The entire talk show table of Eva Jinek blasted the competing talk show Op1 last night. “It is a somewhat older audience that watches it. It’s boring, dark boomer TV!”
It’s starting to look more and more like the Op1 experiment has failed. There is a terrible mess behind the scenes and the viewer doesn’t feel like it anymore either; recognizability is completely absent. “You notice that lately people have started to call it boomer TV more and more,” said Leonie ter Braak at the talk show table of Jinek.
‘Just too boring’
Leonie thinks Op1 is a boring program. “It’s an older audience watching it, it’s a dark studio, the color is missing, you’re missing a bit of a face. You desire, if I speak for myself for a moment – and not to lose my colleagues at Op1, because that is always annoying… For example, I know Carrie very well and she does very well with Charles.”
She continues: “But still, I think the viewer has… Well, not the Op1 viewer, because I think it’s very fixed; he has the remote control set to 1 and they no longer switch, no longer zap and they just look good. But I think the young, the messengers; they are not very fans of Op1. I just find it a bit too boring.”
‘How sustainable?’
Eva Jinek wonders how much longer she will face Op1, since the participating broadcasters are now at odds with each other. “How sustainable is it with such a structure? You have polder, which is a kind of fantastic Dutch invention in which everyone half meets each other.”
She continues: “One time it works well, the other time you have an agricultural agreement that doesn’t work and the other time you have a talk show with a lot of people, a lot of captains on one ship. How sustainable is that, Ron?”
‘Goes far’
Ron Fresen, politically clearer for years in the NOS Journaal, then: “I don’t think so. To be honest, I also find it very strange that it is now coming out that it has given rise to such conflicts, which have also had a substantive influence on who is a guest. I think that is going quite far, to be honest.”
Eva: “That was, for example, about Richard de Mos on the day of his acquittal.”
Ron: “As a journalist and producer of such a program, you are not worth a penny for accepting that when someone else says: ‘He is not allowed in!’ Isn’t that unbelievable? It has become a colorless program.”
wipe out Eve
The NPO is giving away a certificate of inability, Ron thinks. “I find it incomprehensible that the public broadcaster fails to put on a good talk show at the end of the evening that simply wipes you off the screen.”
Eva: “Please don’t give them ideas, Ron!”
Table guest Peter Plasman also thinks Op1 is terrible. “It has no face, it has no color, I think it’s boring too.”