The moment has finally come: we have run out of TV

We have scraped the bottom of the barrel, and the first layer of wood the barrel is made from. So what do we watch instead?Deep in northern Norway, on a remote island between the Greenland and Barents seas, there lies the Svalbard global seed vault. The idea is pretty simple: in a collapse of society or the environment, a vast cache of seeds can be accessed from the natural deep storage of the ice, and we can repopulate the Earth with greenery, and peace will reign again. Something like that, anyway. Listen: the Norwegians have a load of cress in a silo. Sleep peacefully about it.Television does not have a Svalbard vault, though, which is why we have finally run out of it. Nobody thought to leave an unaired series of The Bill lying about and now there are no supplies of TV left. We have scraped the bottom of the barrel, and the first layer of wood the barrel is made from, too. We are one Zoom-call episode of Sunday Brunch away from ruin. Continue reading... https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2020/jul/18/we-have-run-out-of-tv #television #culture #television_&_radio