Matching problems on shows with colon in the name

[Goose]

@mike808

Could it be that you searched TheTVDB with the “special characters removed” (no colon) title (or original filename title) and not the actual title (with colon) from the metadata?

I replicated your setup and took the title from the metadata with the colon.

Your issue isn’t to do with special characters, your metadata doesn’t have enough information to create a match. See my comment above:

@Goose

it’s that fact that it’s a series with just an title and nothing else to match, no subtitle or air date or episode number etc

You need two pieces of information to make a match.

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