Johan Derksen has not received an apology from the Talpa management after Paul Römer’s publicity blunder. “No no no. I haven’t had that yet. I have not heard anything.”
Friend and foe agree: Johan Derksen is the spiritual father of the idea to bring Gijs Groenteman and Marcel van Roosmalen to SBS 6 for a talk show. He’s been talking about it since November. And now that they are actually roped, Talpa bobo Paul Römer pretends it was an original from the management. “Doesn’t come from Derksen!”
Bland Paul
It also plays a part that Paul hates the men of Today Inside, despite the fact that, according to Tina Nijkamp, they are the only reason that SBS 6 is again scoring double figures in terms of market share. Johan already put this Talpa bobo in its place on Monday in Today Inside and yesterday he also came back to it.
Wilfred Genee asks him in the broadcast: “You received an e-mail from the management, I assume? ‘Sorry, sorry, we should never have said that.’”
No excuses
Johan has had no apologies. “No no no. I haven’t had that yet. I haven’t heard anything, but I didn’t expect that either. I think John de Mol really said to him: ‘Dude, don’t worry so much. Let those guys talk, what do you care. They have good ratings and find out further with that nonsense.’”
Wilfred: “It remains remarkable, of course, René, isn’t it, that these kinds of genius ideas…”
René van der Gijp: “Remarkable owners, remarkable owners.”
Johan: “Maybe we should have him at the table sometime. Seems like a very colorful man. I think he’s walking out of here angry. haha.”
“Stupid of him!”
Table guest Albert Verlinde thinks the whole Paul is one big PR drama. “I just think it’s stupid of him. I mean: you are a director, then you can at least say: ‘Yes, that’s how it works with us, isn’t it? A kind of club feeling! Then Johan shouts something and then you think: it’s actually a good idea, and we’ll continue with it.’ What’s wrong with saying that?”
Johan: “Then he would have been rid of it, nothing to worry about.”
Albert: “That’s what I mean. How hard can it be?”
“So sour that guy!”
Jan Dijkgraaf, biographer of the SBS 6 Meiland family, thinks Paul is childish. He says in the podcast Nasty Boys: “Römer was immediately stepped on that dick of his. Van: ‘You don’t think that we let Johan Derksen determine the broadcasting schedule!’ So in short, just pissing an old game away.”
Colleague Bas Paternotte: “The fact that he is so negative and that he starts whining like that, I think that is much more appropriate for the NPO than for that SBS.”
Marco Louwerens, another SBS bobo, is much more sympathetic, according to him. “He is quite a happy loose man when you see him like this on TV. But that Römer, that’s really… You have to put a container under it for the chemical waste, that guy is so sour.”
‘Really bizarre!’
Angela de Jong sat opposite Paul when he made his sour statements. She says in the AD Media podcast: “That conversation derailed in a way that I had not foreseen, because he denied at all costs that Johan Derksen is the spiritual father of this plan. And I found that really bizarre. haha. I think you can see that in my face.”
She continues: “Since the last season was on television, Johan Derksen has been talking about how those two would have such a good time at half past eight. And then all of a sudden the idea would have popped up spontaneously in the heads of the board without them ever seeing an episode of VI talking about it?”
Just nonsense, Angela decides.