The Today Inside program will definitively disappear from the tube after Johan Derksen’s slippage. SBS 6 will broadcast repeats of the Meilandjes every evening from next week.
It is finally over and out for the men of Today Inside, John de Mol’s Talpa Network confirms in a press release. Johan Derksen’s story about his ‘youthful sin’ kills the program. The football connoisseur has lost everything in two days and in order to get ahead of Talpa, he himself puts down his TV career.
VI out, Meilandjes in
The program will not go ahead without Johan. René van der Gijp and Wilfred Genee declare their solidarity with Derksen and have indicated that they also do not want to continue the program under these circumstances.
SBS 6 will broadcast a repeat of Het Roer Om tonight on the site of Today Inside and from next week the viewer will be given an overdose of Meilandjes. Their adventures will be reviewed daily.
Cancel culture
According to Johan, it was not tenable to stay on television. “We were the only program in the Netherlands where people dare to say everything mentally independent, but I am gradually coming to the conclusion when I see the reactions to it that there may no longer be room for such a program,” he said yesterday in his interview. last broadcast.
Johan thinks that the ‘cancel and woke culture’ has become too big. “I am done. If you have worked for a radio station for twenty years and you do 600 theaters and you slip once and the cancel family falls over you and you are liquidated everywhere, then I think: then there is no more room in the Netherlands for Johan Derksen.”
‘A great pity’
Raymond Mens, America expert and regular guest of VI, thinks it’s a shame. “I have been watching mainly American television for over twenty years. Take it from me: just preprogrammed and risk-averse programs to the bone is also nothing. After Johan Derksen’s statement, Today Inside could have continued. It’s a real shame it ends this way.”
Op1 journalist Thomas van Groningen: “What Johan said went too far and can no longer remain without consequences in 2022. But the fact that the entire program has now stopped is a real shame for Dutch television. Also for all those hardworking, fun people behind the scenes. They can’t do anything about this.”
