[HeresJohnny]

FYI: Since Kodi v18 now uses The Movie Database for scraping TV shows by default, MySQL/MariaDB users will have issues scraping certain TV shows that have a lot of fanart links as discussed here. As suggested in that thread, increasing the size of the c06 column in the tvshow table is one way to fix the issue.

Thanks for the hint, I was not aware of this issue.

I also don't use TheMovieDB for TV show scraping because after comparing the results with TheTVDB for some months I find it inferior in content. I believe KODI has chosen TMDB as default because the team was fed up with the technical issues that are associated with TheTVDB and its API migration and led to increased support. However, TVDB is essential for me, as for example it handles special episodes which TMDB cannot. But lets not get into comparing both scrapers further in this thread, please.