Just upgraded to lion and now my iTunes says the store is temporarily unavailable and it is unable to check for downloads

I only upgraded to Lion because of iCloud. I have an AppleTV, an iPhone 4S and my MacBook Pro so it just made sense. But now, I was in the process of downloading a season of a TV show that I purchased earlier today and it still had about 15 episodes left to go and it now says "iTunes Store is temporarily unavailable, iTunes is unable to check for downloads" Any help would be appreciated!

sdr191219 wrote:
it now says "iTunes Store is temporarily unavailable, iTunes is unable to check for downloads" Any help would be appreciated!
maybe they are doing maintenance? I would wait awhile and check back later.

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