Reclaim the night

Do you watch anything on terrestrial TV after 10.30 that isn't a repeat or a crappy movie, No, me neither. You want to know why? Its because that time of night and onwards is seen as a Televisual dumping ground. Take the case of BBC one's Sci/Fi drama bulls up Outcasts. Which was originally broadcast in prime time slots on a Monday & Tuesday, but when the dreaded ratings came in and it seemed only my family and a weirdo in Kent was watching they decided to move it to a 10.25 slot on a Sunday. But why is this the case? In this day and age surely there shouldn’t be a TV crap bin. In the book Cronenberg on Cronenberg the great film director talks about growing up in Canada and how after their official TV channel shut down for the night, you would get odd bursts of foreign broadcasting signal showing strange shows. This was one of the main influences for his brilliant and often over looked film Videodrome. Would this have been the case if he had seen our late night TV, what do we have, phone in game shows hosted by Jeff Brazier. So I purpose we take back the night, give the public the late night slots. There are a lot of talented people out there, but they don't get a look in because they are not part of the TV self masturbating boys club or don't have a insider to brown nose. With all the TV harddrive recorders on the market these days, Sky+, Sky+HD, Virgin+, Virgin+HD, Freeview+, Easyvirgin+HDin4D. Late night broadcasts are no longer the exclusive domain of the insomniac, dope head or the kebab carrying drunk returning home. Lets make a stand, lets start a TV revolution, not on the scale of that whole Egypt movement. For one I'm not getting the blame when someone throws Derek through the window of PC World and two I don't really do big crowds. But lets do something, maybe send some harsh emails, shout out the window, print a T-shirt I haven't any plans yet. We want decent films shown, we want good programs, we want to reclaim the night.