Matthijs van Nieuwkerk has been replaced in almost all his programs after his departure from BNNVARA. Even the more personality-driven Matthijs Goes Door now has a potential replacement.
It is particularly painful for Matthijs van Nieuwkerk. After his departure from BNNVARA, the broadcaster has effortlessly found a replacement for almost all of its programs. Astrid Joosten took over the Scientific Annual Review, Patrick Lodiers the quiz The Connection and the Top 2000 a gogo continued effortlessly with Herman van der Zandt.
Eric Continues
Only the future of Matthijs Goes Door is still uncertain, but a potential replacement is now also emerging: Eric Corton. He says in the latest episode of ‘Guitar men, the podcastthat he does listen.
Eric thinks it’s a shame that this program is no longer on the tube. “It sometimes gave young talent a little bit of a chance. Something was bubbling there, but that is now lazing off the television again, while I think: does that program necessarily depend on Matthijs? I do not think so.”
“I want to do it!”
It can also go on fine with Eric, he thinks. “I know a few who could do it. I would like to do such a program, let me put it this way.”
Eric used to make the music program ‘t Dak Eraf. “We just didn’t do interviews there, but we did other things. It took me years to get it off the ground in this way, with Jools Holland as an example. So much so that we went to Jools Holland to look: how could we do that in the Netherlands?”
Second chance
It never got as good as Jools Holland. “Just the lighting plan that Jools Holland had hanging, we had to make eight episodes of that, I believe, for that money.”
It did make many viewers happy, says Eric. “I still get people saying, ‘That was cool. Too bad it only ran for about four years.’ Then I say: a year or four? We only made six! It was only six episodes, but they were repeated so many times.”
All these years later, Eric would love a second chance. Will we see him on the tube with Eric Goes Door?
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