Is TV so bad that it’s headed for total cultural irrelevance? Kira Cochrane thinks it might be. “Not only has crap TV become much, much worse, it is no longer interspersed with the necessary quality TV, a vaguely classy amuse-bouche to savour before heading back to the sea of rubbish… While I have never agreed with the argument that TV is inherently depressing, I have started to suspect that it leads you to depression through a slightly circuitous route.”