The Ilse Warringa series Cast scored so badly that even Marieke Elsinga and her famous shuffleboard ramming friends would still have to screech about it. Still, she plays well herself.
What is it with celebrities who can’t accept their poor ratings? Life goes on ups and downs, but the stars don’t seem to accept that. They all shoot in the same reflex when something doesn’t work out. ‘It scores well online!’, ‘People just watch less TV!’, ‘DWDD didn’t score well in the beginning either!’ We all know the clichés…
Horribly bad
Ilse Warringa, who wrote history with De Luizenmoeder, recently scored terribly badly with her drama series Cast. Really disgustingly bad. The final episode attracted 59 thousand viewers. That’s just one person with a viewing figure box who is doing the laundry in the meantime.
And what does Ilse say? That there may be a second season. What?! This is made from tax money, costs literally tons and that woman happily wants to continue with her money-consuming hobby project? If this gets the green light, it’s about time someone started building dungeons on the Media Park.
Ilse wants to continue
What exactly does Ilse have to say? The following: “We received very positive reactions from viewers and reviewers. Linear has not been looked at very well. But online there has been a lot of looking back: we are already at 1.5 million streams.”
She continues: “There will probably even be a second season because so much was watched non-linear, the NTR and the NPO were very satisfied with that. Actually, looking and measuring linearly is of course a bit outdated, so we are extra happy with all those people who have looked online.”
Put in place
The most important viewing figures experts in our country will not let this simply pass by. Tina Nijkamp intervenes. She say: “We have another one: the NPO draws the online card. The series Cast by Ilse Warringa was viewed online in their own words. Sure. Not postponed, but apparently on NPO Start. In my own words then.”
She continues: “It depends on what you call good. 1.5 million streams divided by eight is 187,500 viewers per episode. Added up with the linear figures (the last episode even had only 59 thousand viewers) you still end up with an average amount per viewer.”
‘Delayed is also bad!’
Joost Maiburg, the viewing figure connoisseur of RTL Boulevard, shares that opinion. He writes: “It was also viewed badly when it was postponed. In total maybe 1.5 million streams, but that is less than 188 thousand per episode. With a linear average of 169 thousand viewers, you still score meager figures in total.”
And what if there is a second season? Tina: “I think that’s mainly because the NPO thinks it’s such a fun series. Unfortunately, the viewer thought otherwise.”
Scratch behind ears
It often happens that TV stars blame their low ratings elsewhere. For example, Eva Jinek claims that her low viewing figures are caused by streamers as Netflix, while Today Inside does score well. “She really needs to scratch her head,” said Telegraaf reporter Jordi Versteegden.
And the NPO boss who shouted that Ruud & Olcay do score well online, received a reprimand from Jan Slagter: “Then do it online! Of course he has to say something. I understand that, but 348 thousand viewers on NPO 1, the major channel that is watched by at least 700, 800 thousand or preferably a million people, that is just not possible.”