Querying using IMDB on some titles yields no results, mean while TMDB does

While querying the API using IMDB, since my project leverages queries with it, i noticed a title that produces no results. It does produce with TMDB id. The results returns shows the correct imdb ID… so not sure why it produces no results.

Here are my tests:

curl -H “Content-Type: application/json”
-H “trakt-api-key: MY_CLIENT_ID”
-H “trakt-api-version: 2”
https://api.trakt.tv/search/imdb/tt4991910?extended=full&type=show
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curl -H “Content-Type: application/json”
-H “trakt-api-key: MY_CLIENT_ID”
-H “trakt-api-version: 2”
https://api.trakt.tv/search/tmdb/67106?extended=full&type=show
[{“type”:“show”,“score”:1000,“show”:{“title”:“The Deep”,“year”:2015,“ids”:{“trakt”:103892,“slug”:“the-deep-2015”,“tvdb”:304075,“imdb”:“tt4991910”,“tmdb”:67106,“tvrage”:null},“tagline”:“The sea is deep and full of secrets”,“overview”:“The adventures of the Nekton family, a family of daring underwater explorers who live aboard a state-of-the-art submarine, The Aronnax, and explore uncharted areas of the earth’s oceans to unravel the mysteries of the deep.”,“first_aired”:“2015-12-01T05:15:00.000Z”,“airs”:{“day”:“Wednesday”,“time”:“16:15”,“timezone”:“Australia/Lord_Howe”},“runtime”:21,“certification”:“TV-Y”,“network”:“7TWO”,“country”:“au”,“trailer”:“https://youtube.com/watch?v=Y8h005Bljlc",“homepage”:“http://www.exploringthedeep.com/”,“status”:"returning series”,“rating”:7.35556,“votes”:45,“comment_count”:0,“updated_at”:“2025-05-21T14:02:55.000Z”,“language”:“en”,“languages”:[“en”],“available_translations”:[“cs”,“da”,“de”,“el”,“en”,“es”,“fi”,“fr”,“hu”,“it”,“ko”,“nl”,“no”,“pl”,“pt”,“ro”,“sv”,“zh”],“genres”:[“animation”,“family”,“action”,“adventure”,“children”],“aired_episodes”:65,“original_title”:“The Deep”}}]

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I pushed a potential fix for this. Cached results might take up to 8 hours to expire.

Looks like the array came back proper. I saw other content being displayed properly as well. Thanks