A lot is going to change at the NPO, but there is little to notice during the presentation of new programs

Although the pressure from The Hague has been gone since the fall of the Schoof cabinet, the public broadcaster continues to implement the plan to allow the thirteen individual broadcasters to merge with five ‘broadcaster’ houses’. That is what Arjan Lock, chairman of the College of Omroecels, said Tuesday at the presentation of the new television season in Hilversum.

The plan to sound the expanding system with thirteen (prospective) broadcasters came in April from the then minister Eppo Bruins (NSC, Education, Culture and Media). But the cabinet soon fell afterwards and Bruins left, with his plans being threatened to be put on the long track. Hilversum could have leaned back and continue on the old road until a new cabinet would ever appear on the horizon.

But Lock, also EO director, says that the broadcasters want to take steps themselves to keep the order controllable, and do not want to wait passively for how the wind blows in The Hague. According to him, the reforms are desperately needed, because with so many broadcasters, the current system is difficult to control. Jojanneke Doorn, director of Video of the NPO, the central board of the public broadcaster, agrees. According to her, the broadcaster houses to be formed will require much less coordination.

The plan to make the broadcasters merge in broadcaster (four or five, plus the NOS/NTR) cannot be seen separately from the cuts that will continue as usual. The public broadcaster will already cut 20 million euros in 2026, and from 2027 around 160 million, on an annual budget of 982 million euros. Previously, Doorn announced that you start cutting the programming.

That was not immediately noticeable in the presentation on Tuesday. Dozens of new TV programs came by in a trailer of an hour and a half. Among the rather white programs, the block stood out over Suriname: with a large Surinam flag in the background, Noraly Beyer had a chat about half a century of independence. Soul singer Sarah-Jane sang a Surinamese song in traditional costume. The overview also states that now also large programs, such as a fashion competition with Carice van Houten, only appear online, on the NPO streaming service.

Below a few titles to look forward to this fall.

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Amusement

Bollox

Children make punk. In the past, Punk was something that the parents were rather shocked, but in Bollox the raw type of music is used to regulate the emotions of children. They can scream their anger in pointed songs.From September 21, NPO3.

Teun on the Biblebelt

Teun Föhn is known as a hairdresser in the reality series Urk from Talpa. Now he goes out for the EO to show the beauty of the Dutch Biblebelt. From October 30, NPO1.

A Beautiful Mess

Carice van Houten is known as a film actress (Blackbook,, ” Game of Thrones) and climate activist, but now she makes a TV program for the first time. She leads a competition in which Dutch people compete with each other for the best second -hand outfit. Start from 21 May on NPO.

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Suriname 50

To celebrate the independence of the former Dutch colony for half a century, the public broadcaster comes with only love seven programs. The children’s program is remarkable Fri Fri Suriname (from November 16), in which a documentary about independence is cut with a drama about two girlfriends. On November 25, the NOS reports live on the Independence Festivities.

Documentaries

Fortuyn, On-Hollands

This documentary series about the rise and murder of Pim Fortuyn in 2002 also wants to outline how the Netherlands has changed since then; How Muslims, asylum seekers and other migrants became a target of populist politicians and their entourage. From October 12, NPO2.

App me when you get home

Since the murder of the 17-year-old Lisa in Amsterdam, the subsequent demonstrations of the movement ‘We demand the night’, and the aggression that it called for men, violence against women has been high on the agenda. In this triptych, women and girls speak to the victim of assault and rape on the street. From November 27, NPO Start.

Hila Beyond the Taliban

Presenter Hila Noorzai has succeeded in making a travel series about the lives of Afghan women since the Misogyne Taliban regime banned them from public space. The women she portrays try to shape their own lives despite the oppression. From November 30, NPO2.

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Series

Paradise

Film by director and actress Bobbie Koek. After his ex-girlfriend drops their baby on the doorstep, the 16-year-old Noah leaves his birth village on a moped and pulls into the wide world with his child. From September 13, NPO 3.

Flying Hummelo

Children’s series. After the divorce of her parents, the 12-year-old Stadskind Lieke ends up in the Achterhoek. Through the motocross she can get rid of her anger and other emotions, and tries to find her place in the village community. October, Zapp, YouTube.

Soil 2

The award -winning thirtieth comedy of, by and with Eva Crutzen gets a second season, in which we will undoubtedly learn more about the great loss that underlies its behavior that has fallen loose. From November 3, NPO3.

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