It’s technically a miniseries, but I think of it as a movie, and would like to keep it in my movie library rather than my TV series library. But other than setting metadata manually or adding it myself to TheMovieDb as a movie, I don’t see a way to achieve this. Any ideas?
It’s on IMDb as a mini series: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099864/ If I search for “tt0099864” in the match search in the movie library, it doesn’t find it, presumably because it’s not a “movie”. (EDIT: Or because this actually searches TheMovieDb via an IMDB ID, and there isn’t a matching entry?)
I think tvdb/tmdb have flip flopped around between supporting ‘mini’ series as movies and vice versa.
it affects a lot of early stephen king material, it, the stand, tommyknockers, red rose, etc, all of which were originally tv based mini-series and/or multi-night movies/special features.
Only later they may have been released on dvd (or internet) as single entity, instead of the original multiple episode format.
So basically it depends on how their admins feel at any point in time, whether it will match tv or movie or both.
I have all of the Stephen King movies, some of which first aired as miniseries but are feature length films, It (1990) is among them and all of them matched as Movies no problem, until last week. I upgraded a storage device and migrated the movie folder over to it and now I can’t match the miniseries ones as movies anymore. Very annoying. I have tried matching it with the IMDB and the TVDB ID Numbers and neither are working. I hope they fix this soon, the stephen king movies that were only 2 or 3 night events should definitely be in the “Movies” section…
I’m able to reproduce the problem now. I had it matched, which I showed above, but now trying to rematch it, it does fail to find it. IMDB must have changed something on their end. I’ll see if there is anything that can be done.
Edit - Actually looks like I had it matched to TheMovieDB before, so nothing changed with IMDB. Must have been a change on TheMovieDB’s side.
I also wouldn’t be a bit surprised, if at some point, TMDB also changes to the Mini-Series thought process - 'cause they’re already doing it with other items.
Short Term - Fix Match and change to TMDB
If that fails later - Fix Match and change to the Personal Movie Agent/Hand Edit
or
Enjoy it as a Mini-Series in a TV Show Library. <—as episode 1 with another hand edit.
I have that movie/TV series in my movie library. It’s titled “Stephen King’s It” I haven’t edited the title, that’s how it matched. I’m sure at some point it will be gone from the movie library, and I’ll have to hand edit it, because it’s a movie in my mind, ripped from the DVD.
BTW, searching for it on TMBD with either title brings up the mini-series now.
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I have DVR recorded “Kiss och Gitarristen som försvann” which remains unmatched. I populate the original title (“Kiss - lifestyle, religion and enterprise”).
I search in Swedish for the Swedish title, in English for the original title and I also try the IMDB code (tt6857992) but run up dry in the manual match.
Especially being able to override any logic using the IMDB code would be very handy and I wasn’t aware it was possible. Having tried it, it also never worked for me. Please elaborate how you get it to work …
Plex cannot match “TV Movies” from IMDB. We are limited to actual “Theatrical movies”. Sometimes a few of these other types of files will leak through and Plex can match them, but in general they don’t work. Best to try matching it to TheMovieDB instead.
I had this issue, but my file was named Stephen King’s It (1990).
I removed the file/folder and then did a scan… Then I renamed both file and folder to It (1990) and added it back to my library’s folder. I did a new scan and it added it correctly to my movies.
Still having this issue. Both Plex Movies and The Movie Database seem to offer the choice of “It 1990” but then both bring back the metadata for Sergei Ovcharov’s “Oho” - so something’s screwed up in those DBs. It will have to stay in my TV folder for now.
