Tina Nijkamp thinks that Albert Verlinde is really making hot cakes in the media about RTL Tonight. According to the theater boss, the talk show is really going great. “Oh, well, no!”
We can’t really take Albert Verlinde seriously as an independent show expert anymore. If he had still been at the table at Today Inside, he would have slaughtered RTL Tonight at every performance. But now that he himself is part of that TV flop, we hear him everywhere saying that the viewing figures are on the rise and everyone is so positive.
Sweet rolls
Albert has now called Shownieuws that the scores are approaching 600,000 viewers and, according to Tina Nijkamp, that is a distorted picture of reality. “Yes, no. No, yes, no. They had 598 thousand viewers on Friday, so that is indeed almost 600 thousand viewers, but what’s going on…” she starts at the table. Today Inside.
She continues: “Yesterday they had 290 thousand viewers again. They are very dependent on the influx, as it is called, from the program before it. Yesterday there was a program that had 304 thousand viewers and then they score 290 thousand viewers. On Friday, which he is talking about, The Masked Singer is in front of it. That scores very well.”
Boom
The Masked Singer is a huge crowd pleaser. “That had 1.4 million, you know, boom. But then it goes to 600,000 viewers, but that means that 800,000 viewers leave again. That is different from Pauw & De Wit. Viewers really turn to that.”
Even if Pauw & De Wit is after a TV flop, the program still scores. “People really turn on that and RTL Tonight actually always has a lower rating than the program before it. Of course, people stick around, but what they need to do is really turn on people.”
Major problems
According to Tina, Albert cannot say with dry eyes that things are going in the right direction with RTL Tonight. “They still have serious problems, because 290,000 viewers is of course nothing.”
She concludes: “Last year Renze just scored double. I think it’s a shame for Albert, because he means it all very well, and it would also make me sleep very badly, but I can’t say it’s a hit.”