Gijs Groenteman and Marcel van Roosmalen get a big turn around after their fierce criticism of TV colleague André van Duin. “This is looking for nails at low tide. It is cheap scoring.”
André van Duin is generally acclaimed from all sides, but not everyone is lyrical about all his television work. For example, the men of Media Inside, Gijs Groenteman and Marcel van Roosmalen, think that André’s program De Grote Kleine Treinen Competition is really not to be seen. “It looks like a social workplace.”
‘Bit corny’
Private boss Evert Sankrediets, who maintains a good relationship with André, finds this disgusting. “That’s a bit bland though. Yes, I think so,” he says in the podcast Strictly Private.
The viewing figures prove that Gijs and Marcel are wrong, according to Evert. “André van Duin makes that program, one and a half million people watch it and it now attracts more viewers than the other side with Linda. It just satisfies a need.”
Social workingplace
According to Evert, you cannot dismiss the participants of the Great Small Train Competition as people in a sheltered workshop. “The NPO doesn’t just have to be so serious and stuff, does it? I understand that if you have a success like Heel Holland Bakt that you look for an equivalent.”
He continues: “Well, indeed, it does have similarities with the same jury and André of course. And if so many people look at it, it certainly meets a need. Then I don’t know whether you should immediately compare it with a sheltered workshop.”
Score cheap
Evert doesn’t like the guys from Media Inside. He finds their way of spitting criticism very low to the ground. “They should know that for themselves, but I thought this was a bit of a nail in the head and a bit of cheap scoring.”
“The viewer himself decides what he is looking at,” concludes the Private boss.
