Duplicate TV Shows on iOS 5 devices

After upgrading to iOS5, I was having the same issue for my TV shows and have resolved it by cleaning up sorting. I think this has to do with shows and seasons within them not having uniform sorting settings- which seems to confuse the iPad and IPhone. It took a little bit of time, but I removed all sorting on the shows EXCEPT "sort by show" and "sort by album" (where album is "Season 1" or "Season 2", etc). To save some time, you can select all shows within a season and assign the album name and sort preferences.

I also discovered the sorting on the iPhone and iPad want to default to the name of the episode (if episode ID - not track number - is blank). So, I went through and input episode IDs and now my shows group by show, then season, then sort by episode ID - just like we've been accostomed to until upgrading to iOS5.

Now on to figure out why my personal hotspot and wifi isn't working like it used to...

Thanks Mr3Frankl1n! I had episodes missing (they were hidden in with other TV shows), whole shows missing, and duplicates, which were actually the missing shows with the wrong cover art. Fixed just by following your instructions, didn't need the link. Many thanks.

I found the only way to fix this is to give each individual show a unique episode ID. As I was changing this in iTunes with my iPad sat next to me on the Home Sharing app, I could see the shows re-ordering themselves and the artwork fixing itself.

Bit of a ballache to do this manually but worth it to get the functionality back.

This has to be an iOS5 thing - irritating!

I'm finding this annoying as well. I don't have too much metadata. Just the name of the show, show description, season and episode number - and I get duplicates in iOS but not in iTunes or Apple TV.

If I add any sorting, or ay additional info - then the entire season just dissapears completely within iOS homesharing.

Ok hit control a on your keyboard and change all your episode ids to 1 it will group them all up for your streaming it seems

You're right, it does group all the episodes together, however, I find the episodes are out of order 😟

This is huge progress for me, but still not yet a complete solution.

I'm happy to say that ios6 has fixed this issue. FINALLY!!

I don't understand...how can removing your Apple ID and password fix the problem of mixed up tv shows on your iPad via Homesharing? Without those credentials in the preferences for the Videos app, there isn't even an option to browse your shared library...

Good job Apple!

Wait - unless you have a first gen iPad, which you cannot update to iOS 6. Then I guess you're screwed.

Thanks Apple!

Go tommy, not sure why it works, but I was having the same problem in iOS 6. I signed out of homesharing in the settings>>video, checked my video library, and let it clear, did a hard restart, checked videos again ( I suspect you could skip this step), then logged back in under settings>>videosm then went back to videos. It took a few minutes for everything to sync, but now all TV episodes are pretty much as they should be. Maybe a mixed up "album cover" here and there, but that I can live with.