10 Times Doctor Who Accidentally Predicted Our Future

10. The Return Of The Weakest Link

In 2005's Bad Wolf, Russell T Davies depicts a nightmarish future where reality television has run rampant. A vast "Game Station" orbits the Earth, stacked floor to ceiling with studios producing futuristic versions of some old favourites - but with murderous results.

On Big Brother, you get evicted from life, while a makeover show will eviscerate your unsightly body parts.

Anne Robinson - the host of the UK version of the game show The Weakest Link - also made a cameo as the voice of... well, herself. Just a deadlier robot version. The Weakest Link eventually went off the air in 2012 when Robinson declined to renew her contract. As various reality shows and talent competitions were dwindling at that time, this was probably a wise move.

But then, in 2021, the show returned to our screens. There weren't any killer androids, but instead a much more affable host in the form of comic and former maths teacher Romesh Ranganathan.

Whether this format runs until the year 200,000 remains to be seen.