Tonight on TV: Dutch 'sabotage' in Thailand
Thailand is a popular destination for filmmakers and TV producers. A new television program from Net5 has been recorded in a luxury villa in the 'Land of the Smile'.
Sabotage: the program
Ten well-known Dutch people stay for a number of weeks in a luxurious villa in Thailand. They jointly carry out assignments to earn money for the group vault. It looks like a dream vacation, but looks can be deceiving!
Among the celebrities there is one candidate with a secret agenda: the saboteur. His job is to make sure the assignments don't go quite as planned. For example, he earns money for his personal safe and removes money from the group safe. Will the other candidates manage to expose the saboteur, or will he run off with the money?
A psychological game follows, in which the candidates can only rely on themselves. The camera is everywhere and that guarantees a high level of reality, excitement and adventure!
Sun, sea, beach, friendship and betrayal in Thailand
Ten well-known Dutch people: Ben Saunders, Lange Frans, Hero Brinkman, Jeffrey Wammes, Manuel Broekman, Sylvia Geersen, Inge de Bruijn, Edith Bosch, Rosalie van Breemen and Liza Sips will compete against each other. For three weeks they sleep, eat and live in a luxurious villa in Thailand, where they are followed day and night by the camera.
The fact that one of the candidates is the saboteur puts relations within the group on edge. Suspicions, plots to expose the saboteur, and disagreements are all recorded. In addition, the saboteur himself also fights for his own money vault and that provides an extra dimension to the game. The candidates are on their own. No one can be trusted in Sabotage.
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Tonight on TV: Dutch 'sabotage' in Thailand
It's funny to read how some Dutch television producers try to match their Thai colleagues in producing rubbish. Food for anthropologists; dredging production is not culture-bound.
They don't even bother to come up with a new program.
So take an existing program and give it a different name and instead of unknown Dutch you use well-known ones. No problem because a few weeks in Thailand is a bonus.
Then call it Sabotage instead of De Mol and go again good for x number of broadcasts.
Inventive I must say.
Cor and Ronny, why so negative? There will undoubtedly be beautiful images of Thailand. And it is a given that there are people who stay home for this kind of entertainment.
Am I a fan? No, I hardly watch TV. Not at all in Thailand, not even BVN. In the Netherlands only news programs. But I think that if I were in the Netherlands I would take a look tonight. Precisely because it is in Thailand.
Insofar as it is not a combination of De Mol and Big Brother, because then you will have to be content with a swimming pool, a thatched roof with some garden furniture underneath, and 10 lazing celebrities who mainly do self-pity.
@Jacques I think the viewer won't get to see much of Thailand unless you want to call a luxury resort in Thailand 'Thailand'. The only thing the viewer will be presented with is so-called 'reality TV' according to the tried and tested recipe that has been used for years:
Dick van de Lugt and Gringo are no more impressed than I am by the names of the ten ratings guns that should attract millions of viewers; Hero Brinkman (former PVV dissident and Failed Citizens' Party leader) and Inge de Bruin (former swimmer, how often will she hang around the pool). The other eight names mean nothing to me.
I like to believe that people will stay at home, but that doesn't seem like a reason to waste an hour of my life that I know I, being an atheist, will never get back 😉
Ten famous Dutch people? I can hardly recognize two. So I say: two known and eight unknown Dutch people.
Dick, I can't get past two either, Brinkman and Saunders.
They handled it well, they should have asked all of you, Cor Verhoef and maybe a few blog people: success guaranteed!
I come to four well-known Dutch people. But must add that I am not a TV soap or talent show viewer.
I can't get any further than Brinkman, de Bruin and Lange Frans. Not that it seems to me to matter in the slightest whether a very famous person or a total stranger participates. The plot must appeal to you, if that is good in someone's eyes, they will certainly look. Or do people watch movies, series, edutainment, documentaries, etc here because a well-known person/persons are involved? The trailer only caught my eye the first time because it opens with the Thaksin memorial square where my girlfriend lived. Furthermore, we will not see much of Thailand itself, except for the well-known hotspots (with the exception of walking streets?).
