I need to get the movies back to APPLE TV and off my computer

So I finally, after 6 months get the ATV to finally show up and work in my Itunes, only by connecting it directly to my computer via ethernet. But instead of transferring the TV shows from my computer to the apple tv, the ATV moves all of its content to my Mac computer leaving me with a whopping 246MB left on my hard drive.
Why did my shows not transfer to the ATV, because apparently ITUNES couldn't connect to the internet to verify I owned them. Why could it not connect to the internet? Because the ATV was plugged into the Ethernet. And Why was the ATV plugged into the Ethernet, because it won't connect any other way via the wireless network we have set up for whatever reason.
Here is my immediate dilemma, I have ATV movies and shows clogging up my computer. I would love to delete them, but the ATV literally removed them from itself.
How do I get my stuff back on to the ATV? Somebody, please anybody, help.

Why did my shows not transfer to the ATV, because apparently ITUNES couldn't connect to the internet to verify I owned them. Why could it not connect to the internet? Because the ATV was plugged into the Ethernet. And Why was the ATV plugged into the Ethernet, because it won't connect any other way via the wireless network we have set up for whatever reason.
how much space do you have on your appleTV? maybe you don't have any space left to put those shows from your computer... how do you have syncing set up on your computer?
Here is my immediate dilemma, I have ATV movies and shows clogging up my computer. I would love to delete them, but the ATV literally removed them from itself.
this is actually how it is supposed to work... the files on your computer are meant to be the masters and you appleTV syncs with these... not the other way around. if you buy something via your appleTV it gets pushed back back to your computer.
the appleTV is not meant to act as external storage or backup... there is no easy way to get files off of your appleTV if the drive on your computer fails.. there is no way to backup files if you only store them on your appleTV.. if the drive fails on your appleTV or you experience trouble on your appleTV and are forced to do a restore... BOOM! you just lost everything on you appleTV.
unless you can afford to loose all of your media files via a drive failure... you need a backup strategy... store your files on a 'working' drive on you computer and use time machine to backup to backup drive. only use appleTV to temporarily store media files that you want available when you computer is off... that's all it's meant for.

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