diff --git a/addons/metadata.common.imdb.com/addon.xml b/addons/metadata.common.imdb.com/addon.xml
index 4b08fd17a44b0..419ab4d6802fe 100644
--- a/addons/metadata.common.imdb.com/addon.xml
+++ b/addons/metadata.common.imdb.com/addon.xml
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?>
 <addon id="metadata.common.imdb.com"
        name="IMDB common scraper functions"
-       version="2.0.5"
+       version="2.0.6"
        provider-name="Team XBMC">
   <requires>
     <import addon="xbmc.metadata" version="1.0"/>
diff --git a/addons/metadata.common.imdb.com/changelog.txt b/addons/metadata.common.imdb.com/changelog.txt
index cd4bd77c6d9ac..43333894962fd 100644
--- a/addons/metadata.common.imdb.com/changelog.txt
+++ b/addons/metadata.common.imdb.com/changelog.txt
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+[B]2.0.6[/B]
+- changed: re-added fixchars
+
 [B]2.0.5[/B]
 - changed: move scraping of IMDb rating out to IMDb scraper library
 
diff --git a/addons/metadata.common.imdb.com/imdb.xml b/addons/metadata.common.imdb.com/imdb.xml
index 24a3a4f422ed5..dd3545a101509 100644
--- a/addons/metadata.common.imdb.com/imdb.xml
+++ b/addons/metadata.common.imdb.com/imdb.xml
@@ -81,7 +81,7 @@
 				<expression noclean="1">&lt;table class="cast_list"&gt;(.*?)&lt;/table&gt;</expression>
 			</RegExp>
 			<RegExp input="$$6" output="&lt;actor&gt;&lt;thumb&gt;\1_SX512_SY512_\2&lt;/thumb&gt;&lt;name&gt;\3&lt;/name&gt;&lt;role&gt;\4&lt;/role&gt;&lt;/actor&gt;" dest="7">
-				<expression repeat="yes" clear="yes" trim="3,4" noclean="1,2">&lt;img\n[^\n]*\n[^\n]*\n\s+src="(?:([^"]*\.)[^"]*(\.jpg))?[^&gt;]*[^"]*"[^"]*"&gt;[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*).*?&lt;td class="character"&gt;[^&gt;]*&gt;[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*)?</expression>
+				<expression repeat="yes" clear="yes" fixchars="3,4" trim="3,4" noclean="1,2">&lt;img\n[^\n]*\n[^\n]*\n\s+src="(?:([^"]*\.)[^"]*(\.jpg))?[^&gt;]*[^"]*"[^"]*"&gt;[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*).*?&lt;td class="character"&gt;[^&gt;]*&gt;[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*)?</expression>
 			</RegExp>
 			<RegExp input="$$7" output="&lt;actor&gt;&lt;thumb&gt;\1&lt;/thumb&gt;\2&lt;/actor&gt;" dest="2+">
 				<expression repeat="yes" clear="yes" noclean="1,2,3">&lt;actor&gt;&lt;thumb&gt;(?:(http.*?)|_SX[0-9]+_SY[0-9]+_)&lt;/thumb&gt;(.*?)&lt;/actor&gt;</expression>
@@ -95,7 +95,7 @@
 				<expression noclean="1">&lt;table class="cast_list"&gt;(.*?)&lt;/table&gt;</expression>
 			</RegExp>
 			<RegExp input="$$6" output="&lt;actor&gt;&lt;thumb&gt;\1_SX$INFO[imdbscale]_SY$INFO[imdbscale]_\2&lt;/thumb&gt;&lt;name&gt;\3&lt;/name&gt;&lt;role&gt;\4&lt;/role&gt;&lt;/actor&gt;" dest="7">
-				<expression repeat="yes" clear="yes" trim="3,4" noclean="1,2">&lt;img\n[^\n]*\n[^\n]*\n\s+src="(?:([^"]*\.)[^"]*(\.jpg))?[^&gt;]*[^"]*"[^"]*"&gt;[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*).*?&lt;td class="character"&gt;[^&gt;]*&gt;[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*)?</expression>
+				<expression repeat="yes" clear="yes" fixchars="3,4" trim="3,4" noclean="1,2">&lt;img\n[^\n]*\n[^\n]*\n\s+src="(?:([^"]*\.)[^"]*(\.jpg))?[^&gt;]*[^"]*"[^"]*"&gt;[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*).*?&lt;td class="character"&gt;[^&gt;]*&gt;[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*)?</expression>
 			</RegExp>
 			<RegExp input="$$7" output="&lt;actor&gt;&lt;thumb&gt;\1&lt;/thumb&gt;\2&lt;/actor&gt;" dest="2+">
 				<expression repeat="yes" clear="yes" noclean="1,2,3">&lt;actor&gt;&lt;thumb&gt;(?:(http.*?)|_SX[0-9]+_SY[0-9]+_)&lt;/thumb&gt;(.*?)&lt;/actor&gt;</expression>
@@ -109,7 +109,7 @@
 				<expression clear="yes" noclean="1">Director[s]?.*?&lt;/h4&gt;(.*?)&lt;div class</expression>
 			</RegExp>
 			<RegExp input="$$6" output="&lt;director&gt;\1&lt;/director&gt;" dest="2+">
-				<expression repeat="yes" clear="yes">&lt;a  href="/name[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;</expression>
