# TV Show missing metadata **URL:** \ **Category:** Metadata & Adding Files\ **Tags:** server-synology\ **Created:** [January 15, 2021, 7:47pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tv-show-missing-metadata/678641 "2021-01-15T19:47:48Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 6
**Author:** ![ChuckPa](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/plex/user_avatar/forums.plex.tv/chuckpa/32/79710_2.png) [@ChuckPa](https://forums.plex.tv/u/ChuckPa)\ **Post date:** [January 15, 2021, 9:28pm UTC](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tv-show-missing-metadata/678641/6 "2021-01-15T21:28:13Z")
Folks, I got a response on what’s happening. It’s a bunch of changes at TheTVDB which are causing us grief. 1. They renamed a bunch of shows. For some, they added the year while removing it for others. 2. They’ve started bringing their new API live – which won’t be complete for some time AFAIK. I’m going to pursue this further but there are a few options. 1. Using the new `Plex TV Series` agent works best 2. Using the existing agent, adding the ID number to “manual match” resolves the name. (P.I.T.A\*\*\*\*) Best recommendation is to use the new scanner in Forum Preview now. > [@New Plex Media Server TV show/series scanner and agent preview](https://forums.plex.tv/t/new-plex-media-server-tv-show-series-scanner-and-agent-preview/665778): > > What is it and what’s new? A few months ago we upgraded our movie scanning and matching inside PMS leveraging our own cloud metadata provider. Since then we’ve been working on giving TV shows/series the same treatment, and while there are still a few important things we still need to address, the core functionality is there and we would like to get it into more hands so we have the opportunity to test things out a wider variety of setups. WARNING: Ensure you have a database backup before proce… --- _[View the full topic](https://forums.plex.tv/t/tv-show-missing-metadata/678641)._