Tina Nijkamp, the authority in the field of viewing figures, notices that Khalid & Sophie’s scores are dropping again after the election boost. “It’s too much of a canal belt.”
It has actually never been a success: Khalid & Sophie. The new season started in September with a mediocre 477 thousand viewers, the viewing figures rose slightly in the run-up to the elections, but now they seem to be back to square one, according to viewing authority Tina Nijkamp. For example, only 519 thousand watched it yesterday.
Canal belt
Half a million early evening viewers on the most watched TV channel in the country is simply not good. EenVandaag had 924 thousand viewers immediately before and the Achuurjournaal scored 1.4 million viewers afterwards. This means that people really tune into Khalid Kasem and Sophie Hilbrand’s program.
How is this possible? Tina lays it out on her analysis channel: “Last year and the beginning of this season the show had become less elitist, but they now seem much more canal belt, including a section by Connie Palmen about a trilogy by a Danish author.”
VI in the lead
The most watched talk show in our country is Today Inside. More than 1 million people watched it yesterday. Coincidentally, fierce criticism was also expressed about Khalid & Sophie in this broadcast. Johan Derksen and René van der Gijp think the talk show duo is really terrible and don’t exactly make a secret of it.
It looks like Khalid & Sophie is currently in its final season. The AD states that 140 (!) episodes of Eva Jinek’s talk show have been ordered and that it will start in September 2024. What does that mean? A whole season Jinek. And that the BNNVARA duo must make way.
Bang
However, Khalid thinks that if he and Sophie start to have such a blast, no one will be able to ignore them: not the NPO and not Eva. “There is nothing as opportunistic as the TV world. The moment you make a good program, and I believe that we are making a good program and will make an even better program, then they cannot ignore us, man.”
So they just stay? “Yes, of course,” Khalid said rather confidently.