Catherine Keyl breaks silence on Nadia Mousaid: what does she think?

Catherine Keyl did not want to say a word about her new talk show in the first broadcast week of her unofficial successor Nadia Moussaid, but now the screen senior is still crossing the bridge.

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It must have been a swallow for Nadia Moussaid that Catherine Keyl did not want to give an opinion on her new talk show, because she is her great inspiration. Although Catherine was repeatedly pushed on the radio to give her opinion, she stood her ground. And then of course you know what’s going on: she thought it was bad.

Left canal belt

Three weeks have passed and Catherine breaks her silence. She writes one column in De Telegraaf where she expresses her opinion. “I see huge leaps forward. You see Nadia grow into her role.”

Catherine notices that Nadia still discusses exactly the same topics with her unknown guests as she did in ‘Catherine’. And she thinks that’s funny, because Catherine says she was always burned down from the left corner about it. “And now look: the left-wing canal belt VPRO broadcasts Nadia’s program.”

One on one

And not only that, Catherine continues. “They continued the format one-on-one. I think it’s all fine.”

So far, Nadia’s ratings have been very bad, but Catherine wants her to do better. “Let’s just hope that Nadia has as much social impact as the Catherine program did at the time.”

Mild and nice

WNL boss Bert Huisjes has the idea that Catherine Nadia saves a lot, he says NPO Radio 1. “I think we waited a long time for it. Everyone was waiting to see how the primeval mother of this genre in the Netherlands would think about her succession. She kept that very elegantly away from her. She has said, ‘I’m not going to judge after one go.’”

He continues: “But now that we are a little further, she has made a judgment. She is remarkably mild and kind. She says: ‘I think it’s great how she has grown into her role. From talk show table to such a conversation with those people.’”

‘She has a point’

Does Bert understand her criticism of the fact that the VPRO broadcasts this show? “Yes, actually a bit, because I think it’s a fairly popular program. It’s really about ordinary people, ordinary folk themes. It would have suited MAX or KRO-NCRV more than the more elitist VPRO, where they often rely on an intellectual approach.”

He continues: “She does have a point there. But I love that she praises Nadia anyway. Because it is of course very difficult to get into such a program. And of course she’s also having a hard time.”

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