Floortje Dessing says the Court of Audit’s conclusions about the costs of its program Floortje To The End Of The World Do not knock. In a conversation with NU.nl, the presenter tells us that the program was made with a small budget and that the current costs are still below the NPO standard.
“The Netherlands Court of Audit has gone so briefly, conclusions have been drawn that are not at all correct,” says Dessing. “It was said that the program had become much more expensive in two years and that would all have had to do with producing it myself. In 2016, the program was heavily inadequate, then my editor-in-chief and I got stressed. “
That is why it was then decided to involve more people in the creative process and to make six instead of twelve episodes. “Then the price per episode also goes up automatically. That is why the program became more expensive in 2017.”
According to Dessing, the costs of the program are still below the NPO standard. “So I don’t feel guilty about anything. In fact, I’ve made the program incredibly cheap for years,” said the presenter.
“People don’t want to hear that it is all different”
“After the report came out, I didn’t say anything about it either. The more words you put into it, the more people think there’s really something going on. The people yelling so loud don’t even want to hear that it is all different. “
The Court of Audit published the report at the end of last year Hilversum in the picture from. The independent investigation body states that the NPO does not look critically enough at the costs of long-term successful programs and uses them Floortje To The End Of The World as an example.
“We noticed that the costs of the program in 2018 per episode increased by 41.5 percent compared to 2016, while the average number of viewers decreased from 2.2 to 1.7 million,” said the Court of Audit. One of the main reasons for the increase in costs was that a Dessing company has taken control of production since 2017.
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