Sophie Hilbrand is not yet a day at Bar Laat or her successor is already known: Tim de Wit, who could already be seen as a substitute at the talk show last season. “It will be Pauw & De Wit.”
What Sophie Hilbrand must have woke up with a knot in her stomach. After five years she was mercilessly dumped at the Talkshow Bar, because she always scored bad viewing figures. She is not a day away or the helm is already completely changing: she has to make way for a man, Tim de Wit, and the show will now be called Pauw & De Wit.
Tim flies in
Pauw & De Wit is the successor of Bar Laat and ‘will be more than her predecessor focused on news, current affairs and current interpretation,’ said BNNVARA to it Ad.
For this job, Tim stops his work at the VPRO, where he made Bureau Abroad. Whether Jeroen stops his long winter breaks in Curaçao is not yet clear. He will probably only go after the turn of the year. At the moment, Bar is not yet signed before 2026, so the talk show may not even return.
What does Tina think?
TV authority Tina Nijkamp thinks it is a good step. “Hey luckily !!!!! Bar getting a different name. Pauw & De Wit. Better. Tim de Wit replaces Sophie. Nice guy with a sympathetic look. It will be one on it or underneath for the show, but the good start is already there. Exciting !!!” she says on her analysis canal.
It is significant that the very last bar, with Sophie’s farewell, scored badly yesterday, according to Tina. “Painful final applaus for Sophie Hilbrand. She closes her talk show adventure with only 302 thousand viewers. Huh? Yes, it is really there. And that is even extremely low for Bar.”
Low
Tina even suspects that it is a low record. “That is not a nice farewell that way. A clear message from the viewer. He thinks Bar does not make it plum at all. Almost everything had higher than bar late, even time for Max with 308 thousand viewers. And that program does not have its best season.”
After the weekend, the summer talk show Good evening the Netherlands starts at the late evening of NPO 1.