Well, she’s back: Marieke Elsinga. After the horrible debacle of Everything is Music (Irene Moors hits a shuffleboard) she now presents a bridge show with falling candidates. “Bad!”
Where should Marieke Elsinga go? What path have the big television bosses mapped out for her? She is well on her way to becoming the face of the lightest TV entertainment that the Netherlands has to offer. After that strange program Everything is Music, she started a program yesterday in which she pushes candidates off a bridge.
Very good score
In The Jump, Marieke has a whole bunch of candidates walk over her bridge every time and if they get a question wrong, they immediately fall through a trap door. On SBS 6 they are pushed into the water with a large ball (De Kwis met Ballen) and on RTL 4 they now fall off a bridge. It is evident: John de Mol becomes nice and sadistic in his old age.
Anyway: a lot of people watched Marieke’s bridge show last night. According to ratings agency Tina Nijkamp, this concerns 888 thousand viewers, good for a sky-high 33.7 percent market share in the commercial target group 25 to 54 years old. That’s just really, really good.
Not a flop
Tina thinks Marieke is breathing a sigh of relief. “The Jump is off to a good start. Great news for Marieke Elsinga. Not a flop like Everything is Music. The reviews are still mixed, but the figures are very promising. It is not the most watched primetime program – that is Best Singers (1.2 million) – but it is the most watched at 9:30 PM.”
The Floor is the second program that John de Mol makes for RTL 4 since he became the sole owner of SBS 6 in 2018. The first program, The Floor, was also a success. The big question, however, is: when will the pillars of Marieke’s bridge collapse? The criticisms are devastating.
Not a serious show
Victor Hopman, an increasingly prominent TV critic, punishes Marieke severely. He writes on X: “This isn’t a serious show for a Saturday night, is it? At most, this is fun during the week at 6:30 PM with a steamed meal on your lap after work.”
And the influential opinion influencer Mies is especially ruthless. She writes: “Marieke Elsinga. It doesn’t get dumber or emptier. So you hope that The Jump will also be a big failure and she will have to go on social assistance. Or just the demise of this planet, that’s also fine.”
Wow! How intense.
Paper thin format
Are there any professional TV critics with strong opinions? Yes, reviewer Stefan Raatgever Het Parool. “It is a huge shame that the Talpa program creators have once again saddled her with a wafer-thin format,” says the TV expert, who calls it ‘unnecessary’ that Marieke keeps shouting ‘activate the shutters’ and ‘make the jump’.
Anyway, the numbers aren’t too bad. And you can’t say that about Paul de Leeuw. He attracted 380,000 viewers with Hotel Hollandia. Oh, oh, oh, what a mess. “Don’t think that Hotel Hollandia will have a sequel next season,” says Tina.
No, you don’t have to polish your crystal ball for that…