SBS 6 thought with Let’s Play Ball, the show in which C-stars push a ball, to have a hit in the house, but what is currently rolling the most, are the tears of the channel boss. “It collapses even further.”
In the brand new Let’s Play Ball program, C-stars like Sylvana IJsselmuiden and Donny Ronny have to roll a huge ball through villages and streets. It is television that has more away from a failed King’s Day activity than from a Primetime show, and that translates into falling viewing figures, Tina Nijkamp reports.
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Whereas the premiere of Let’s Play Ball was still doing well with 442 thousand viewers and 18.9 percent market share in the commercial target group, the second episode last weekend did not go further than 363 thousand viewers and 12.9 percent market share. In other words: SBS 6 has lost about a third in market share.
TV authority Tina Nijkamp is not surprised. “Let’s Play Ball with Jan Versteegh is a game without a goal. The candidates compete for an ugly cup of bol.com instead of a sum of money,” she sniffs on her analysis canal. “It started reasonably last week, but now that has collapsed considerably.”
‘Get Warred’
Tina expects that the ratings will only fall further. “These two weeks it was opposite repetitions, but next week new shows as best singers. So that is not much higher, I think …”
Rightly so, says TV critic Victor Vlam. “The first problem: they really need better Dutch celebrities. That Fajah Lourens and her damn beautician participate in the first episode, I almost find a disqualification. Is there really nobody to find? The beautician of Fajah Lourens, that’s no longer a Dutch person.”
‘Far too long’
Victor also believes that Let’s Play Ball will take far too long, he continues in his podcast Victor explains TV. “An hour and a half for Let’s Play Ball, that is just a lot and much and far too long, because it is just a ball that they push through the street and from town to place. That’s just fun, but that’s not an hour and a half fun.”
“They are now three rounds, I would honestly just make one round and one final. I think that is much better and then you have a much stronger program.”