Gentle surgeons make stinking wounds: RTL 4 tries to save Renze Klamer’s TV career with cattle. “It creates a little bit more atmosphere, but unfortunately it is ugly.”
RTL 4 star Renze Klamer was well on his way to becoming a defining talk show host in our country, just like Eva Jinek for the NPO and Wilfred Genee for Talpa. However, his talent was wasted by his own boss Peter van der Vorst. He withdrew Renze’s name from the studio wall to exchange his talk show for the generic RTL Tonight.
Renze irrelevant
We all know by now that RTL Tonight has flopped and that it will be canceled sooner or later, but in the meantime the damage is piling up for Renze. As a talk show host with a bit of ambition, you certainly want to matter during election times, but Renze is simply no longer relevant. What should happen next with RTL Tonight?
The pride at the RTL top is too great to rip off the band-aid and accept the loss, so they continue to muddle through. Since yesterday, the decor has been adjusted and we see an audience behind the presenter and the panel members, just like with a regular talk show. It just looks a bit clumsy and improvised.
‘More pleasant’
TV authority Tina Nijkamp previously shared this rumor on her analysis channel. Now she writes: “So indeed. The setting at RTL Tonight has changed. The audience is now visible. It immediately looks more pleasant. Still a shame about the desk, but it is a little better.”
Moderately enthusiastic, just like Victor Vlam. The media critic writes down X: “RTL Tonight has slightly renovated the decor by placing the audience around the announcers. Creates a little more atmosphere, but unfortunately it is ugly.”
Observation
Victor also finds it particularly striking that some announced interpreters ultimately never appeared in the show. “Yet another observation. Olaf Koens joins the studio for the first time as an interpreter.”
Finally, he sneers: “There are still two announced interpreters who have never appeared at the desk: Geert Jan Hahn and Thomas Erdbrink. I wonder if that will happen before the program ends.”