RTL 4 star Carlo Boszhard will stop his weekly column in the TV guide Televizier after years, because he says he is too busy with other things. Are we going to miss it? Probably not.
If you sign a well-known name as a columnist, you naturally hope to get controversial pieces in return. However, Carlo Boszhard’s in the Televizier almost never made the headlines: there were too many bits and pieces to make a catchy headline, and that obviously does not make show media such as AD and RTL Boulevard happy.
Fingers on the pulse
What were Carlo’s pieces about? That he sprained his ankle in Oxford Street in London, that his wisdom tooth had to be removed, that he has a weak heart and that he had a pounding headache due to corona. All in all: it seemed more like a Finger on the Pulse than anything really relevant.
Carlo made it almost as colorful as channel colleague Robert ten Brink. He writes a weekly piece in the Vriendin and it is certainly impossible to get through that. Its readers now know exactly when he changes the litter box, what the group app with his daughters is called and what weeds grow in his front garden. Yawn.
Carlo quits
Anyway: 56-year-old Carlo quits. “The high word has to get out. After 6.5 years, this is my last column. A new challenge awaits in 2026 and with all the programs and the musical it is busy. That new challenge also lies in writing and I love it,” he writes in Televizier.
With the last words: “As for these columns, I thank you for reading and thank my love Herald and the editors of Televizier. You were completely… the end.”
Why so boring?
The big question is: why were Carlo’s pieces so incredibly boring? He has enough Hilversumse sleaze and dirt have the ability to bake something fun out of it. “I have tried to avoid criticism of colleagues and programs as much as possible,” he says, however.
Why? “Because I am still in the middle of the work field. Criticism often comes from people who are on the sidelines, who can more easily hit hard. In many cases their position in the work field has already been played out. Or it completely suits his or her style. Fine, to each their own.”
Hopefully Carlo will soon find a new platform for the prose about his weak ankle. The Dutch Journal of Medicine perhaps?