Up here in Canada, our cable robbers would tease us with a month long free viewing usually at this time of year (Feb/ March) when most folks were stuck inside unless you were an ice fisherman. Even though shows were mainly from the US, I watched them, enjoyed them and learned a few new things from them. It was interesting to see what folks do in their love of the sport.
This year..............nadda...........the cable robbers weren't sucking in enough subscribers to pay their out-of-line monthly fee for that channel, so instead we were given back 9 shopping channels, 6 government cabinet meeting BS channels, 11 channels in languages other than English and 17 sports channels (mostly Hockey) of which I have little interest in.
Once again it is just nickel + dime the consumers to death (and our Gov'ts worry about record levels of personal debt)..............when the heck is the BS gonna stop!!