Roelof Hemmen will be Eva Jinek’s regular sidekick in her daily talk show on RTL 4 next season. However, he will only make his debut tonight, because he had a good schnabbel yesterday.
The format of Eva Jinek’s talk show is being overhauled. In the hope of turning the ratings tide, a sidekick is added to the show, namely Roelof Hemmen. The former RTL Nieuws star gets his own corner in which he deals with current affairs. His job is to make Eva’s program a bit more urgent.
Have a nice snack
The remarkable thing is that Roelof was still missing during the season premiere yesterday. Why is that? According to RTL Boulevard, he still had a good schnabbel, namely a day chairmanship in Utrecht. A day’s work like this yields thousands of euros and he apparently thought it a shame to pass up.
According to RTL Boulevard editor Joost Maiburg, it would have been better if Roelof just made his debut yesterday, all the more so because Nick & Simon were guests in that broadcast and therefore many people watched Jinek above average. “It seems to me that it was already planned, but it is a shame that he misses the first.”
‘Smart move by RTL’
Tina Nijkamp thinks it is smart for RTL to add Roelof to Jinek’s formula. “Smart move I think. Roelof Hemmen gets the role that Luuk Ikink, and later Marieke Elsinga, had on RTL Late Night. RTL Late Night then scored insanely well. The numbers only dropped after the sidekick was abolished.”
She continues: “With a sidekick you break up a line-up where you go from conversation to conversation. Broadcasting often becomes much more dynamic as a result. Never understood why we have never seen a sidekick at RTL, and also at NPO, in recent years.”
very nice man
Even at Today Inside they are enthusiastic about Roelof. “That’s a very nice man, yes. Look, he’s a man with a lot of experience and he’s eloquent and he’s quite sympathetic. He actually has everything you lack.”
And HLF8 star Hélène Hendriks also believes in it: “I think he is a very sympathetic man.”
Hans van der Togt
However, not everyone is enthusiastic. Jan Dijkgraaf believes that an old corpse is being exhumed by RTL:
