Patty Brard understands that her employer SBS 6, unlike competitor RTL 4, chooses to stick to Danny de Munk. “It’s very, very difficult.”
Danny de Munk suffers serious image damage now that a rape report has been filed against him. And since everything in television revolves around the favor of the viewer, he immediately notices the consequences. RTL 4 has decided to discharge the folk singer, at least temporarily. Competitor SBS 6 will continue with him for the time being.
Patty shows understanding
RTL 4 would start recording I Can See Your Voice together with Danny next week. At SBS 6 there is currently already a program with Danny: the poorly viewed De Hollandse Nieuwe. The recordings of this started after Yvonne Coldeweijer brought out the first stories about Danny’s alleged misconduct.
Although SBS 6 has deliberately taken a risk with Danny, Patty Brard shows understanding for the station’s decision to keep Danny on the tube. “I can imagine that it is a substantial difference whether something has already been recorded,” she says in the summer edition of Shownieuws.
‘Very very difficult’
Patty thinks it would cut the programming of SBS 6 too seriously. “There have been a lot of shifts at Talpa lately. To take that Saturday evening off again and to put on a repeat there… I can imagine that that choice is very difficult.”
Patty is referring to the removal of the poorly viewed programs by Richard Groenendijk (Think Inside The Box) and Sander Lantinga (Vier Is Te Veel). “Not that the Hollandse Nieuwe scores so well, but it is of course very difficult to repeat on three evenings in a row that are very important for a station.”
Three nights in a row
Impossible, thinks colleague Bart Ettekoven. “Then you actually have three evenings in a row that you have to change your programming.”
Natacha Harlequin then starts shouting again that in criminal law you are innocent until proven otherwise. She says she is not in favor of ‘cancellation’.
Emotion of the viewer
Apparently Natacha thinks that only a judge’s decision influences the viewer’s opinion. A bit naive, thinks colleague Dyantha Brooks.
Dyantha: “Yes, but Natas, apart from criminal law, you also have to deal with emotions with a TV program. A viewer may think: I don’t feel like looking at that person at all.”
