11.1 - Unwatched TV shows sort by 'Unknown Album'

I upgraded to iTunes 11.1 on Wednesday on my Mac.
I had a television show library which corrected displayed and grouped by the TV show title and Season in the 'TV Programmes' > 'Unwatched'.
I've just added the first file to the library since the upgrade (so hadn't looked at iTunes since), and notice that the view has broken under 11.1 - every single item is listed individually as an 'Unknown Album'.
It's very annoying. Can it be put back to how it was before please, or is there a way I can do it?

I think I may have found a solution to this.
1. Make sure ALL your TV shows have the title of the show (not the title of the episode) in the "Album" field in iTunes.
2. Make sure you are viewing your TV Shows as "Unwatched" in iTunes. (All the shows should be listed as individually episodes.
3. Hit command-J (or under the "View" menu select "Show View Options".
4. A little windows opens giving only one choice which is "Group into Threads".
5. Select the check box and close the "View Options" window and everything should now be in groups by Series.
Different seasons are still displayed as separate titles. (i.e. Game Of Thrones Season One and Game Of Thrones Season Two will appear as separate entries but at least the individual episodes within each season are now grouped)
Also, and unfortunately, everything is sorted by date with the newest series at the top (as opposed to aphabetical) and the episodes within each series (or group) are also listed with the newest episode first (i.e. if the series has ten episodes then episode 10 starts at the top followed by nine, eight, etc.)
IMO, not a very elegant system and it seems that each iteration of iTunes becomes more and more "dumbed down".  I hope future updates can return some of the sorting controls we've had in the past. (like sorting by colums?)
Anyway, at least we can have the shows back as grouped series, albiet clumsily!
Hope this helps...

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