Playing itunes movies on iPad

Hi all,
I downloaded a full TV series of NCIS on iTunes via apple TV 2, but can't play it on my iPad 2. When I look for the show on the iPad (shared via home sharing from my mac) I see a blank icon with "series 2" under it but no show name. When I open the series, I get blank icons, but the synopsis of each episode is available.
Whenever I open an episode it says "cannot open" and returns to the series synopsis of each episode without playing anything. Every other video that I've downloaded or converted from another format to apple TV plays fine, but this is the only series that I've purchased via apple TV then downloaded to iMac. All episodes play fine on apple TV, but won't work on iPad or iPhone. I've done a soft and hard reset on both, logged out of my account and back in, but still have the same problem.
Any ideas what I'm doing wrong or how to fix it? Google has not been my friend despite 8 hours looking!
Thanks,
Pete

This keeps getting more interesting. I have the same problem on my iPhone 4.
Another weird thing is that I can't update or download any apps from the app store. I've tried signing out of the store in Settings, restarting the iPad, and signing back, but still no luck with the App Store. I get an error that says, "Cannot connect to iTunes store."
Maybe even more odd is that my iPad will play purchased iTunes songs over Home Sharing. Have you tried playing anything else, or downloading something from the App store?
The next thing I'll try, when I get a chance, is just manually syncing it to my main Mac and see if that overrides whatever bug is going on.

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