Marco Louwerens, known as today’s ‘director’, was program director of SBS 6 when Peter Gillis was on the tube. Why did he not intervene at any time?
A new season from the Peter Gillis soap is coming and that leads to astonishment for many people, certainly because he is about to get a conviction on his pants. And do advertisers like Albert Heijn and the Postcode Loterij still want in the commercial breaks at SBS 6? Tina Nijkamp greatly wonders.
On the tube
Marco Louwerens, the channel boss of SBS 6, was on the bar stool last night Today Inside. “He was on the tube when I was a program director,” he confesses.
Host Wilfred Genee wonders whether Marco had stopped. “Marco, now that you are no longer a director: would you have continued with it now? Or do you say: I had stopped? ”
Marco: “That is a difficult question.”
Talpa policy
Does Talpa have such weird norms and values? Marco: “There was and is a policy at Talpa, and that is really independent of commerce or money that as long as someone has not been convicted, someone can stay on the tube. That is really a policy. But it is becoming increasingly difficult of course with people like this. “
What did Marco do himself? “For example, I sometimes called him, and his then Nicole, when he was accused of the abuse of her.”
Call Nicole
Marco wanted to know if that abuse had taken place. If they had confirmed that, he would apparently had taken him off the tube. “I called him then, both got on the phone and said,” Joh, we hear this, what’s true? “
And then? “Then in all keys – also because of her – all kinds of arguments are said:” That is absolutely not true, nothing has happened. ” Yes, what should you do then? ”
René: “Then you’re done?”
“He was next to it”
Wilfred finds that very easy. “But later she told something else of course.”
Marco: “Yes, but at that moment that is the only thing I …”
Table guest Dyantha Brooks: “But when Nicol denied it, he was probably wrong.”
Marco: “Yes, I had both of them on the phone.”
Uncomfortable
Then it is not really credible, Dyantha notes. “And afterwards it turned out that she did not feel so free with him in the area.”
Marco: “That could indeed be possible. I don’t know. “
In other words: Marco just got rid of it easily. Everything for the money.
Trouble
Johan Derksen does not understand what the Gillis is still doing at Talpa. “They just turned off the door at two municipalities, there are just parks closed, so then you have to smell troubled. But is the target group that looks at it so great that it is worthwhile to keep broadcasting them? ”
Marco: “Well, a lot less so according to the latest figures, but what Tina says: finding reality head people is not that easy. Many people think they are suitable for that is not that easy. You have to look for the new Meilandjes hard … ”