4th Grade Reading Comprehension (Set 6) - Sunday Night

_____One Sunday night in France, all the television sets went off. All of a sudden, there was no picture on anyone’s set. Everyone had to stop watching because there was nothing to see. Right in the middle of a movie, all the screens went BLANK.
_____As an excuse, people at the television station said that there had been some trouble with the equipment. They said that something had broken and caused the problem. But this was not true. Nothing had broken. Nothing at the station was in need of repair. What really did happen? What was the reason four million people had to retire that night without seeing the end of the movie?
_____The true story is that the man working at the television station fell asleep. When he woke up, he thought that the movie was over. So he turned off all the equipment for the night. He carefully locked up the television station and went home to bed. He had no idea that people all over the country – four million people- were still waiting for the end of the movie.