Is there any way I can control skincurses column formats?

The 'now' and 'next' columns are not readable. They work fine under xine, but under skincurses they look like this :

What's on now? Fri 13.05 14:33

1 BBC ON14:05 2 BBC TW13:30 3 BBC NE14:00 4 CBBC C14:30 5 Channe13:15 * 6 ITV114:00 *Lo 7 ITV214:30 *Ai 8 ITV305:55t IT V3 Nightscreen ITV Ne14:00 * 10 Bloomb14:00 * 13 BBC As14:00 14 1Xtra 12:00 15 BBC 714:30 S 16 BBC 6 13:00 17 BBC 5L12:00 18 BBC R513:00

thanks (in advance)

Simon