Why are iOS 8 and cover art incompatible?

Hi All,
First up let me apologise in advance about the quality of the photos i have attached but I think you will get the drift.
The examples immediately below are all taken from DVDs that I have converted to MPEG files and loaded into iTunes
I have installed iOS 8 on my iPad Air only. I discovered that it and cover art for movies and tv shows seem to be incompatible. Instead of the cover art there is a grey square with the title of the TV show in very small font in the middle.
This is what it looks like. Yes I know that is not grey. When opened there are another 3 grey squares.
The 3 squares represent 3 consecutive series
Then a series is selected, more grey squares. 3 episodes, it was a short season.
The two attachments below are what it looks like on the computer and what it looked like on the iPad before I updated to iOS 8
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Now something a bit different.
The following programme was bought and downloaded from iTunes. There is only one episode. I missed it when it was shown on TV.
The cover art seems normal. When the programme is opened there is still a grey area though.
It seems that if a programme with only one episode is added to iTunes the normal cover art is displayed. This is the case with movies. Even the movies that i have converted to MPEG files and loaded into iTunes displays normal cover art until the file is opened.
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I have tried only 2 remedies. I deleteted some cover art and put it back. Then I made the supreme sacrifice and re-installed iOS 8 which meant i had to start from scratch again. Failed to fix the problem. I do not intend updating my iPhone. I have an iPhone 6 Plus on order and if it arrives before Yosemite is released I will be putting it in the drawer until Yosemite is released.
That is all I can think of, wait for iOS 8.0.1 and hope that it fixes things or wait until Yosemite is released and see what happens. I realise I won't have any options O/S wise when i start using the iPhone 6 Plus.
Cover art is also behaving strangely when music playlists are selected. iPhoto on the iPad does not work any more either. Have to wait for "Photo" on Yosemite.

Thanks muchly Jonathan. Mostly worked for Cadfael except when i got to step 3, selecting episodes there were still 3 grey rectangles. having established that it basically worked i didn't try any more. Can't help wondering why it's not a problem with the movies though.
Thanks again Jonathan, looks much better now
Cheers :-)
UD

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