This Eid-ul-Azha TV programmes, to a large extent, looked and sounded the same. The same old pattern of talk show hosts inviting showbiz celebrities on their shows and making them take part in mostly childish games or asking them to do puerile things (like criticise Meera or make a comment on Rehman Malik on camera). It makes you wonder whether there are actually creative teams working for big television networks or they are just there to fill the channels’ programming tummy.

However, there were a couple of shows which were slightly better. For example, the new edition of The Fourman Show had a ‘fresh’ feel to it. The lines were punchy and elicited smiles if not guffaws. It was a pleasant departure from the repetitive BNN. Then a journalist’s interview of film celebrities about the showy extravagance that you see on Eid-ul-Azha was a decent effort because listening to Shahida Mini and Syed Noor wax eloquent on how the poor are pushed into an inferiority complex by the show-offs of society was thought provokingly different.

Another thing that could be noticed with appreciation this Eid was that the quantity of programmes were far less which made viewing easy on the eye. Other than that, the plays telecast on Eid had nothing to write home about, and the antics shown by some celebrities as guests were downright embarrassing. But that appears to have become the trend and no one seems to give a hoot.