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TV preview access
posted by Travis BellSTAFFMOD on October 4, 2013 at 12:47 PM
TV has been brought out of the private preview and is now available for everyone to see.
Please read the information below.
Please understand that this is indeed a preview. While there was plenty I could test while I was developing this feature on TMDb, being stuck in a vacuum like that can only expose so many things. If you find a bug please report it on this thread.
What I would like you guys to do is search for your favourite shows and look through the data that was imported. We're still importing data in the background so not all of your favourite shows will be here yet. This import is expected to take a few more days still (as of October 10, 2013). Please do not report missing shows until I have said the import is done.
When you're looking through things, there's one primary thing I would like you to keep an eye out for and that is, shows that should clearly have a season or more but don't. There was a small issue that seems to have affected a percentage of shows (I think around 2%) where their seasons were not imported. Please report those below.
What can you help with?
The data that was imported is real world editable data. If you see an error, fix it. This is the point of giving you guys access. With more of you trying to edit different things we'll discover the bugs and issues faster. There's a list of known issues below.
Known Issues / Pending Features
- LH-545 - Series/season/episode image upload dialogs don't show the right content
Closed Issues
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LH-568- Add the ability to add new TV shows -
LH-546- Write TV documentation -
LH-542- Credits are not yet sortable -
LH-543- TV credits do not yet show up on person pages -
LH-544- Favourite/watch list items are not viewable within your account -
LH-548- Seasons without a season number are not deletable -
LH-549- Season release dates aren't always saving -
LH-550- Season names are being saved lowercase -
LH-551- Adding a new cast member with the "add to every season" checked doesn't add them -
LH-555- Create a page to view a persons TV credits from a series page -
LH-554- Fix the ability to add episodes, improve cast callbacks -
LH-556- Restore the ability to add new seasons -
LH-559- Guest star character names are not editable -
LH-558- Show TV credits in the person search drop downs and known for credits in TV cast and crew pages -
LH-579- Allow the creation of new people via the TV edit dialogs
Import Status
The initial import of data for all 60,522 shows is complete.
Reply by dictator
on October 11, 2013 at 1:23 PM
I tested searching for my favorite tvshows and did not find any errors yet, keep up the good work :)
Reply by dmishe
on October 11, 2013 at 2:09 PM
I would like access, thanks.
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 11, 2013 at 3:08 PM
mikinho and dmishe, done.
Reply by dmishe
on October 11, 2013 at 3:51 PM
Hey Travis, I must be doing something wrong, I go to tv section on the website and it shows me the placeholder, I don't have access to TV data.
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 11, 2013 at 4:32 PM
The placeholder won't change. Searching for a show, or trying to access one should work though.
Reply by lineker
on October 11, 2013 at 5:05 PM
I'm not sure how detailed feedback you want, but for Teletubbies the covers for season 2, 3, 7, 9, 10 and 11 were wrong. Also, season 11 is not there when you click it. Maybe not imported yet?
Disclaimer: I only checked Teletubbies because I was deleting some entries from the movie section. ;)
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 11, 2013 at 5:22 PM
Any image issue you can just go ahead and fix manually, those won't be fixed by the importer. Some will be wrongly associated, just delete them if that's the case.
I'll look into season 11. Thanks.
Sure, that's why… ;)
Reply by lineker
on October 11, 2013 at 5:33 PM
OK, good to know. All this is very impressive, btw!
Another small issue. What about actors listed as appearing in, for example, season one, when they first appear in a later season? Should that be fixed now or can it wait for later?
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 11, 2013 at 5:43 PM
Yup, they can certainly be fixed now. For series that seem to have "complete enough" data, there won't be any more importing done.
I'm in the middle of writing up some documentation for all of this but it's a lot of stuff!
One thing I'll mention to keep an eye out for that can save you a lot of time for actors that should be part of every season but might only appear in an earlier season, if you head down and find their entry in an earlier season, you can just click to edit them and then select "Add to every season". That will sync that credit up across every season. Super simple.
Reply by DivMaster
on October 11, 2013 at 7:15 PM
Can i try the tv api please :) Thank you.
Reply by tmdb77316999
on October 12, 2013 at 1:06 AM
Hi,
like it so far. Just a question about the Air date in a Translated surface like german. Noticed it is the original air date from the USA, are we changing it under the translations to the date when it was first aired in german for instance or relates this field always to the original date???
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 12, 2013 at 1:31 AM
Hi Mec!as,
So far, you can only edit the "original air date". Nothing country specific. There will be at some point a country area where you can enter (most likely) the broadcast network and original air date for a particular country.
Reply by tmdb77316999
on October 12, 2013 at 1:40 AM
Perfect thank you. This should be mentioned somewhere, I guess it will get translated from users because it is next to the episode description in the specific language. The first one is changing it from US to GER and the next one to French. There might be at the end quite a inconsistency in the Air dates.
Reply by sp1ti
on October 12, 2013 at 10:29 AM
I would love to have a look at the TV section :)!
Do you intend it to be an alternative to TVDB? Do we need another TV database or is it based on their DB anyways?
Reply by Travis Bell
on October 12, 2013 at 10:35 AM
sp1ti, I've given you access.
To answer your question about data, the data is not from TVDb but most of the images are. We've got our eyes on something a little bigger than "just another" TV database. We're in the process of building a complete platform and there's no way to build it without TV.