Can I store old TV shows on another disk drive to save space?

My itunes is eating up available disk space, and there are some TV shows I seldom watch.  Can I store them on an auxiliary drive?  Can I delete them on my MacBook and get them back from the cloud?

Personally I don't trust cloud storage, especially not if somebody could decide tomorrow they no longer want Apple to distribute your show and you suddenly find it is no longer available for a second download.
You have various options with external storage.  One is to split up where iTunes stores your media.  This can result in various annoying things which it is up to you to decide how you want things.  If you don't always turn on the external you will see many ! for broken links which should restore when you quit iTunes, reconnect the drive, then restart iTunes.  You will also need to hold down the option key while adding the items to iTunes from the external drive or when you add them they will get copied to the internal.  Then it will be a bit of a headache when you want to move part of your library to the external.
The second option is to create a new library just for thngs you store on the external drive.  You store the whole library on the external and hold down the option key while starting iTunes to use your movie+show library.
We can provide specifics once you decide which way you want to go.

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