How easily can files completely disappear just like that? You usually have to be very intentional about it to make even a partial recovery impossible.
But who knows what the agent was trying to do. It could really have decided the TV show was so bad no one should see it. There's no details.
Or it's bad and it's tax evasion.
It also duct taped their IT staff to their chairs and prevented them from taking any backups of their core IP.
Or intentional