Recent things I've watched
Ride or Die and Bookish on Now TV
Zero Stars and Last one laughing on Prime
Will watch the new The Trip when it comes out in October
Frauds and comedy stand up on ITV catch up
Loads of films on C4, Prime, Now TV
C4 and C5 are particularly good for history and travel shows (Bettany Hughes, Michael Portillo)
We're cancelling the above paid channels soon and getting Netflix instead as we've not had it for a couple of years and there's stuff that's come out that we've not seen.
A load of other stuff I can't remember. There's no shortage of things to watch, you can see what they all offer on their websites and get free trials with most of them.
And you can still watch ITV, C4 and C5 without a licence but not live but almost no-one watches TV live any more anyway, it's all streamed or from a Sky recording, which granted you need a licence for, but it's not an issue if you can stream.
But the main issue for me is that with the BBC there is no flexibility (OK you can get a licence and cancel for a refund of unused months, but it's £180 upfront and then you have to phone them to cancel). All the other platforms allow you to pay month to month with no contract so you can rotate round them easily and sign up/cancel online. Plus most of them are way less than £15 a month especially as all of them except Netflix always have offers on, we've never paid full price for whatever we've had, usually about half, as we sign up based on who's got an offer going.
I suppose the only thing you miss out by not having BBC is some sport, but I don't watch that anyway.