Marking imported video as "TV shows"

Hi,
I ripped some TV show DVD's take with me on my brank spanking new iPod. I've managed to import them fine but it only lists them as 'movies' within iTunes and I can't seem to get them marked as TV Shows. Marking the genre has no effect they still remain in 'movies'. This wouldn't be a huge deal if it wasn't for the fact that TV Shows on the iPod in a similar fashion to allbums, i.e. hierarchal folders.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Paul.

With the video highlighted in iTunes, choose File: Get Info
Towards the top of the window that pops up, select the "Options" tab
You should now see a pulldown menu labeled "Video Kind:", and one of the options is "TV Show"
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