After six months, Giel de Winter is still pissed off that Angela de Jong gave a sneer about his low viewing figures on linear television. “You have to watch it all week!”
The first TV season of The Hunting Season was not a hit on SBS 6 last fall. The program by Giel de Winter and his colleagues from StukTV attracted an average of 587 thousand viewers per episode on the broadcast evening itself. That’s a pretty low score for a Saturday night show. Including delayed viewing, an average of 863 thousand people watched.
Quarrel Angela and Giel
Angela de Jong made a critical comment about this in her podcast. She previously predicted that this online format would not work on television. “Look, and I was right. You can’t call 600,000 viewers a huge hit.”
That was against Giel’s sore leg. “Fock her anyway,” he muttered. When a follower commented that Angela is “the saddest TV critic” in the country, Giel agreed: “Yup.”
Angela reacted resignedly to it. “I did hear that they had said something. They just wanted to let you know that it was a very big success, The Hunting Season. But no, of course it wasn’t a huge success linearly.”
Millions of views
The StukTV men were on the talk show HLF8 yesterday to promote the second TV season of Het Jachtseason. “It’s a set time, isn’t it? Now you have to make sure that as many people as possible sit in front of the tube at one time. If that succeeds, then it is an extra achievement,” said StukTV member Thomas van der Vlugt.
Colleague Stefan Jurriens: “And it worked, because we really had millions of views, also on TV, per episode. A million per episode for a new program coming from the Internet to TV. That’s just super cool.”
still angry
Presenter Leonie ter Braak: “Yes, but Angela de Jong was critical. She said it was disappointing.”
Then Giel is still angry. “Yeah, but she’s always critical,” he says, annoyed. “I just think it’s really interesting to look at it over the whole week. We just don’t watch TV anymore at the moment. We just look back. I sometimes watch programs from a few days ago.”
He continues: “Then it’s nice if you talk about the viewing figures a week later. Then you know exactly what really scored well.”
Zeitgeist
Leonie: “Didn’t she take those ratings with her?”
Gil: “No. So not that. People then say about the postponed viewing: ‘Yes, it fits nicely on Videoland’, or whatever, but we are no longer in the zeitgeist that we all have to watch a program on the couch now.”
He concludes: “There were 600 thousand watched on Saturday night and a week later it was almost a million, but we are not talking about that.”