Emma Wortelboer expects Arjen Lubach to regret his switch to RTL 4 and still return to the public broadcaster, just like Eva Jinek. “He’s going to miss it.”
So far it is not a great combination: Arjen Lubach and RTL 4. In particular, the guests who always invite the presenter are very far from the experience of the commercial TV viewer. Stephen Fry? Micha Wertheim? Stephanie Louwrier who comes to turn on with pieces of ginger and lemon? It all still breathes a lot of VPRO.
Back to NPO?
Eva Jinek has never been able to land completely the commercials; She is back to the public broadcaster. And it is almost impossible that Renze Klamer also thinks about a return, because he is required to play a kind of RTL Boulevard after the summer. But yes, he did not switch to Peter van der Vorst for that.
You could say that Arjen has just escaped a disaster now that there are such substantial austerity plans at the NPO. “Arjen Lubach has just escaped the entire shits show. Are you not a bit jealous?” Asks a reporter from De Telegraaf in a movie to Emma Wortelboer.
Not jealous
Emma doesn’t see that at all. “No, I am not jealous of Arjen Lubach. He can do his things there at RTL, with his commercials. Yes, I think he will still miss it, but most of the NPO presenters who make the switch. In the end it is not entirely what you want.”
Would she never switch to a commercial temporary employment party? “No, that’s really terrible,” she says. “Unless I get my own channel!”
Useless
It is simply important for now that the NPO savings do not take place, according to Emma. “We don’t have to pretend to be useless and you get that feeling a bit. You know that it all doesn’t matter, you know, but only 160 million away from it. That is a loss on a budget of 850 million for us.”
“We don’t have to cut back. Just not at all. It has to be money! I think we should invest.”