ITunes 11 messed up thumbnails for TV programmes

The iTunes 11 installation has replaced most of my saved TV progs with the same thumbnail:
Any idea how I can switch back to the the proper thumbnails? Perhaps use TIme Machine?
Thanks for looking,
Hebairt

I've having exactly the same problem with a TV show I downloaded and synced to my iPad, but it wasn't an issue before I upgraded to iOS 8. Previously, I hadn't done anything to add the still images and they appear fine, so I think there might be a bug in iOS 8 causing the grey TV icon to appear instead of a still image.

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I suspect almost everyone has this problem.
iTunes was created first. When you set up a new iTunes account, it creates an appleid using the email address provided. So far, so good.
Then came MobileMe. Create a new MobileMe account and a new appleid was created. You had to use the MobileMe provided [email protected] email address. This was the default so you couldn't use the same email that you used when creating your iTunes account. Now you have two appleid's and two different emails, one for each appleid.
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If you have associated any email addresses with either of your appleids, then there are going to be more conflicts and you won't have visibility to them.
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Assume iCloud account uses email #2, most likely an @me.com because that was required with MobileMe.
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