SBS 6 will immediately stop repeating the Frank & Rogier show Paleis voor een Prikkie. The first episode of the repeat series did so badly that they are immediately exchanged again.
It will have escaped anyone’s attention that SBS 6 is experiencing a summer of horror. So bad that there is even a conspiracy theory going around that John de Mol deliberately wants to lie in the ditch. The station started repeating the spat-out TV duo Frank Jansen and Rogier Smit last week. The viewer’s reaction was predictable: it zapped very quickly.
Frank & Roger out
Palace for a Prikkie scored only 101 thousand viewers and a 2.7 percent market share in the repeat last Wednesday. Frank & Rogier are now being thundered into the archive again: SBS 6 will broadcast reruns of Steenrijk Straatarm from tonight at the same time.
A good decision, thinks former broadcaster Tina Nijkamp. “It was inevitable, of course, but the fact that this title was once again taken off the shelf to fill in the gaps shows how few successful titles SBS 6 has to repeat.”
Linda next?
Strikingly enough, Frank & Rogier’s show was not the worst-watched program on SBS 6 last week. That was the repeat of Diepe Gronden, the four-part drama series with Linda de Mol. Only 87 thousand people (2.2 percent) watched it on Thursday. For now, the second episode is still in the schedules tomorrow.
Tina thinks that SBS 6 will delete this after all. “The next title that goes off schedule will be Linda de Mol’s Deep Grounds. Will be replaced by Frank Visser.”
bizarre plan
Linda has never scored so badly in prime time. Last week, Tina expressed her astonishment that Deep Grounds is being repeated at all.
“What a bizarre plan to repeat this series. Repeating a drama series with a continuous story has never scored well in the past 25 years. That is why it is almost never done. In addition, it was only recently, last January, that the series was broadcast. A very bad miss.”
Roger points to the exit: