'This searches TheTVDB.com for the series name
and returns the result list'

def search(self, series):

    series = series.encode('utf-8')
    log().debug(('Searching    for    show    %s' % series))
    self.config['params_getSeries']['seriesname'] = series
    results = self._getetsrc(self.config['url_getSeries'], self.config['params_getSeries'])
    if (not results):
        return
    return results.values()[0]
