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After barely two episodes, ‘Cupid or something’, in which Ruth Beeckmans and Frances Lefebure let people with disabilities date, has been postponed again. With a move to the spring, VTM wants to “offer the program every opportunity”. The fact is that the viewing figures were not great.
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Cupid or something reached an average of 170,000 viewers in the first two weeks on the day of broadcast. By way of comparison: the start of the first season last autumn went smoothly over half a million. From Wednesday 1 December, VTM will broadcast a repeat of Axel enters and in the spring, the remaining episodes will have another chance to make a difference.
Incidentally, it is not the first time that VTM has shifted its broadcasting schedule in this way. This spring it was The opposite world, the quiz with presenter Mathias Coppens, moved to the summer after three episodes and disappointing results. “We want to give the program more air,” it sounded then, although in the end that didn’t make too much difference in the figures.(bpr)
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