The first edition of The Passion Ascension was viewed by more than 1.2 million people on Thursday. As a result, the music spectacle attracted fewer viewers than the regular broadcast of The Passionwhich was tuned in by 2.2 million viewers in April of this year.
The story of The Passion Ascension is about how Jesus rose and asks his disciples to continue his work. Soy Kroon, Kim-Lian van der Meij and Noortje Herlaar, among others, made their appearance again as Jesus, Maria Magdalena and Maria respectively in the new edition of The Passion† Ruud de Wild could be seen as the narrator again.
The start of the new RTL program Race for the Rings with Beau van Erven Dorens had 588,000 viewers on Thursday. The second episode of the music program POP22 with Ilse DeLange and Matthijs van Nieuwkerk, Thursday, with 692,000 viewers, increased slightly compared to last week, when 605,000 people watched.
The premiere of The Beaversthe reality series about folk singer John de Bever, attracted 312,000 viewers to RTL 5. That was not enough for a place in the list of 25 best viewed programs of the day.
The day top 5 of Thursday 26 May
- 1. NOS News from 8 p.m. (NPO1) – 1,629,000 viewers
- 2. The Passion Ascension (NPO1) – 1,218,000 viewers
- 3. RTL News from 7.30 pm (RTL 4) – 1,025,000 viewers
- 4. Op1 (NPO1) – 966,000 viewers
- 5. Today Inside (SBS6) – 857,000 viewers