ITunes 12.1 not syncing TV Shows with 1st Gen Apple TV

I recently purchased season 2 of House of Cards via iTunes on my Mac. My 1st generation Apple TV and my 12.1 Version of iTunes syncs my music, pictures, movies, but not the TV shows. The setting are set to "Sync All Unwatched Shows". I reset my Apple TV to "Factory Settings" and reconfiged everything. Everything syncs except the TV Shows. I only have 2 Apple TV errors for 1080 movies that I know will not play on my Apple TV. I have download many TV Shows in the past and have had no problems syncing. This occurred since I upgraded to iTunes V12.1. I was traveling for 2 months and playing the TV shows directly from my MacBook Pro via HDMI cable. I updated iTunes in January and just returned home. This is the first time I tried to sync with iTunes 12.1 and Apple TV.

Yes, fix needed here or I'll have to start considering MS and Apple of the same breed. Software that does things for you that you don't want it to do is Microsofts design that caused me to move to Apple long ago, and releasing software that "Just doesn't work" isn't very Appley... Or is it now? Hmmm...  Maps anyone?
That aside, my related problem is with the "Unwatched" sorting of TV shows which is very oddly messed up, not consistantly all have changed in one direction or another and they are oddly changing in the wrong direction in some cases without my touching the manual (Rightclick) setting.
With this issue, a major convenience of Apple TV and other devices is turned into an inconvenience.
Please fix.

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