Today’s Inside trio is quite under fire in-house because of the moderate broadcast with Frans Timmermans. “Will Wilfred Genee have regretted that invitation?”
Frans Timmermans has been the target of Spot in today Inside for years. He is always portrayed by Johan Derksen as someone with extremely bad ideas, but once he is sitting at the table at the VI-trio, there is no more critical note to be seen. Johan is fussy, René van der Gijp is silent when it is not about football and the Bargast? Sigh.
VI-trio fails
As a Bargast, VI had not put someone with political knowledge, but … Bas Nijhuis. Why does VIABERHAUP invite party leaders, people wonder on social media. And: why can René just stay in place if he has nothing to say? Then it is better to store Raymond Mens or Thomas van Groningen at that location, according to critics.
The VI-trio is also under fire in its own house. Three experts from Shownieuws, which is broadcast on the same channel, believe that Wilfred Genee and his colleagues have failed, namely Story-Baas Guido den Atrekker, private boss Evert Santegoeds and Telegraaf reporter Jordi Versteegden.
Through the basket
Guido finds the men really toothless. “The gentlemen’s gentlemen are coming through the basket with their toothless questions to Timmerfrans again. They are better off without politicians, who only come to emit obligatory party talk,” he writes down X.
The men’s attitude disturbs him. “Wilfred Genee ignores that many SBS 6-Kijkers PVV votes; here too a TV maker finds his own preference difficult to suppress. But you are in front of your audience and not for your neighbors in Deugdorp.”
Sharp
They just have to dump René during these types of evenings, says Guido. “Van der Gijp is not the sharpest knife in the drawer. That is fine in his role as a table nice. And many viewers are also the case. Last night it became painfully clear that in these settings he is very disruptive with his interrupting interruptions.”
Evert is also disappointed. He says in the podcast Strictly private: “Frans Timmermans at VI, then all the brakes really go loose, you would think. But it was quite a bit. It was few fireworks.”
Jordi: “I really had something like: normally French is always tackled by those men!”
Does Wilfred regret?
Evert thinks Wilfred is sorry. “Will Wilfred have regretted that invitation to Frans Timmermans?”
Jordi: “I just asked him, because there was a lot of criticism on social media. That is logical in itself, because X is a right medium and that many people are against Timmermans there is logical.”
Wilfred says: “Two years ago we went full and we could not do that again, because then we would repeat. Then he was surprised and now he was prepared, and that indeed yielded a little less fireworks.”
No regrets
Evert thinks it is of little self -insight witnesses. “That doesn’t sound like regret.”
Jordi: “No, but he thinks he thinks: maybe we could have taken more out of it. Then I think: yes, you had known for a while that he would come by … Do you think René van der Gijp can send an invoice? He said almost nothing! That’s nothing for him.”
Evert: “No, then he really falls through the basket on an evening like that. I don’t know if they are planning more.”
“Prefer Pauw!”
Friend and foe agree: VI is a weak bite when a politician is sitting at the table. Tonight it’s Joost Eerdmans’s turn. Jordi: “If it continues, then there are viewers who think: then I will look at Jeroen Pauw.”
Evert concludes: “Yes, then do Valentijn Driessen. Yes, it is not entirely the VI as we like to see it anyway.”
What does Jan Dijkgraaf think, the biographer of the Meilandjes of it? He says in his column: “Now, next week, Johan only has to get Rob Jetten just as deep into his ass when he did with Timmermans and today Inside starts in terms of viewing figures on a long sliding flight down.”