Some purchased content on Apple TV will not sync back to iTunes

I have purchased a series on my AppleTV which downloads every week, as expected. I manually sync the AppleTV with my iTunes library located on my iMac. Upon using "transfer purchases" from iTunes, only three of the six downloaded show episodes actually transfer over. Subsequent attempts result in nothing being transferred.
To further troubleshoot, I unlinked the iTunes library from the Apple TV, using the Apple TV UI. Everything EXCEPT the three episodes that would not transfer over, and a couple of rented movies, was removed from the Apple TV. I then re-connected to my usual iTunes library, attempted to transfer purchases, but with no luck.
Any ideas?

I have the same issue where I can make purchase via itunes and it syncs with ATV. However the reverse from ATV to itunes does not. I saw an earlier post in the year to deauthorize the account on itunes that fixed the problem- tried that on itunes and then selected the transfer from ATV to itunes on the file menu and was unsuccessful. All software is current using itunes 8.02.2
It was working previously so I am not sure if an ATV software upgrade caused this or not.

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