It was finally time yesterday: the frequently promoted SBS 6-Show Let’s Play Ball has started. What does that score, C-stars that run after a large ball? “Weird and silly!”
Let’s Play Ball is the new summer pride of SBS 6: a kind Obstacle Run For C-stars and their supporters, such as the Froger sons and their cousin yesterday, with Fajah Lourens, her son-in-law and-no joke-her beautician. They all run through Sneek behind an inflatable ball of four meters high.
Tension
The concept: pushing, pulling and especially a lot of broadcasting time for people who don’t actually deserve it. Presenter Jan Versteegh calls it ‘Pure entertainment and fun stairs’, which is SBS language for meaningless entertainment on Prime Time. Do people really look at this?
TV authority Tina Nijkamp in any case, to make a judgment. “What did I think about it? Thought it was more of an item than a whole show of an hour and a half. There is no real bow,” she writes on her analysis canal.
Weird and silly
You really need a tension arch at Let’s Play Ball, says Tina. “With such a TV format, the chance of ‘a very large cash prize’ for participants (for example a ton) could have made the difference, also because the rest of the format is so paper thin. Because well, run for some cup that is ordered on bol.com? Weird and too silly.”
She continues: “Nice pictures of Friesland. Curious how it scores opposite best singers and on land, at sea and in the air from 30 August.”
First viewing figures
In any case, the first viewing figures are nice, according to Tina. “Quite okay. Especially in target group 25-54 years, Let’s Play Ball recorded a nice 18.9 percent market share.”
“In the Totals it did lose a repetition, that of Mindf*ck on NPO 1: 460,000 versus 442,000. The OH what a year-return on RTL 4 had 417,000.”