Sophie Hilbrand feels Eva Jinek’s hot breath on her neck. The presenter admits to fearing her own talk show Khalid & Sophie. “I find it annoying that it is so unclear.”
According to critics, it is clear: Eva Jinek will make the seven-hour talk show of NPO 1 after her return to the public broadcaster. In fact, according to AD media journalist Dennis Jansen, it is almost certain that it will start in September 2024 at that time. The only inconvenient thing? Khalid & Sophie is still on that spot.
Sophie trembles
Khalid Kasem and Sophie Hilbrand were not exactly in a festive mood at the NPO seasonal presentation yesterday. They are on the eve of perhaps their last season ever and that is what worries them in particular. She has expressed her concerns to both RTL Boulevard and Shownieuws.
Sophie annoyed at RTL: “Which I think is a pity, because I also hear that name, of course, and the wish for that time slot… We have quite a large editorial team, so I actually find it more annoying or annoying for the editors that it is so unclear. You wouldn’t do it this way in a healthy company, would you? That feels really crazy.”
Fidgety
Eh, the new season has yet to start, but Sophie already wants clarity about the next season? That is really very unusual in the television world. “I find not knowing unsettling, even for a very large editorial team, because of course you just keep building and it just becomes more and more of a program,” she says at SBS.
The whole of Hilversum depends on temporary contracts, but a long-term vision must therefore be arranged for the editors of Khalid & Sophie? Yes, yes… Of course, Sophie is just afraid of the career trap that is to come. “Of course you prefer someone to say: this is what we are going to do.”
Unprofessional
Sophie can’t handle it at all. “The fact that names float above the market and the NPO does not really make a clear decision, I find it unsettling. If you look at a company and they say: ‘We all don’t know’, it all feels a bit unprofessional to be honest, but that’s how it works.”
Khalid keeps a little more to the point. “What is Eve up to? What is she going to do? Will it be seven o’clock? We really have no idea. We do not see her in this presentation. That means she won’t do anything for now. We are really still on channel until the end of May / beginning of June. Yes, and for the rest it’s all just watching coffee grounds,” he says at RTL.
All eyes on Eve
Nothing has become clear about Eva during the NPO presentation. “We understand that Eva Jinek was not there, because she is of course very pregnant, but she has not been mentioned either and then we can assume that we will not see her on television for the entire upcoming TV season ”, says TV connoisseur Rob Goossens.
Show connoisseur Bart Ettekoven is curious what they will do with Khalid & Sophie: “Does that automatically mean that they will disappear? Or will they perhaps go to NPO 2 or to a later date? There’s some noise. Sophie in particular thinks it is sloppy that they leave a lot of people dangling in a vacuum and that there is still little certainty.”