week 42 / 18 October 2012 HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR COUNTRY? Erland Galjaard on RTL 4’s fl agship show Ik Hou Van Holland Germany France United States The Netherlands Unter Uns launches Nicolas de Tavernost X Factor gets Spin offs for The transmedia web series on M6’s new season new hosts Voice Of Holland ratings week 42 / 18 October 2012 HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW YOUR COUNTRY? Erland Galjaard on RTL 4’s ñ agship show Ik Hou Van Holland Germany France United States The Netherlands Unter Uns launches Nicolas de Tavernost X Factor gets Spin offs for The transmedia web series on M6’s new season new hosts Voice Of Holland ratings Cover Montage showing Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Linda de Mol and Guus Meeuwis, presenters of Ik Hou Van Holland Publisher RTL Group 45, Bd Pierre Frieden L-1543 Luxembourg Editor, Design, Production RTL Group Corporate Communications & Marketing k before y hin ou T p r in t backstage.rtlgroup.com backstage.rtlgroup.fr backstage.rtlgroup.de QUICK VIEW Unter Uns launches new transmedia web series Grundy UFA / RTL Interactive p. 7 - 8 “In television, we mustn’t be presumptuous” Groupe M6 / RTL Radio p. 9 New hosts for The X Factor FremantleMedia North America p. 10 Interactive family entertainment RTL 4 (The Netherlands) Living The Voice Of p. 4 - 6 Holland experience to the full RTL 4 p.11 Enex expands to Latin America Big Picture Enex p. 13 p. 12 SHORT NEWS PEOPLE p. 14 - 15 p.16 - 19 On 20 October, RTL 4 kicks off the new season of Ik Hou van INTERACTIVE Holland. Backstage talked to Erland Galjaard about the FAMILY programme and asked what makes it so popular. ENTERTAINMENT The Netherlands – 18 October 2012 RTL 4 Linda de Mol 4 Imagine a Saturday evening show unlike any other: a mixture of quiz, game and panel show. But in a whole lot of humour and related everything to one topic: your home country. What you end up with might be something like: Ik Hou Van Holland. The show is presented by Linda de Mol, a celebrity in the Netherlands who is also popular in Germany due to Traumhochzeit and other shows broadcast on RTL Television. “You need a strong host for this kind of show,” says Erland Galjaard, Programme Director at RTL 4. “And we got one in Linda.” She is supported by two fellow hosts: Jeroen van Koningsbrugge and Guus Meeuwis who head the two panels. Team Jeroen and Team Guus consist of three Dutch celebrities from different generations – one in their twenties, one in their thirties and one in their forties – who each compete against one another in various kinds of games. “These games are mostly knowledge-based,” explains Galjaard. “Like ‘Spelling’ for example, which can turn out to be quite hilarious when a celebrity does not know exactly how a word is spelled.” Other games include questions about famous television moments or about Dutch history. Galjaard explains: “The twist is: Everything is Erland Galjaard, Programme Director of RTL 4 related to the Netherlands. But not in any kind of political sense – this is not about nationalism programme and in May 2010, readers of the whatsoever. This show is about the Dutch people TV guide magazine Televizier voted Ik Hou Van and Dutch history.” Holland the best Dutch show of all time. In recent seasons, the format attracted an average of 2.5 mil- The most interesting part of the show is not lion viewers. This October, the show enters its tenth only watching celebrity candidates struggling at season – or fi fth year. Starting 20 October, every supposedly easy questions, but to play along at Saturday several guests will join in the Ik Hou Van home. “People sit at home in front of their TV set and Holland games to test their knowledge in the area of try to spell the words for themselves, for example,” Dutch fi lm, music, sports and spelling. says Galjaard. “It’s very interactive with the viewers. You’re challenged to play along.” “Every season, there are new games and slight changes to the show to keep it interesting for When the show launched in 2008, RTL 4 was still viewers,” says Galjaard, but refuses to say what broadcasting Idols and was not as popular in terms will be new on Saturday. “You’ll just have to watch of audience shares as today. “I wanted to build up a the show,” he smiles, but does hint at the kind of balance to the talent shows we air on Fridays,” says surprises that await the viewers. In the previous Galjaard. “We wanted to gather the whole family in season a new game called “The cake” was front of their TV screens, but not just for the talent