Although the first episode of Five Live – the latest SBS series from Lindade Mol – attracted a beautiful 987,000 viewers last night, the reactions werenot tender. From ‘twitching’ to ‘bland’: critics did not mince their words onsocial media.
And that while for the cast a large view of celebrities has been raised.
New series by Linda de Mol
In the series Five Live Sara (Linda de Mol) and Roderik (Waldemar Torenstra)are a divorced couple who watch the weekly talk show Five Live presents.Channel boss Flip (Daan Schuurmans) is disappointed with the ratings andbelieves that something should be done: in the first episode he comes up withthe idea of inviting Ellen van Boetzelaar (a parody of Angela de Jong,played by Irene Moors) to the table for more excitement. That happens, becauseduring the broadcast a studio lamp suddenly falls on the fake Angela, who thenfalls over the table. Apparently dead.
The latter is not quite right with viewers. They call the action ‘childish’and see it as a sneer at Angela: she kept after it The Voice After all,scandal is long and full that Linda should have known about the sexual abuseslong ago.
What is most surprising: so many people who work on such a production and no> one who shouts “hey Linda, very nice and nice, but that Angela de Jong> ripoff ends with a lamp on her head at the end – would you do that now?” I’m> really surprised.> #FiveLive>> — Jordy’s 📺 TV tweets (@JordyTweetTV) October 2,> 2022
Linda de Mol in January/February 2022: “that sad, intensely false Angela de> Jong”>> October 2022: the fictional version of Angela who gets a studio lamp on her> resin in Linda’s new series.>> 🤔🤨> #fivelive>> — RB de Graaf (@RBdeGraaf) October 2,> 2022
You can really hate Angela de Jong, but letting a look-a-like die in a> series is going too far. Sad> #fivelive>> — Lianne van Veen (@Liedje87) October 2,> 2022
Orlando Boldewijn
According to viewers, the makers could also have thought a little better aboutthe fact that one of the characters is called Orlando Boldewijn: a seventeen-year-old boy who was murdered four years ago turned out to bear the same name.
A spokesperson tells us about this SBS : “The character Orlando is fictionaland the name – now it turns out very unfortunate – was chosen by chance.Despite the fact that a large team has read the script and was present duringthe recordings, unfortunately no one has made this link.” The relativescontacted the program makers through their lawyer Sébas Diekstra. “And he hasinformed us that the next of kin do not see any evil intentions from us in anyway.”
just look> #fivelive> with Linda de Mol back. Where were the scriptwriters’ heads? A character was> given the name Orlando Boldewijn. That is also the name of the 17-year-old> boy who went missing four years ago and was found to have drowned and> murdered. Couldn’t they just google this?>> — Boyan Ephraim (@boyanephraim) October 3,> 2022
That there is a [email protected] belongs to a 17 year old boy who was> murdered> #orlandoboldewijn> #fivelive> very strange all> @TalpaNetwork>> — M (@MarcelKnoester1) October 3,> 2022
Reaction of Angela de Jong on Five Live
Angela de Jong has in a column on AD.nl commented on the series. “Let’s behonest,” she begins. “Having me end up for dead at a talk show table with abloodied skull is not only the wet dream of Linda de Mol, but in any case ofall her colleagues at Talpa and three quarters of her other colleagues in thesnake pit in Hilversum. I can handle that. What I can’t stand is a dramaseries in which the biggest clichés about the TV world are conveniently pastedtogether, sometimes quite good actors have put on a cheap wig and that as aformer TV queen, who always prided herself to know what her viewers want tosee, seriously thinks that you deliver a top production à la Divorce and_Gooische Women_.”