No iPod video content? Create your own with the BBC

A bunch of (full) "Frontline" episodes are available on the PBS website, to start. They're actually known for pro-actively offering content online. Have you even checked their site out, jo jo? And I assume you're sure their budget allows for the massive expense of hosting "all it's archives"? Because, the last time I checked they were stretched pretty thin. One reason is that they're not actually allowed to "make a buck" as you so keenly suggest. Your position seems more than a little uninformed.

wouldn't it be great to see PBS make all it's archives available for the US? I mean we paid for it, just like the brits paid for BBC ..... it'll never happen though. I mean if you can't make a buck off it, why do it, right?

Too bad. The U.S. is so mired in copyright and intellectual issues that stifling creativity is the only product so far. :(

not available outside the UK ARGGG!!!!

Sadly, it's not available to folks outside the UK. For legal reasons I'm sure.