Magnum P.I. new series naming conventions?

The new Magnum P.I. series premiere is showing up on my server as s01e01 of the old 80s series and it won’t let me fix the match. Does anyone know how I should be naming the file to have it read as the new series?

Correct names as taken from thetvdb:

Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Magnum P.I. (2018)

Dunno if Plex cares for the comma, which seems to be the difference in the name. Still, putting the date of fist airing in parentheses normally solves these issues. It seems as there are “problems” on thetvdb side as the series is locked and does not seem to show a date of first airing, but for the episodes it does. Normally this should be sorted out soon.

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Mine was names 2018 on the episode but it still miss matched it. I was able to split apart and then correct the match for the new show. We will see how it goes when episode 2 comes out…

The (2018) should be included already in the name of the show.

Plex has this issue with Reboots of shows.

Actually I had this problem for e1 of the reboot. I found that it worked fine if the folder was named “Magnum P.I. (2018)”

I left the show itself named “Magnum P.I. - s01e01 - Pilot.mp4”
I just changed the folder name as shown. Plex, for TV shows, uses the folder name for much of its matching.

After you change the name of the folder you must do the “Plex
Dance” to force Plex to reread the show correctly.

Move the folder to a location when Plex cannot see it
Force a scan of the library
Empty trash
Clean bundles
Move the folder back into the library
Force a scan of the library

Be sure to do each step above in order and allow each step to complete before doing the next and do not skip any steps.
Also before you do the above be sure the agent “Shows” has “Local media assets” moved below everything else.

Once I did all that Magnum P.I. (2018) worked fine for me.

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I did all this and didn’t have much luck. In the end I had to do everything you posted, add the 2018 version first and then fix match like jerseydevil62 did, and then add in the original version after that. So far so good, but will have to see what happens when episode 2 comes out :slight_smile:

I actually just created a new folder named the way you advised, moved the file over there, and it worked perfectly. Maybe I just got lucky but it was nice to be able to skip the extra steps.

Thanks for the help!

i named mine magnum pi 2018 s01e01 and it found it just fine… The folder I called magnum pi [2018]

Then you were lucky. In Plex dates need to be in parenthesis (date) and anything in square brackets is ignored.

The fact that other naming works at all is simply dumb luck.

People with the old series may still hit a problem.
I haven’t checked this reboot yet but with some others the EPG guide data will match the season episode number to the old series. It then doesn’t record the new series because it thinks you already have the show.

I have the old series and after correcting the folder name as I detailed I have both separate and named correctly in Plex.

I do not think it is just luck as the new series was lumped in with the old producing duplicates before I named the folder correctly but I did not include the date in the file name for either series at all.

I’ve tried asking the mods over the TheTVDB to change the naming from “Magnum P.I.” to “Magnum P.I.(2018)” and the response was pretty much “deal with it. it’s ok because it’s like Hawaii 5-0 and Hawaii 5-O. There’s enough of a difference” when there’s not really other than the dropping of a comma.

If I could use TheRenamer, the problem would be easy to fix because within that program you can easily tweak the renaming. However, TheRenamer was rendered useless a few months ago when TheTVDB overhauled their system.

I’m using “Filebot” now and have asked how to do things in the forums there and the responses read like stereo instructions, with CLI code and no info on how to use that CLI… which is annoying as hell.

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FYI, the discussion at TheTVDB is at https://forums.thetvdb.com/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=51153&p=138554

Just to report:
My naming of changing just the folder name by adding the date to the folder name has worked fine for the importing of episode two that aired last night.

It just got placed in the folder named:
“Magnum P.I. (2018)\Season 01”
and Plex picked it up and added it to the new series.

The folder seems to be the key here.

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I’ve piled on and provided additional justification petitioning thetvdb to change.

There is no need to change the show title on TheTVDB itself.
All you need to do is to instruct Filebot to include the (year) into the folder and file names it creates.
See https://www.filebot.net/naming.html

Here is the string I am using:

{n} ({y})/{episode.special ? 'Specials' : 'Season '+s.pad(2)}/{n} ({y}) - {episode.special ? 's00e'+special.pad(2) : s00e00} - {t.replaceAll(/[`´‘’ʻ]/, /'/).replaceAll(/[!?.]+$/).replacePart(', Part $1')}{'.'+lang}

Assuming you process files after they are recorded and not just use Plex out of the box. But yea, that works for this show but not others since it affects what gets recorded.

I can confirm @Elijah_Baley 's method for naming this TV Show will work as such:

Magnum P.I. (2018)/Season 01/Magnum P.I. (2018) - S01E01 -

Do a Plex Dance: The Plex Dance ™

Add the show again and you should get the show information just fine. I believe for reboots or updates to TV shows like this, it would help to add the year in ( ) within the naming scheme to fetch a better result for the title you’re trying to get metadata from.

I hope this helps.

My issue is that the DVR put the wrong date in the filename, so it thinks it is the 1980’s version. I have no idea how to fix the recording to think it’s the reboot version of the show.