Sam Hagens and Welmoed Sijtsma collapse completely unexpectedly with their new talk show. Is it too light? Does their coach Irene Moors have to go overboard? “You don’t want to make life & cooking!”
It is a bit strange: Sam Hagens and Welmoed Sijtsma will be supposed to make the journalistic talk show of the public broadcaster in the coming months. They are young and relatively inexperienced, so they need some coaching behind the scenes. Who was recruited for this? The fallen TV star Irene Moors. Huh?
“I was shocked”
According to the makers, Irene simply has a lot of knowledge about TV duos, but TV authority Tina Nijkamp finds it a strange choice for a serious program such as Good evening Netherlands. “They are coached by Irene Moors of Life & Cooking!” She shouts in The Media Week.
Mark Koster, her co-host in that podcast, on it: “No!”
Tina: “Yes! Yes, I was shocked. I was shocked. Then I thought: oh, you have to do it seriously. Really seriously.”
Kockelmann
In such a case you really have to attract another coach, says Mark. “Yes, no, do Kockelmann. Yes, although I sometimes find it too serious. He always pretends to be prime minister, Kockelmann.”
Tina laughing: “Haha. Yes, he looks a bit like a prime minister.”
NPO Prime Minister Sven Kockelmann has not become it, but therefore Irene Moors. Awkward? If you look at the viewing figures, it might be time to discharge her, says Tina.
Lower viewing figures
Tina points out that the second episode of Goedennond Nederland yesterday managed to fascinate 503 thousand viewers, slightly less than the 531 thousand of Monday. And that while the lead-in was much better. “Tips: Put an oval table down !!! And for Sam and Welmoed: don’t try to be ‘to be Carlo and Irene’, she says on her analysis canal.
She concludes: “Yesterday it was sometimes a bit too exuberant, I thought. It is not Life & Cooking, but for many viewers meant as a serious talk show.”