HLN Mediawatchers “I was happy with the start of ‘The Dream Factory’, but it was exciting,” Bart Peeters looks back on the VRT 1 program ‘The Dream Factory’ in the HLN podcast ‘De Mediawatchers’. “Especially when the telephone exchange failed in the final. “We’re having a grab-the-money-show moment,” it flashed through my mind.”
“It was a good start for ‘The Dream Factory’. There has been no viewing habit on Saturday evenings for years, but Flanders still watched us en masse,” said the ever-young presenter. “But it was very exciting,” he readily admits. “Everything was brand new. Compare it to a new car that you still have to learn to drive. Then things can sometimes go wrong. When the telephone exchange exploded in the final finale due to too many calls, so that will have to be better next time, it immediately flashed through my mind that we were having a ‘Take the money’ moment.”
‘Take the money, the one million show’ was a program of the then BRT and sponsored by the National Lottery that was broadcast in 1987. During the opening broadcast, everything that could technically go wrong actually went wrong. As a result, the presenting duo René and Manu Verreth completely lost their pedals. Manu Verreth tried to reach viewers by telephone, but was unsuccessful. Whereupon bailiff Van Backlé responded with the historic sentence: “We cannot wait until you have learned to telephone.”
The presenting duo of Bart and Gloria clearly did not panic. On the contrary, as it turned out. “Both Gloria and I get a bit of a kick out of such chaotic situations,” laughs Bart. “Because suddenly you can award the main prize in your own way without consulting a bailiff. And in all the noise at the end, we were also able to make the real winner happy. Yes, we charged the VRT extra costs, but then the telephone exchange should not have exploded.”
Besides Maaike Cafmeyer, who sat at a desk on a kind of merry-go-round as a common thread throughout ‘The Dream Factory’, there was little spectacular to experience in the large TV studio. “We consciously chose to play it safe a bit,” Bart admits. “You will notice in the next episodes that we will do that less. When Maaike calls on motorcycle gangs to register, I fear that we have brought some things upon ourselves. I think we have not yet reached the limits of what is feasible.”
Listen to the full conversation with Bart Peeters in the HLN podcast ‘The media watchers’.
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2024-02-08 14:00:11
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