The End of the World – A Horizon Guide To Armageddon
21.00, BBC4
Charlie Brooker managed to get Ghostwatch trending on Twitter the other night, but of course there’s been much more terrifying telly in the past, and here’s a cheery compendium of all the various ways Horizon has scared us shitless over the past four decades, from supervolcanoes to asteroids. You may wish to watch this but we’re afraid we can think of nothing more horrendous and indeed will attempt to detune BBC4 during its transmission so we don’t accidentally stumble on it, no matter that there’s a tokenistic happy bit at the end about how we’ve cured smallpox.
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