[Quoth]

The 1960s to 1980s was the Golden Age of TV in the UK. It's not Netflix and streaming that's killing TV, its the mad rush to the bottom in quality of content fuelled by the Advent of Multichannel. The UK TV peaked at four channels. There simply isn't enough decent content.

I remember watching USA Cable TV in the mid 1980s and thinking this is the pathetic future when Multichannel takes off in UK and Ireland. Back before Satellite, the Irish Cable system was really only used to add the four UK channels. I don't remember when the fifth, Channel 5, was added. It never had great content.

There is too much so called Reality TV, daytime TV, soaps and dumbing down of drama and documentaries. Cinema is worse with remakes, reboots, franchises etc.

Time to read a book!