Victor Vlam was supposed to participate in Ranking the Stars, but was suddenly cancelled. Then he saw the line-up and immediately understood why they had traded him for someone he had never seen before.
The Paul de Leeuw show Ranking the Stars attracted around 200,000 viewers at its lowest point last season. That is not only a very low viewership, but also a harsh judgment from the TV viewer. The program that was once full of A-stars has degenerated into a show in which C-stars rank each other on qualities that no one is interested in.
Victor asked
Victor Vlam now reveals in his podcast Victor Indicates TV that he was asked for last season. “The viewing figures had really collapsed to around 200 thousand viewers. That is really much lower than the year before and really, very, very much lower than in the years before. Then it was a really big hit.”
He continues: “The remarkable thing – I haven’t mentioned this before – is that I was also asked to participate in this program this season. I even said yes and a little before the recording date, not very long before, I was canceled.”
Dist
So Victor was disgraced by Paul de Leeuw’s show. “I thought to myself: it’s called Ranking the Stars and I think there are a lot of bigger stars in Hilversum, so fine, they must have a bigger name for that. When I saw the line-up of people, I thought: hmm, I don’t know who those people are.”
He continues: “I don’t think that was necessarily the most important problem, but I could see why they probably canceled me, which is that it was mainly people from the reality sphere.”
Sjorleone tendrils
Victor doesn’t know all those C stars at all. “Ranking the Stars assumes that the people participating in the panel know each other and that is of course the difficult part: I find it very difficult to rank people like Sjorleone, because I have no idea who that man is and I have no idea what he has done.”
He continues: “If you ask me who likes a bag of chips the most: I have no idea what Sjorleone scores on that.”
Linear TV
Victor thinks that Paul’s editors first tried to create an edition with regular stars. “I think they had the ambition to get all kinds of famous people from linear TV, but that didn’t really work out and that’s why they fell back on reality stars, because you need a group of people who know each other.”
“Those reality stars are just not found very interesting by other television viewers who are older and watch less reality. That’s why it’s just poorly viewed.”