# Plex confusing two shows as same show **URL:** \ **Category:** General Discussions\ **Created:** [January 9, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-confusing-two-shows-as-same-show/865749 "2024-01-09T19:23:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 4\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![ryanvox](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f6c823/32.png) [@ryanvox](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ryanvox)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 7:23pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-confusing-two-shows-as-same-show/865749/1 "2024-01-09T19:23:36Z")
I have two shows that are very close in name. Mountain Men and Mountain Men: Alaska. Mountain Men was the first show then there was a spinoff to Mountain Men : Alaska. I have a separate folder structure for the Alaska spinoff, but Plex thinks the shows are the same and is putting the episodes in the Mountain Men episode list instead of creating a new Mountain Men: Alaska. How do i fix this to get both shows to separately show up in Plex? ---
**Author:** ![grhiner](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/grhiner/32/237004_2.png) [@grhiner](https://forums.plex.tv/u/grhiner)\ **Post date:** [January 9, 2024, 7:33pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-confusing-two-shows-as-same-show/865749/2 "2024-01-09T19:33:31Z")
Use the examples in [https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/](https://support.plex.tv/articles/naming-and-organizing-your-tv-show-files/) . Add the date into the folder and file names as shown. Do the [plex dance](https://forums.plex.tv/t/the-plex-dance/197064) to correct the meta data (although a simple rescan of the library might work. ---
**Author:** ![Divideby0](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/74df32/32.png) [@Divideby0](https://forums.plex.tv/u/Divideby0)\ **Post date:** [January 10, 2024, 1:14am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-confusing-two-shows-as-same-show/865749/3 "2024-01-10T01:14:51Z")
What grhiner said. I’d like to stress that adding the year a show came out originally (see TVDB/TMDB for the year) will almost always fix any issue with similar-looking names. I suspect Plex uses the year to narrow down searching for a show. I once had the wrong decade for one show (_Police Academy: The Animated Series (1988)_), I had wrongly entered 1998), and despite the name being pretty much exact, Plex matched it against a DIFFERENTLY named show closer to the date (_Police Academy: The Series (1997)_). Since _Mountain Men (2012)_ and _Mountain Men Alaska (2023)_ are far enough apart date-wise, you won’t need to mess around with adding the show’s id in the title or doing a manual match. Simply adding the year should work. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/plex/original/3X/2/a/2acb9765406f63293d357b4ec509ec39aa28f2ad.png) [@system](https://forums.plex.tv/u/system)\ **Post date:** [April 9, 2024, 1:15am UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/plex-confusing-two-shows-as-same-show/865749/4 "2024-04-09T01:15:24Z")
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