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Topics: News, Film and TV, US News
Niamh Shackleton
If you've ever wondered what will be played on TV on doomsday, it won't be The Simpsons.
As it stands, the Doomsday Clock is 90 seconds to midnight - the same as it was for 2023.
When it was debuted in 1947, the clock was set at seven minutes to midnight and it's been moved closer and closer to doomsday almost every year since.
As to what happens when we officially hit midnight, CEO of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists, Rachel Bronson has previously explained: "When the clock is at midnight, that means there's been some sort of nuclear exchange or catastrophic climate change that's wiped out humanity. We never really want to get there and we won't know it when we do."
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With doomsday seemingly being closer than most people would like it to be, CNN founder Ted Turner has long prepared for the dreaded day.
Back in the 80s, Turner created a video that he wants to be played on his news channel when the world finally comes to an end - and it's not NSYNC's 'Bye Bye Bye'.
The hymn is titled 'Nearer My God To Thee'.
As reported by Jalopnik, Turner said of a possible Armageddon: "We'll be on, and we will cover the end of the world, live, and that will be our last event."
He went on: "We'll play the National Anthem only one time, on the first of June [the day of CNN's launch], and when the end of the world comes, we'll play 'Nearer My God To Thee' before we sign off."
For those of you desperate to see the video without impending doom just around the corner, the video was leaked in recent years - as seen above.
The video, which is known as the Turner Doomsday Video, was leaked by an employee of the channel to Jalopnik, but writer Michael Ballaban said he saw it while working as an CNN intern in 2009.
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He wrote: "This is the way the world ends, not with a bang, not with a whimper, but with one melancholy little band, and a quick fade to black."
Apparently CNN employees were well aware of the video at the time of his internship, but he admitted he had to do a some digging to find it.
"It's one of those things you only look for if you're a really bored intern or have a lot of time on your hands," he told The Guardian.
Here's hoping the infamous video's never actually needed...