TV Show folder structure question

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I’ve got a semi-large library, and I’m in the process of attempting to sort my shows by station they aired on, and then the show, then the season however Plex seems to be merging shows into one. Is it possible to have Plex properly read something like:

TV/Station/Show/Season/Episode/Episode file.ext or do I need to keep it as TV/Show/Season/Episode/Episode file.ext? I checked the FAQ but it didn’t exactly specify what I was looking for.

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This is the specified format for plex (https://support.plex.tv/hc/en-us/articles/200220687-Naming-Series-Season-Based-TV-Shows):

/TV Shows  <--- With the library pointing here
   /Grey's Anatomy
      /Season 01
         Grey's Anatomy - s01e01.avi
         Grey's Anatomy - s01e02 - The First Cut is the Deepest.avi
         Grey's Anatomy - s01e03.mp4
      /Season 02
         Grey's Anatomy - s02e01.avi
         Grey's Anatomy - s02e02.mkv
         Grey's Anatomy - s02e03.m4v

With that being said, if you add your subfolder it would look similar to the following with just pointing the library at a different folder:

/TV Shows
  /Random Studio <--- Library Points here
    /Grey's Anatomy
       /Season 01
          Grey's Anatomy - s01e01.avi
          Grey's Anatomy - s01e02 - The First Cut is the Deepest.avi
          Grey's Anatomy - s01e03.mp4
  /Random Other Studio   <--- Library also points here
     /Dark Matter
       /Season 01
          Dark Matter - s01e01 - Episode One.avi

If you do your setup and point to TV Shows you are telling Plex that your studio sub folders are the actual tv show names. This is why you will need to point the TV Show library to each individual studio folder. I separate my TV Shows into sub folders so my library itself looks like this:

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3

I was afraid of that. Thanks.