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It's like something in the new series recordings with Kodi 17 change the way the Kodi ListItem.Plot works. Or maybe it's just how the NextPVR plugin is sending stuff. Anyway, to avoid this, I was hoping I could find some way to just add an infolabel called something like SkinHelper.ListItem.TVShowPlot that wouldn't conflict with the internal Kodi stuff, but after hours of sifting through code, I can't for the life of me figure out where to do that or how. I'm hoping someone can help or point me in the right direction.

Finally answered my own question. It took a bit more digging to figure out how Skin Helper was loading all the scraper data for TV Shows and how it prioritized stuff in Kodi already. Once I did, I added three lines of code to listitem_monitory.py (in the section commented as "monitor listitem props when PVR is active")

Code:

extinfo = details.copy()
extinfo['plot'] = ''
details['ExternalPlot'] = self.get_pvr_artwork(extinfo, prefix)['plot']

This technically means get_pvr_artwork is run twice, but since everything is cached, I figured it was a very low impact activity. I haven't tried, but I think this would work for movies as well.