Diederik Ebbinge does not score at all as Matthijs van Nieuwkerk’s successor in the daily end-of-year quiz Top 2000 a gogo. “These are really eye-catching viewing figures,” explains Tina Nijkamp.
Matthijs van Nieuwkerk had just started recording the Top 2000 à gogo last year when all hell broke loose. It was decided abruptly to stop the presentation, so a replacement had to be arranged. That ultimately became Herman van der Zandt, but he is no longer there this year. Diederik Ebbinge has now been chartered.
Awake figures
How does Diederik do it? His first episode was not exactly popular last night, on Boxing Day. At 7 p.m., on the country’s most watched TV channel NPO 1, only 636 thousand people watched it. “Oof. This is very disappointing and these are alarming figures,” says ratings authority Tina Nijkamp. analysis channel.
For whom? “For Diederik Ebbinge, Leo Blokhuis and NTR,” says Tina. “How bad it is? Ahem… Last year, Herman van der Zandt recorded no less than 440,000 more viewers with his first episode on December 26: 1.073 million. So more than a million!”
‘Very painful’
What a disaster, says Tina. “Not only painful for Diederik, but also for Matthijs. Top 2000 a go go was his ‘baby’ for 20 years. Or would he not mind this score at all? Matthijs himself scored on NPO 3 with the first episode of this program approximately as high as Diederik now on NPO 1.”
And that makes this Diederik’s score ‘all the more painful and bitter’, says Tina. “Because on the ‘big’ NPO 1.”
Top 2000 King
Last year was the first time that the Top 2000 a gogo was broadcast on NPO 1. Before that it was shown on the smaller NPO 3. In recent years, Matthijs has scored 605 thousand viewers on that channel (2021), 635 thousand viewers (2020). ) and 819 thousand viewers (2019).
“Anyway: not Matthijs, not Diederik, but Herman turns out to be the Top 2000 TV king.”