The Gerard Joling soap Only Joling was a great success this year, so RTL 4 immediately launched a second series with even more episodes. Isn’t the singer afraid of overkill? “I hesitated for a long time.”
It’s a given in commercial television: if something is a success, they immediately start milking it. The Gerard Joling soap Only Joling was such a great success in the spring that there is already a sequel coming in the winter. RTL 4 will start a new series in January, consisting of not six, but eight (!) episodes of one and a half hours.
Long doubted
Won’t it be a little too much? Gerard tells in The Telegraph that he ‘had doubts about it for a long time’. Still, the first series was a huge success. “Yes, that’s exactly why. The second season should not be disappointing. There will now be eight episodes instead of six, so the confidence is there.”
He continues: “But you are dependent on so many things, including things that you cannot do anything about. What is happening on other channels, for example. And moreover, if you have the feeling that you have already shown everything once, then you should not start.”
Fierce competition
In any case, Gerard’s first concern is justified, because the competition is becoming fierce, TV authority Tina Nijkamp reports. analysis channel. The second season starts on Saturday, February 28 at 8 p.m. on RTL 4. “Right opposite Wie is de Mol. Tough competition,” she says.
And Geer’s second concern, that it might become repetitive? According to him, that’s actually not too bad. “We don’t have that idea. Also because Curaçao is involved, with all the preparations for the concert and the evening itself, behind the scenes…”
Concert on Curaçao
Gerard has announced a big concert on the beach of Curaçao. “The viewer is always curious about what happens there and what is involved. In the first series, this was not even discussed in great detail.”
He is currently doing the De Toppers Christmas shows. The day of Christmas Eve is the last. And after that? “Then I’ll go to Bonaire for a few days. Not to Curaçao, there are far too many people I know there and then I know what’s happening… It really takes some time to recover and nothing at all.”