Managing / Deleting Content - without losing it as well

I need to start managing my iTunes content better, simply to conserve space on my pc. My iTunes library is around 90GB today. I've purchased some TV shows for my daughter to watch on our two iPods, two iPads and iPhone. Those TV shows are currently on all of those devices via syncing with my laptop, and are on that laptop as well. That laptop is the machine that I need to watch disk space on more closely.
I have signed up for iCloud.
I'd like to delete or otherwise archive off some of these TV shows but not lose them from all of our devices when I sync. I believe that if I delete them from my laptop, when I sync any of the devices next time I will be given a choice: copy them from that device back to my laptop or remove them from that device. Is that correct?
Is there any way to get them off my hard disk and be able to keep them on all of the devices? My iPods are claiss, so the only way to get the content on them is via syncing w/ iTunes.
Thinkking it is time to move my library off my laptop onto an external drive, but that is a ways away in terms of time....I would like to solve some of the space problems first.

Ideally you should not only have the original copies of all your purchased content, but a backup of them too. However, if the TV Shows in question appear in the Purchased/Cloud section of the iTunes so that you could download them again then you can try deleting the physical files from your laptop's drive while leaving the entry for the files in the library. When you sync iTunes will give a warning (which can be suppressed) saying that missing files can't be synced, but it won't actually delete them from the device.
Needless to say I do not recommend that you rely on this behaviour long term. All your media should be in your computer's local drives (internal or external) and backed up to at least one other independent hard disk. The copies on your device don't count.
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http://support.apple.com/kb/ht4083
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