My 2 cents,
Newsgroups are a waste of time, I went down that road, by the time you sift through all of the bullshit and finally get everything working, you still have to find a way to get access to a good list(s) or otherwise be forced to sort through all of the spam and garbage when you are looking for something you want on a public list.
But why go through all of that trouble? it just over complicates things more than they need to be.
If you're smart, save yourself the headache and get on a good private torrent tracker and use 'qBittorrent' because it allows sequential file downloading (nothing like the bullshit 'stream' feature on utorrent).. and allows for actual video streaming when a torrent is well seeded.. hence the private tracker..
This way you get the most recent content, without the hassle, and you get to watch it almost instantly.