Beste Nadia,
When you were allowed to tell everywhere that you were on the once so important time slot from 7 p.m. to 8 p.m. on the once so important State Broadcasting channel NPO 1 “something very innovative” was going to do, you covered yourself very emphatically.
It could be that the viewers had to get used to it.
It might not immediately make DWDD forget.
We have now had seventeen copies of the talk show ‘Catherine’.
In the second half of the 1990s, Catherine Keyl attracted a million viewers every day on RTL4’s clumsy time slot of 5 p.m.
You end up on the most watched channel (the number of which has become unreadable on the remote control of all elderly people because they often don’t get any further) and on a much better timeslot, nowhere near ‘Catherine’.
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Not even close to that of ‘DWDD’.
Not close to ‘DWDD’ successor ‘De Vooravond’.
And not even close to ‘De Vooravond’ successor ‘M’.
Yes, even Margriet van der Linden reached 600,000 viewers in her worst time, but the last season effortlessly averaged 800,000.
Just like her successor ‘Khalid & Sophie’, which -before you took over for seven weeks- neatly finished with an average of 750,000 viewers.
Well, shall we now take a look at the ratings of your last ten broadcasts?
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May 10: 452,000 viewers.
May 11: 452,000 viewers.
May 12: 382,000 viewers.
May 15: 525,000 viewers.
May 16: 385,000 viewers.
May 17: 487,000 viewers.
May 18: 416,000 viewers.
May 19: 342,000 viewers.
May 22: 337,000 viewers.
May 23: 350,000 viewers.
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Structurally in the 300,000 meanwhiles!
Op prime-time!
On the largest channel of the State Broadcasting!
While it wasn’t the case that, like in recent years, we were all still eating outside at that time because of the beautiful weather, were we? Haven’t had such a cold and rainy spring for years.
I wondered how that happened. How it was possible that Margriet van der Linden (who had to leave due to disappointing viewing figures) attracted more than twice as many viewers as you.
Could it be because of the subjects?
I’ll list them down!
May 10: “What does it do to you when you are criticized for your fat body?”
May 11: “Does Being Eternally Youthful Make You Happy?”
May 12: “What does online dating bring us?”
May 15: “Why are women abused by men?”
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May 16: “How does discrimination in the workplace affect you?”
May 17: “What is it like to have a child when you are over 45?”
May 18: “How do you share your love life with multiple partners at the same time?”
May 19: “How far does an owner’s love for dog, cat or goldfish go?”
May 22: “What happens to parents when their child is in jail?”
May 23: “Is there a way to coexist with the wolf?”
And yesterday: Why is it that drug use seems to be becoming more and more normal? (with some blonde-haired intellectual lightweight who thinks alcohol consumption is worse than sponsoring Riduan Taghi and friends) – but I don’t have ratings for that yet.
Ask the question (“Could it be because of the subjects?”), is to answer it.
It’s 100 percent because of the subjects.
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Because you can do anything.
But one thing is not: scoring high enough viewing figures to be in the big shoes of Matthijs van Nieuwkerk, Fidan Ekiz and that popie jopie and even Khalid and Sophie and Margriet van der Linden for more than two seasons of seven weeks.
That makes perfect sense, because the regular viewers of NPO 1, those elderly people, have all seen the subjects you deal with in the 90s.
Except the wolf.
It was nothing with ‘Nadia’, Nadia, it is nothing and it will be nothing.
Unless…
Unless we are being fooled in a grandiose way by the broadcaster that broadcasts your ‘Catherine’ copy: the VPRO.
That ‘Nadia’ is an anthropological experiment.
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That the VPRO wants to see how tame the sheep in this country are now.
What fuck ups ‘we’ all swallow.
Or that a cracker has taken over at that once high-profile broadcaster who was dragged past all kinds of vintage shops and brocanteries during the holidays by his wife and who exclaimed on his return to the Media Park: “It’s all going to be vintage! We are going to do everything differently!”
And that he wanted to start relatively cheaply, with a studio talk show with guests who are media horny and public that for a fee of 35 euros, the nose is willing to act ‘spontaneously’ as a fodder for two recordings.
“We’re doing ‘Catherine’, but with someone of color! And then the big studio shows and something to laugh about.”
If so, great things await us.
Then couples get married ‘live’ on television at Linda de Mol’s ‘Love Letters’.
Then in ‘Ron’s Honeymoon Quiz’ the groom again flickers in a bowl of soup because his new wife is too stupid to to poop answer a few simple questions.
Then Wendy van Dijk lets people in ‘Over de Roooie’ again for a few cents comb their hair with a used toilet brush.
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Very vintage.
Well, what’s your topic tonight?
Perverts in their 40s who think it’s normal to approach 17-year-old guys online with sexually suggestive comments in the hopes of actually having sex with them later?
No doubt also done by Catherine Keyl.
Moreover, something else is avenged.
For some obscure reason you want to distinguish yourself from other talk shows by definitely not putting well-known Dutch people on stage.
Otherwise I would have looked to see if the guest of D66 still has such a thick rumen wearing suits that are too small.
Now I’m looking for something on Netflix or one of the other streaming services.
Greet,
JanD
PS. present. For your next brilliant idea.
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2023-05-25 09:32:24
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