introduced. “Imagine a boring birthday party, the shows: something to balance them, a bit of variation. kind of party where everyone is sitting around So we tried out new formats and in the end, Ik Hou talking, but not much else is happening,” Erland Van Holland was what we came up with.” Galjaard explains. “We took this setting and gave the participants a cake. Now they had to answer “When we launched this show about fi ve years a question and if they answer it correctly, they are ago, we took a risk, but it turned out well. Today, allowed to pass the cake to the next person.” The it is one of the most popular shows on Dutch exciting part: the cake is manipulated with a bomb television,” says Erland Galjaard. In January that goes off after three minutes. When it does, the 2009, it won the “Beeld en Geluid Award” candidate with the cake in his hands has – obviously (Light and Sound Award) as best entertainment – lost the game. “As you can imagine, this creates Next > 5 a suspenseful atmosphere – with the tension and So far, the production company Talpa has sold the time pressure – making the celebrity candidates show to more than 30 territories, including France, give wrong answers to questions they would usually Germany and the UK. Erland Galjaard: “John de have no problem with,” says Galjaard. Mol told me just yesterday that the BBC has ordered a fi rst season of I Love My Country, as it is called In the upcoming season of Ik Hou Van Holland, internationally to be broadcast on BBC One.” Also candidates include guests like presenter Nicolette available in the Netherlands: a board game that van Dam, comedian Dennis van de Ven, actor viewers can play at home. Daniël Boissevain, sailor Marit Bouwmeester, actress Birgit Schuurman, actor Frank Lammers, So what’s the next? “I want to increase the show’s presenter Stacey Rookhuizen, singer Frans interactivity,” says Galjaard. “We’re currently Bauer, former Playboy editor Jan Heemskerk, the working on a new concept. I could imagine doing a RTL Boulevard presenter Albert Verlinde, presenter quiz show with, say, 100 questions. The audience Reuben Nicolai, actor Jeroen Spitzenberger and has a tablet computer, and so do users at home stylist Maik de Boer. who can download an app to their personal tablet. So both the audience in the studio and at home can compete with a candidate or with one another. If this works out, it may be the fi rst really interactive game show in TV history. That is something I personally would like to see.” Jeroen van Koningsbrugge, Linda de Mol and Guus Meeuwis (from left to right) 6 UNTER UNS LAUNCHES NEW TRANSMEDIA WEB SERIES Grundy UFA / RTL Interactive With the fi ve-part web series Des Jägers Herz Grundy UFA and RTL Interactive set out to show how the telling of stories can successfully be interwoven between internet and television. Germany – 12 October 2012 Stefan Franz playing Rolf Jäger The web series Des Jägers Herz, produced by Grundy UFA’s Digital Drama department, runs from 22 October 2012 for a period of fi ve weeks. In parallel to the Unter Uns storylines on TV the fi ve-part web format can be seen exclusively on RTL.de. However, the episodes will not only be a big deal on the internet – from mid-April 2013, fans of the series can look forward to Des Jägers Herz being a key element of the Unter Uns storyline on TV. Grundy UFA Digital Drama and RTL Interactive are thereby creating a series in which parallel web and TV storylines dovetail with each other. Guido Reinhardt, CCO and Producer at Grundy UFA: “Des Jägers Herz is a small masterpiece of transmedia storytelling: the concept of an exclusive internet narrative strand that becomes a central element in the storyline of the TV series Unter Uns breaks down media boundaries and points the way to where serial storytelling is headed.” Next > 7 Rolf Jäger in Des Jägers Herz Matthias Büchs, Head of Online/Mobile/Teletext at RTL Interactive: “On linear TV, our daily series tackle topics for an audience of millions every day. And we regularly extend the formats on our digital platforms with separate storylines. This exciting new series will have the audience following the format not only on their TV screens, but also on the internet.” The web series follows the fate of Rolf Jäger who, after murdering the policewoman Rebecca Mattern in the series, records his emotions ranging from anger, loneliness and deliriousness via webcam from his place of exile in South American. Over fi ve episodes, users and viewers are given an in-depth look into Rolf’s states of mind and his inner turmoil in his hideout.