It could just be that Merel Ek will become the Eva Jinek of SBS 6. A duo talk show with her colleague Sam Hagens seems to be in the works. “I think that’s a very good idea.”
Linear television is generally quite boring and well-behaved: RTL Boulevard looks good but no spicy opinions are proclaimed, Op1 is the TV equivalent of diazepam and Eva Jinek’s talk show lasts so endlessly that you can easily watch two during the broadcast. watch football matches. Is SBS 6 going to shake things up further?
Merel and Sam
SBS 6 has shaken up the entire TV landscape with Today Inside: no talk show is viewed better than the show with Gijp and Derksen. And will the station now again come up with a controversial program in which the bland nuts on the table are replaced by razor-sharp salt sticks?
The two feisty political reporters Merel Ek and Sam Hagens seem to be working on a secret project. They are still working for Hart van Nederland, but are best known for their performances on the barstool of Today Inside.
“She’d rather not!”
Wilfred Genee asks Sam in the online section In The Hallways whether they hate the two of them in The Hague. “I don’t think if you just ask them. You are of course hard on the content and soft on the relationship. That’s kind of how they do it, I guess. But they are not a big fan,” he replies.
Wilfred then says: “No, huh? Rather not, eh? Also that Merel preferred not to sit at the bar when with Rutte. That was a feeling that came out of it.”
Own talk show
Wilfred: “Of course there is some itching, because you want more and Merel also wants more, I think. Would Merel like a talk show, do you think?”
Sam: “Well, I think she’s open to that. Yes haha. With me? Yes. That sounds like a lot of fun, yes.”
Wilfred: “But?”
Sam: “But that is not so easily arranged, of course.”
Wilfred: “Huh? Not with this station?”
Sam: “No, that’s not one-two-three.”
Pilot
Wilfred: “Has anything ever been tried? Spoken or pilot or things like that?”
Sam: “Yes, of course there is talk and a few attempts here and there, but yes…”
Wilfred: “So what was tried?”
Sam: “Yes, of course I can’t say that. Of course I cannot say about everything that is being tried and is not yet certain.”
Wilfred: “Is it going to become concrete soon?”
Sam: “I don’t know yet.”
By value
Wilfred: “Do you feel they value you?”
Sam: “I find that so uncomfortable to say about yourself. I don’t find that very interesting.”
Wilfred: “You find it fascinating, but you are afraid that you will say the wrong thing.”
Sam: “Yes, exactly.”
Wilfred: “But you would like them to do something more with you?”
Sam: “That sounds like a lot of fun. The idea of yours that I have to do something with Merel, I think that’s a very nice idea that you’re calling that now.
Wilfred: “I think it could be a lot of fun. Politics, but also a bit of entertainment. So that it is just a bit looser.”
Editorial Hagens & Ek
The working title of the program is already suggested by Wilfred: ‘Redactie Hagens & Ek’. “I’m going to call Merel in a bit, okay?”, says Sam.
Where it was initially Eva who was seen as the promise of talk showland, Merel and Sam could easily score high as a TV duo. Will they get a show on SBS 6 or will RTL 4 have a spot when Eva leaves?
“Are you leaving RTL?” Marc-Marie Huijbregts asked her yesterday in ‘Jinek’.
Eva then: “Not that I know of. Do you know something I don’t know?”
Marc-Marie: “Well, I hear that it depends very much on the market, so I think: let’s talk about that.”
Eva: “Everything is hanging over the market!”