Tonight the time has finally come: the big TV farewell to Martien Meiland and his family. After the two-hour Christmas special it’s over, but any gratitude? “They don’t show that!”
Martien, Erica and Maxime Meiland have earned hundreds of thousands of dollars every year thanks to the success of Chateau Meiland. They say goodbye tonight with a two-hour Christmas special on SBS 6. Do they show gratitude for the enormous viewership that has given them all that wealth? No, says Telegraaf reporter Jordi Versteegden.
Disrespectful
Jordi thinks it’s a bit disrespectful. “They are going to Austria this year on a night train. I have already watched that Christmas special and it is exactly what you expect. Am I okay with it? I think people should decide for themselves, but I think it is a good time for the Meiland family to say goodbye now,” he sneers.
He continues at the desk Show news: “I do think: if you have been able to make twelve seasons on this channel, where you are of course also dependent on the viewer who continued to watch – they still did so en masse -, then I think that somewhere in such an episode you should also thank that viewer.”
‘Very unfortunate’
Don’t the Meilandjes show any gratitude? Aren’t they also addressing the viewer? No, says Jordi. “In my opinion, that has not happened enough. Actually, not. I think that is a shame.”
Good riddance, says colleague Ronald Molendijk. “I would just love to see television from people who can really do something. I just don’t get this, but that’s a matter of taste. What is the fascination with these people? I just don’t understand it. That man has been saying ‘oooooohhh!’ om. Yes, I saw it. And on!”