Hi jools, we've been here for seven years and have never had UK TV either.  When we moved into our new house a year ago we tried having a satellite dish but gave up because it is too windy here.  If we want to see anything from BBC we use i-Player and download whatever we want to watch later, but it isn't much tbh.  We were thinking of investing in a big dish but it really isn't worth it.  Like you say there's very little worth watching.