Chantal Janzen and Ruben Nicolai arouse disappointed reactions with the level of their TV programs. “Yes, this is really crazy! It has just become a social workplace.”
The level of programs on linear television seems to be declining more and more. Big A-stars present the most infantile programs. Chantal Janzen and Martijn Krabbé are currently on the channel with a program about balloons and Ruben Nicolai has an entire show about dominoes.
Balloons for Ellie
It is going too far, according to a number of media experts. René van der Gijp is especially surprised about Chantal’s balloon show. “You know, come on, you know. Chantal Janzen can do something, right? Can she say no? Then you’re not going to present a balloon show, are you? Come on man!” he exclaims in Today Inside†
Wilfred Genee: “There must have been a few people sitting together. They came up with that with those marbles, with that chocolate…”
Johan Derksen: “I would not have been surprised if this was from SBS 6.”
René: “Can’t you let Ellie Lust do that or something? Yes, of course man. You don’t get Chantal Janzen out of her bed for that, do you?”
No more creativity
The Gooi and Eemlander columnist Janneke van der Horst notices that there is less and less room for creativity. “If you want to do something creative in the Netherlands, you can hardly find that anymore. If you want to make a movie, if you want to write a series, if you have a column or if you want to write an article in the newspaper, if you want to make TV,” she says in The Shit Show†
She continues: “Everyone is involved, it’s all formats, it’s all the same. All the good things are taken out, everything has to be added because otherwise it is not possible.”
Her podcast colleague Stéphanie Hoogenberk: “There must always be someone who is known, because otherwise it won’t work.”
Janneke: “Yes, unknown people do not do it and should not be given the opportunity to grow. Terrible.”
“This is crazy!”
According to Janneke, the ‘debility’ in the media world is increasing. Colleague Stéphanie agrees: “It is getting worse. When I also watch that documentary by Renate Rubinstein, I really think: she was so intelligent and so funny. There used to be good interviews on television.”
You used to have intelligent programs like Achter Het Nieuws, she says. “That’s what everyone wanted to see then. There is nothing that people are excited about right now.”
She concludes: “I get it too, because Winston Gerschtanowitz has to tell him that he has a marble program and then you have Ruben Nicolai – I’m not making it up – who has a program in which the best domino builder in the Netherlands is sought. Yes, crazy! It has just become a social workplace.”
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