The SBS6 program The Bonds, of which Versteegh is presenter, is also nominated for the Golden Televisier-Ring, the prize for the best program of the year. It's due later tonight.

In addition to The Bonds create consumer program Kassa (BNNVARA) and drama series Waste Land (AVROTROS) are likely to do so.

Hard talkTV

The prize for Televisier-Ring Talent, the public prize for upcoming TV talent, went to interior stylist and TV personality Daan Alferink. He defeated radiomaker Bram Krikke and WNL presenter Frank van Leeuwen.

Even before that, the Golden Televisier-Ring won Youth for the most popular children's program. The YouTube channel about horses is presented by Britt Dekker.

Retrieved money

The BNNVARA program Even Here won the Televisier Ring Impact, the price for the TV program, TV moment or the documentary that has had the most social impact.

The programme raised more than 3 million euros for Ukraine affected by war. That was done by the foundation of Ukrainian accordionist Oleg to the attention of many, with the money collected ambulances and medical equipment could be purchased.

A little over a year ago Paramount Skydance presented the first bid from on Warner Bros, which had previously taken up a bid for streaming service Netflix. Paramount and Netflix started a bidding battle, which led to the streaming service retreating.

Too much power

Twelve U.S. states, under the leadership of California, in July, a lawsuit was launched to stop Paramount's billions takeover. They feared that the deal would give the company too much power to raise prices for television and film consumers.

At the end of last month, Paramount with the twelve states settled. The company promised to spend $300 million more annually on film productions in the US and to release at least thirty films annually in American cinemas.

Which channels and productions are covered by Paramount and Warner Bros?

Paramount owns, among others, television channels MTV and Nickelodeon and co-owners of SkyShowtime streaming service. The company is also known for films such as Titanic and Gladiator and for film series such as Transformers, Mission: Impossible and Star Trek.

Warner Bros owns the TV channels CNN, Eurosport, Cartoon Network and Discovery Channel. The company is also responsible for film series such as Harry Potter, The Lord of the Rings and The Matrix and belongs to the largest film studios in the world. The media company also owns streaming service HBO Max and series like Game of Thrones.

A committee should also be set up to monitor the editorial independence of news stations CBS News and CNN. The father of Paramount-CEO David Ellison, Larry Ellison, has close ties with President Trump. The American president has repeatedly criticized CNN. He withdrew the per accreditation of CNN last month. That decision was shortly thereafter repealed by a judge.

Cost savings

The Ellisons didn't waste any time. Today, at CNN's headquarters in New York, Skydance's corporate logo appeared on the screens, writes The New York Times. A memo was also sent pointing to possible cost savings.

"The merger of two companies entailed changes, including difficult decisions affecting our staff," wrote father and son. "We are determined to carefully and respectfully address this process."

As a result of the merger, Skydance has a debt of about 80 billion dollars.

The Public Prosecutor's Office has started an investigation into the theft in the municipality of Issoire, some 100 kilometers west of Lyon. The police haven't disclosed any details about the art robbery on the night of Sunday on Monday. It's unclear if suspects are in the picture.

'Murder on heritage'

The owner of the artwork calls the theft an attack on the French cultural sector. "France was murdered last night. French heritage was murdered," Christian Karoutzos told French media last night.

The Apocalypse was made between 1958 and 1961 and weighs approximately 210 kilos. Fourteen of the most renowned artists of that time contributed to the project. The famous Spanish painter Dalí made the bronze cover. Dalí was one of the most famous artists of the last century. He painted surreal works and was an eccentric person. He wore a distinctive thin mustache, with the dots curled up. The mustache is "the most serious part of my personality," Dalí once said in an interview.

Archer was born in London and grew up in Wellington, southwest of England, where many of his later books are located. After high school he did several studies, including Brasenose College in Oxford. After that he worked for the British Conservative Party and started an art gallery, which went bankrupt after two years.

Bestseller author

In 1969 he became a member of the British Conservative Party, but in 1974 he resigned after losing a large sum of money after a wrong investment. To get back on top of it financially and avoid bankruptcy, he wrote his debut, which unexpectedly became a great success.

Several years later, Kane and Abel appeared, of which only one million copies were sold in the first week and place 1 of the bestseller list of The New York Times reached. The series was edited by CBS in 1985.

