A TIME traveller from the future has warned that closing down the BBC may not be a good idea.

Although future-soldier Emma Bradford is on a mission to hunt down a time-travelling cyborg from the year 2050, she took time out to warn that television will become even worse without the BBC.

Major Bradford said: ”In 2023 the government gets rid of the licence fee after pressure from Rupert Murdoch, who is now just a brain in a jar plugged directly into Twitter.

”The result is that all BBC output stops completely, leaving viewers in a nightmarish dystopia where they can only watch cable and satellite toss.

“By 2050, Sky 1 only shows repeats of Stargate SG-1 and The Simpsons, meaning that people with Sky have seen every episode more than 2,500 times.

”The other channels are worse. Without new BBC panel shows, Dave channel just broadcasts a loop of old QI, despite Stephen Fry and Alan Davies having been dead for many, many years.

”There are no quality documentaries, either. In 2050 the Bafta for best factual series went to a Discovery Channel programme about whether implanting sharks with Hitlers DNA would have changed the outcome of the war.”