Guido den Aantrekker thinks that viewing figures played a role in Op1’s decision to just on air to stay while a guest lay bleeding on the floor. “It’s still showbiz!”
The talk show Op1 rarely makes the news. The program is now somewhat known as the TV equivalent of diazepam: half of the viewers are snoring on the couch at the end of the broadcast. How different it was the day before yesterday: living rooms across the country were shocked during the broadcast on NPO 1.
Op1 guest stretched out
One of the guests went berserk during a short film and that resulted in rather unreal television: Charles Groenhuijsen was rummaging through his papers as if he were in a dress rehearsal and Margje Fikse started to report on the events as a kind of Frank Snoeks. situation in the workplace. “Oh, it’s bleeding a lot now! O How terrible!”
Critics have gone wild on the Op1 couple, but Margje is very pissed about that. Don’t they think at the talk show itself that thirty seconds of ‘please wait’ wouldn’t have been more appropriate? “That could have been done. You make these kinds of considerations on the spot at that moment,” said one of the members of the team of editors-in-chief in the AD.
‘For the ratings!’
This is simply a consideration of viewing figures, says Story chief Guido den Aantrekker. He says plainly to the desk of Show news: “Look, of course there is something else involved, let’s face it, right? Television is of course also… It remains showbiz, so I can also imagine if you really have a whole…”
Guido is cut short by some disgraceful colleagues. He continues: “No, but listen! I think it could just be that the director just said: ‘Keep going, keep going!’ Of course it attracts viewers. If you bring up “please wait” on the screen, half of it goes away. That’s just how it is.”
Billiard match
According to him, the criticism of Charles and Margje is justified. “I had the impression that Charles was listening to a podcast in the meantime and that Margje was reporting on a billiards match. He was clearly listening to the direction. The presenters usually have an earpiece in.”
Colleague René Mioch: “Yes, that woman (it is obvious that Margje is not yet a household name is, ed.) told it as if she was reporting on a billiards match. So it was a bit crazy.”
Dyantha Brooks: “I thought I read that Charles looked at her like: what are you saying!”
Tooske sniffed
Bart Ettekoven: “It wasn’t exactly reassuring what Margje said either. ‘Oh, there’s a lot of blood here! Oh, it doesn’t look very good!’”
Incidentally, something like this has also happened at Shownieuws, says Bart. “It really went full on her face. I half got up, but Tooske got up and sat down as if nothing had happened.”
Five quarters
That was absolutely not an option for the injured Op1 guest Corlien Doodkorte. With a battered face, she tells a camera crew from RTL Boulevard: “I had such a bloody nose. I take blood thinners and we spent five quarters of an hour trying to stop the bleeding.”
A good while, and that also explains why she eventually stopped appearing at the table at Op1. That could easily have been done with competitor Jinek; it is about halfway after five minutes.