Flipping through our local TV stations on a Sunday evening, time and time again I can’t help noticing the mediocrity of the shows they’re feeding people; it’s all so downright lame.

First I watched L-Oskur, which features a bunch of supposedly Maltese ghost hunters by night. I don’t know where they studied the trade. They’re trying to act allserious but it’s just hilarious. Assuming ghosts even existed they’re being nothing but really annoying and intrusively loud pests, still trying to capture us with the old and stale ‘mysterious’ movement of some bit of furniture or silly sound. It’s frighteningly passé.

I sincerely wish some really freaky entity did come out in all its glory and have them wet their pants for once, but then again I don’t blame the spirit at all for being a good old snob with this bunch. It’s funny they only try to speak to itin Maltese.

Another programme featured beach games in broad, sunnysummer, colourful daylight by the swimming pool, but it’s just a bunch of guys playing silly, childish and worse, unoriginal old water games with plastic cups and bottles and babyish things like that.

They might as well be in jail because there’s not a single girl in bikini in sight on this beach, a far cry from how the Italians would have presented this show. But here it’s always all so poor.

If the government is trying to make us forget about the power station and all that, then they are going to have to feature much better quality distractions on our screens.