There is a good chance that we will also see Joost Klein in the Netherlands next year as a coach in The Voice of Holland, says TV authority Tina Nijkamp. “They really like him in Belgium.”
RTL has been taken over by the Belgians and all viewers in our country will notice this: in order to make more profit, it has been decided that as many Dutch programs as possible should merge with the Belgian variants. “Got Talent is coming now, it will be Belgian-Dutch, so I think The Voice will also be Belgian-Dutch,” says Tina Nijkamp.
Voice of Benelux
The TV authority thinks that we will soon be watching The Voice of Benelux instead of The Voice of Holland. “There is no other way. It is quite easy to do. I suddenly thought: then Joost Klein will also be with us in The Voice next year, because in Belgium they really like him,” she says in the podcast The Media Week.
Colleague Mark Koster: “Incomprehensible.”
Tina: “I thought: one and one equals two.”
‘Far too good’
Maybe that merger with the Belgians is also a good thing, says Tina. “So I watched, because it premiered on February 13, The Voice of Flanders, and that jury is really fun. I watched all kinds of clips and there is a woman in it – I don’t know her name – and she then presses the button of the one that has not yet been played.”
In other words: tricks that you should perform as a Voice coach. “We don’t see those kinds of fragments in the Dutch Voice now and I think that’s a shame. It’s very good now. Very bad.”
Compliment
Mark agrees. He thinks the Flemish are better. “We have to compliment the people from Flanders about their juries. The jury of De Slimste Mens is also great. There are great copywriters behind it and those jokes are really good. That makes me laugh too.”
But, Tina notes: “I’m not a fan of Joost Klein.”
K2 Looking for K3
Apart from Joost, Tina is also enthusiastic about the Belgians. “They can make television very well in Belgium. I already had it at K2zoekt K3. That was almost twenty years ago and that was the first time I came into contact with Belgian TV makers and I was so impressed. They thought about every step and discussed with each other.”
She concludes: “Not like: ‘Oh, we do it this way, because we always do it this way.’ But really: ‘How do we make this program special?’ I was impressed by that passion. I think Belgian TV makers are generally better than Dutch ones.”
