That is a problem, especially since TMDB does not want to add it it seems.
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oh my ! i haven’t thought of that. For me in Greece the benefit of having this on trakt is that i know the show that airs on Monday in US it will be on my calendar on Tuesday correctly as that is when i can watch.
I imagine that this will be an easy fix by setting an option for the user to offset the shows by ± day or something.
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The biggest issue i can see is bulk watching something
If i flag a whole show as watched currently, it will rightly be flagged with correct date/time
When using TMDB if i flag a whole show as watched, what time will it use, this will just screw up the viewing stats
For daily shows sometimes it’s quicker and easier to do it at the end of the week, just select watch remaining option and pick release date
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I found this answer from Justin about it. But I don’t know if the time zone will be managed with this solution.
Like you, I find this information very important and practical, I hope this solution will be taken or another.
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Off setting would be cool. I’m a cord cutter so I don’t see most shows until the next day. I’m getting around the issue by having Trakt show me the previous day on the Upcoming Schedule on the Dashboard.
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We plan to use air day and time still. I definitely think it’s needed for the calendar and useful a lot of other places too. Time zone is auto determined by the show’s country, with air day and time being relative to the show’s country and timezone.
- If a show already has the air day and time set, it will continue using that even when switched to TMDB.
- If the show doesn’t have the air day and time, it will use TVMaze to automatically get that info.
- If we still don’t have the info, Trakt support can manually add it (which then puts the show in category one and updates will start using it).
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It’s not currently checking the title and air date for exact matches. We could start doing this, but I would probably add an additional badge to indicate there are differences there. Something would fail an exact match if the spelling or punctuation was different for example. In general, the season and episode counts matching is a good indication of an episode match, even of the metadata is slightly different.
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Is it possible to implement one for shows where all data is in sync?
This way we could get a lot of shows out of the way already or are you collecting the comparison data in the background to intialize a transition of shows that are alright in bulks?
EDIT: Sorry this has become a big thread, I overread that you already answered my question… 
Agreed, a badge would be the best option.
@justin Do you think that there should be a forum category for the “Transition to TMDB”?
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If there is an entry with no TMDB ID (https://trakt.tv/shows/tagesschau) but second entry which one already uses TMDB would you delete the first one? (https://trakt.tv/shows/tagesschau-1952)?
Another point to keep an eye on:
If there is a long time series like the german news programme “Tagesschau” which starts in 1952 you have an issue with the year of participant on the “people” site.
Example: Linda Zervakis was born in 1975 and she presents the programme since 2010. But on her site (https://trakt.tv/people/linda-zervakis?sort=released,asc) a wrong year is posted. I think we will have same issue on series like “60 Minutes” or “Simpsons” (Justin Bieber for example, who was born in 1996, seven years after the first Simpsons episode)
(Sorry for my bad english)
This is a unrelated issue as we get people info from TMDB not TVDB. Also your english is good, don’t worry about it!
@justin I was going to post a reference to a post on the old forum about this but there is an 500 error when you go there.
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@arcreactor yes, I think we’ll add a new forum when we are a bit further along with the transition process. We’re still in the info gathering phase, so not ready to open it up for a lot of transition requests yet.
@vm_83 we’d have manually fix the ID and remove the duplicate, via support.
@ImpaktNY48 support.trakt.tv is the support ticket system
Not currently possible and that would likely get complicated very quickly.
@vm_83 it’s displaying the initial year for the show, not when the person was actually in it.
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Made some updates to indicate full match (green), partial match (blue), and no match (red). An episode will have a full match if the number, title, and air date match up. It will be a partial match if the number matches (title and/or air date doesn’t match). It will be no match otherwise.
This will bubble up to the season and show level. For example, if Season 1 has 10 episodes with 9 fully matching and 1 partially matching, that season will be marked as a partial match.
It might be ok for a show to have a partial match since TVDB and TMDB seem to different with multi part episodes (Part 2 vs. (2) in the title). Specials are still going to be the least likely to match up. I’m less concerned about specials, but it will be an ongoing reason for shows not fully matching.
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Looks really good! Makes it real easy to see any issues. 
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Suggestion: Remove “episode” and numbers before you compare episode titles. If episode names are “Episode 1” on tmdb and “1” or blank, or similar on tvdb I would say it is a match.
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I disagree, take The Walking Dead season 10 for instance… All TV Shows - TMDB Transition - Trakt the episode names probably should be moved over.
Update:The Walking Dead has updated episode names on TMDB so no longer a good example.
Update 2: Never mind, I misunderstood what was suggested.
Also @justin there is another edge case that you may need to look at…
It is duplicates with each pulling info from a different source.
@arcreactor Both tmdb and tvdb have proper titles. I mean that something like this should be concidered a match:
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What will happen with data that is correct on TMDB but incorrect on TVDB? For example, The Office’s Season 4 is blue. TVDB says S4E14 is “The Chair Model,” while TMDB says it is “Chair Model.”
In this case, TMDB seems to be correct. If TMDB is incorrect, we can change it, but what happens if TMDB is right?
S6E16 is similar. TMDB is correct, but in this case, TMDB lacks a “The” while TVDB incorrectly has it.
@MrMamen I see what you mean now.