I dislike the way iTunes 11 handles TV Shows

Totaly agree. iTunes 11 is a huge improvement over older versions but the TV season art work problem needs to be addressed.

I also had an issue with importing .mp4 or .m4v files, found that they would be imported to the Home Videos folder but they would not show up in iTunes under Home Video tab.

I had to restart iTunes 2 times before I could see the files in iTunes.

All in all, not bad for a major revision.

I agree about the album art for the individual seasons. I actually HATED that the old iTunes listed each season seperately and thus for shows that have 5, 10 or more seasons, they really ate up a chunk of space for no reason and didn't stay grouped together nicely. Now in iTunes 11 they fit together nicely (even if the lists are a tad long, they should have optional info so the list can be shorter, similar to the optional fields in the normal list view) and are organized pretty well except for the boring fact that it only uses the first seasons album art on the computer. The apple TV still uses each individual season so it's worth adding the art but it's annoying to not enjoy it on the computer.

I also agree it's annoying there's no good way to add in special episodes in order of air date without messing up the episode numbers.

Totally agree about the missing artwork for different seasons! Apple - please fix this so the correct cover art shows for each season when selected!!

Completely agree regarding the artwork...they need to fix this. My bigest gripe is importing mp4/mk4 files...a complete disaster. Needs a fix and soon!

I haven't tried a mk4 tvshow import, although my mp4 imports have always worked fine in iTunes11. How do you tag? If you're on an Mac you might try iDentify for tagging.

I've been using MetaX for 99% of video tags. Works FANTASTIC! I've been using subler to set HD tags.

I think apple is kind of back tracking on TV show artwork. It seemed like a dumb idea to have separate artwork for each season and list them separately as well to begin with. Now they've sensibly put all seasons together but we're still used to the multi-season artwork. We'll just have to get used to having 1 art per show again. like a movie or cd.

I just meant within iTunes itself. When you're browsing on the Apple TV, iOS, etc they're displayed by season so it works to have artwork distinguishing them. So it still makes sense to have artwork for each file for aesthetics but for sorting they'd all be under one show in iTunes. So one album art. In a perfect world it would switch artwork depending on which season you clicked but I don't think that makes it a bug or anything. I have shows that show up twice for the same content. That's a bug. I thought it was stupid that they used square artwork for TV shows instead of the 8x12 art for movies but its just a design choice apple made.

I haven't had this issue myself as I don't have any 'special episodes' in my library, but is this fixable using the Sort function? You can have all the correct information in the Info and Video panels then change the information under Sort to force iTunes into organising the files in your preffered way.

I do agree that the artwork is annoying and there is no reason I can see why it shouldn't be fixed!

I had the same issue with files not showing up in the home videos tab after importing, but what fixed it for me was turning off the syncing with itunes cloud purchases. Once I turned that off, the files that I imported showed up. Hope that helps you too!

With iTunes 11, the 1st season artwork was the default for both the mail view as well as when you expanded to show the episodes. When viewing the episode listing, regardless of the season, you'd see just season 1 art.

However, I just updated to iTunes 11.0.2 and there has been a change. Now, you see the MOST RECENT season's artwork in both views.

I hated this too and found a simple fix.

You can change the name of the show to include (S##) at the end.

Example: Breaking Bad (S01) Breaking Bad (S02)

it will separate it into two separate artworks.

I agree with @Nemesis2010

Look at this photo of my iTunes Library:

and this image:

As you can see, my library has so many 'albums' but all of it is just one TV Show (or more)

Right Click or press Command-I and 'Get info'.

Then rename the TV Show to 'TVSHOW Vol. 1' .... (or whatever its called in the iTunes store)

You will get separate artworks.

Omi Jack