Sleepless nights for Kobe Ilsen and a far-right screenwriter: the book reveals the secrets of ‘Merlina’ | TV

TVAnyone who watched TV as a child in the eighties was undoubtedly addicted to ‘Merlina’. Aunt Merlina’s detective agency with the seductive Ann, the clumsy Pol and the ingenious inventor Napoleon created a legendary youth series, about which the former VTM journalist Peter Van Camp has now written a nostalgic book. ‘Merlina en de parafix’ was presented on Saturday in the presence of the living main actors Lea Couzin, Mieke Bouve and Paul Ricour. What made the series so successful, why did Kobe Ilsen have sleepless nights and why did the series end abruptly? “There are many things that would absolutely not be possible today.”