Renze Klamer will return after the summer with his own personality show on the late evening of RTL 4. How will the 36-year-old presenter lure viewers away from Pauw & De Wit and Today Inside?
It should be the great savior of RTL 4’s late evening: talk show talent Renze Klamer. He must make people forget the misery of one year of RTL Tonight and returns with a program that bears his name. According to experts, he is by far the best option the TV channel has, although he does make a false start by angering his former Tonight colleagues.
Angela and Eus
What does Alex Mazereeuw, TV critic for de Volkskrant, expect from Renze’s comeback? He describes the presenter as the ‘fallen wonder boy’ who will probably come up with an old, familiar talk show concept again.
“There will be a ‘normal’ table again, there will be sidekicks again that will annoy us to no end, and Renze will also probably soon bring in the Jan Slagters, Eusjes and Angela de Jongs of this world again to go through the news,” he says in de Volkskrant.
‘That’s how it should be’
Boring or just fine? Alex thinks the latter. “Maybe that is ultimately just how it should be. The nice thing about talk show country the Netherlands is that everything eventually becomes the same again.”
You shouldn’t want to innovate too much late in the evening, he thinks. “Today Inside has been doing the same thing for years, and Pauw en De Wit is essentially just Pauw and Witteman, but with a balder white man.”
Innovator
Alex expects little innovation. “From Bar Laat to Op1 and from RTL Late Night to RTL Tonight: ultimately the viewer is apparently most satisfied with as few adjustments as possible. Table, a few good chatters (don’t call them exclusive interpreters!), and, depending on taste, Rob de Wijk or Johan Derksen who analyzes geopolitics.”
And Renze is also going back to that proven concept, he concludes. Why? Because that simply scores best. “At most, we need an ‘innovator’ every now and then to make us realize that again.”
