I'm in my 80s and not a keen television fan.
I never really saw myself as writing science fiction anyway.
The trick is the paradox - turning your story inside out. Now if it is something that appears to be of total normality and then suddenly turns inside out and is a different thing all together then that's fun to write.
People who believe in flying saucers are the scrapings from the bottom.
Big Brother sounded like a silly stunt and that's what it is.
I wanted to write a story that demanded the viewer's attention.