Jeroen Pauw will not return after his winter break in Curaçao as presenter of the talk show flop Bar Laat, TV critic Victor Vlam suspects. “He thinks this is a stain on his career.”
The talk show Op1 was a great success, especially during the corona period, but after that it all decreased considerably and there was also hassle behind the scenes. Everything has been taken off the air, but a dragon of a successor has taken its place: Bar Laat, of which Sophie Hilbrand is the permanent face. And no dog is looking at it.
Will Jeroen come back?
Sophie presents every other day; the other broadcasts are normally presented by Jeroen Pauw, but he has now been in Curaçao for the winter for a month. His replacement is Tim de Wit, who has not yet earned enough money to afford all kinds of houses in tropical places, so he is just sitting in the Dutch cold.
“The question I do have: will Jeroen Pauw come back?” says TV critic Victor Vlam in the podcast The Communicados. “I doubt it, to be honest. I have a hard time about it.”
Blemish on career
There is a good chance that Bar Laat will go off the air, Victor thinks. “There is a serious chance that it will be decided in the near future that Bar Laat will not get a new season. You really have to decide on that soon, otherwise you simply won’t have enough time to develop a new program before that time. A new talk show or something else.”
“If it is stopped, will Jeroen Pauw still feel like it? I can imagine that he already thinks this is a stain on his fantastic career as a talk show host. Tim de Wit is doing well, so in that respect it is best to let him finish the season. I honestly think there is a good chance he won’t come back.”
Hard contracts
Co-host Lars Duursma thinks that Jeroen probably just has to. “Unless, of course, there are strict contracts that he cannot simply break. If he has already been committed, if it is all on paper, if he has signed it, then he cannot just say: ‘Guys, I have thought about it carefully in Curaçao and I would rather not come back.’”
Victor: “Yes, that could be possible. Of course, there may indeed be a contract. But at the same time, if the program has no future anyway, then maybe it won’t be a problem for anyone if it doesn’t come back… It wouldn’t surprise me anyway. But hey, we’ll see.”
“Put Sam down!”
Wilfred Genee recently speculated on television about a possible successor to Bar Laat. “You have to wonder what will happen next with this program if you score these kinds of viewing figures. Then I can also imagine that at the end of the year it will simply be the end of practice and a whole new duo will be introduced.”
Who then? “Welmoed Sijtsma with Sam Hagens I heard Tina Nijkamp say. Well, quite a good suggestion.”