If you have any family back home with a cable subscription try a slingbox. My family back home have an extra set top box just for me, linked to a slingbox. I get live cable TV straight from back home, direct to my laptop were ever I am in the world, and its free!! If you want to project the signal on to a remote TV get a slingcatcher and you can do that as well! The picture quality is a bit variable depending on the speed of the net. Its just one of many ways round your problem.
I guess you could just go to the local pub with your mates, have a few beers and watch it on the big screen? Hmmmm......... may be not!
BRGDS & Ramadan Kareem