The RTL 4 show Holland’s Got Talent caused astonishment with the ultra-fast jury deliberation in which the semi-finalists were selected yesterday. “Huh? What was I just looking at?”
The jury members of Holland’s Got Talent, including Chantal Janzen and Marc-Marie Huijbregts, have allowed countless candidates to advance to the next round in the past six weeks. But what does it turn out to be? Some of those candidates don’t advance to the next round at all. They held an ultra-short jury deliberation yesterday in which that was determined.
Ultra-fast jury deliberation
At the end of the sixth and final audition round of Holland’s Got Talent, a jury deliberation could be seen for about five seconds yesterday. “These were all auditions of Holland’s Got Talent 2022. It is now up to the jury to determine who will go through to the semi-finals,” said the voice-over.
Chantal then comments: “I think these are the twenty for the semi-finals.” And a colleague: “Yes, it was difficult, but here are twenty.”
‘How is this possible?’
Tina Nijkamp, the former channel boss of SBS 6, where Holland’s Got Talent used to be shown, is stunned. “Huh? What was I just looking at?”
She continues: “Having watched six episodes of auditions Holland’s Got Talent and I am curious to see everyone who has passed again in the follow-up round, I suddenly hear the jury literally ‘confer’ only one sentence about which twenty will go on to the semi-finals. I understand how TV works, but this came across as very fake and weird.”
‘Very unkind’
You can’t actually do this, Tina thinks. “Isn’t it also very unkind to those candidates who thought they were through, but aren’t among those twenty? So all those candidates were super happy when they got on stage that they could go through, but the painful truth is that they just never had to come back?”
It is, she says, ‘very remarkable’. “And all that in just one sentence, ‘jury deliberation’.”
Viewing figures
The viewing figures of Thursday, October 6, 2022 (SKO):
Top 15 | Market shares (18-24h, 6+) |
|---|---|
| 01. News 20:00 (NPO1) 2,043,000 | 01. RTL4 / 24.9% |
| 02. Holland’s Got Talent (RTL4) 1.392.000 | 02. NPO1 / 21.9% |
| 03. Two to twelve (NPO2) 1.262.000 | 03. NPO2 / 9.9% |
| 04. Half past seven news (RTL4) 1,152,000 | 04. SBS6 / 8.6% |
| 05. News 18:00 (NPO1) 1,127,000 | 05. RTL5 / 3.7% |
| 06. EenVandaag (NPO1) 1,040,000 | 06. RTL8 / 3.3% |
| 07. Cops Rotterdam (NPO1) 1.002.000 | 07. RTL7 / 3.0% |
| 08. RTL Boulevard (RTL4) 923,000 | 08.NET5/2.9% |
| 09. Conversation with Prime Minister (NPO1) 911,000 | 09. Vero / 2.7% |
| 10. Jinek (RTL4) 864.000 | 10. NPO3 / 2.2% |
| 11. Op1 (NPO1) 794.000 | 11. Disco / 1.9% |
| 12. Khalid & Sophie (NPO1) 771,000 | 12.ESPN / 1.5% |
| 13. Today Inside (SBS6) 760,000 | 13. BBC / 1.1% |
| 14. Edition NL (RTL4) 747,000 | 14. TLC / 1.0% |
| 15. The Cut Guest (NPO2) 712,000 | 15. Ziggo / 1.0% |
Market shares per channel group (18-24h, 6+) | More viewing figures at: |
| 01. RTL Netherlands 35.9% |  |
| 02. Public Broadcasting 34.0% | |
| 03. Talpa TV 14.5% |
Programs that did not make the top 15 include Nieuwsuur (592 thousand), Time for MAX (549 thousand), Hart van Nederland (489 thousand), Shownieuws (322 thousand), Een jaar van je leven (225 thousand), HLF8 ( 184 thousand) and Veronica Offside (158 thousand).
