‘Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink.’ These famous lines echo in my head everytime I turn the Idiot box on. My DTH subscriber in its ad campaigns boasts of the fact that it offers more than 100 channels yet at the end of the day when I am looking for some enteratinment,I find none!

Is it my slave driver of a boss or is it true that there’s absolutely nothing on TV other than run of the mill soap operas or reality shows. Reality shows which at time are the perfect display of melodrama that can give the drag queens of soap operas a run for their money.

Shows that begin like a breath of fresh air like Dill Mill Gaye and the likes soon turn bleak enough for us to make a grab for that remote. With so many new channels coming up one may expect that there may be an influx of new ideas and shows and we are gravely disappointed yet again.

Let’s not even get to the soaps as I am still struggling to figure out which one is one as its like watching mirror images. The good ones are all waering designer sarees (even when they are struck by poverty and have lost out on their fortune of a few hundred crores), the vamps have the same make up and even the background songs are the same! To top the confusion chart they all begin with the letter ‘K’!

The new mantra to boost the TRPs are the music reality shows where you have nobodys to celebs displaying their finest acting skills and singing and asking for votes. If the grapes turn sour in one of these reality shows u can always blame it on the rigged voting system and be even more popular than the ones who actually win!

After all this cribbing and channel surfing I have finally found a solution to my problems. I turn into the hindi news channels for the total entertainment package. Its got everything from action, drama, music, romance and when they run out of all of this they just add some snippets of national and international news here and there.

Tune in to believe it!