Strong and imprisonment

In the same year, his political career was revived, when he was appointed Vice-President of the Conservative Party by Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. A year later, he came into a dispute in a case involving a prostitute, which he had paid via-via 2,000 pounds. The newspaper Daily Star had reported that Archer had had sex with the woman, but he himself claimed that he had paid her that money out of charity. ==History=====History=======History=====History=======History====History=====History====History====History===History====History===History====History===History====History=====History====History===History====History===History===History====History===History===History===History===History===History==*History==History====History===History======History======History===*History==History====History====History== More than ten years later, an investigation was initiated around this case when it appeared that he had lied, after friends of his revealed it. He was sentenced to four years in prison for perjury. About his time in prison, he wrote a three-part diary.

After his imprisonment he returned to the British House of Lords until his retirement. Until his death he continued to write and published several novels. They were translated into different languages, including Dutch. His last book, Adam and Eve, appears this week, says his publishing house.

The prize is awarded annually to two creators who contribute to the diversity of performing arts in the Netherlands.

The jury praises Van gestel's performances because he "plays in his own way the border between theatre, performance, visual art and object theatre."

Object theater is a theatre in which objects have a leading role. In the performance Tochtgat made Van gestel met Peter Vandemeulebroucke, these are for example a toilet roll and a large garbage bag.

According to the jury, Van gestel makes dream worlds "almost tangible."

Difficult to discuss themes

According to the jury, Dancer's Cheroney Pelupessy developed his own voice in a short space of time and appointed heavy and difficult topics. "From contemporary dance, breakdance and hip-hop, and Moluccan and Indonesian forms of movement, she creates a recognizable stage language: soft and loving, yet powerful and precise."

The last few days there was more recognition for Pelupessy. She won the Innovation Award for Dutch Dance Days in Maastricht on Friday. On the same day, the documentary Mama'ku - From Jakarta to the Moluccas, on her trip to Indonesia with her mother, won a public prize on the Golden Calves Gala.

Price fee increased

The winners of the Gieskes-Strijbis Podium prize receive a sum of money. Earlier years they received 60,000 euros each, from now on 70,000 euros. The other three nominees, musician Diamanda La Berge Dramm, choreographer Dunja Joci? and theatre maker Florian Myjer, receive 35,000 euros, where that was earlier 10,000. They can spend the amount at their discretion.

"With the higher prize money we want to give all five makers even more space to do what they think is necessary for their development," says fund director Floris van Hest.

Since 2017, the prize has been awarded annually to artists from different disciplines, such as theatre, music and dance.

The rapper reports that the proceeds of the concerts will go to aid organisations for Palestinians, such as Gaza Soup Kitchen, Jewish Voice for Peace and UNRWA, the UN Organisation for Palestinians.

The series starts next month in Europe with three concerts in Dublin, Paris and London. Macklemore will also act in the United States, but it will become more known later.

Robert Kraft

Last week the artist lost his place in Ed Sheeran's support programme on his tour in the US. Macklemore said that Sheeran's team had been pressured by 85-year-old entrepreneur Robert Kraft, the owner of a stadium where they would perform. Van Kraft has been known to support pro-Israeli organizations almost all his life.

Kraft did not want Macklemore to appear in his stadium because of his statements and a "wider history of antisemitic rhetoric and imaging'. He said he feels responsible to intervene when, according to him, a border is crossed and stated that his stadium "will not provide a platform for hate speech." According to Macklemore, Kraft had also turned other stadium owners against him, forcing Ed Sheeran's team to kick him out of the tour.

That decision had great consequences for the British singer:

In a extensive statement on Instagram warns Macklemore for attempts to silence artists: "When billionaires can determine which voices may be on stage and which are too dangerous to hear, everyone has to pay attention." In addition to the concert series for organisations that help Palestinians, Macchemore also donates a million dollars. That money is part of the gage he received for his participation in Sheeran's tour.

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When do we call something a dialect, how does it develop and what is its future? Language scientist Kristel Doreleijers knows that. She is co-author of the 'Atlas van het dialect in Nederland', which appears this week.

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This includes the way the films are financed. "The dependence of the Film Fund is high," says spokesperson Marieke van Zakk. "We never fund an entire film. Makers should always look for other jars."

