Evert Santegoeds thinks that Eva Jinek will not return to the NPO in 2024, where she had much more success. “She can afford it if she has a lot of savings, but I don’t think so.”
There is a lot of speculation about Eva Jinek’s TV future now that her ratings are under pressure and her mega contract with RTL 4 is ending. What is more important to her: a sky-high income or successful television? As the face of the late evening of NPO 1, the presenter was a lot more successful.
‘Eva not back’
René van der Gijp advises Eva to return to public broadcasting, but then she will have to hand in about a million euros in salary per year because of the salary ceiling there. “If she has now saved a lot, she can afford that,” says Privé editor-in-chief Evert Santegoeds in the podcast Strictly Private.
However, it is not going to happen, thinks Evert. “I think she prefers to stay with RTL, even though making a program without commercial breaks is of course preferable to commercial breaks. Holding the viewer is just very difficult. She does suffer from that. It has not quite become the success that RTL would have imagined.”
Low point
According to Evert, it is obvious that something has to be done with Eva’s talk show. “I like the program, but yes, those figures give food for thought. That doesn’t always last. There was a low point this week, but that was against the election results, so that can happen.”
He continues: “Eva also received a lot of competition, of course, also from Arjen Lubach who joined. There are a lot of people in the pond fishing for that same time slot and she clearly suffers from it, because at the time she scored significantly higher on public broadcasting.”
‘Not going well’
Eva’s low viewing figures were mentioned the day before yesterday in Shownieuws and yesterday also in RTL Boulevard. Presenter Daphne Bunskoek called Jinek a ‘previously good-scoring program’. And Luuk Ikink: “Those talk shows aren’t going well either, are they? It is not going well with Eva, it is not going well with Op1 either. Is there anything else that can be done about it?”
Reporter Aran Bade thinks that Eva’s talk show has too long a broadcast time. “It’s long, I think, and it’s predictable. The last time I was startled by a good conversation at a talk show table… Then you really have to go to the gentlemen of Today Inside, I think, because they give opinions that cause a stir. Something has to change.”
Way too long
Televizier journalist Jef Willemsen also thinks Eva’s talk show is too long. He tweeted yesterday evening: “This Jinek started at 9.40 pm, it is now after eleven and we have just finished the block of funny films. ?”
Incredible, he thinks. “If Today Inside proves that it can be done within an hour, why does Eva have to make broadcasts that last longer than many feature films?”
What does Peter say?
What does Peter van der Vorst, RTL’s television boss, say about it? “You see that traditional talk shows have it all a bit harder. That means that we have to work with all our creativity to do something about it and we are busy behind the scenes with that.”
Still, he thinks we shouldn’t put too much emphasis on the linear viewing figures. “There is a lot of delayed viewing. (…) That is the time we live in, so to always pay for programs on the night before… I understand that it is tempting, but it actually makes no sense.”