Eva Jinek is guaranteed to talk to the management of RTL about the broadcast length of her talk show, says VI star René van der Gijp. “Her program is just really too long.”
Eva Jinek’s viewing figures are under pressure and the increasingly longer broadcasts will play a role in this. RTL 4 hopes to keep Eva’s viewers as long as possible in the late evening, but lately the channel has been very furious: she was recently on the channel for no less than 1 hour and 40 minutes.
‘Jinek takes too long’
René van der Gijp thinks that is why Eva’s program contains so many non-subjects. “I have to tell you very honestly: yesterday was the first time I was watching and I thought: she just gave up. It’s done,” he replies Inside todaywhich captivates more viewers every night than Jinek.
He continues: “Like what we have often enough, she has those conversations with the management that lead nowhere, you know. We also talked often enough about the length of the program when we still played football and of course she has that too. The program just takes too long.”
Wilfred critical
Wilfred Genee fully agrees. “Way too long.”
René: “Also for her. And of course they also talked about the time, about the editing, I don’t know. She’s just given up now and just says, ‘Dude, you know, sit down at the table, I don’t give a damn. I just talk to it.’”
The consequence? Johan Derksen: “Nowadays when you come home, you no longer look at Jinek, because that is annoyance, that is throw-away entertainment.”
René: “She had a twenty-minute conversation with a gigolo that was really about nothing. What you just said when you came in: actually Jinek should have said after fifteen minutes: ‘What am I doing here?’”
Wilfred: “Yes: ‘What am I doing here?’”
Baby at home
René thinks Eva’s focus is now elsewhere. “Yes, like: ‘I have a child at home’, you know, ‘he also likes that I’m here’. It was really such a broadcast that I thought: she just gave up. Let go, this is not going to work out.”
Wilfred: “I was watching it and read that Humberto Tan is going to do Jinek tomorrow. If we had had that merger, I would have been allowed to do it once. Then I would have really been sitting there and just shouting things like: ‘What are we doing here?’”
René: “Really, I swear to you. I thought: he has spoken to the management and he thought: you know, go ahead, just a few more weeks.”
Wilfred: “Yes, just a few more weeks and then I can enjoy it with my baby again.”
High on payroll
Johan: “Still, it is incomprehensible. She was such a viewership gun and really good at her job. How easy she is to accept it, isn’t it?”
Wilfred: “Well, what you say: she has to deal with an hour and a half or more sometimes… She had to make one hour and three quarters of an hour the other day.”
René: “Yes, much too long.”
Johan: “Yes, I understand. As high as she is on the payroll… Then they have to have a few blocks to earn that back.”
René: “Normally she wasn’t into it smalltalk, huh? She was from to the point, hopsakee. She could interview well, but now it’s also just… Yeah, if you’re talking to a gigolo like that, come on.”
Johan: “This is Boulevard.”
