Sven Kockelmann does not find it useful if talk show guests talk through each other, as Maarten van Rossem recently did in his broadcast of Op1. “It has to be followed by the viewer.”
Maarten van Rossem caused a stir a few weeks ago when he started talking through an important man from NATO in the talk show Op1. According to him, talk show host Sven Kockelmann was ‘annoyed’ about this, but: “It is better to talk through it, then you make it clear that you do not like the arrangement of the conversation.”
Huge hoopla
How does Sven look back on this TV thing? He tells in the Nieuwe Revu: “You know that if you invite Maarten van Rossem, it has a disruptive effect. It always is, that’s how he is. But if everyone is talking at the same time all the time, that’s not going to work. It has to be followed by the viewer.”
Sven thinks the media riot about it is exaggerated. “It makes a huge fuss when something like this happens, I think that’s exaggerated. It was just a moment in a broadcast. I thought it was much to do about nothing.”
newsworthy
What does he think of Maarten’s criticism that he allowed the NATO man to speak too much? “We had a guest at the table who normally never appears at the table in these kinds of programs. From his point of view, he raised a fairly serious alarm about the Russian troop build-up, which I thought was newsworthy.”
Sven wanted to hear in detail what evidence NATO had seen at the time. “I wanted to put that down first, so I let him speak for a bit longer. But Van Rossem did not accept that and then we started talking at the same time.”
Long teeth
The big question is: would he rather not have Maarten at the talk show table anymore? “It’s not that I welcome him with long teeth at the table, certainly not.”
“He remains self-willed. And I do like quirky people. Sometimes I can’t quite follow him either, but then I can ask a few questions about that.”