Tygo Gernandt will cause the EO a significant loss of no less than 320 thousand euros if his Tygo and Flakka program is indeed canceled, Tina Nijkamp estimates. “They have no choice.”
There is a stain on Tygo Gernandt now that the weekly magazine Privé has revealed the truth about him. In addition to the intense events in his private life – an ex-girlfriend accuses him of abuse and has also released evidence of this – he also appears to have been summarily dismissed from Flikken Maastricht.
Does this fit with EO?
To make matters worse, he would still use drugs and that does not rhyme with the EO program that is/was about to be broadcast, namely Tygo and the Flakka. In it he talks to people who are addicted to the so-called ‘zombie drug’, but is that still credible if he also uses it himself?
Tina Nijkamp doesn’t think so. “Does it still fit the EO? I honestly think that the EO has no choice but not to broadcast it,” she says in her podcast Tina’s TV Update.
Cancel
Tygo won’t be prosecuted for anything, but Tina doesn’t care. “Then people say: ‘Yes, you can’t cancel it before the judge has spoken, can you?’ Well, look, it’s not like you can’t cancel if the judge hasn’t spoken yet. That is always said, but of course it is also something else, isn’t it.”
“In addition to criminal law, as a channel or broadcaster you also have to think: does this suit us? If you have a series about the dangers of drug use, but the presenter uses drugs himself, then yes, that is not appropriate and you have no choice but not to broadcast it.”
‘It’s not right’
Tina herself led SBS 6 for years and she would not allow this. “It is the same if, as a presenter of the program Addicted, you yourself were very addicted to drugs or alcohol and then you started helping people there with interventions and saying: ‘What you are doing is not good.’ Yes, that is not correct.”
“And then you can say: ‘A judge must have spoken first’, yes, I don’t know that. I don’t think so. I think you can then say as a broadcaster: ‘We don’t want anything to do with this, we’ll just throw this in the trash.’”
320 thousand euros
The EO is about to throw away a lot of money, according to Tina. “How much does a series like this cost? Then you have to think of around 80,000 euros per episode, so then you are talking about 320,000 euros, which is then gone and of course that is a great shame, but you also have – especially as a public broadcaster – that you have three time you have to think about what you broadcast.”
“You really have to set an example. I would find it very understandable if the EO did not go ahead with this. In fact, I would find it very strange if they wanted to broadcast it, because you can certainly see from that video that it is not completely normal.”
Abuse
Tina is referring to the video that shows Tygo dragging his ex-girlfriend out of a building. Of course, most people do not treat their partners this way, according to the TV authority.
“At least: I am happy to say that I have never experienced anything like this with a partner, so yes, I think the EO just thinks: this does not fit the broadcaster we want to be.”