Use tv series scanner on movie library

I find very disappointing that once selected a media scanner (eg TMDB movie) in a library settings seems that there isn’t the possibility to override this choice for a single file metadata association when using manual search regardless there is a drop-down selector for the scanner inside the manual search options that sadly contains only the library scanner settings and no other options.

There are some cases like this one where a title was firstly released as TV series and later come as single movie also, but in this cases on TMDB moderators refuses to insert this title on both tv series and movies categories.
They says that as the title was originally released as TV series it has to be stored only on that category.
If you have the movie version and insert this file in your Plex movie folder this is resulting in a movie that cannot be associated to it’s metadata.

If the file contains a span of more than ONE episode, then the following must be used in the file name, and yes, it is agreed like the mods have said, this media does indeed belong as a televised broadcast film and would properly be stored under your TV Shows library in Plex.

TV Shows / Hitler_The Rise of Evil / Hitler_The Rise of Evil - S01E01-E02.mp4

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