience rating only and have the American rating for all the episodes. Maybe Plex could have the option so that we could add an rating setting for “all episodes” as I know that with some series the episode rating can be higher or lower than the shows setting. Make sense?
Its a little complicated so please bear with me and I’ll try and explain it as best I understand it.
Plex gets its show level certifications from either TMDB or IMDB depending on your Certification Country settings on your library. However, it will never assign episode certifications from IMDB and will fall back to TMDB for those episodes specific ones.
So if a show has a certification for your country on IMDB and TMDB it will display the cerification in plex for show and episodes. This is because plex scraps the episode certifications from TMDB if they exist there for the show.
However, if a show only has no country certification on TMDB but does on IMDB it will at the show level display the IMDB one but fall back to the US certification for episodes. This is why you’ll see a load of TV-MA episodes certifications. I believe it’ll always fall back to US if nothing else exists.
Best solution is to add accurate certification for your country over at TMDB if you can. However, be aware not all countries are supported on TMDB for shows.
I’m open to correction on the above but this is my personal experience of what’s happening after a good bit of testing.
that’s all very well and good, however if i manually change the certification at a show level within plex, i would expect plex to then set that certification to all the episodes also - which it doesn’t. that was the point of this thread.
why wouldn’t you expect that?
if someone wants to override a TV show certification (for whatever reason) then plex should apply that to the whole “show” and not just the top level.
it shouldn’t be an expectation from plex that someone would have to go to both TMDB and TVDB to manually edit entries and then wait for plex to, maybe, pick up those changes.
you can’t multi-select episodes across seasons though (or not from what i’ve tried).
so if a show has, in my original example, 27 seasons, you’d need to do it 27 times.
however, that’s not the point. the point is that the if you’re manually editing something at a TV show level, one would expect those changes to be applied downwards into sub-sequent levels - which it doesn’t.
in reality it makes the TV show level certification pretty much pointless if it also doesn’t apply to the episodes.
