Katja Schuurman and Lieke van Lexmond return to GTST, but Ruud Feltkamp also makes his return. A crowd puller? “If his mother and his grandmother look extra, it will stop a bit!”
All old faces suddenly return in Good Times Bad Times. Katja Schuurman was already on display at the beginning of the year in the soap series and that resulted in many extra viewers. So she will be retrieved, but also veterans Lieke van Lexmond, Edwin Jonker and Ruud Feltkamp will soon be parading again.
Katja effect
A golden move? “In any case, there was a very clear Katja Schuurman effect in the spring,” RTL spokesperson Rob Goossens told the Desk of RTL Boulevard. “In general for the fans of the first hour or who have entered after ten years, it is always nice to see faces from the past again.”
The Katja effect was huge, he continues. “That was really not normal. That just yielded 100 or 200 thousand viewers per episode more, so in that respect I understand that they thought at Endemolshine: do we still have some money? Can we do Katja again and who can we get more?”
Mother and grandmother
Colleague Daphne Bunskoek thinks that Katja especially appeals to people. “Yes, Katja is the most special name, right? She is the most popular, I think.”
Rob: “That for sure. She did it briefly in the spring because her agenda no longer allowed her. Fortunately she also saw how popular she herself became through her return and is now there again.”
Then Snendend: “With all due respect for Ruud Feltkamp, but if his mother and his grandmother look extra, it will stop a bit.”
Prefer Reinout
A comeback from Reinout Oerlemans would also release a lot. “Of course we just want to see Reinout Oerlemans again. Unfortunately, he said:” I will return to the most episode if it ever stopped, “but there is no one that it ever stops.”
And Inge Ipenburg, who played Martine Hafkamp, then? She responds: “I will only think about that seriously if I were asked and then it must be a good story. Not like the last time Martine makes a spectacular entrance and then mainly with her daughter on the couch.”