+				<expression repeat="yes" fixchars="1" clear="yes">&lt;a  href="/name[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;</expression>
 			</RegExp>
 			<expression noclean="1" />
 		</RegExp>
@@ -120,7 +120,7 @@
 				<expression noclean="1">Writer[s]?.*?&lt;/h4&gt;(.*?)&lt;div class</expression>
 			</RegExp>
 			<RegExp input="$$6" output="&lt;credits&gt;\1&lt;/credits&gt;" dest="2+">
-				<expression repeat="yes">&lt;a  href="/name[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;</expression>
+				<expression repeat="yes" fixchars="1">&lt;a  href="/name[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;</expression>
 			</RegExp>
 			<expression noclean="1" />
 		</RegExp>
@@ -131,7 +131,7 @@
 				<expression noclean="1">&lt;table class="cast"&gt;(.*?)&lt;/table&gt;</expression>
 			</RegExp>
 			<RegExp input="$$6" output="&lt;actor&gt;&lt;thumb&gt;\1_SX512_SY512_\2&lt;/thumb&gt;&lt;name&gt;\3&lt;/name&gt;&lt;role&gt;\5&lt;/role&gt;&lt;/actor&gt;" dest="7">
-				<expression repeat="yes" clear="yes" trim="3,5" noclean="1,2">&lt;img src="(?:([^"]*\.)[^"]*(\.jpg))?[^&gt;]*[^"]*"nm"&gt;&lt;a href="[^"]*[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;[^"]*"ddd"&gt;([^&lt;]&lt;)?[^"]*"char"&gt;(.*?)&lt;/td&gt;</expression>
+				<expression repeat="yes" clear="yes" fixchars="3,5" trim="3,5" noclean="1,2">&lt;img src="(?:([^"]*\.)[^"]*(\.jpg))?[^&gt;]*[^"]*"nm"&gt;&lt;a href="[^"]*[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;[^"]*"ddd"&gt;([^&lt;]&lt;)?[^"]*"char"&gt;(.*?)&lt;/td&gt;</expression>
 			</RegExp>
 			<RegExp input="$$7" output="&lt;actor&gt;&lt;thumb&gt;\1&lt;/thumb&gt;\2&lt;/actor&gt;" dest="2+">
 				<expression repeat="yes" clear="yes" noclean="1,2,3">&lt;actor&gt;&lt;thumb&gt;(?:(http.*?)|_SX[0-9]+_SY[0-9]+_)&lt;/thumb&gt;(.*?)&lt;/actor&gt;</expression>
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
 				<expression noclean="1">&lt;table class="cast"&gt;(.*?)&lt;/table&gt;</expression>
 			</RegExp>
 			<RegExp input="$$6" output="&lt;actor&gt;&lt;thumb&gt;\1_SX$INFO[imdbscale]_SY$INFO[imdbscale]_\2&lt;/thumb&gt;&lt;name&gt;\3&lt;/name&gt;&lt;role&gt;\5&lt;/role&gt;&lt;/actor&gt;" dest="7">
-				<expression repeat="yes" clear="yes" trim="3,5" noclean="1,2">&lt;img src="(?:([^"]*\.)[^"]*(\.jpg))?[^&gt;]*[^"]*"nm"&gt;&lt;a href="[^"]*[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;[^"]*"ddd"&gt;([^&lt;]&lt;)?[^"]*"char"&gt;(.*?)&lt;/td&gt;</expression>
+				<expression repeat="yes" clear="yes" fixchars="3,5" trim="3,5" noclean="1,2">&lt;img src="(?:([^"]*\.)[^"]*(\.jpg))?[^&gt;]*[^"]*"nm"&gt;&lt;a href="[^"]*[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;[^"]*"ddd"&gt;([^&lt;]&lt;)?[^"]*"char"&gt;(.*?)&lt;/td&gt;</expression>
 			</RegExp>
 			<RegExp input="$$7" output="&lt;actor&gt;&lt;thumb&gt;\1&lt;/thumb&gt;\2&lt;/actor&gt;" dest="2+">
 				<expression repeat="yes" clear="yes" noclean="1,2,3">&lt;actor&gt;&lt;thumb&gt;(?:(http.*?)|_SX[0-9]+_SY[0-9]+_)&lt;/thumb&gt;(.*?)&lt;/actor&gt;</expression>
@@ -159,7 +159,7 @@
 				<expression clear="yes" noclean="1">Director[s]?:&lt;/h5&gt;[^&gt;]*&gt;(.*?)&lt;/div</expression>
 			</RegExp>
 			<RegExp input="$$6" output="&lt;director&gt;\1&lt;/director&gt;" dest="2+">
-				<expression repeat="yes" clear="yes">&lt;a href="/name/[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;</expression>
+				<expression repeat="yes" fixchars="1" clear="yes">&lt;a href="/name/[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;</expression>
 			</RegExp>
 			<expression noclean="1" />
 		</RegExp>
@@ -170,7 +170,7 @@
 				<expression noclean="1">Writing credits(.*?)name="</expression>
 			</RegExp>
 			<RegExp input="$$6" output="&lt;credits&gt;\1&lt;/credits&gt;" dest="2+">
-				<expression repeat="yes">&lt;a href="/name/[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;</expression>
+				<expression repeat="yes" fixchars="1">&lt;a href="/name/[^&gt;]*&gt;([^&lt;]*)&lt;</expression>
 			</RegExp>
 			<expression noclean="1" />
 		</RegExp>