Apple TV 2nd Gen not showing artwork correctly

I couldn't find a post on this.
My Apple TV shows the same artwork for every show within a "show" even though the show may have unique artwork. Why wouldn't it show the artwork for a given show instead of making them all the same?

Michael Palma1 wrote:
Weird, didn't for me. I marked .m4v files as TV Shows (i.e. Curious George) then gave them their own unique artwork so the kids could visually identify them. They would just got to the TV section of Apple TV, choose curious George, then choose the show with the artwork they wanted. This Apple TV does NOT do that for me.
if each episode happened to be a different "season" then it would show the different artwork.
however if each episode was part of the same season, then the appletv only shows the artwork that is contained in the first episode of the season.
this has certainly been the case for me on all 3 appletv's i have, and the new appletv is not doing anything different in terms of artwork that the old one did.

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