A 'One off' payment satellite system will give you BBC Prime (for your Eastenders and 50 hours a week of Hetty Wainthrop Investigates) and BBC World (News channel). There are a few English ones in there, most notably the intellectually challenging Boomerang, a must for us Scooby Doo fans. It's the French Boomerang, but dual audio so you can have hours of classic cartoons in English.
It works out much cheaper in the long run if you only want news and Eastenders.
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