Can you give some example of some adult (porn) TV-shows? I noticed that IMDb now lists regular web porn content as TV-shows, but that seems not quite correct.

I can only think of that "The XXX Factor" or something, I saw it on here before somehow. I can't find it right now, but it was some sort of "original series" by a porn site, it was like a talent show, like the X factor, with amateurs, but instead of wanting to be a singer, they wanted to be pornstars.

The Sex Factor? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5765188/

Oh yeah that was it! I must have confused the title, I see that one is still in the database (although I don't know if it actually qualifies for the Adult setting, but from the look/theme of it, it would)

@lineker said:

I noticed that IMDb now lists regular web porn content as TV-shows, but that seems not quite correct.

I believe that is done due to it not really fitting any other means of categorization (if you mean things such as tt4229222), however there are other examples besides web content. As a few examples aside from The Sex Factor:

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5625066 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0354293 http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0074025

Something else I've just thought of, there are a fair number of hentai series that would certainly benefit from having this flag, as they are not family friendly material. If anyone more familiar with the subject could provide examples, I'm unfamiliar with it.

With data18 not having updated for over a month, this may be a good time to capitalize ;)

The adult flag on TV was added a couple of weeks ago.

There's no filtering on it yet, but the data can be set. Filtering should be done this week.

Hi @travisbell, apologies for reviving this thread, but it's been a while and I was wondering if any additional filtering on the adult flag is planned? I see that it has been added to the TV search endpoint, but are there any plans to add filtering to the TV Discover endpoint as well?

Hello all!

I would like to second @CatLady in asking if there are any plans for this. I'm new to the API, but just the other day I got a random pornographic film added within the first ten pages of the Discover TV endpoint... and it was being displayed on the first page of my web app! It seems that it was quickly removed and it's never happened again. For now I hope I can avoid this by explicitly sorting by popularity descending or best reviews, but it'd be nice to have the filter to be safe. Thanks and thank you for the public API!

@gg1145 Adult TV is filtered by default, that's why you haven't seen it again once it was fixed. What you saw was fairly unavoidable as the general lifecycle of content means that some items can be cached in lists before they get properly marked as adult. All of our users and moderators try to ensure that items are marked properly from the time of their creation but sometimes users don't do this and it can take a few days before someone notices and updates the flag. Unfortunately, this is a human process.

Here's an example trying to find "Boku Dake no Hentai Kanojo The Animation" (don't click if you're not ok with NSFW content), and the matching API calls to try and find it.

https://api.themoviedb.org/3/search/tv?api_key=###&query=Boku%20Dake%20no%20Hentai%20Kanojo%20The%20Animation
https://api.themoviedb.org/3/discover/tv?api_key=###&with_genres=16&first_air_date.gte=2017-08-17&first_air_date.lte=2017-08-17

If you come across items that aren't properly marked as adult, you can go to that item and update the adult status in the primary facts editor. You can also file a content report and a moderator can ensure to get that field locked as well.