The atmosphere on the set of the Paul de Leeuw show Hotel Hollandia is cutthroat, Evert Santegoeds heard from Private spies. “Are we going to hear today that the program is ending?”
Paul de Leeuw sees his TV career slowly sliding towards the drain. Is the Hotel Hollandia program the nail in his coffin? One thing is certain: the viewership drop is extremely dramatic and the reviews are very bad. Angela de Jong even calls on BNNVARA in her column today to take the whole thing off the air.
Cold coffee
Angela speaks in it A.D of a ‘failed Saturday evening program that promised a tasty cocktail of comedy, satire, characters and interviews but tastes like a sip of old, cold coffee’. “Recently, there have been more and more programs on the screen that are not good enough.”
It still needs to grow? Bullsh*t, Angela shouts. “Linear TV is a playground for spoiled TV makers who think that viewers eat everything and for everyone who thinks that presenting is not a profession, but something that we can all do.”
Bad atmosphere
Private boss Evert Santegoeds suggests today in his podcast Strictly Private that things are about to explode. “This isn’t good, is it? This is no longer possible, I think. I also understood from someone who was present at the recording that the atmosphere on the set was not too good and I think this will lead to one thing.”
What then? “That is the premature closure of Hotel Hollandia. I won’t be surprised if that news comes today. I am sure that Paul de Leeuw is not so ironclad: I don’t care about the criticism and I am going to make sure things turn out well, because he, as a very experienced TV maker, also knows that this combination will not work.”
‘Not so happy’
Hotel Hollandia is a combination of satire and talk show. “And what else is involved,” says Evert. “And then two of those serious conversations with two guys that I wasn’t very fond of either.”
“Yes, an impressive story of that boy who was abused, but in that setting, in that environment, on a Saturday evening where entertainment is expected, yes, I was not very happy about that. And we know Jamai’s story a little bit by now, don’t we?”
Urgency
Telegraaf journalist Jordi Versteegden agrees with this. “Yes, that lacks the urgency to stay home for that on Saturday evening. Well, we’ll see.”
Evert: “Well, people didn’t do that either. In fact, half of what happened last week was left over. I predicted on Friday that there would be some disaster tourists, but there were none. In fact, the audience has already halved, so the viewers have already left, and if I would advise Paul de Leeuw: get out of here too.”