Tina Nijkamp does not like how Marco Schuitmaker was treated last night in the talk show Khalid & Sophie. “Exactly how this subject was treated is canal belt!”
It’s like fighting the odds: Khalid & Sophie suddenly try to prove that they are not at all left-progressive, elitist and canal belt, as the program is described by critics. Last night, Sophie Hilbrand received none other than the popular artist Marco Schuitmaker, who came to sing his hit De Engelbewachter.
Beautiful number
Tina Nijkamp, our country’s ratings authority, has seen the fragment and is left with a bad taste. She places on her analysis channel a screenshot of a smiling Sophie with a singing Marco in the background. “Khalid & Sophie’s problem in one shot. ‘Laughing that Marco Schuitmaker is in the studio’,” she writes.
According to Tina, the disdain radiates from it. “Exactly how this subject was treated is canal belt. Dear editors, the issue The Guardian Angel is NOT guilty pleasureit’s just a beautiful song.”
‘What are you saying?!’
Wilfred Genee reacts in surprise to Marco’s actions. “Are you saying that Marco Schuitmaker was there tonight?! Who will simply sing The Guardian Angel with us in the Ziggo Dome on Sunday?”, he says Today Inside.
Political reporter Sam Hagens cynically: “They did listen to the criticism from Canal Belt TV.”
Wilfred: “Then you’re making a complete fool of yourself, aren’t you? All this time you’ve just been making terribly bad TV and now suddenly in a panic you’re going to get The Guardian Angel.”
Sam: “At least they listen to criticism, right?”
Strange choice
Tina was also on the talk show last night Beau and there she criticized the choice to put Khalid & Sophie on the late evening, which means that Op1 has to stop. “I think that’s a strange choice, because they don’t have very good viewing figures and they have the problem that they are very elitist. They are very much a canal belt, as they say.”
She continues: “They’re not that wide and I think for a late-night show it would be nice if you went a bit wider. I think they should really look at how they do that. That they will do a little less Connie Palms and discuss a little more The Seven Sisters, that book we all know.”
Whole week
Beau van Erven Dorens thinks it is an improvement that there are not so many presenters in the late evening, as at Op1. “It’s good that they are there all week, so not all changing presenters. That in itself is a good choice?”
Tina: “Well, I think in the end it mainly has to do with the line-up and what topics you do. I think that Khalid & Sophie have a huge task to really do that more broadly and for the whole of the Netherlands.”
Fragment
Marco Schuitmaker in Khalid & Sophie: