After sixteen seasons, the Peter Gillis soap is finally over: last night the last episode was shown on SBS 6. And channel face Patty Brard thinks that’s great. “Shut up!”
After sixteen (!) seasons, Massa is Kassa, the reality series by Peter Gillis, has come to an end. Talpa pulled the plug after Peter Gillis was convicted of assaulting ex-girlfriend Nicol Kremers. The channel still persisted in the tax cases, but an assault conviction turned out to be the limit.
‘Done!’
Telegraaf reporter Jordi Versteegden ultimately finds it abrupt. “The last season was quite short: six episodes. I also think that the Netherlands was a bit done with it,” he says in Show news.
“Talpa first said in those tax cases: ‘We will wait for the appeal and only then will we remove this man from the channel’, but they are now making a statement by saying: ‘In an assault case, even if there is no appeal yet, we will pull the plug.’ I think he received a short community service sentence for that. I believe it is about 60 hours.”
‘Very sad’
Patty Brard feels bad for Nicol Kremers, who was abused by Peter, that it took so long. “Nicolleke suffered for a very long time under the yoke of Peter Gillis. And it just kept on broadcasting here. She was confronted with it, it didn’t stop and I felt really sorry for her at the time.”
The tax cases were included in the end of the Gillis soap, but the assault case was not. Jordi: “That is striking. When I look at it that way, if I have to come up with a reason, I think it is just to protect Nicol.”
Hide away
Patty looks cynical in it. “You hope it’s about that.”
Celebrity expert Bart Ettekoven: “Yes, or is it because they want to hide it a bit?”
Jordi: “That SBS wants to hide that?”
Bart: “No, the makers of the program.”
Jordi: “No, I really think it is to protect Nicol, to be honest.”
Bart: “That would be very nice.”
Back yet?
Will the Gillis soap ever return? Patty: “I’ve also seen them driving across that field. Wow. The electricity works, but it doesn’t work. The castle continues, but doesn’t.”
Bart: “Maybe it’s just a bit worn out, but the viewers stuck around.”
Patty concludes: “What I think is a shame is that the cheerful note has disappeared. That you are no longer amazed, like: wow, what has he actually created. It’s a bit of bullshit TV. ‘This doesn’t work, are you going to clean that again, are you going to do that again.’ Shut up!”