Yes, I keep a local copy of more or less all Doctor Who on a hard drive. No, I will not get into the particulars or ethics surrounding that. My question is only about keeping the series ordered in my Kodi home theatre setup now that apparently the show has started a new season numbering starting with the upcoming 2024 outing and, according to TMDb, also the current specials.
At the moment, the new specials (Children in need/Star beast at the time of writing) aren’t included in my library, and I suspect it’s due to incorrect naming. TMDb doesn’t provide a year of first airing for the “Nu Nu Who” show, so I can’t name the files “Doctor Who (yyyy)” as I have with the 1963 and 2005 shows.
Edit: I am specifically asking how to correctly scrape information from TMDb because the TV Database has currently not clocked that Doctor Who season numbering apparently is reset with the Disney+ streaming deal, and for that reason registers as a new show. /Edit
Any suggestions?
According to TVDB (which I use for my Plex setup), they are S00E167 and S00E162 respectively.
Which puts them in the "Doctor Who (2005)” numbering. As I replied to @JoMiran, TVDb hasn’t updated to the new season numbering that apparently has come into effect with the Disney+ streaming deal, starting with yesterday’s special.
So again, I’m actually putting more faith in TMDb than TVDb for this, as the former has actually registered that a “new” show is starting…