Nick & Simon cause surprise with their new TV program Strandgasten. They hardly looked at each other again. “One just walked out of the picture when the other said something!”
The TV collaboration between Nick Schilder and Simon Keizer feels quite forced now that everyone knows that the two no longer like each other as they used to. However, their new program Strandgasten was already recorded and they also appear in the already recorded Avastars on SBS 6, so for the time being it is keeping up appearances.
“Bit awkward!”
How did Nick & Simon interact in the premiere episode of Strandgast yesterday? Tina Nijkamp watched. “Nick and Kees (Tol) were clearly in the lead. Nick also turns out to be a nice interviewer and can sing and play the guitar beautifully. Simon really had a supporting role and was also very little in the picture with a musical role,” she says.
She continues: “Nick and Simon really didn’t communicate with each other, didn’t look at each other, and the few times he was on screen with Nick, he walked out of the picture in the middle of a sentence from Nick. Weird. It was really a thousand times more fun than Mart op de Piste and again: really nice guys and music, but therefore a bit awkward.”
‘Fine bales’
The viewing figures are also a bit disappointing, says Tina. 258 thousand people (5 percent market share) watched the premiere episode on NPO 3. “Very bummed about this morning of ratings for Nick, Simon and Kees. Strandgasten, the successor to De 3 Sterren Camping, does not score well. Only 5.4 percent market share in the target group aged 20 to 54.”
Was the score in the core target group good? “There it only scored 6.4 percent, half of the influx of First Dates (12.1 percent). What is the influence of Nick and Simon’s break-up and their current way of communicating on the ratings? In any case, it doesn’t help. As I wrote: a bit awkward.”
No Victor
A bit awkward was also exactly what SBS 6 thought when the channel saw ‘Your house in order’ in the schedules yesterday on the national day of action for the victims of the earthquake in Turkey. A Code van Coppens replay was broadcast instead. Tina already knows how that is.
Tina: “This was decided just before the broadcast of Je Huis Op Orde due to the sensitivity of the title and the action for the victims of the earthquake in Turkey and Syria. Next week we will deliver again.”
The replacement did very badly with a meager 212 thousand viewers (5 percent).
Viewing figures
The viewing figures of Wednesday, February 15, 2023 (SKO):
Top 15 | Market shares (18-24h, 6+) |
|---|---|
| 01. Journal 20:00 (NPO1) 1,943,000 | 01. NPO1 / 24.7% |
| 02. Journal 18:00 (NPO1) 1,262,000 | 02. RTL4 / 16.1% |
| 03. Help Earthquake Victims (NPO1) 1,029,000 | 03. NPO2 / 10.0% |
| 04. The Evening Show with Arjen Lubach (NPO1) 1,024,000 | 04. SBS6 / 9.5% |
| 05. EenVandaag (NPO1) 990,000 | 05. RTL7 / 6.6% |
| 06. Half past seven news (RTL4) 989,000 | 06. RTL5 / 5.7% |
| 07. Married at first sight (RTL4) 915,000 | 07. NPO3 / 3.7% |
| 08. RTL Boulevard (RTL4) 755,000 | 08.NET5 / 3.7% |
| 09. Good Times Bad Times (RTL4) 750,000 | 09. RTL8 / 2.8% |
| 10. With the knife on the table (NPO2) 749,000 | 10. Vero / 2.5% |
| 11. Today Inside (SBS6) 741,000 | 11. BBC / 1.5% |
| 12. Gort over the border (NPO2) 709,000 | 12. Discov / 1.4% |
| 13. Edition NL (RTL4) 683,000 | 13. Paramount / 1.4% |
| 14. Inside Out (NPO2) 665,000 | 14. RTLZ / 0.6% |
| 15. Khalid and Sophie (NPO1) 661,000 | 15. SBS9 / 0.5% |
Market shares per channel group (18-24h, 6+) | More viewing figures at: |
| 01. Public Broadcasting 38.4% |  |
| 02. RTL Netherlands 31.9% | |
| 03. Talpa TV 16.2% |
Programs that did not make it to the top 15 include Op1 (635 thousand), Hart van Nederland (611 thousand), Tijd voor MAX (567 thousand), Dortmund – Chelsea (557 thousand), Nieuwsuur (487 thousand), Shownieuws (480 thousand ) and Humberto (420 thousand)
