Sam Hagens gets a pretty hefty sneer from his former boss Wilfred Genee. Today’s presenter Inside finds the studio setting of Goodnight Nederland really very mal. “Do normal!”
It went very fast with Sam Hagens. Before New Year’s Eve he was only a few times a week on the bar stool of today Inside, and now he presents the late talk show of NPO 1 evening after evening. His program Good evening Netherlands works with four benches that are opposite each other: two for the hosts, two for the guests.
Separate shot
Wilfred Genee believes that a remarkable setup. He feels that it doesn’t work and it is pure to just be a little different than other programs. “They sit opposite each other. It’s a very special shot. Every time you think: what do you want, you know,” he says in BNRs The Friday Move.
In the end, Sam and his co-host Welmoed Sijtsma will go to a traditional talk show setup, he suspects. “Don’t make it that difficult. Sit down at a table, sit down together, go and talk to each other. Anyway? That’s a talk show right?”
Trapeze
Sam and Welmoed are now victims of TV makers who do everything they can to be different, says Wilfred. “Soon in a trapeze or something, you know? Keep on a man. Do you all normally!”
TV authority Tina Nijkamp, who is in the studio with him, agrees. “Or a car I know a lot. Yes, they come up with everything. But just go to that table, because as a presenter you also have to radiate authority and you do that on the head of the table. Just like in the past, the father of the house did who came to cut the meat on Sunday.”
Authority
At the head of the table you also grow as a talk show host, Tina continues. “Then your authority radiate, but not if you have to look at each other with binoculars opposite each other.”
It is not pleasant for the guests, she concludes. “What a bank also does is that you become very vulnerable, so you see someone’s whole body so that someone does not dare to give everything. That is my theory anyway.”