TV options suggestions

jon81uk

For sitcoms, animation, documentaries and sci-fi then get Now TV to watch Sky Comedy and Sky Atlantic and Sky documentaries especially if you like ones about people and their life. I find the selection on Sky/Now can be hit and miss though.

Also get Netflix, they have many sitcoms, both old BBC stuff and newer US stuff (Superstore is great) and a lot of their own sci-fi and documentaries (especially true crime). Also several original animated series (Big Mouth, Disenchantment etc).
Or if the animation you like is Family Guy, American Dad and the Simpsons then get Disney+ and if the Sci-Fi you like is Star Wars that's also on there.

All of those can be subscribed to one month at a time, so could watch a bit on one service and then switch.

Neil_Jones

petaQ said:

How is it broad to have specific genres as opposed to channels containing a plethora of uselessness?
My feeling was people might recommend services based on similar strands of entertainment they enjoy. I just have a feeling it would be unworkable to wade through shintysix different options to compare the output without any comparison experience. On the other end of the spectrum it would be equally unworkable to buy the DVDs of anything I wanted to watch. Maybe I'm an alien
 

One man's "entertainment" is another's man's trash.  You need to work out what channels you are watching, not necessarily *what* you're watching.  If you don't watch the movie channels its pointless paying for Sky Cinema for example.  As I said in the first place, if the majority of what you watch is for argument's sake, on BBC One and ITV2, you're wasting your money as those channels are on Freeview.  ITV2 isn't in HD on Freeview but BBC One is.

There is Sky Comedy as a channel, but you can get that through NOW (TV) if you're happy to forego recording, at a cheaper rate than Sky Signature.  There are older sitcoms on the likes of Prime and Netflix, which you can binge-watch on those services.  NOW will give you the basic Sky channels and a handful of others (Sky One, Sky Witness,  Sky Atlantic, GOLD, Comedy Central, Sky Documentaries, SYFY, Sky Crime, Sky Arts, FOX, Sky Nature, Discovery, MTV and National Geographic) at a wide enough variation that may satisfy your needs.  Freeview has Pick and Challenge as well, also Sky owned channels. You can always try NOW, there's no contract - if you don't like it, just cancel your membership.  It is the cheapest option if you want Sky material (and newer material they buy), but its not as pretty, but then what do you expect for £9.99 a month?

Marvel1

You can try Netflix, Amazon Prime and NOW TV - all have free trials, and you can browse by category.