Hi celestianx,

We do have an importer that runs and looks for missing episodes but that's all that it does. Once the episode has been added, it doesn't look at it ever again (it doesn't try to update anything, it's a strict create what's missing job).

Our contributors have actually been doing a pretty decent job so far with updating and maintaining TV data. In the past 30 days alone we've seen over 20,000 TV edits. It's a lot less than the movie section is getting but that number is growing with every passing month. I strongly encourage you to add any missing data you come across, it's the only way most of it will get added (by users like yourself).

The thing about our TV data is that you can't get as much as we offer anywhere else other than probably IMDb. Our data is very rich and linked across multiple resources (people, networks, companies).

Hi Travis,

Thanks for your prompt answer (as usual!). I understand your answer about data being updated/maintained/edited by the community and that is what I would have imagined. However, the two cases I had mentioned, I think they very well fit into the "import" phase or at least the "Hart of Dixie" one:

• You have an importer that looks for missing episodes: in my example, Hart of Dixie, originally had only 7 episodes while if you look on tvdb or other sources, it has 23, so it appears the importer did miss some episodes out of season 3; I think this has nothing to do about maintaining data after it was imported.
• For the "Gotham" example, it's a new show that hasn't aired yet. So obviously, it's normal it hasn't any episodes but as for the external IDs, I don't know how to update them on the website and my guess is that it's something you do in the background so we can't have much levers as users right?

About TMDB API: I fully agree and love your API. It's fast, its search engine is one of the greatest and provide a depth of data "all-in-one" that few other sites have, if not. However, I needed to understand a few things because my app is going to rely on it and if I happened to encounter an exception, I'm okay with it as in coding, we always have many many exceptions and it's hard to handle them all but if it's something I am going to find a few times on the API, I wanted to know how I could handle these cases :)