Movie night is a lie ...

Once upon a time, back in the days when movie night began with someone circling a time and title in the Radio Times, and someone else, around that time, switching on the TV, it wasn’t a lie.

Then it worked. Even if it wasn’t a movie. Even if it was something as corny as The Generation Game or The Dukes of Hazard, the concept of everyone sitting down together for some family TV worked.

And you know why? Because no one had a…