Chantal Janzen has the image of a successful TV star, but almost all of her TV programs are ruthlessly flopping. What is that about? And will that eventually turn against her?
It is actually amazing: anyone else with such a long line of television walks on her CV, would have been written off in no time, but Chantal Janzen will continue to be welcomed with a drum roll on the Media Park. Why does she always score such bad viewing figures? And why is there any chance that her new programs will also fail?
Oh oops, oh
It is an unprecedented high risk: RTL 4 tries the Format Play That Song … Again! Next Saturday to breathe new life into a one -off trial special, which is presented by Chantal Janzen, the flopfee of RTL. Oops, oh, oh: is this the right choice of channel boss Peter van der Vorst?
Mediaciticus Victor Vlam fears not. “I thought to myself: Chantal Janzen is going to present it, is that a reason to watch that program? And I think it is honest answer: no, absolutely not. That is different from Linda de Mol in her heyday,” he explains in the podcast The Communicado’s.
Quality stamp
Why not? Victor: “One of the things that Chantal Janzen absolutely does not have is that you think: if she presents it, that is a kind of quality stamp. (…) She has one big problem: she has an extreme number of flops to her name. It is the flop queen among the television presenters.”
Co-host Lars Duursma: “Yes, so that radiates negatively at her, because you can’t really care that if you watch a program of her, you will have a nice evening.”
The piano
What does Chantal do wrong? “It is the trick to pick those things out of which you think: that is really going to be a success. There has just been totally failed. She has presented one flop after the other. You had the piano, a totally flopped program from RTL. Wrong but gold probably doesn’t know anyone anymore.”
He continues: “Blow up, All Together Now, Time to Dance, do it yourself. Janzen & Van Dijk: also a legendary big flop. Beat the best. One after the other. And these are the big flops. There are also many things that scored okay [maar niet meer dan dat]. “
Fingersgefühl
The Fingerspitzengefühl that Linda once had, in any case Chantal does not have that. “If Linda presented it, you could assume that it is quite a good program.”
Perhaps it is because Chantal comes out of the musical corner, Victor concludes. “I think her real love is theater and that’s why I think she just has less with the television world and she is less good at seeing what works and works less well.”