The return of Today Inside attracted nearly 1.5 million viewers on Monday evening. According to Stichting KijkOnderzoek, the daily talk show ended in second place in the top 25 of the most watched programs of the day. Today Inside only had to tolerate the NOS Journaal on NPO 1 with 1.7 million viewers.
Today Inside returned from Monday after just under two weeks on SBS6 with Wilfred Genee, René van der Gijp and Johan Derksen. The program ended on Thursday 29 April, when Johan Derksen indicated that he no longer wanted to sit at the table. The reason for this was the national commotion that arose after he shared a story about possible transgressive behavior by a woman in his younger years.
Monday evening’s 1.5 million viewers is a viewing figure record for Today Inside. The April 29 episode attracted over 1.3 million viewers. In recent years, when the program was still called Veronica Inside, the average number of viewers was between 800,000 and 900,000. Johan Derksen returned to television on Monday evening in his own way.
The analyst explained at the return of Today Inside once again took his side of the story and expressed regret to ‘the real victims of sexual violence’. “But for all those people at those talk show tables who wanted to score and shouted ‘that Derksen has to apologize’ I only have one gesture,” said Derksen, who then raised his middle finger.
Before that, Derksen had explained why he stopped. “I can withstand the noise that the woke community made, but I stopped when I got the impression that Talpa was not behind us either. And then an embarrassing press release came out from Talpa, which Hélène (Hendriks, ed. ) that evening neatly read in HLF8“, says Derksen, who is corrected by Wilfred Genee: Leonie ter Braak was a presenter that evening and she read the message. “But it said that we would humbly apologize that evening at half past nine…”
That was reason for Derksen to adopt a recalcitrant attitude. “I think: even if I drop dead here, I still won’t do it. It’s very simple: I was just fed up with it. Then you get the problem of all those people at those talk show tables, who are going to demand very politically correct that I have to apologize. I have to say ‘sorry’, or ‘I’m sorry.’
Nevertheless, Derksen – albeit in other words – came up with a kind of excuse. “My wife has made it clear to me that I could have hurt the people who are really affected by sexual violence and that was never my intention.”