Saving tv shows to a hard drive

I have 2 apple tv's they run out of memory since they aren't connected to a computer. I usually delete my shows when I run out of space. but now I have too many shows downloading and my kids want to keep their shows. I bought an external hard drive is there a way I can save the shows to that. I have an old thinkpad that i can use for transfer but it doesn't have enough memory to save all the shows without transferring them to an external hard drive. Can someone tell me how to do it in simple terms. i'm not a techie.

The original Apple TV was able to sync and stream but it was not meant to be a primary source. You would have to sync to iTunes and then backup.
To pair with computer (step 3)
http://support.apple.com/kb/TA38556?viewlocale=en_US

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