I’ve just been going through the 2000 or so channels available on European satelite tv.

So much available and so little to watch. Every few stations appear to be earnest folk calling on us all to repent and turn to whatever branch of religion they are selling.

They split into two types. The lean and hungry, with swivelling, guilty eyes. They must have done something terrible in their own eyes at sometime and now feel qualified to demand we all join them and help them atone for their pasts.

The other sort look fat and prosperous. These are the religious businessmen who are in it for the career prospects and the self-glorification of being on tv.

The one thing that unites these two types is that they are voices in the wilderness of dubbed baywatch repeats, shopping channels and recycled pop videos.