Matthijs van Nieuwkerk has corona | TV

entertainment">“Matthijs has mild corona symptoms and remains in home quarantine in accordance with the GGD guidelines,” says the broadcaster. “He and the editors work from home and hope to be able to make a broadcast again soon.”

entertainment">It is not the first time that corona has gotten into Van Nieuwkerk’s wheels. In the spring of 2020 he would say a big goodbye to The world turns on. Because the studio audience was sent home, that fell through.

entertainment">For his new program he initially had a ‘television arena’ in mind with more than four hundred people. With the arrival of a second wave, that plan was also thrown away.

entertainment">Matthijs continues started on New Year’s Eve with over a million viewers. The replay, just after midnight, was watched by nearly a million people.

entertainment">This weekend it should have debuted as a Saturday night show. Now that Van Nieuwkerk and his editorial team are at home, NPO1 is starting an extra episode of New farmers. That got off to a promising start on Thursday evening with 984,000 viewers.

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