RTL 4 must intervene very quickly to prevent negative sentiment surrounding Renze Klamer. It seems that Beau van Erven Dorens and Humberto Tan are done with him. “They hate him.”
It is a blessing for the viewer that RTL 4 has finally decided to pull the plug on RTL Tonight and start making a regular talk show again with Renze Klamer as the leading man. In fact, all the ingredients are in place to make it a success: a major TV channel, a great talent as a talk show host and the familiar talk show concept.
Sinking ship
There are two dangers looming for Renze: Arjen Lubach’s weak lead-in, which does not match the RTL viewer at all, and a negative sentiment that can strike mercilessly. On the day that RTL Tonight was canceled, he made an awkward Instagrammail posted in which he cheerfully states that he is looking for a regular talk show table.
It is a harsh sneer at his former colleagues from RTL Tonight, which, according to critics, failed partly because of the experiment without a regular talk show table. That clumsy timing seems to cause irritation among the two former colleagues he abandoned on the sinking Tonight ship: Beau van Erven Dorens and Humberto Tan.
‘They hate him!’
Beau bluntly cut off a question about Renze on television last weekend and Humberto thanks his colleagues Beau and Leonie ter Braak: “Just when things got difficult, you stood still.”
And that is of course what they accuse Renze of: running away when it turned out not to work. “I noticed a certain kind of mixed feeling in Beau,” Wilfred Genee notes Today Inside.
Johan Derksen then: “They hate Renze. You can tell.”
‘Just rest’
Wilfred also finds Renze’s Insta post really awkward. “He really shouldn’t do that. He should actually leave it at such a moment. Let it all rest at such a moment.”
Johan: “Yes, but Renze has kept his mouth shut so far, hasn’t he?”
Wilfred: “Yes, but to do this on the evening when it is announced that it will stop… I don’t know if that is so useful to start talking about a table.”
Johan: “Beau forgets to mention that he was also part of the failure, because he sat there chatting listlessly on autopilot, but he had no energy at all.”
Team player
Aran Bade thinks that Renze is perceived as a size monger. “You have to be a team player and it was palpable that things did not go well at all, that behind the scenes Renze left and that Beau and Humberto pulled the cart. You felt that a bit,” says the show reporter in RTL Boulevard.
Colleague Luuk Ikink: “Yes, Beau refers to that, like: ‘I’m not going to talk about this any further, because it would be too painful for me’, but so does Humberto, right, on Instagram?”
Aran: “Yes, Renze is emphatically not mentioned, and neither is Beau. That is striking.”
False start
RTL must be careful that no negative sentiment arises around Renze, says Aran. “You don’t want to start again with a false start. I was in contact with Renze. He said: ‘I am difficult to reach, I am elsewhere in the world, but I am now going to prepare quietly behind the scenes.’”
Daphne Bunskoek understands the annoyance about Renze. “Yes, at one moment three colleagues hear that they are not allowed to continue, and then a very cheerful message comes: ‘I am busy with my new table.’ Of course, that doesn’t come across as very collegial.”
Reward
TV authority Tina Nijkamp understands the mixed feelings. “Who will be presented with the bill? Those are Beau and Humberto. Unlike Renze, they did stick to the format. He said in November: ‘I’m done with it, this is not for me, I’m going home’, and Beau and Humberto did remain loyal to Peter, Carlo and the team.”
She continues in the podcast Tina’s TV Update: “You now see what they get: a thank you. They will soon be at home with fewer programs and no longer that prestigious talk show, and only because they have remained loyal to the boss.”
Not smart
Tina does support Renze’s decision to leave at the time. “It is also not very smart of Beau and Humberto that they stayed, because they could have seen that it would not work out anymore, but this is still very tough. It is typical of the TV world. Then you actually remain loyal and then you still get the lid on your nose.”
And all doors are now open for Renze. “Leaving now feels a bit like betrayal to those other people,” says Aran.
Finally, Daphne: “Yes, because he is now also rewarded a bit for getting on his own…”
