Wendy van Dijk is very disappointed that she has not scored since her switch to SBS 6. Ministars also went off mercilessly hard. “There’s a lot of negativity around it.”
SBS 6 hoped to fill the gap of The Voice Kids with the Friday night show Ministars, but that was not exactly successful. The presentation duo Britt Dekker and Wendy van Dijk saw with sorrow how terribly bad the program scored week in week out, right up to the final last Friday. How do they themselves view this flop?
Negativity
Wendy was asked about it on camera yesterday RTL Boulevard. “Of course you hope it does better. If it does not score well, then of course there is a lot of negativity around it.”
In any case, there was no such negativity in the studio, Wendy emphasizes. “What I am making and doing, we had an incredible amount of fun at that time. You’ve made the best of each other, you hope, and whether or not that catches on is a bit out of your hands.”
Fusion failed
It seems that Wendy has to sit out her TV career at SBS 6, because a return to RTL 4 is no longer possible due to the failed merger in TV land. “I think I thought it was a bit of a shame. I always blow with all the winds and in the beginning it took me a while to think: huh, fusion?”
She continues: “I always have to get used to the idea, but now you’re used to it and you start to open up to it and think: oh, well, it probably also offers new perspectives. Yes, and then it won’t happen again. Then it’s again: oh, okay, well, okay too.”
What does her husband Erland Galjaard, a bobo at Talpa, think of it? “A bit the same. It is go with the flow. It wouldn’t have been crazy at all to work together.”
‘Not coming back’
TV connoisseur Rob Goossens says afterwards in the studio that a sequel to Ministars is probably not possible. “I don’t think so. It is very clear that SBS 6 has thought: as long as The Voice Kids is not on the tube, we will try to do something that dives into that hole a bit.”
He continues: “This program just wasn’t good enough. Then you put two of your most important presenters on it and they will not make it in terms of viewing figures.”
Bit sour
Colleague Eddy Zoëy: “I think Wendy is great, that’s not the point, but if you get a program like this and you know from episode one that it doesn’t work and you still have a lot to do, then you’ll be disappointed.”
Rob: “I think so, actually. She has of course scored the stars of heaven for years and now find out that it also had a large part to do with being put on good programs and people don’t turn on the television for you en masse, that is of course just a bit sour. ”
