Rapper Snelle’s TV ambitions are viewed with suspicion by successful TV presenter Özcan Akyol. He wonders whether Lars Bos, as the artist is really called, has enough talent.
SBS 6 is fully committed to rapper Snelle as a new television face. He is allowed to do all kinds of programs for the channel, such as Ministars, which will premiere tomorrow. But not everyone believes in his qualities as a television talent. Are you fishing from the right pond?
Criticism of Swift
Mr. Ben Haverkamp from Zwolle wonders very much, he says in the letters section of the VARA guide. “I read that another rapper is allowed to present something on SBS 6. Maybe I sound like an old grandpa now, but in my youth television work was a craft and you first had to prove something before you were assigned a show.”
That doesn’t seem to be the case anymore, says Ben. “What are the requirements now?” he wonders cynically.
Tragic fallacy
Özcan Akyol, who manages the letters section, agrees with Mr. Ben. “I don’t know,” he replies.
He continues: “I think there is still the idea that someone who has more than 100,000 followers on Instagram automatically attracts a huge audience to linear television, a tragic fallacy that we see again and again in the numbers of everyone who gives it a try.”
Stupid and boring
Özcan himself can be seen regularly in the SBS 6 talk show Today Inside, but he is not exactly impressed by the other programs of the channel.
He concludes: “At SBS 6 they are a bit in the corner where the blows fall anyway, mainly because the titles are boring, predictable and stupid. Perhaps 2023 will be a much better year for that club.”
