TV Show Artwork Weirdness

Hey everyone -
For some reason the artwork for my season of Scrubs was replaced in the browser pane of iTunes 8 by a freeze frame from the show. Any idea how to get the original artwork back?
Thanks!
Message was edited by: Travis Wester1

I did some testing and found that TV show artwork now has to be square to be shown on an iOS device. Similarly, movie artwork has to have the correct "movie poster" proportions. Not sure if this was iOS 8 or the latest version of iTunes that changed this. I noticed my artwork is cut off with the latest Apple TV update, too.

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