Tooske Ragas thinks it is very hypocritical that Peter van der Vorst propagates that we should be more ‘sweet’, but then broadcasts the Soundos El Ahmadi hate show. “Just like a puffer!”
RTL’s TV boss Peter van der Vorst has cornered himself with the slogan ‘Stop Hating, Start Loving, Be Sweet’. Every time he launches a questionable program, it is naturally judged against his own moral yardstick. This time there is a lot of controversy about the new Soundos El Ahmadi show House of Villains.
Bullying and taunting
This TV show from Soundos is only about one thing: crazy reality stars who bully and harass each other. “Wow, when you talk about trash TV, this really is the trash of trash TV,” notes show expert Eline de Ruig at the desk of Show news.
Celebrity photographer William Rutten: “You can take a look inside a closed institution, right?”
Eline: “It’s just a lot of shouting and a lot of arguing. We’ve all been able to watch it for a while.”
Shocked
Presenter Tooske Ragas thinks this is very bad TV. “I watched it and was quite shocked by it.”
Eline: “There is a lot of emphasis on ensuring that there will be as many arguments as possible and that everyone will hate each other as much as possible, because they are looking for the biggest villain of that program.”
Tooske is surprised: “But Peter van der Vorst wanted to get rid of this type of television, right?”
Eline: “Yes, he stopped with Temptation Island because he said: ‘It’s out of date’, and then you come up with such a program.”
Contradictory
This is hypocritical of Peter, Eline thinks. “That is of course very contradictory, but yes, that also causes a lot of criticism of him. He has run such a campaign with Stop Hating, Start Living, Be Sweet, that we should all be kind to each other.”
RTL recently also reprimanded its own viewers to tell them not to post such mean comments about Expedition Robinson. “That is of course not consistent with such a program.”
Nonsense
We then see Soundos themselves spouting some nonsense in an item from Shownieuws. “Reality TV has proven over the past twenty or thirty years that it really is an art form of television making.”
Eline is relentless. “This is just nonsense. It makes no sense that RTL is broadcasting this with such a campaign. I understand that such a program will still be made, but the fact that it is on RTL, of all places, is just strange.”
Paffer
Tooske thinks Peter is just a hypocritical idiot. “I’m thinking: what can you compare it to? But it’s a bit like if you, as a parent, sit around smoking all day, but you keep shouting at your children: ‘Don’t smoke, right? That’s very bad for you!’ How can you say that?”
Eline: “We also asked RTL itself and they said: ‘That campaign was really about the online hate reactions and not about the content of the programs.’ Yes, I think that’s a nice twist.”
Tooske: “That’s what I mean by smoking, like: we’ll show it!”
Eline: “Yes, this makes no sense. Then say: ‘We have changed our opinion, we no longer support our campaign and just want to broadcast these types of programs.’”
Disgusting TV
At competitor RTL Boulevard they also have an item about this hate show by Soundos, but there they leave the criticism of RTL’s hypocrisy completely undiscussed. Presenter Luuk Ikink laughs misplacedly about it: “Rob, what a disgusting program. We have to see that, don’t we?”
TV expert Rob Goossens then laughed: “No, we shouldn’t want that. No, we have to be kind to each other, guys.”
Luuk: “Everyone is going to watch this. Everyone thinks: what weirdos they are, but we think it’s fantastic.”
And that is precisely what makes Peter van der Vorst so hypocritical.