Polizeiruf 110 Title Hi-jack

@Peter_pbn Thank you!

Good, finally it happened before more false claims being made in this thread to solve a simple display title issue :)

@eboy

That is definitely a different show if it is being shown on PBS.  Polizeiruf 110 is only shown on MHZ Choice in the U.S. and Canada.  I doubt if "Silent Hunt" will be in German with English subtitles like Polizeiruf 110.

Changing "Silent Hunt" to "alternative title" sounds right.

@forthehorde

From eboy's message, since Silent Hunt was shown on PBS, it is a totally different show.  

Different show? Please explain? The question here is not to remove the (alternate) title ”Silent Hunt”. It just should be corrected to ”alternate title” in the US.

I would also add the info about this to ”Alternate versions” section. If some selected episodes of ”Polizeiruf 110” are ”packaged” to a series called ”Silent Hunt”.

( From the guide: ”There can only be one imdb display title for the same country and language. The others must use alternative title or more specific attributes.” )

Your link for Silent Hunt was for PBS's Masterpiece series.  I have never known  PBS to show a program that was shot in a language other than English.  Polizeiruf 110 is a totally German show done by the stations that make up, IIRC, the ARD network.  The actors all speak in German, the show is shown in Germany, and it is only seen in the U.S. and Canada on the MHz Choice streaming channel.  All of the shows on MHz Choice are filmed in the language of the country of origin.  They have shows from Germany, France, Italy, etc, etc.  I am not aware of any of the programs that they offer on MHz Choice being shown on PBS.

Well, it seems to be in Amazon Prime (US):

https://www.amazon.com/Silent-Hunt-Season-1/dp/B093K54SNR

MHz Choice has exclusive rights to all the programs that they show in the U.S. and Canada.  You will not find shows like Tatort, Wilsberg, Anti-Mafia Squad, or Bukow and König (part of the Polizeiruf 110 family of detective teams) anywhere else.

The point was that someone from the US (and with Prime) could probably actually check the series, since all this feels like speculation.

Streaming has pretty much changed all the rules how the series are aired, and ”international” series are sold to the US streaming channels all the time. And sometimes they’re ”pachaged” differently (sometimes with different ”seasons” and episodes than originally).

Silent Hunt is a totally different series.  I checked your PBS link and that was for a streaming service where they will now bring in foreign language programs.  I looked at the link for the first episode listed.  It is from 2013.  I checked the English Wikipedia page for Polizeiruf 110.  It is here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polizeiruf_110

There is no mention of a detective named Hanns von Meuffels.  Then I went to the official Polizeiruf 110 website and looked up the different detective teams of the 50 years of the series so far.  The list is broken up into current teams and previous teams.  That list can be found here:

https://www.daserste.de/unterhaltung/krimi/polizeiruf-110/ermittler/index.html

The Tab name for the detectives in German is Die Ermittler.  Once again, there is NO Hanns von Meuffels.  This tells me, like I already knew, that Silent Hunt and Polizeiruf 110 are TWO SEPARATE SERIES.  Again I ask, am I just chasing my tail or is somebody in management at IMDB going to get off their butts and fix this damn thing?

Von Meuffels is mentioned in the official site's list of former detectives and in the list of cases.

In other words, it would be a mistake for IMDb to rely on your misguided assertions.

I went back over things and finally saw where Van Meuffels has been on Polizeiruf 110, HOWEVER, do you rename the show for just the one detective?  The character of Van Meuffels was seen in only 15 episodes, Bukow and König have been in 23!  The answer of course is NO!  Do you call it an alternative US title?  Again, NO!  The show has had over 350 episodes so neither of the two sets of detectives I mentioned have been seen in even 10% of the episodes.  Leave the title as it is, Polizeiruf 110.  If the powers that be want to have it as Silent Hunt, then they should list it as a separate program, and leave Polizeiruf 110 alone.  When I want to look up something about a Bukow and König episode, I look first for Charly Hübner (Bukow) and then Polizeiruf 110 and then the name of the episode.  When I did that last Saturday for Anneka Kim Sarnau after seeing her in an episode of Tatort, Polizeiruf 110 was not listed.  I then noticed that her character of Katrin König was listed under Silent Hunt.  This is confusing to people and especially since somebody did it for a detective that only appears in 15 episodes.  Who the hell changed it to Silent Hunt from Polizeiruf 110, I don't know but I am starting to get some ideas that I will keep to myself.

You made things look more complicated than it actually is. I don't know why you went on to claim "Van Meuffels" was not on series when I literally linked imdb pages of the episodes where he was featured. It was a simple Alternate Title issue like said which looks fixed thanks to Peter.

@e8n2 https://www.imdb.com/preferences/general -> Title display country/region -> Select 'Original" or "Germany" -> Save -> Enjoy.

Took a little bit but that seemed to work.  Don't know why I had to make the change though because it was working normally for years up until just a couple of weeks ago.  Thanks for your help.