TMDB has some really stupid policies and limitations that make their release dates unreliable.
This has happened twice to me this month with Peripheral (off by 1 day because they don’t track time/timezone) and His Dark Materials (no schedule at all because they refuse to recognize HBO release date claiming it’s a BBC show despite BBC not having a schedule yet).
In light of this I think it would be very useful if Trakt supported date overrides with saner policy.
For cases that are one day off because of the timezone, you can just report the item and we’ll add the timezone and fix it. (Please inform the correct ones in the report)
As for His Dark Materials it is their rule that the dates must be from the official channel, not the streaming channel. There is still a few weeks before the HBO release, so in the end, BBC might just air them on the same dates and it will not be a problem. If they don’t do it by them, then you can report the item and we can see if we think it is correct to change it.
Thanks, this is slightly more pragmatic than TMDB however still makes me question the value of using (actually, paying for) Trakt. All the friction and manual actions required at some point make this a less attractive proposition than simply adding a recurring event to calendar.
Also any friction means people are less likely to contribute (for example to fix data).
I’m rather annoyed right now because I just started using Trakt recently for real and half of the shows I want to track are “problematic” like that. Hopefully this is just some bad luck and doesn’t happen too often.
That’s what i have always Said tmdb sucks.
‘His Dark Materials’ is streaming on HBOMax and the BBC dates are being used.
Because it is a BBC One show being released earlier on HBO Max. It is a TV show, so the dates must be the ones it aired in it’s original channel.
Nobody outside UK cares
And if we open an exception in this case, we’ll need to open for others too. TMDB has their guidelines and they created them to keep things organized.
I think the point is the current model does not serve needs of many users and should be changed.
Adding per country release dates will make everybody happy and doesn’t sound particularly challenging.
If TMDB adds support for multiple release dates, we’ll start using them on Trakt.