Being spoiled for viewing choice is no bad thing, and with EE TV to hand, you can have the ultimate TV flexibility this summer.
The White Lotus, Sky channels from NOW and TNT Sports on discovery+, we’ve never been so spoiled for choice when it comes to TV. But with so many different platforms offering so much, and modern households needing to accommodate a range of tastes, how do you please everyone without blowing your entertainment budget?
By bringing into your home EE TV’s TV service, that’s how. It not only offers amazing entertainment, sport and movies, but the flexibility to change your package every month – so you pay only for what you want to watch. You’ll just need to have EE Broadband to take advantage of all the benefits of EE TV.
Changing TV habits
While a household may once have all come together to watch one, maybe two, prime-time TV shows together in the evening, the world of TV and entertainment now has hundreds of channels and multiple streaming platforms.
Perhaps you enjoy nothing better than hiding yourself away to watch Premiership Rugby all afternoon, while the kids watch the latest blockbuster on repeat. While most families have shows they watch together, accommodating polar opposite tastes can be tricky to manage when you only want to pay for one or two streaming platforms or sports channels.
For many households like the Richardsons in south west London, flexible family TV viewing is essential. “We watch lots of things together with our six-year-old son, like all the big tennis tournaments,” says Sam, 50. “Our son also has a lot of favourite shows that he watches at points in the day. But when he goes to sleep in the evening, my wife and I have about two and half hours to enjoy our favourite shows.”
Sam says that this often means needing to subscribe to lots of different platforms. They enjoy a wide range of shows, from I May Destroy You on iPlayer to Succession on NOW and Black Mirror on Netflix. “I find it frustrating that for music there are platforms that allow you to have everything in one place, but for TV and movies you have to go to so many different platforms,” he says.
Moira O’Neill, 66, lives in Nottinghamshire with her husband. She says that they watch TV most evenings across several platforms. “Occasionally my husband will watch football or a dark historical drama that I don’t tend to watch. I prefer house-moving or building programmes,” she says. Mrs O’Neill explains that they often unsubscribe from a platform if there’s nothing on it they want to watch at that particular time. As they’re both retired, they don’t want to waste money unnecessarily.
The power of flexibility
For households like the O’Neills and Richardsons, flexibility is essential when it comes to enjoying TV together and separately. The good news is that with EE TV, you can enjoy all of your favourite shows – across platforms including Netflix, discovery+ and Sky Sports channels on NOW – without racking up huge costs. How so? Because EE TV offers flexible packages that allow you to stay in control of what and how much you pay.
You don’t really want to pay for two EE TV packages when you know the other won’t get watched again for a few weeks. EE TV makes this easy by allowing you to switch your subscription month by month so you don’t need to pay for platforms you’re not currently watching. So you could choose EE TV’s Big Sport package, then swap it with Big Entertainment and watch NOW Cinema between seasons.
If you’re already subscribed to a platform such as NOW or Netflix but want to make things more streamlined with EE TV, there’s no need to cancel. EE will move your billing over for you so you have one simple EE account to switch and change as you like.
For Mrs O’Neill, a one-stop package is much more appealing to family life: “I also look after my grandchildren regularly, so I need to have options for them. Having a broader range of flexible streaming platforms would definitely make things easier.”
With so much amazing TV to watch, including live TV, sports to enjoy and movies to get lost in this summer, EE TV can help you enjoy it all in a way that suits you and your family by having all of your favourite platform subscriptions and sports channels in one place.
Head to EE today to find the TV package tailored to you.
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