Dark clouds over Nigtevecht: Wendy van Dijk’s TV career is drowning in the ratings swamp. Who throws the presenter a lifebuoy? Or has her A-star status already been lost?
Wendy van Dijk was considered an absolute A-star for many years. As a presenter of The Voice and as an actress in Moordvrouw, she achieved excellent viewing figures for years. How different it is these days: when she’s not facing languishing dance marathoners, she’s back on the channel with some weird dating show.
Singing from top 25
Where Wendy first made a dating show with singles who met while dancing, she can now be seen on SBS 6 with a program in which singles meet each other while singing: Liedje Op Het First Face. After 463 thousand and 381 thousand viewers, the presenter saw her score fall even further yesterday.
The third episode of this musical Wendy show came out at eight o’clock in the evening to 345 thousand viewers (7 percent), no longer enough for a spot in the top 25 viewing figure. 425 thousand viewers (12 percent) and is in there, in place 24.
Very painful
Tina Nijkamp, the former director of SBS 6, does not think this is good. “The program has fallen out of the top 25. That really hurts for John de Mol and SBS 6. Unfortunately another big flop for John de Mol. Wendy will also wonder why this show does not score again.”
The answer is simple, says Tina. “The premise is wrong. No one goes looking for love singing. Hardly anyone can sing beautifully at all. And so viewers think it’s fake. Although that does not have to be the case, it still comes across as too contrived and not believable. But these are very bad and very painful viewing figures.”
She concludes: “So really bummed for Wendy, Edsilia, John and everyone at SBS 6. And everyone also knows that the chance of improvement is small.”
Even Until Here wins
The parody show Even Tot Hier, containing a song about the misconduct of Matthijs van Nieuwkerk, was the big winner on prime time with 1.8 million viewers (36 percent). Immediately before, NPO 1 attracted 1.4 million viewers (30 percent) with Ik Departure.
RTL 4 takes silver with 764 thousand viewers (16 percent) for The Big Show with Ruben Nicolai. The bronze goes to NPO 2’s Sterren op het Doek with 689 thousand viewers (14 percent).
Viewing figures
The viewing figures of Saturday, November 19, 2022 (SKO):
Top 15 | Market shares (18-24h, 6+) |
|---|---|
| 01. Journal 20:00 (NPO1) 2,069,000 | 01. NPO1 / 28.8% |
| 02. Even up to here (NPO1) 1,781,000 | 02. RTL4 / 17.4% |
| 03. I’m Departing (NPO1) 1,438,000 | 03. SBS6 / 9.8% |
| 04. Journal 18:00 (NPO1) 1,268,000 | 04. NPO2 / 7.0% |
| 05. Half past seven news (RTL4) 1,139,000 | 05. NPO3 / 6.0% |
| 06. EenVandaag (NPO1) 1,123,000 | 06. RTL5 / 4.5% |
| 07. Our Farm and now itself (NPO1) 913,000 | 07. Vero / 3.4% |
| 08. Skating WB Team Sprint D (NPO1) 882,000 | 08.NET5 / 2.2% |
| 09. RTL Boulevard (RTL4) 798,000 | 09. RTL7 / 1.9% |
| 10. The Big Show with Ruben Nicolai (RTL4) 764,000 | 10. RTL8 / 1.9% |
| 11. Skating WB 5KM H (NPO1) 738,000 | 11. ESPN / 1.5% |
| 12. Sinterklaas news (NPO3) 712,000 | 12. N.geog / 1.2% |
| 13. Stars on the canvas (NPO2) 689,000 | 13. BBC / 1.1% |
| 14. More Than Gold (NPO1) 661,000 | 14. Paramount / 0.8% |
| 15. VriendenLoterij Millionaires (RTL4) 653,000 | 15. FOX / 0.8% |
Market shares per channel group (18-24h, 6+) | More viewing figures at: |
| 01. Public Broadcasting 41.8% |  |
| 02. RTL Netherlands 26.6% | |
| 03. Talpa TV 15.9% |
Programs that did not make the top 15 include Hart vasn Nederland (600 thousand), Renze op Saturday (474 thousand), Nieuwsuur (456 thousand), Spiegelbeeld Het Leven van Willeke Alberti (456 thousand) and Shownieuws (418 thousand).
