# Matching TV Movies

**URL:** <https://forums.plex.tv/t/matching-tv-movies/514532>\
**Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\
**Tags:** server-windows\
**Created:** [December 25, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/matching-tv-movies/514532 "2019-12-25T22:48:29Z")\
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**Author:** ![KnightCat83](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/knightcat83/32/88573_2.png) [@KnightCat83](https://forums.plex.tv/u/KnightCat83)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2019, 10:48pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/matching-tv-movies/514532/1 "2019-12-25T22:48:29Z")

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It appears that TMDB is no longer allowing TV Movies in the database, so now all of the TV Movies aren’t able to be matched in a Movie Library. Is the only option to move them into a TV Show Library? It’s odd because just last night Plex helpfully provided me with a recommended category of TV Movies in my Movies Library but, how can I have that if the metadata sources won’t match TV Movies anymore?

Is there an easy fix out there that anyone has already found?

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**Author:** ![darcilicious](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/darcilicious/32/3047_2.png) [@darcilicious](https://forums.plex.tv/u/darcilicious)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2019, 11:44pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/matching-tv-movies/514532/2 "2019-12-25T23:44:50Z")

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> [@KnightCat83](#):
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> It appears that TMDB is no longer allowing TV Movies in the database

Not sure how you came to that conclusion — I just manually matched the following new TV movie the other day:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/f/d/fdd1821e8573e077fdd98d811b0cf90e54be2dda.jpeg)

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**Author:** ![JuiceWSA](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/juicewsa/32/12253_2.png) [@JuiceWSA](https://forums.plex.tv/u/JuiceWSA)\
**Post date:** [December 26, 2019, 12:28am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/matching-tv-movies/514532/3 "2019-12-26T00:28:02Z")

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TMDB is ‘selectively’ disallowing TV Movies. I asked them why they had deleted:  
Family Guy Presents Blue Harvest (2007)  
and I was told it was never a ‘Proper’ Movie - only a TV Show Episode - and me standing like an idiot holding in my hand the DVD that states it’s:  
Family Guy Presents Blue Harvest (2007)…  
(Well, I never…)

Yea, I had to Fix Match and Change the Agent to Personal Media - then hand edit an item I had added to TMDB… TWICE!  
And I’m still not over it… will probably never get over it…

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**Author:** ![KnightCat83](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/knightcat83/32/88573_2.png) [@KnightCat83](https://forums.plex.tv/u/KnightCat83)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 11:31pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/matching-tv-movies/514532/4 "2019-12-27T23:31:36Z")

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For Example:  
Star Trek Renegades IMDB: [https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2621446/](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2621446/)

Only shows as a TV Show on TMDB.  
 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/5/c/5cff28d899481f4ee2dfd0936617222038f293e3.png)

It may be argued that the movie was originally a Miniseries, which is also not allowed in the Movies section of TMDB.

![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/6/f/6f1b8b24066725e21ec449f255f6c4185d98896b.png)

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**Author:** ![darcilicious](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/darcilicious/32/3047_2.png) [@darcilicious](https://forums.plex.tv/u/darcilicious)\
**Post date:** [December 27, 2019, 11:51pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/matching-tv-movies/514532/5 "2019-12-27T23:51:37Z")

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> [@KnightCat83](#):
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> Star Trek Renegades IMDB: [Star Trek: Renegades (TV Series 2015–2017) - IMDb](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2621446/)

Which says:

> 1h 28min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi | TV Series (2015– )  
> Episode Guide: 2 episodes

So also not a movie according to IMDB?

And shows up as a series here: [Star Trek: Renegades - TheTVDB.com](https://thetvdb.com/series/Star-Trek-Renegades)

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**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2020, 11:51pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/matching-tv-movies/514532/6 "2020-03-26T23:51:46Z")

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