Usually because most main actors are scraped with the Series, and guest actors are with the episodes.
Also, IMDB actors may be permanently broken due to the way IMDb is developing their web pages.
I am looking into this but it does not look to be fixable.
Probably why Kodi moved away from using IMDb for scraping from.
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How is it possible not to scrape the series actors? I only want to scrape the episode actors. My TV Actor Source is IMDB
Usually because most main actors are scraped with the Series, and guest actors are with the episodes.
Also, IMDB actors may be permanently broken due to the way IMDb is developing their web pages.
I am looking into this but it does not look to be fixable.
Probably why Kodi moved away from using IMDb for scraping from.
I have today fixed again IMDb actor scraping. Will be in the next release out hopefully later this week.
But, I did note most series actors are also listed under the episode actors on IMDb.
New release MC 3.768b out now.