Bad news for Paul de Leeuw: his TV career was declared dead by Angela de Jong just before two this afternoon. “Paul’s TV career as we know him is now really over.”
Paul de Leeuw has been experiencing a kind of TV nightmare for a number of weeks. The current series of episodes of Busje Komt Zo is viewed so badly that it was last in the top 25 viewing figure yesterday. The next stop? The ratings canyon. According to TV expert Tina Nijkamp, it is obvious that Busje Comes Zo will never return on TV.
Angela judges
Or is it over and over with Paul’s TV career at all? Yes, says Angela de Jong. “Van Comes Zo proves that the TV career of Paul as we know him is now really finished,” she writes today in her AD column†
Very annoying for Paul. Fortunately, he is already 60 years old and his TV retirement was already close. Still, Paul would have liked to have continued. Last week, he pointed to the high ratings for Busje Komt Zo. “Episode three rating: 7.9! Now a little more viewers, because you’re missing something. #teambus,” he wrote.
‘It’s over’
That Busje Comes Zo is also quite a nice program, Angela thinks, but according to her it is a repetition of moves. According to her, Paul’s demise is a warning to all young TV makers ‘not to continue living on their old success for too long’. “One day it will be over.”
Repetition is not Paul’s only problem, Angela concludes. “It is difficult if on the one hand you still want to be the brutal, ruthless presenter and on the other hand you are frantically politically correct in social discussions,” she says. “The viewer simply doesn’t like that.”
AD column
The AD column in which Angela declares Paul’s TV career dead:
