We gave up cable almost a year ago, and got Netflix.
We tend to binge on a series at a time, and our most recent has been Dr. Quinn. My girls control the remote, of course, but it's fun when they pause and say, "Mama, check out that quilt. It's a log cabin!" or a flower basket, or whatever, if they know it. If not they figure it out. There are so many very cool quilts on that show! In the homestead, at the clinic, in the folks' houses, on the picnica, even her mom's house in Boston... Too cool...