Only in UK could we be forced to pay for BBC then have to cough up for best TV on streaming services – it’s got to stop

TURN on your TV today and you’ll find schedules filled with true crime thrillers and celebrity reality shows or, at the other extreme, indulgent tripe pandering to Gen Z snowflakes.

But unless the Big Five channels stop making so much b****ks and grow some balls, they’re going to kill British TV as we know it.

Blind Date, a much-loved TV ­format that was once on ITV but has now been snapped up by Disney+Getty Images - Getty APSubscription services are now making the most electrifying programmes on the planet...