What a shame for Talitha Muusse, Raymond Mens and all their colleagues at GoedNieuws Today. Their good news schedule is hit with terribly bad news.
Nowadays, the viewing figures of TV programs are only published after a week, so that the scores can be boosted a bit with the postponed viewers. If it is then written that something has scored poorly, then a program has done very well. And that is what is happening now with GoedNieuws Today.
Rose-colored glasses show
The idea seems to come from John de Mol himself. After his family had been under fire in the media for years, he was apparently completely fed up. Only good news on the eve of SBS 6, he thought. But the Dutch don’t like that; they just live in reality and not with rose-colored glasses on.
Good News Today is called the good news show, but you can also call it the rose-colored glasses show. And how poorly it scores. Joost Maiburg, the Tina Nijkamp of RTL Boulevard, has put together all the scores of the past few weeks and pooh, pooh, pooh: it is really very poor.
Crying with a hat on
It is a shame for Talitha Muusse, Raymond Mens and their colleagues: the poor scores are simply reminiscent of NSE, another news program that John de Mol once launched, on his former TV channel Talpa. It was also so bad with ditto viewing figures. And now it doesn’t work with GoedNieuws Today either.
Kijkfigure-Joost is quite ruthless analysis channel: “You would almost forget that the program still exists, because you never hear anything about it. And that is not surprising: last Monday only 102,000 people watched (3.3 percent market share) and that made the fifth week off to a miserable start again.”
83 thousand viewers
What are the weekly averages so far? Week one: 130 thousand viewers (4.9 percent market share in the commercial target group), week two: 92 thousand viewers (3.0 percent), week three: 96 thousand viewers (2.4 percent) and week four: 83 thousand viewers (2.3 percent). Can you also translate this into a grade? Yes. A 1.
It’s like flogging a dead horse, says Joost. “Last week, only six messages about the program appeared on X and the media only reported once about the program. A negative article after all.”
‘From the tube’
This will just go off the air, Joost expects. “The program is still on the December program schedule, but it promises to be a long ride with little good news for the time being.”