It is time for the third broadcasting week of Arjen Lubach on RTL 4 and he kicks off with a tough sneer at the address of his decor. “It looks like this was ordered on AliExpress, or on Temu.”
Arjen Lubach is enormously under fire, because his new RTL 4 show has collapsed enormously in terms of viewing figures and also really goes wrong on the substantive area. The low point so far? Some comedian who came to perform there: Stefan Pop. He made bad jokes that people didn’t talk about it for days.
‘Fake it’
Anyway: now it is the turn of the setting of Arjen. “The decor is beautiful in itself, but there is a very big disadvantage: the decor is made of obvious fake materials, while it is based on bricks, metal and concrete,” says Mediaconner Victor Vlam in the podcast The Communicado’s.
The studio of Arjen has an industrial garlic. “In itself a nice style and beautifully designed, but the version is really very bad, because you see that it is all fake. This is a reason for me not to use bricks. Then you should simply use something closer to the material you use, so that it looks less fake.”
Light
The light on fake bricks is deadly, says Victor. “The way the light falls on those walls that should be bricks is different from what it normally looks like on bricks. The design is beautiful, but there is clearly not enough money for the thorough performing of things like this.”
His co-host Lars Duursma, a communication expert, agrees. “Yes, the decor looks a bit like it was ordered on such a Chinese site, say. It looked nicer in the photo, but when it finally arrived you thought: this feels a bit cheap.”
AliExpress-Decor
How exactly would Victor describe this decor? “Yes, the AliExpress decor.”
Or, Lars says: “The Temu decor.”
All in all, it is all a bit disappointing, Victor concludes. “The viewing figures regularly come close to the 700 thousand. Sometimes they are slightly above and sometimes something underneath. Yes, that is similar to what Renze scored with his talk show, isn’t it?”