The position of Peter van der Vorst as the channel boss of RTL 4 is questioned hard in De Telegraaf. According to Tina Nijkamp, who herself was once a channel boss of SBS 6, it can go very fast …
In 2016, Peter van der Vorst was multi -millionaire in one fell swoop by the sale of his production company to John de Mol. He has since been one of the elite of our country and has withdrawn to the Amsterdam canal belt, where he inhabits a building of no less than 4 million euros. Mide from the ordinary man and woman who looks at RTL 4.
Tina Critical
Does Peter still know what the common people want to look at? He has made RTL Boulevard a very dry program, is now bored his viewer with the VPRO jokes of Arjen Lubach and to make matters worse, he has figures such as Simon van Teutem and Ahmed Aboutaleb as a kind of Idols jury member for RTL Tonight.
The entire country sees RTL 4 derailed under the leadership of Peter and the consequences can be fierce, writes Tina Nijkamp, the former channel boss of SBS 6, in her Telegraaf-Column.
Arrogance
After a few wrong choices, a program director such as Peter can suddenly “get into trouble,” says Tina. “Overmoed and arrogance are always lurking. It seems that it now seems to be happening at Van der Vorst.”
Tina thinks Peter no longer knows how the people outside the canal belt live. “The classic mistake: the director suddenly programs for his own circle of friends instead of for the viewer.”
‘Lubach does not fit’
According to Tina, the first sign was the finished transfer of Matthijs van Nieuwkerk. A photo was brought out on which the presenter is flanked by RTL-Bobos Peter and Sven Sauvé. The ‘breathed arrogance’, Tina believes.
Now the same mistake has been made with Arjen Lubach, she thinks. “His tone does not fit at all with a commercial family channel full of Holland’s Got Talent and help, my husband is a handyman.”
Offside
Tina lists what goes wrong with RTL 4: from the decline of GTST to the empty bunding of RTL Boulevard and from milking B&B full of love to flopping RTL Tonight.
What should Peter do now? “He has to stop doing large shop and put the viewer again at the center,” says Tina Streng. “Because the most important law in television country? Whoever loses sight of the viewer is faster than he thinks.”
Oops, oops, oh. Is there a moving box on Peter’s desk before Christmas? Time will learn it …