Story boss Guido den Aantrekker thinks that Beau van Erven Dorens and Humberto Tan are acting horribly. They have to accept that they are approaching their cycle, according to the magazine maker.
Beau van Erven Dorens (55) and to a milder extent Humberto Tan (60) are making themselves known now that their talk show RTL Tonight has to make way for a new program with the much younger Renze Klamer (36). TV critics and viewers agree that he is the man who can pull the late evening of RTL 4 out of the doldrums, and not TV oldies Beau and Hum.
Life cycle
Some accuse Renze of not being a team player because he quickly left RTL Tonight out of dissatisfaction, but, says Story boss Guido den Aantrekker at the table The Orange Sunday: “So I don’t know if he ran away. It could also be a strategy. If you as RTL want to invest in Renze… You no longer have to invest in Beau and Humberto.”
Why not? “Because that’s actually a bit over. Everyone has a life cycle and at some point it’s over. You can just see that Renze is such a talent and I can imagine that RTL said: ‘You know what? That program is going so fast, we’ll get you out of the wind and then that negative image won’t stick to you.'”
‘I don’t know’
Ben van der Burg, part of RTL Tonight, does not know whether it was a one-two punch between Renze and the channel top. “I really don’t know. I really don’t know.”
It could also have come from Renze, according to Guido. “In the TV world it is not just about the program you are in, but you are also a brand. That is what you try to make of it. I can well imagine that he thought: the ‘Renze’ brand is going to hell.”
Sinking ship
Ben doesn’t seem to think much of Renze. “One person quickly leaves the sinking ship. A lot of people say, ‘That’s smart.’ Then other people will do their utmost every day, they will go ahead and try everything. Nothing works, it remains bad, but they do their utmost. Then the ship sinks, it is lost and they will soon no longer have a program.”
“Because Renze is allowed to do it. Then people say: ‘Renze played it smart.’ It may be clever, but I don’t like that cleverness. I also like people who try everything, but then you are punished because you do your utmost and try to make something out of it.”
Utmost
Guido sees it differently. “But they didn’t do their utmost. They of course made it a terribly bad program. That is true. Whether it was Simon van Teutem the philosopher or Geert-Jan Hähn from BNR… These are not people for RTL 4, guys? Let’s face it.”
Rutger Castricum insists: he criticizes Renze, especially because of his clumsy Insta post. “You embarrass the entire team that works on it in one fell swoop and then you really are an asshole. I also believe very much in loyalty. If you start something, you finish it. If it fails, then they haven’t done a good job, but is it smart to walk away?”
