It’s over for Nick & Simon: while they are in the middle of their series of farewell concerts, their TV show Strandgasten came to an end yesterday. And unfortunately the viewing figures are again disappointing.
The eight-part series Strandgasten is over. The program in which Nick & Simon make music with other celebrities on the beach ended yesterday with 251 thousand viewers (4.5 percent market share) on NPO 3. That was not nearly enough for a place in the daily top 25 of most viewed TV programs.
No hits
On average, 278 thousand people watched the Nick & Simon show. “And that makes it reasonable,” says RTL Boulevard reporter Joost Maiburg. “Especially postponed, it improved slightly, but it was not a real hit.”
Viewing figure expert Tina Nijkamp speaks of a ‘moderate score’. “But including delayed viewing, this program was just above the average of NPO 3 every week.”
“Simon out!”
Will this program come back? “Wow, I don’t think so. Perhaps a combination between Nick and Kees is an idea.
Nick turned out to be a good interviewer and Kees was the pacesetter. I thought Simon mainly had a supporting role. Let’s take another look at The Beatles series by the trio. M curious.”
The big failure of the evening was Net5, where Erik van der Hoff’s TV comeback as presenter of De Grote Muziekquiz managed to entertain only 143 thousand viewers (2.5 percent). Immediately afterwards, at half past ten, the reality series Goud Zuid attracted only 36 thousand viewers (1 percent).
Angela goes wild
Goud Zuid, about a bunch of pompous ladies in Oud-Zuid, was supposed to be broadcast on SBS 6, but it turned out not to be good enough for the main stage. The show has therefore been dumped on Net5, where it scores downright lousy.
Angela de Jong is going in her today AD column completely loose on the so-called ‘rich’ ladies, but Yvonne Coldeweijer thinks that the TV columnist has not realized that things have been staged very much: “Angela has fallen for it. Here’s the problem with all these housewives-type programs: being rich doesn’t mean you’re rich.”
Viewing figures
The viewing figures of Wednesday, April 5, 2023 (SKO):
Top 15 | Market shares (18-24h, 6+) |
|---|---|
| 01. Journal 20:00 (NPO1) 1,600,000 | 01. NPO1 / 17.4% |
| 02. Feyenoord – Ajax BR HF (FOX) 1,322,000 | 02. FOX / 15.4% |
| 03. Football BR Match Abandoned (FOX) 1,237,000 | 03. RTL4 / 14.1% |
| 04. Half past seven news (RTL4) 1,202,000 | 04. ESPN / 12.5% |
| 05. Football BR Game Abandoned (ESPN) 1,141,000 | 05. SBS6 / 8.4% |
| 06. News 18:00 (NPO1) 1,057,000 | 06. NPO3 / 5.4% |
| 07. EenVandaag (NPO1) 917,000 | 07. RTL5 / 4.7% |
| 08. Traceless (NPO1) 830,000 | 08. NPO3 / 2.7% |
| 09. Feyenoord – Ajax BR HF (ESPN) 816,000 | 09.NET5 / 2.4% |
| 10. RTL Boulevard (RTL4) 756,000 | 10. RTL7 / 2.1% |
| 11. Edition NL (RTL4) 679,000 | 11. Vero / 1.6% |
| 12. Race across the world (RTL4) 679,000 | 12. RTL8 / 1.5% |
| 13. Good Times Bad Times (RTL4) 668,000 | 13. Paramount / 1.2% |
| 14. Today Inside (SBS6) 648,000 | 14. BBC / 0.8% |
| 15. Journal late (NPO1) 621,000 | 15. Discov / 0.8% |
Market shares per channel group (18-24h, 6+) | More viewing figures at: |
| 01. Public Broadcasting 25.5% |  |
| 02. RTL Netherlands 22.9% | |
| 03. Talpa TV 12.8% |
Programs that did not make it to the top 15 include Op1 (608 thousand), Spaceship Earth (605 thousand), Khalid & Sophie (515 thousand), Hart van Nederland (493 thousand), Steenrijk Straatarm (475 thousand), Beau (435 thousand ), Shownieuws (322 thousand) and HLF8 (248 thousand).