Georgina Verbaan and Patrick Martens had better stick to their private chatter, because as a TV duo they are an outright ratings disaster. They even hit the first flop of the season.
After more than a week on television, viewing figure expert Tina Nijkamp is sure: the new evening show of SBS 6, Date Tasty, is a viewing figure disaster. This program with best friends Georgina Verbaan and Patrick Martens replaces the defunct talk show HLF8, but scores much worse than that title.
Redundant Georgina
The mega success of B&B Vol Liefde may suggest otherwise, but the viewer is not always waiting for TV dating. “Dating does not always guarantee success on TV,” Tina writes in her Telegraaf column. “Date Smakelijk scores less than 300 thousand viewers and even lower than talk show HLF8.”
Tina previously wrote on her analysis channel that Date Bon appetit contains too few dates per episode, namely two. “That is very little for one hour of television. And then there are Georgina Verbaan and Patrick Martens who engage in superfluous conversations.”
About half of it
It is suddenly very important to RTL and Talpa to mainly look at the deferred viewing figures. How do Georgina and Patrick score after fluffing up the linear numbers? Also miserable.
Tina on her analysis channel: “Georgina and Patrick also attracted few viewers with Date Bon appetit and came out last Tuesday at 271 thousand viewers and 6.7 percent in the target group 25 to 54 years. That is about half of what Een Jaar Van Je Leven scored in that target group and HLF8 was also a viewing hit compared to this.”
Coffee time tut
Very annoying for best friends Georgina and Patrick, but according to Tina they fail hard. “Too bad, but this seems to be the first pre-flop of this TV season.”
To make matters worse, the two also get Youp van ‘t Hek over them. In his VARA guide column, he talks about ‘shits who enjoy dating under the guidance of one Georgina Verbaan and some former Koffietijd-tut’. “They go their divine way.”