How do I stop Archos Video Player treating some television shows as movies?
After further digging, it turns out that if the video file has the ©nam atom populated, Archos Video Player will consider the file to be a movie and use that value to search TMDb.

In the example I provided, the video file had the value A Surprise which was the name of the episode. Since the app incorrectly treated it as a movie, it performed a search for A Surprise on TMDb and the first result was Dreamship Surprise - Period 1.

To add further confusion, if there are no results from TMDb then Archos Video Player resorts to (correctly) treating it as a TV show. As a result, it can look quite random as to whether or not a video file is considered a TV show or not!

Should you need to force Archos Video Player to treat certain video files as a TV show, then you need to remove this value.

To do this:


On Windows, right click on the file, select Properties then the Details tab and ensure that the field called Title is empty
On Linux, install AtomicParsley and run AtomicParsley filename.m4v --title "" --overWrite


Once you've done this, the video file will now be correctly treated as a 
TV show.