Theyve used them all up.
Back when it was all fields around here, TV show titles were in abundance.
But thanks to streaming, nowadays TV is made in windowless factories and injected with antibiotics and e-numbers.
There can never be enough.
The problem is, the glut has dried up the supply.
Creepy lines from nursery rhymes for psychological thrillers.
Every combination of words in the English language has already been used to name a TV show.
ITV got lucky withMr Bates Vs the Post Office, but its hardly a long-term solution.
Neither is it a uniquely new problem, but it is getting worse.
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Now, those gaps are shortening.
Sky crime dramaWolfein 2021 was followed in 2023 by BBC crime dramaWolf.
You cant just add an e to the ends of words.
This is television, not Chaucer.