Wilfred Genee faces a dilemma: does he continue to give Sander van de Pavert a chance with his Lucky TV or does he give in to the criticism? “It’s simply not funny enough,” the comment reads.
It is painful for all parties involved: there is strong criticism of the collaboration between Today Inside and Lucky TV, the now somewhat worn-looking video section of Sander van de Pavert. Nowadays half of the items seem to consist of dubbing Caroline van der Plas with adolescent lyrics such as ‘I have to poop’ and ‘I shit on the bed’.
Bland TV
Viewers think it’s lame. And that is painful for Today Inside, because the program profiles itself as brutal and sharp, while they now associate themselves with such a rather worn-out section. But for Sander it is at least as uncomfortable. His reputation as a creative satirist is gradually in ruins.
“It is true that Lucky has had less impact for a while. Creativity has decreased,” says VI expert Victor Vlam in his podcast Victor Indicates TV. “All those things (highlights, ed.) that I just mentioned are all Lucky’s from the time of De Wereld Draait Door. With the RTL talk show the impact was considerably lower.”
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Why is the viewer now tired of Lucky TV? Victor: “I honestly think that creativity has simply run out and that Sander has to reinvent himself. He is someone who has brilliant qualities, but he has also been making Lucky’s for a really long time, right? Because he has been doing it for twenty years. More than twenty years.”
He continues: “At a certain point you start to repeat yourself. Doing something completely new can really make you reinvent your creativity and come up with new things. I think he has to do that.”
‘He’s not looking’
It might add something if Lucky TV would focus more on the topics at the table, according to Victor. “It doesn’t really fit with the program. I actually have the feeling that Sander doesn’t watch that program at all and it’s completely separate from it and then it’s just something that doesn’t really fit in with the rhythm of that program at all.”
Johan Derksen has proposed to first assess the videos before they are broadcast. Unfeasible, Victor thinks. “I especially think that it will be very demotivating for Sander van de Pavert.”
Demotivating
Why demotivating? “Because at some point you will encounter the fact that he thinks he has made his best Lucky ever, but that the editors of VI think: we don’t think this is good enough. Then you will simply try less. That demotivates a creative person like Sander.”
He concludes: “I think it just doesn’t work. You have to try something new every now and then, but it’s just not funny enough. That’s the big problem. It’s more of an interruption to the program than it is an addition.”