And that is not easy in the Netherlands. Abroad, according to the Film Fund, there are more opportunities to attract private investment from companies, for example. Partly because of this, foreign filmmakers often have higher budgets.

Maarten Swart, producer of the opening film Downtown at the Film Festival. "We are in the elevator as the Netherlands when it comes to ambitions and makers. But more is needed to keep measuring us internationally."

Multiple Dutch films won international awards last year. Nina Gantz won a Bafta in England for Wander to Wonder and Victoria Warmerdam got an Oscar for I'm not a Robot. The film Rietland of Sven Bresser was the first Dutch film in 27 years selected for the prestigious competition La Semaine de la Critique at the Cannes Film Festival.

But something has to happen if we want Dutch films to stay successful, was recently in a research commissioned by the Ministry of Education, Culture and Science. Because success is threatened on multiple fronts.

For example, production costs have increased considerably, both labour costs and the cost of building a set. "The subsidies have increased, but not enough to cover it," says producer Swart. In addition, films face considerable competition from streaming services. The market for Dutch films is also relatively small. "France has a larger language area," says Swart. "It's easier to sell."

Encouraging investment

For the production of Downtown the makers received money from the Dutch Film Fund. They also used a so-called production incentive, which knows the Netherlands. In doing so,film producers get a certain percentage of the costs incurred. But the disadvantage of that construction is that this is paid out of a pot, says Swart. "And when it's empty, sometimes you can't move on."

Downtown is also partly financed by the Flemish Audiovisual Fund. Swart says that this kind of money from abroad is always subject to agreements. "We are now working with a Belgian crew."

And filmmakers made use of a Belgian tax regime, the so-called tax shelter. Companies based in Belgium get tax advantages when they invest in films. He hopes that the Netherlands will have a similar arrangement.

In this summer's survey, it is recommended to increase the possibilities to attract private investors. Last week, Minister Letschert announced in a letter to the House of Representatives that she will return to this in the autumn of 2027.

The band was founded exactly fifty years ago, after the then 14-year-old Larry Mullen posted a message on a bulletin board with the text "Drummer seeks musicians to start a band." The auditions were a few days later, on September 25, 1976, at Larry Mullen's house.

Bono almost skipped the audition because he was a few months older than Mullen and was afraid he wouldn't fit in. And Adam Clayton was still a bass player who couldn't play bass. He was selected because he had "the most beautiful hair."

The young band started under the name Feedback and alongside Larry Mullen consisted of singer Paul Hewson (the real name of Bono), guitarist David Evans (The Edge) and bassist Adam Clayton.

Open the school square U2 the mini concert for hundreds of students with I Will Follow. That song comes from their first album that was released in 1980, four years after its creation.

The performance is part of the promotion for their new album Carnival De Luz which will be released in November. That album also contains a duet by Bono with the last month's death singer Dolly Parton.

When announcing the song Vertigo he makes another school-related joke. The song starts with uno, dos, tres, catorce (one, two, three, fourteen) and Bono said: "If you want to take Spanish lessons, don't take them with me."

There was a lot of press at school, including RTÉ:

Later on the day occurred U2 is also on a balcony of a café in the centre of Dublin.

Swift won last night the main prize of the award show: the Video of the Year, for her clip for The Fate of Ophelia. She also won the Best Direction Award and was the first to receive a new award, one for Artist-Director.

This last prize is meant for artists who have continued with their work behind the camera video clips as a genre. Swift wrote and directed almost a third of the sixty video clips she released to date.

The pop singer dedicated her victory to the previous month deceasedcountry icon Dolly Parton. She called her "the ultimate showgirl," referring to the title of Swift's last album: "I think we're all lucky to share this planet with Dolly Parton for a while," Swift said.

The winning video for the song The Fate of Ophelia:

Although Swift went home with a record, the great winner of the evening was Madonna. The Queen of Pop made her comeback with her album Confessions II and dragged in no less than seven VMAs, including Artist of the Year, Best Dance and Best Collaboration (with Sabrina Carpenter).

With her catch last night, the 68-year-old American singer also comes close to Taylor Swift's record. Madonna is now third on the eternal VMA ranking, with 27 prizes.

