diff --git a/src/actors.js b/src/actors.js
index cddd6a40..1fe68e69 100644
--- a/src/actors.js
+++ b/src/actors.js
@@ -446,8 +446,6 @@ async function associateActors(mappedActors, releases) {
 
     // basic actor scraping is failure prone, don't together with actor association
     // await scrapebasicactors(),
-
-    return;
 }
 
 module.exports = {
diff --git a/src/releases.js b/src/releases.js
index b9997612..e465f89b 100644
--- a/src/releases.js
+++ b/src/releases.js
@@ -425,7 +425,7 @@ async function storeReleases(releases) {
         storeReleaseAssets(storedReleases),
     ]);
 
-    await scrapeBasicActors(),
+    await scrapeBasicActors();
 
     return {
         releases: storedReleases,