Zero91 is a television first for Malta – it follows a group of Armed Forces of Malta’s recruits (intake 091) during their basic military training course between spring and summer of this year.

Basement Productions will be presenting this reality-based TV documentary, a yet untried concept on Maltese TV, as it adopts the ‘fly-on-the-wall’ style of journalism, usually associated with Big Brother-style shows.

The programme was produced with the help of AFM media and public relations staff and follows the daily training of the AFM recruits: from their first day of enlistment and kitting out of their equipment gear, through the parade-square foot and arms drill bashing by their drill instructors, along with their intense 2-week lock-down living-in barracks period.

A number of these recruits will be followed out of the remaining 40 others that make up the two squads of this recruits’ intake. We’ll follow them closely, seeing their character and personality changing from a civilian into a trained soldier, and how this affects their attitude towards to life. We delve into their family lives and background, how they start reacting instinctively to barked orders, the changes to their physical and mental stamina and their improved capabilities, as they go through a myriad of military exercises.

This programme is all there for you: from day one of the recruits’ enlistment to their last day together as a band of brothers in their respective squads, when they perform their Passing-Out Parade before the Hon. Prime Minister.

It will show how aimlessly dazed and often confused young men are turned into proud Maltese soldiers.

The TV programme concept was never previously attempted locally and offers an unprecedented open-door insight into one facet of AFM soldier-training. It promises to instil a sense of pride and appreciation for those few men in army fatigue uniforms who make a selfless sacrifice to the nation through their diligence, professionalism, and dedication to duty.

Each episode of this series will show various training processes like physical fitness and weapon training, map reading and skill-at-arms down range, foot and arms drill, and much more.

Zero91 promises to be one of the most followed TV shows during next October’s programming schedule on Net TV.