The tone has been set: Beau van Erven Dorens seems quite bitter about Renze Klamer being rewarded with his own talk show after the flop of RTL Tonight. “One goes through…”
It could no longer be sustained for RTL: yesterday the press release finally came out about the discontinuation of RTL Tonight. They muddle through for another two months and after the summer holidays Renze Klamer will return with his own talk show. He will present eight months a year and will therefore become the late-night star of RTL.
“It sucks!”
Beau van Erven Dorens had last night broadcast. “Yes, first some other news today. Today we as a program are in the news, RTL Tonight, and that is not good news, because the program will stop on June 12. We simply were not able to ensure that enough people watched, so that is quite gloomy,” he said.
When Erben asks Wennemars how he personally thinks it is, he answers: “Well, it sucks, if you ask it point-blank. Then I also say point-blank that it just sucks. Annoying.”
No surprise
Ben van der Burg looks resigned. “But you saw it coming, didn’t you? This isn’t a surprise to you, is it?”
Beau then says: “Well, no, it’s not a surprise, but I have to be honest: we tried very hard to do something different in this way than we always did. At some point you also have to try something new and that was this. Yes, I just jumped in and unfortunately it didn’t work out.”
Erben then: “But one goes through.”
Sensitive point
Wow, Erben has hit a nerve here. One indeed passes: Renze. And it has run out Instagram let them know, with a photo of themselves at a regular talk show table: “Let’s see if I can find such a table somewhere soon. If that works, I would love to see you again every day at RTL4 after the summer 🥂🥳!”
A sore point, because the lack of a regular table is seen as one of the reasons why RTL Tonight failed. “Yes, exactly, one goes through,” says Beau.
Erben: “And today he immediately texted: ‘I’m looking for a table.’”
Beau: “It’s time to begin! The order of the day, ladies and gentlemen!”
Sinking ship
Oh dear. “It’s a bit of a joke,” says Telegraaf reporter Jordi Versteegden Show news about Renze’s post. He has been in contact with the talk show host. “He now briefly indicated that he was looking forward to it, but when I asked: ‘Are you still in touch with your colleagues?’, he no longer answered.”
“That tells me, together with Beau’s reaction, that there is a lot of pain there. Renze left the ship early. It’s a bad start when your colleagues talk about you like that.”
Sinking ship
Lex Uiting also looks at it that way. “What strikes me, Rob, and I don’t know about you, but he was actually the one who left the sinking ship – to put it dramatically -,” he says in Boulevard. “He let the others take care of it, and they are now being thanked, because Renze is coming back and we don’t actually know about the other three yet.”
TV expert Rob Goossens: “Thank you, because Renze is coming back and another sneer from Renze. The fact that he says: ‘I’m going to look for a talk show table’ is simply a form of head-kicking to the program where the absence of the talk show table has actually become the symbol of failure.”
Super painful
Renze is lucky, Rob thinks. “I would say: with luck you will get your own program back, it is extremely painful for everyone involved and Beau and Humberto of course saw at some point that things were not going in the right direction, Leonie joined the orchestra of the Titanic when the ship had already been breached.”
Frank Dane: “It’s crazy that Renze is going to do it, right? Build that whole show around him, do what he wants.”
Finally, Paul de Leeuw praises Renze The Orange Summer: “Renze Klamer has done a very good job by just remaining silent, not saying anything. He has no comment to make whatsoever. He has kept his mouth shut, just sitting still. I think that’s great.”
