When submitting a ticket, you'll want to be sure you are clear and concise on what you're looking to achieve. This will ensure that your request has the greatest chance of being fulfilled, and that it will be answered in a timely manner.

To submit a ticket, you'll need to have an osTicket account. Please see our guidance on [creating an account] for more information.

From the support home page, select Open a New Ticket from the top menu.

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Ticket Content

As mentioned above, please be as thorough as possible when submitting a ticket.

Each ticket MUST include the following:

• The URL of the title/content/record in question on TheTVDB.com
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  • Movie Sources of Truth

For example, here is an example of what a ticket should look like — in this case, the user is requesting an edit to a locked series.

Help Topic:

TV Series

Issue Summary:

S05 Our School - Move to Specials

Body:

Hi there,

Please move the episodes in S05 of Our School to be Specials. These were indexed on iPlayer as S05 episodes when released but now there are new weekly episodes that are indexed as S05 also. The episode names have been updated to reflect they are 'Summer Camp' specials.

Season 5 - https://www.thetvdb.com/series/our-school/seasons/5
iPlayer Source - https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/b06vrs3y/our-school

Cheers…