madeline mason finds comfort in watching her favourite tv shows. like country file, some documentaries, comedies. you'll be watching something and you will suddenly find yourself having a good laugh and it makes you feel heaps better. but in the future, she'll have to pay to watch those perennial tv favourites, and any other programme. madeline's one of up to 3.7 million pensioners who will lose their free tv licence next june. why us? when you're a pensioner you don't seem to get anything. shows like bbc spotlgiht — and inside out for that matter — are a hit with older bbc viewers. you're a loyal audience. and until now the government has paid for the over 755 to have free tv licences. not any more. when the licence fee was renegotiated in 2015, responsibility for free licenses was turned over to bbc bosses. and they've decided most older pensioners are going to have to pay. don't switch us off! it's getting a bad rating. don't switch us off, don't switch us off. don't switch us off, don't switch us off. we've got to win this one because if they g