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Originally created by @rohtua on GitHub (Jan 24, 2026).
Description of the bug
After upgrade to 10.11.6 I added some new episodes to a TV Show (Doctor Who) but after scanning the library the episodes didn't appear. The special features did but not the episodes themselves.
I rescanned the library, replaced all metadata, searched for missing metadate multiple times, I then tried removing the folder from the library and scanning it in as fresh. Only now it won't show any of the episodes including those which were previously in the library without issue.
In the logs all I can see is the below appearing in relation to the episodes.
I've then tried renaming the file e.g. Doctor Who S12E12 > Doctor Who - S12E12, renaming the parent folder from Doctor Who (1963) to Doctor Who (1963 [tvdbid-****] then back again. I've deleted all of the NFO files and let it recreate them (which is does do. Sometimes they just been very basic with the episode's file name and date added details. Other times it has actually found the full episode details and populated it correctly.
It just won't show in the UI at all. When I click into the series I get the below error in the logs.
This is possibly happening with other shows in my library as, as I've gone on rescanning the library a few episodes from other shows have popped up with the same error about invalid seasonID but I haven't looked at those to see whether they've disappeared from view or not.
Can't work out what else I could try? Very odd espcially as the special features import just fine and it does find the correct episode info to create the NFO (despite the seasonID error) it just won't show in the UI at all. Even the episodes that were previously showing in the library are gone now.
Reproduction steps
Add episodes to TV show folder
Scan the library and the episodes should appear
What is the current bug behavior?
None of the episodes appear.
What is the expected correct behavior?
Episodes should appear.
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10.11.6
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@rohtua commented on GitHub (Jan 24, 2026):
Some additional logs, I've just added some more new episodes to the same show. In the logs I'm seeing the below message.
However in the folder the NFO files appear to be created correctly with the show descriptions being pulled down, despite the episodes not being queued during the scan.
Example S2E15
@kestouf commented on GitHub (Jan 27, 2026):
Hello,
I have the same problem.
I added "The Old Man" and "Bridgerton", but Jellyfin 10.11.6 doesn't detect the new series.
Ubuntu 22.04.5 LTS / Jellyfin 10.11.6
@marshall-mcmullen commented on GitHub (Jan 27, 2026):
I hit the same issue last night after upgrading and then adding a new show.
@kestouf commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2026):
Just a quick note: the new films are well received, but the new TV shows aren't.
@FrankJeager commented on GitHub (Jan 28, 2026):
I've encountered a similar problem on 10.11.6.
After adding 2 new shows, the episodes were not showing.
I had to replace all metadata for the 2 shows for the episodes to appear.
The logs are similar to OPs.
@stereosoul commented on GitHub (Jan 30, 2026):
yep, i got this issue too
but something different- My Movie and TVShows library works fine, and my Anime library cant recognize new title and i cant delete old one on 10.11.6
@toryacode commented on GitHub (Jan 31, 2026):
so I've somehow managed to fix this issue by simply sticking to the naming scheme of Jellyfin - I had to rename the season directory to "Season 01" instead of "Season 1" and remove everything in the file names except for show name, sxxexx and title and it sort of worked.. however still have the same issue with another show and it seems more and more like a bug
@FrankJeager commented on GitHub (Jan 31, 2026):
When I add new shows tonight these errors appear in the log for each episode :
Edit :
Well it seems these errors are not related to this issue in particular. I had these errors in the log for the last 5 hours every 2 minutes... This is something else.
@rohtua commented on GitHub (Feb 3, 2026):
I've done some more experimenting and was able to get the series to display correctly initially by creating a new library and adding that series to that library. After scanning it there the series appeared (including all the new episodes) and worked as expected. Even if disabled the new library the series would continue to display properly and would only revert back to not displaying if I deleted the additional library.
My next test was to recreate my entire TV Shows library and see if the issue was just library related. So I did that and so far so good the new library worked as expected. Up until I tried adding another new series (The Sarah Jane Adventures) and I found the same issue again The show displayed in the list but clicking into it just gave me the overview information. I couldn't see the series or episodes.
After rescanning all libraries/replacing metadata (essentially all the same steps followed previously) and finding the same issue, i recreated the library again this brought all the shows in and displayed as expected.
Some other details of note when recreating the library. The original library was called TV Shows, the first new one was called TV Shows - Test, when I found that a new library appeared to fix the issue and removed the old library I renamed the new library to TV Shows only to find that after a couple of library syncs the series stopped displaying again. So each library has had to have a unique name even after the original library has been removed for the series to import/display correctly.