Is there any solution for the following issue:
On TVDB a show is listed as a series, on TMDB as a movie.
Example:
https://www.thetvdb.com/series/hulk-vs
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I think I’ve also found another edge case, I’m not sure how widespread it is, can’t imagine it would be a massive issue.
Pokemon Chronicles (Pokémon Chronicles - Trakt.tv) has an interesting comparison.
Trakt is showing 26 episodes in the season - but the comparison page (Trakt.tv) shows 22 episodes for TMDB and TVDB - I’m assuming the comparison is a straight API compare between the two sites.
I suppose this move is one way of cleaning out duped/broken episodes! 
That’s what happens when at one time wrong episodes are added to tvdb. They get synched with Trakt. But the removal doesn’t
I see two “The Equalizer” shows.
i think this is the correct from TMDB source
https://trakt.tv/shows/the-equalizer-2021
And this seams dublicate, it has also a number prefix on the title from TVDB
https://trakt.tv/shows/the-equalizer-2021-172856
A nice button next to a show for “check for deletion” would be nice.
Also a same button for an episode, since we do not have an automatic cleanup of redundant episodes.
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Just for the record, I understand how they got there, I’ve reported many a dupe on the support site 
I was just highlighting comparisons might be 100% matches - but they might not necessarily correspond to the current Trakt data.
So any process manual or automated needs to take that into account instead of blindly relying on the comparison page (which is a really useful tool)
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Is there an exact ETA for when Trakt will completely cut off from TVDB?
This has completely messed up my media libraries that list 2 part (read double length) episodes as separate episodes. And TMDB has no interest in changing their database or rules to match most people’s libraries. I’m very unhappy about you guys switching.
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Trakt, TVDB, TMDB, IMDB, etc., etc., don’t give a crap about your media libraries
Yes, I’ll add that in this week.
Good question. I’m assuming this was released as a single movie? If so I think we’d keep that one. If the TV show is more accurate, we’d keep that entry but “lock” the data and it wouldn’t get any future updates from TVDB (or TMDB since it doesn’t exist as a TV show).
We would handle this in support. The extra episodes would need to be manually removed by us. I also noticed the air dates are quite different on this show between the 2 sources.
This should be handled via support.
TVDB has indicated their v3 API will go away at the end of March.
Which specific show are you referring to? For the most part we’ve only moved over shows that fully or partially match and haven’t been removing episodes.
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There are still 77.000 shows left to transfer. Some of these will not transfer due to the nature of the content (podcasts, YouTube channels, etc.). Once the API goes dark, will all shows automatically switch to TMDB (assuming the show has linked the TVDB ID on the external links section on TMDB)?
I also noticed the red ‘Migrate to TMDB’ button when a show has a 100% match which has made it a lot easier to transfer shows. Thank you for that!
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Hi justin, thanks for reaching out. The first show I’ve run across that has problems is season 3 of SEAL Team. It seems that the Trakt site is correct, but the data I’m receiving from the API shows the TMDB version of Season 3. The issue starts with Siege Protocol and continues for the rest of the season.
A large number of these shows (45,000+) have already ended, so in those cases the show would just stop getting updates until it is migrated to TMDB. A lot of shows will just become “locked” since the data isn’t really updating anymore. The currently airing shows are the larger focus to get migrated over. We don’t plan to auto migrate shows over.
The Trakt API returns the same data as the website, are you sure it’s the Trakt API giving you that different info? We’ll need to handle shows like this in support and determine which order makes the most sense. I plan to allow seasons to be individually locked for a show. So in this example, we might lock all the current seasons then TMDB updates would only happen for season 5 and newer.
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Apparently the issue was on my side. Thanks for helping me figure out where to look. 
I think I found a good resource for press releases. I would like to know if anyone knows if this is legit as you can even find individual episode press releases for some shows.
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it is perfectly legit
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Thanks, I was having issues finding good sources for conflicting air dates and I ran across that site.
It seems that the amount of shows on the transition site getting more instead of less. How is that possible? Or am I looking just wrong? https://trakt.tv/transition/tmdb/shows
So, while I can certainly understand the move from TVDB to TMDB, I have to say the data isn’t nearly as complete. There have been more than one occasion that a show airing this week was not up to date, which affects the quality of the calendar feed. For example, black-ish aired a new episode this week, but I couldn’t see it on trakt until the next day, despite it being in TMDB when I checked (and despite hitting “refresh data” on Black-ish to try to “force” it to update.
Tonight, there are two shows not on my calendar that have new episodes (B Positive and Call Me Kat). Both shows had data in TVDB, so being a good internet steward, I entered the data in TMDB as well and tried to hit “refresh” but they still aren’t showing up (despite multiple refreshes over a few hours). Having never had to do this in the past, how long does it take to update Trakt once the data in in TMDB?
I must say, I love Trakt, I’ve been a VIP member for 8 years, but being that I check the calendar almost daily for new episodes, seeing so many episodes not showing up is disappointing. I know it’s not the fault of the Trakt developers, but it seems like TVDB still has a more robust community of people that keep things up to date for TV shows. Hopefully that will improve.
Also, is there any concern about TMDB being owned by Tivo? They are a pretty slimy company that likes to milk everything for all that it’s worth, so I personally wouldn’t count on API access being “free” forever.
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We processed all the remaining TV shows about a week ago so they calculated the TMDB/TVDB comparison which is why the number increased a lot. Every show on Trakt has that comparison now.
I’ve noticed that on some shows as well. I’m not sure if this is related to a lack of community updates or related to official press releases that contain the new episode info. Our hope is data completeness will improve and people start getting familiar with using TMDB to manage shows. We’re also hiring a support rep and part of the job responsibilities will be helping maintain TV metadata.
No concerns that we’re aware of.
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I’d consider having a “plan b” I guess is what I’m saying. You may not have concerns TODAY, but with many apps likely choosing to move to TMDB and given the history of Tivo, it wouldn’t surprise me to see them also decide to charge for API access. (Their FAQ even states they reserve the right to charge if they want).
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