The golden rules of the family docusoap: “Everything starts with the main character” | TV

With ‘De Vermeires’, Flemish TV has added another docusoap about a well-known family. After the Pfaffs, the Planckaerts, the Goorissen and the Verhulsts, Jacques Vermeire now also gives an insight into his life and that of his offspring. But what are the golden rules of the genre? Which ingredients are necessary and what should you not put in them? Five makers of docusoaps have their pots looked at. “Ozzy Osbourne and Jean-Marie Pfaff had more in common than meets the eye.”