It has been noticeable for a while that Chantal Janzen attracts very few viewers for an A-star. Her show Beat the Champions also does not score properly, even now that Linda de Mol is off the tube again.
If it is Chantal Janzen who has to follow in the footsteps of Linda de Mol as TV queen of the Netherlands, then she still has a long way to go. The footprint that the presenter leaves behind on the Hilversum Media Park is not that impressive. Her programs actually disappoint each and every one.
Chantal is disappointing
Weekly magazine Privé recently listed all Chantal’s flops and the length of that list is telling: Chantal’s programs do not take root. And now her game show Beat the Champions is also in dire straits. There has been a lot of buzz about this for weeks: is the viewer fed up with the format or is the competition with Miljoenenjacht too tough?
The latter does not seem to be the case. A week after the season finale with Linda de Mol, Chantal still scores meager: only 532 thousand people (10 percent market share) watched the broadcast of Beat the Champions on RTL 4 yesterday. (2 million and 39 percent) on the other hand.
Too many episodes
Angela de Jong expressed criticism last week that RTL 4 broadcasts the same programs too often, that they also make too many episodes and that they also last much too long.
Viewing figure connoisseur Tina Nijkamp writes today to fear Beat the Champions. “The format seems to have worked out. Oh dear. Too many episodes? Repeated too many times? Next week there really is almost no competition, (now still Farmer Wants Woman), maybe it will score better then? But it is clear that Beat The Champions seems to be due for a break.”
Yvon on one
Yvon Jaspers was therefore the big viewing figure winner yesterday, but Tina has a comment on that. “In 2013, more than 3.1 million people watched the kick-off of the international version and in 2016 the introduction round was viewed by almost 3.1 million people. So yesterday more than 1 million less.”
Yvon is criticized for being very mean to a lonely farmer. Angela agrees: “The way Yvon sort of forced him to reveal he’s a virgin was just plain bizarre. Then the callous question ‘how old are you?’ out, as if that man had committed some crime.”
Viewing figures
The viewing figures of Sunday, April 9, 2023 (SKO):
Top 15 | Market shares (18-24h, 6+) |
|---|---|
| 01. Farmer Wants Woman (NPO1) 2,039,000 | 01. NPO1 / 30.2% |
| 02. Journal 20:00 (NPO1) 1,967,000 | 02. RTL4 / 12.2% |
| 03. Studio Sport Eredivisie (NPO1) 1,177,000 | 03. SBS6 / 11.1% |
| 04. Real life in the zoo (NPO1) 1,061,000 | 04. ESPN / 7.2% |
| 05. Studio Football (NPO1) 774,000 | 05. NPO2 / 6.0% |
| 06. Along The New Silk Road (NPO2) 691,000 | 06. NPO3 / 4.4% |
| 07. Heart of the Netherlands (SBS6) 618,000 | 07. Vero / 4.0% |
| 08. Feyenoord – RKC (ESPN) 606,000 | 08.NET5 / 3.0% |
| 09. Who of Three (SBS6) 605,000 | 09. RTL7 / 3.0% |
| 10. Half past seven news (RTL4) 578,000 | 10. RTL5 / 2.9% |
| 11. Studio Sport (NPO1) 566,000 | 11. ESPN2 / 1.9% |
| 12. Beat the Champions (RTL4) 532,000 | 12. BBC / 1.2% |
| 13. Humberto on Sunday (RTL4) 526,000 | 13. Paramount / 1.1% |
| 14. vtwonen (SBS6) 473,000 | 14. RTL8 / 1.1% |
| 15. Show News (SBS6) 466,000 | 15. Comedy / 0.7% |
Market shares per channel group (18-24h, 6+) | More viewing figures at: |
| 01. Public Broadcasting 40.6% |  |
| 02. RTL Netherlands 20.1% | |
| 03. Talpa TV 18.5% |
Programs that did not make the top 15 include WNL op Zondag (377 thousand), Buitenhof (368 thousand), Wire steel (351 thousand), RTL Boulevard (350 thousand) and Metropolis (301 thousand).