diff --git a/.github/.wordlist.txt b/.github/.wordlist.txt
index 0d3b54d5..28ff4428 100644
--- a/.github/.wordlist.txt
+++ b/.github/.wordlist.txt
@@ -220,6 +220,7 @@ OSX
 ozzy
 Palme
 pathing
+pathvalidate
 PCM
 PersistentVolumeClaim
 pgid
diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index 91025cde..76e3abea 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,10 +1,11 @@
 # Requirements Update (requirements will need to be reinstalled)
 Added tenacity requirement at 9.0.0
 Update lxml requirement to 5.3.0
+Update pathvalidate requirement to 3.2.1
 Update pillow requirement to 10.4.0
 Update PlexAPI requirement to 4.15.16
 Update psutil requirement to 6.0.0
-Update setuptools requirement to 73.0.1
+Update setuptools requirement to 74.0.0
 
 # Removed Features
 
diff --git a/VERSION b/VERSION
index b0bf5af9..4b1e4da1 100644
--- a/VERSION
+++ b/VERSION
@@ -1 +1 @@
-2.0.2-build35
+2.0.2-build36
diff --git a/modules/config.py b/modules/config.py
index ada7e14a..09dac1cd 100644
--- a/modules/config.py
+++ b/modules/config.py
@@ -327,7 +327,7 @@ class ConfigFile:
 
         def check_next(next_data):
             if isinstance(next_data, dict):
-                return {k: check_next(v) for k, v in next_data.items()}
+                return {k: check_next(v) if k != "template_variables" else v for k, v in next_data.items()}
             elif isinstance(next_data, list):
                 return [check_next(d) for d in next_data]
             else:
diff --git a/requirements.txt b/requirements.txt
index 26857fe1..c85d9a4e 100644
--- a/requirements.txt
+++ b/requirements.txt
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ arrapi==1.4.13
 GitPython==3.1.43
 lxml==5.3.0
 num2words==0.5.13
-pathvalidate==3.2.0
+pathvalidate==3.2.1
 pillow==10.4.0
 PlexAPI==4.15.16
 psutil==6.0.0
@@ -12,5 +12,5 @@ requests==2.32.3
 tenacity==9.0.0
 ruamel.yaml==0.18.6
 schedule==1.2.2
-setuptools==73.0.1
+setuptools==75.1.0
 tmdbapis==1.2.16
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