If we start counting anyway. Who can put the names in the correct order? From left to right. I think it starts with Lange Frans, which is the longest of them all. After that I don't remember. Who helps? It's Sunday afternoon so you have nothing to do anyway.
Ok then Jacques, especially for you. I recognized 9. From left to right. Lange Frans (rapper/singer), Inge de Bruin (swimmer), Jeffrey Wammes (gymnast), Manuel Broekman (actor/model), Liza Sips (actress). Rosalie van Bremen ( model and the ex wife of Alain Delon ), Hero Brinkman ( politician ), Edit Bosch ( judoka ), Ben Saunders ( singer, winner of the first voice of Holland ), I did not know Sylvia Geersen ( model ). The presenter in the middle is Erik van der Hoff.
Some promos for the fans
http://www.net5.nl/programmas/sabotage
Mathias, I have something for you. I'm going to take a good look at them all. Suppose I meet one in Thailand, then I know who I am dealing with. In any case, my knowledge of Dutch celebrities has increased by leaps and bounds. Thank you!
We think it's great to see this program, but we only have BVN in Thailand?!
Just download it on a USB stick and put it in your TV. You may have to do it once, but it's as easy as frying an egg.
I will put it on youtube for you.
I googled them, and yes they are all known. (= ever been on TV before with another nonsense program)
Because they have been seen once in some trivial program, they are not yet 'famous Dutch people', are they?
Saw a spectacular assignment somewhere on a skyscraper in Bangkok yesterday in the preview.
Yes, and the result of the sabotage was already published in an article on TB the day before yesterday - Man jumps from 26th floor after refusing sex...
Let's just wait for the 1st episode first? I'm definitely going to watch because the trailer immediately gave me homesick feelings. And I'm not a real Bangkok fan but still.
Bah weak deduction from who is the mole…. With disgusting celebrities. Maybe they could have done it better with unknown celebrities, I might have looked but to watch the headlines of an arrogant Ben Saunders and long French for 45 minutes now... No thank you.
Well, if your career is in a downward spiral, you have to do everything to get some attention again, but to lend yourself to such programs, you must have sunk very deep.
The Sjonnies and Anita's will surely enjoy it, oh well, the camping season has started.
Dear Charles, google the names and take a closer look at the people whose careers you say are in a trough. It would be to the editor's credit not to post such nonsense posts because they are based on nonsense!!! They are former top athletes, actors who have had to work, singers who earn a very good living and a model who is on the Guess billboard and who is the face of a make-up brand. Inform yourself better instead of pissing off people you don't know and therefore don't know what you write. For example, I see several reactions that are just about pissing off, we do that with Thai girls, it is generalizing and the postings are not let through, strange…..
Chantal, absolutely right.
It all looks like who is the mole.
And that Mole was the inventor of all of that.
The fact that they all get a well-paid holiday in Thailand and have much more of it afterwards is of course great. But if a so-called well-known Dutch person wants to participate in this, I can say (in a Jordanian way) that there
my pants fall off. They should have done that for a group of old Dutch
expats. That had been a great success.
The latter is meant as a joke, of course.
J. Jordan.
The first episode of the new Net-5 program Sabotage was able to fascinate few viewers last night. Only 339.000 people tuned in to the show in which a row of well-known Dutch people - Lange Frans, Hero Brinkman, Liza Sips - have to carry out assignments, and one of them - the 'saboteur' - has to try to thwart it.
The participants traveled to Thailand for the assignments, where their actions and conversations are monitored 24 hours a day in a villa. (Source AD).
Do you think it's crazy, Khun Peter?
Ronny, Cor, Cornelis, Chantal and Sir Charles really made an impression with their comments. Viewers have dropped out en masse.
Yes Yes Jacques – Don't underestimate the influence of Thailandblog. Program makers have been warned 😉
This also refutes the misunderstanding or prejudice that all Thailand visitors/enthusiasts are in advance the simpletons who do not go further than the beach, hotel, beer bar and 'Broodje van Kootje'. 😉
Still watched it, just because it takes place in Thailand, didn't think it was bad, I especially liked the first assignment on the Cattower, luckily it has nothing to do with WIDM, the only similarity is that you have to catch a Mole/Saboteur but the design is completely different.