Janine Abbring always watches the NOS Journaal before Zomergasten. Because if Beatrix dies, she will change the entire broadcast. How nice; if we didn’t have Janine…
Janine Abbring will soon kick off the very last season ever of Zomergasten. The presenter explains at the table with Eva Jinek find out what her evening looks like for a broadcast of this program. She first watches the NOS News together with her guest, as a final check that nothing big is going on. Because if Beatrix suddenly dies, she will change everything.
Beatrix died?
Very noble and professional of Janine, if it weren’t for the fact that when Beatrix actually dies, the entire TV-watching Netherlands zaps to the scheduled talk shows and no one thinks about Janine and the talking professor opposite her anymore. Anyway. She does pay attention.
The presenter: “You are on a kind of island with that guy. You first watch the NOS News together. Then you are still wondering: should I respond to something? Should I come back to something? Didn’t Beatrix suddenly die?”
Professional idiot
What does Janine do when Beatrix dies just before her show? “Then you have to change the entire broadcast. That idea. And also very focused, but also very busy with my guest, because he is, if possible, even more nervous than me.”
Could she ever be a guest on the program herself? “No, never. I think you really have to be an expert in something and that you have to bring unique baggage. That you can open up the world to the viewer that he or she doesn’t know. Talk to an interviewer for three hours about interviewing… No.”