Apple TV purchases do not sync back to library

I have an original Apple TV,bought it a few weeks after release. Suddenly, about 2 months ago it stopped syncing purchases made on the Apple TV back to my library. I now have 28 gigs of shows bought since then, but before the problem became apparent, that are on the Apple TV but not in my iTunes library.
We have always bought show directly on the Apple TV and let them sync back. I have a dozen or so movies and over one hundred TV shows bought this way. No changes to the itunes library, network, or settings were made anywhere near the time this began to happen. We literally purchased a show, watched it, synced it back to the library, went to dinner, bought a new show, and syncing stopped.
I have tried telling the TV to sync. Telling the library to sync. Telling the library to sync purchased TV content. Restarting the Apple TV. Connecting the TV to a new library. Deleting an unwanted show to see if jump starts something. Resetting users settings. Connecting directly by ethernet to the computer I want to sync to, and restarting the Apple TV.
Any ideas how to get this content from the Apple TV to the library without deleting it and asking Apple to let me redownload it? Any other possible solutions?
Thanks in advance....

I have the same problem. Can't understand why this is suddenly not working. It used to work fine before. Is it linked to the new Apple TV rollout? I think Apple need to sort this one out quickly as it puts off people with Apple TVs from purchasing through the TV.

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