A bitter pill for Dyantha Brooks: her first show on Prime Time, the followers, was removed from the tube after one episode. What does this actually do mentally with a TV presenter? “You sleep very badly.”
The followers had to be the big Saturday evening weapon of SBS 6, but turned out to be an empty box full of fried Dutch air. According to Angela de Jong, Dyantha Brooks talked to each other as if she was presenting the Televizier-Gala. The ad tiger shark no longer pulled it: “A TV columnist also has a border. And that boundary is the followers.”
Tube
SBS 6 took the followers immediately from the tube after one episode. An unprecedented hard blow, although it is not a first for the channel. Earlier, Flops such as Avastars, Mindmasters Live and four were taken too much without mercy. The program only attracted 174 thousand viewers, a catastrophe for a Saturday evening show.
A flop is painful for every presenter, but for Dyantha it is extra bitter: it was her first big prime time show. Instead of the desired breakthrough, a flood of criticism followed, and then it is of course best that you cancel the plaster as quickly as possible. Runging on on Saturday evening had damaged her image even more.
Tension
Dyantha Brooks took a seat at the talk show table of The Oranjezomer And spoke remarkably open about her painful TV-flop. “It wasn’t just my week. Then you come up with a new program on TV and then it just does incredibly bad. Yes, I can’t make it any more.”
She admitted that the tension affected her night’s sleep: “Yes, really very sour. I always sleep out on Sunday and then my husband lets me sleep in. I had actually been awake all night, because I already thought a bit of: Ooh, how is this going to work out?”
“Everything listened to!”
Dyantha finally managed to get to sleep. “Then my husband also said later:” I only let you sleep for an hour longer, because then you live in another reality, “because he had already seen it and he thought: ohhh, she wakes up and then she sees this.”
The blow came hard, says the presenter. She was looking obsessively for reactions: “I listened to every podcast, read every column.”
Host Thomas van Groningen, visibly surprised: “Everything?!”
Dyantha confirms: “Yes, dude …”
Fortunately there was support from her husband at home. “Yes, this week he participated in many things, just like that: let me be extra sweet at home.”
Apropos
After the advertising block, Dyantha seems to be courage to talk to herself: she exchanges chair with Thomas and acts as if she is taking on the presentation of the Oranjezomer. But when Thomas is kidding, she touches her apropos.
“Shall we stop the play? That will be very uncomfortable. I have already had so many uncomfortable moments this week that I just skip this.”