Sophie Hilbrand gets a hefty kick from her friends of De Volkskrant. According to TV reviewer Alex Mazereeuw, the late talk show of NPO 1 is really much better without her. “A six!”
The late evening of NPO 1 is enormously in the elevator now that Sophie Hilbrand has been blasted. Now Jeroen Pauw makes the late show with Tim de Wit and the viewers like that much better, because Pauw & De Wit is a viewing figure hit. It is a great program, thinks TV reviewer Alex Mazereeuw van de Volkskrant. He thinks both gentlemen have many qualities.
“A six!”
In any case, it is better than with Sophie, Alex snifters in the New Revu. “In Bar Laat the contrast with Sophie Hilbrand was too changeable; one evening it was very good, the other evening with luck a six. I find this talk show more stable. That has to do with the fact that Tim de Wit is a proven journalist.”
Tim is better than Sophie, he thinks. “He is just good at what he does without weird frills or artificial handles to stand out as a presenter. I like to watch.”
Pronounced
Tim still has to grow in the BN’er shelf. “Whether I find him boring? I think that is a better word. He is indeed not the most pronounced, sparkling, media personality. Yet he does have a slightly looser side.”
Oh, what then? “I have learned that he sometimes goes to festivals. I have heard through via that he can be a social animal, but that he is not for sale that way.”
On 1 trauma
The viewer will eventually embrace Tim, Alex thinks. “De Wit is the type of Dutchman with whom nothing is wrong.”
“But after the 1-trauma, which became a kind of curiosity cabinet with people who could not actually lead a talk show, I really like that solidity of Tim de Wit.”