Van den Heuvel and Van Wely give viewer a role in crime show | TV

entertainment">“It will be a mix of reports and confrontations in which we chat about the subjects in the studio,” says the crime reporter who is currently successful on Videoland with The hunt for the mocro-mafia II. “Presenter Marieke Elsinga will do that with various experts at the desk who themselves have stood with their legs in the extinguishing water.”

Marieke Elsinga

entertainment">The first broadcast of the weekly program is scheduled for January 11. Presenter Marieke Elsinga, who too RTL boulevard presents and is a DJ at Qmusic, in addition to Van den Heuvel and Van Wely, the studio will also host important RTL faces in the field of crime such as Ewout Genemans, Kees van der Spek and Thijs Zeeman.

entertainment">Peter R. de Vries has also promised to cooperate. In 2018, he was the last to make a program on Dutch television that exclusively talks about crime: The council chamber on SBS6.

entertainment">although The council chamber was not an unqualified success, John van den Heuvel was a fan. “There were interesting discussions about crime at the table, so it is a shame that it did not reach a larger audience. By emphasizing the confrontations and the reports, we expect with Crime desk reach more people. ”

Viewer is participating

entertainment">Van den Heuvel not only hopes that people will find the program, but also gives the viewers an important role. They can enlist the help of the crime reporter and his colleagues if they have been the victim of a crime or government failure. The program will also ask the viewer for help with matters.

entertainment">RTL5 wants to tell more stories next year about ‘things that people do not want to experience’, content director Peter van der Vorst of RTL Nederland told De Telegraaf earlier. This includes not only crime stories, but also, for example Hotter than my daughter. The channel’s biggest eye-catcher has to be reality series Big brother turn into. That starts, just like Crime desk, in January.

Removals

entertainment">Addicted in Five days inside, two programs that were previously shown on RTL4, will move to RTL5 next year. Was on the channel for years Expeditie Robinson the big crowd puller. However, it successfully switched to RTL4 in 2019. Since then, the channel has been searching.

entertainment">With the advent of Crime desk the new RTL5 is slowly taking shape. Whether that has consequences for the various titles aimed at young people such as Love island on RTL5 is not yet clear. Such programs seem to come into their own best on RTL’s streaming service Videoland and do not fit well with the new stamp that RTL wants to put on the channel.

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