History Channel is history

THE History Channel is to fold after its producers discovered that everything that ever happened during World War Two has already been made into a television programme.

Sunday evening's 7pm broadcast – Rudolf Hess and his Mysterious Aversion to Tinsel – will be the last.

The channel's director, Clive Thorpe, admitted ideas had been running low for some time.

He said: “The whole of last week was spent throwing around World War Two buzzwords, like Eva Braun, U-Boat and Spam, but we couldn't come up with anything.

“I even suggested doing a show about how The Blitz affected the flourishing jodhpur trade, but it turns out we've done that. Twice.

“When I think of some of the classic programmes we produced in the glory years of the early 2000s – such as Great Paper Planes of the Battle of Britain, Stalingrad: A Right Kerfuffle, and Would Hitler Have Liked Marmite? - I do get a bit misty-eyed.”

Asked whether his channel could have considered covering any of the years of human history either side of 1939 to 1945, Mr Thorpe replied: “No, absolutely not.”