The the Dutch Summer also proves to be a success after Wilfred Genee’s departure. Since Hélène Hendriks took over the presentation of the talk show on Saturday, a viewing figure record has been booked twice in a row. On Saturday, 874,000 people watched, while on Sunday 891,000 people tuned their television to the talk show, according to figures from View research.
Hendriks was on Saturday at the end of her first broadcast as a presenter of The the Dutch Summer still unsure about her performance. “You’ve done really well, dude”, Johan Derksen encouraged. “Thank you, the beginning was a bit hesitant, but in the end…”, Hendriks replied. Derksen waved it off: “No, don’t bother with hesitating, we had a wonderful evening. René and I managed to survive amidst the surplus of women, didn’t we?” Handball player Estavana Polman was also sitting at the table, while former hockey player Minke Booij had a seat at the bar.
With the record score of Sunday evening came The the Dutch Summer in seventh place of most watched programs of the day. These include the NOS Journaal from 8 p.m. on NPO 1 (1.99 million viewers), Formula 1 on Ziggo Sport (1.28 million), Tokyo Live on NPO 1 (1.27 million) and Tokio Today on NPO 1 (985,000). ) preceded the programme.
Genee handed over the baton to Hendriks after the broadcast on Friday evening, after he had presented the daily talk show from the start of the European Championship. The program got off to a slow start this summer with ratings of around half a million, but started to get better as the weeks went on. Last Sunday, De Oranjezomer also set a viewing figure record: then 820,000 people saw how virologist Ab Osterhaus was properly tackled by former hockey player Jacques Brinkman.