Reasonable debut for Johan and Masterchef, The Hit flop - Volkskrant

By: Thijs van Soest – 02/25/14, 10:32

© VPRO. Reinout Scholten van Aschat as Cruyff.

The first episode of the new TV series Johan last night just pulled a little over a million viewers. A reasonable debut, but it is not yet near the scores for example Doctor Deen at that time gets (an average of 1.8 million).

Johan is about the life of Johan Cruyff. In the VPRO series Reinout Scholten van Aschat plays the young Cruyff, Ian Buck takes the older Cruyff for his account. The ratings reflect the debut score of another Dutch television series, How Expensive Was Sugar, which runs on Netherlands 2 for three weeks. But now there are still about 750,000 viewers. The acclaimed TV series Ramses tumbled in a few weeks from 632,000 to less than 400,000. It remains to be seen whether Johan – but on family channel Netherlands 1 – the same fate. The reactions on social media are predominantly positive.

Daily on primetime
The commercial stations went last night a few new programs premiered. Just 5 did with the first episode of MasterChef Holland pretty good business. Certainly 370,000 people watched yesterday at 20.30 to the Dutch edition of the internationally successful cooking competition. It is the first time that a commercial broadcaster such a program daily on primetime programming. A small 400,000 viewers at that time is not bad for the little station of the SBS group.

Goosebumps
on RTL 5 was yesterday the debut of The Hit, a new program of music, presented by Dennis Weening. The viewer was not enthusiastic: only 255,000 people switched on. RTL 5 recently announced to have high expectations of the new format: “Over a year ago showed Dan Blazer and Erik van der Hoff from producer BlazHoffski me a pilot seeing an Irish format called The Hit. And then I got goose bumps, just like in the early days of The Voice when the chairs were run. These are moments that you know to have “something beautiful hands said channel boss Paul Cormont at the press conference.

Flop lurking
The Hit present every week six brand new songwriters a song to two popular artists. Various Artists lend their support to the program, including Waylon, Ben Saunders and Rob de Nijs. The quarter-million viewers who watched accounted for a market share of 3.5 percent, according to the figures of Audience Research Foundation. It is unlikely that The Hit next week a lot more viewers know to draw a flop is this lurking for RTL 5.

There have been successes for the returned The World Keeps Turning. Nearly 1.7 million people switched on again. The ceremony of the Olympic athletes was also able to attract many viewers more than 1.9 million people watched the athletes on the podium in Assen appeared to take. Huge applause The ceremony is thus the second position in the day’s top 25. The NOS News from 20:00 was able to attract the most viewers because more than 2.4 million. In third place is Radar with 1.9 million viewers.

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