IN SEARCH OF DARKNESS

The nights might be getting longer, but the internet is open and ready for business 24 hours a day. Is this a good thing?

- ALEKS KROTOSKI

When I think back to it, it was a very strange time. I was lying on a ward bed in a disused hospital on the outskirts of Glasgow. My face was dripping with fake blood and slime. The lights were hot. We’d been there for seven hours. But after many random sleep-deprived moments of weirdness, a rubber head burst through my chest – my cue to gasp out the last few lines of a review of the video game Aliens Versus Predator. All of this for the service of a few night owls who’d tuned into Channel 4’s latenight experimental strand, 4Later.

The TV show I was working on was called