The set of NPO program ‘Hotel Hollandia’ was spotted by Rob Goossens (33) and Luuk Ikink (41), and not in a television studio… The pair came across the set pieces of the show in the garbage with the word ‘ throw it away’ on it. They tell this in The BLVD Podcast.
“This was going to be the new Kopspijkers. Well, it didn’t become that”
Rob and Luuk ran into ‘the television graveyard’ this week, Rob begins in the latest episode of The BLVD Podcast. “We saw a kind of empty space near a large warehouse,” Luuk continues. “All kinds of sets were lifted out there using hand carts. They were placed there, ready to be thrown away.”
The decor in question was from Paul de Leeuw’s program Hotel Holland, Rob soon discovered. And set pieces are not just thrown away, he knows. Normally they are stored in a cellar. But when it becomes full, decisions have to be made about the stored pieces. Then there are two possibilities. “One could of course be: we are going to build a new set. But sets are expensive, so that doesn’t actually happen very much. The other is more obvious and that is: the program will simply never come back.”
If the latter is the case, Rob finds it ‘remarkable’. “It was the big announcement at the NPO’s autumn presentation. A program they had very high expectations of. This would be the new Head nails become. Well, that’s not what it turned out to be.” The set pieces in the program also had a very big ‘throw away’, Luuk points out.
Not only (the decor of) Hotel Holland is buried in the television cemetery. “Avastars was also among them,” says Rob. “And also from Talpa: Think Inside the Box. That was with Richard Groenendijk. Then there was someone in the box and you had to guess who that was.” Also the decor of the game program Lettrix was on the big pile to be thrown away, according to Rob.
Listen to The BLVD Podcast below.
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2024-03-31 11:37:48
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