diff --git a/mythtv/bindings/python/tmdb3/tmdb3/tmdb_api.py b/mythtv/bindings/python/tmdb3/tmdb3/tmdb_api.py
index 9b97f3686e3..8200fccd7a0 100644
--- a/mythtv/bindings/python/tmdb3/tmdb3/tmdb_api.py
+++ b/mythtv/bindings/python/tmdb3/tmdb3/tmdb_api.py
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@
 def process_date(datestr):
     try:
         return datetime.date(*[int(x) for x in datestr.split('-')])
-    except TypeError:
+    except ValueError:
         import sys
         import warnings
         import traceback