Johnny de Mol will soon be told that his flop talk show HLF8 will not survive the summer break. That is the expectation of media journalist Jordi Versteegden of De Telegraaf.
Johnny de Mol’s daily talk show scores very consistently on the eve of SBS 6. Consistently bad. Actually, no dog has been watching the program since the premiere, but the presenter has a kind of license to continue. “Everyone other than the ‘son of’ had long since been taken off the channel,” said Angela de Jong this week†
HLF8 off the tube?
Family or not: John de Mol cannot avoid taking his son off the TV soon, media journalist Jordi Versteegden of De Telegraaf expects. “It now gets a second chance from Talpa. It’s the second season we’re in, but the ratings are still not good,” he says in a video of the newspaper.
It is inevitable, says Jordi. “It’s a very expensive program to make, so I expect we’ll hear about it soon that it’s the end of the exercise and then Johnny should just get back to doing what he’s really good at. At location. I really hope he will.”
Too many talk shows
Telegraaf presenter Wilson Boldewijn points out that there are simply too many talk shows on television at the moment. He speaks of an ‘overcrowded talk show landscape’. “Eva Jinek’s viewing figures have actually been below par for a while, the competition is fierce.”
HLF8 will be the first to clear the field, so Jordi expects. And according to Angela, that comes not a second too late, although she does think that Hélène Hendriks is currently doing well as Johnny’s replacement. But: “She does not boost the moribund viewing figures of HLF8, no one will expect that from her. It’s like pulling a dead horse.”