Will Eva Jinek surpass her own holiday record? It could just be that the presenter just takes a year’s holiday and only starts working at NPO after the summer of 2024.
Eva Jinek has almost served her four-year contract with RTL 4, but it feels like a few weeks. She has been on holiday so often that she actually just got into it a bit. And now? After the turn of the year, the presenter will switch to AvroTros, but her intended time slot of 7 p.m. on NPO 1 will only be released after the summer of 2024.
Eva only after the summer?
It is now almost certain that Khalid & Sophie, which is already booked until the summer, will not budge. “It is almost certain that from September 2024 she will sit in the eve at 7 p.m. 140 episodes, I understand, she’s going to make. That’s right up until Christmas. Then there will be a holiday,” says AD media journalist Dennis Jansen.
He continues in the AD Media podcast: “I think – I’m not entirely sure – she will continue long enough after that. So a long vacation. I don’t know if Khalid & Sophie will still be on the air then.”
‘Not before on TV’
Dennis has understood that there is no question that Eva will appear on the tube sooner. “No, not before. She could do another program before then. Once a week, a different program.”
Angela de Jong would recommend that to her. “Of course you want the audience to keep seeing you a little bit.”
She continues: “And at the same time, I also think that it is not surprising at all if you have just had your second child, that you think for a moment: you know, I will come back from maternity leave at the beginning of January, then I will think very carefully and brainstorm what we are going to do with that program and then I will start again in September.”
Eva is due next month.
‘RTL was surprised’
It remains striking that no one at RTL, including her neighbor Peter van der Vorst, had no idea of Eva’s ambition to return to the NPO. “We were not the only ones surprised, because RTL was too,” says Dennis.
Colleague Marcus den Blanken: “Peter van der Vorst thought he was comfortable negotiating.”
Dennis: “Yes, I think they sat down together a few days before to discuss the future.”
Angela: “And he went home with the idea: he agrees.”
Not indispensable
Fortunately, Eva is not indispensable for RTL, says Marcus. “I maintain that he does not have to be sad about that, because I think that Eva is better off at the NPO and I think that she has now left such a talk show base that RTL can continue with that with the current presenters who they still have.”
Angela: “Well, she did give cachet. It was clearly a journalistic heavyweight that was there.”
Marcus: “No, of course, I agree with you, but I don’t think it is a great loss for RTL, because they can now absorb that perfectly and they simply fit better with the NPO.”
‘No one knew’
For the time being, Eva’s team does not seem to be moving along, as it did when she went to RTL. Angela: “Yes, I found that the most special of all the news I heard. At least from how it went, because Peter van der Vorst was surprised, but Ewart van der Horst was also surprised. She also did not know that she is going to AvroTros.”
“And her own team, who knew it last time, didn’t know it now either. So they were also surprised when they received an app from her just before the push message came, that she is going to AvroTros. And as far as I know, but of course I don’t speak to those people every day, no one from the team has been asked to come along.
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