How can I remove the greyed out items in iTunes under the devices media list?

As you can see in the photo below I am slowly collecting greyed out TV episodes in my phones list of synced items. Its like they're pending a synchronisation but never actually do.
Things I have tried:
Turning off synching for individual episodes, shows and "all TV" doesn't remove them.
Syncing them to the device and then removing them, they show as copied to the device as normal but when they're removed the grey "pending sync" reappears.
fully wiping and restoring the device, no change if I restore a backup. I would like to avoid a complete "fresh" start is possible just due to the hassle of resetting apps etc.
Since it seems to be tied to some sort of cache that remembers the items pending synchronisation I would expect there is a way to clear that from the backup/phone/itunes without completely wiping the device and starting again. If not i'll work out if the placeholders are taking up space - which it looks like they might be under the "Other" category, if not then they can just stay.

Hi romeisdead,
Happy Holidays! Here are the instructions to remove the U2 album:
Remove iTunes gift album "Songs of Innocence" from your iTunes music library and purchases - Apple Support
http://support.apple.com/en-us/HT201396
To remove this album:
Go to https://itunes.com/soi-remove.
Click Remove Album to confirm you'd like to remove the album from your account.
Sign in with the Apple ID and password you use to buy from the iTunes Store.
You'll see a confirmation message that the album has been removed from your account.
If you downloaded the songs to iTunes on your Mac or PC or to the Music app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, you'll need to delete them manually.
Cheers,
- Judy

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