It’s Christmas Eve and that means Robert ten Brink is back on the scene with his annual All You Need Is Love Christmas special. “It is a shame that this is being cut back.”
The annual Christmas special of All You Need Is Love used to be quite one happening with a major program from the studio, but now Robert ten Brink has had to do without a studio show for years. Nowadays we see him driving around the country in a bus for two and a half hours and that is an incredible shame, says show expert Bart Ettekoven.
‘Really a shame’
Bart thinks that RTL 4 could use a bit more. “I think it’s a shame, I have to tell you honestly, that RTL has stripped it down like this. That entire studio part has been taken out and people really unpacked it in the past,” he says Show news.
“It’s just now… He picks up the people at Schiphol and that bus starts driving and you have to thank God on your bare knees and hope that you are not the last one in that bus, because then you will be driving around the Netherlands for six days .”
Just a little richer
Colleague Dyantha Brooks thinks that those people don’t mind being on that bus at all. “Yes, well, you are going to visit someone you have not seen for years!”
Bart: “Yes, so that doesn’t matter, but I think it’s a shame. In the past it was just a bit richer in my opinion.”
Anouk Smulders also gets involved: “I must say that it was always a lot of fun in the studio and that those people were also there and sat together and the doors opened.”
Budgets
Dyantha points to the declining budgets in TV land. “Isn’t that the case with everything? Because the budgets are just very different?”
Bart: “Yes, but you would say: you do this once a year.”
Evert Santegoeds: “The studio part was a lot of fun.”
Dyantha: “Who knows if it will ever come back.”
Bart: “Peter van der Vorst just needs to open his wallet. Next year we’ll be back in the studio at full capacity!”