Choosin' Texas

The prize for Best Song went to K-pop group BTS, whose members after years of absence due to military service in South Korea this year made another album. Their number Swim fell twice in the prizes, and BTS also won the statue for Best Group.

In the category Best Song defeated BTS' Swim among others Ella Langleys Choosin' Texas. That record is a sensation in the US and has been number one in the American charts for 23 weeks. With that went last week the record of Mariah Careys All I Want for Christmas Is You - which was number 1 for 22 weeks - from the books. Choosin' Texas won Best Country Song.

Progress video

The MTV VMAs were first issued in 1984. With the creation of music channel MTV in 1981, the video clip gained a lot of popularity at the time, which resulted in a need for its own award show.

Today the VMAs are considered important international pop prizes. By the way, Madonna was also present at the first ceremony: she performed in 1984 with her hit Like a Virgin.

Today, Paris fashion week begins and older models are expected to be well represented. Creative director Matthieu Blazy of fashion house Chanel made his shows in Paris more often opened by almost 50-year-old Stephanie Cavalli. This spring she was one of the fifteen models from over 40 years old that Chanel selected for the show.

According to data platform for the fashion industry Tagwalk, the twenty largest fashion brands all booked at least one older model for the fashion weeks this year. That's 25% more than a season before. One comment: "parent" means a model over 30 years.

Supermodels of then

"These models made their entrance a few seasons ago. Matthieu Blazy started it. He often opts for women who were already models at a younger age and then stopped," says editor Miluska van 't Lam of fashion magazine Harper's Bazaar.

Other fashion designers followed. For example, the supermodels from the 90's suddenly run more shows, including Helena Christensen (57), Cindy Crawford (60), Naomi Campbell (56) and Linda Evangelista (61). In Milan the Dutch former top model Karen Mulder (56) was in the first row.

The Amsterdam model office 2R Model Management reflects the increased interest in the applications it receives. "Most of the models are still young and thin, but there is definitely more demand for older models," says owner Ryanne Dekker. "Of the week we received an application from Saint Laurent, without maximum age."

Commercial choice

The development has everything to do with the consumer. It is often not the 20s who invest in catwalk collections. The purchasing power is with the older women.

"Fifty-fiftys also go with fashion, are actively working on it. They are the group that can spend the money," says Dekker. "So it is important that the customer recognizes himself in a model."

That is certainly true for the luxury fashion sector, which after the corona years was faced with turnover reductions. The prices of designer articles increased considerably, while consumers kept their hands on the cut or the money preferred to spend on other items. "Many brands need to reconnect to the audience," says Van 't Lam.

She furthermore points to the societal relevance of women over 40, 50 and 60 to runways and in campaigns. "It is a hopeful message to young people that you are not ready at 30 or 40. I also find it very nice to see women of my own age again."

Arrival of AI

In addition, Dekker says that there is a desire for authenticity. That has everything to do with the rise of AI. "Authenticity and character become more important in a world where there is much fake. Grey hair can be very own and hip. We hear from brands that 'real' faces sell better."

This does not mean that a second career as a model is ahead for everyone. The women who pass on the fashion weeks look particularly good for their age.

"In practice, certain rules still apply in the fashion world," says Dekker. "Models have to fit in standard sizes and someone of 1.60 meters is too short. We only select people we can actually help to work."

Perpetual

Age inclusiveness is therefore only a part of more diversity on the catwalks. Models with a buddy more are also, although they are hardly visible in Paris and Milan. However, Dekker and Van 't Lam expect the rise of older models to last.

"Beauty does not stop after a certain age. It is important that this group gets more room to show itself," says Dekker. "Older women radiate a certain peace and confidence," says Van 't Lam. "They have an enormous attraction."

Mighty Sparrow, the stage name of Slinger Francisco, is best known for the song Only a Fool Breaks His Own Heart. He recorded this song written by others in 1966 with Byron Lee & The Dragonaires. They had a small hit in 1968 in the United Kingdom and 1969.

A much greater success was the reissue in 1977 in the Netherlands and Flanders. The song was featured in the Top-40 for more than six months with the number 2 place being the highest listing.

A recording of AVRO's 1978 Toppop:

==Early life==Slinger Francisco was born in Grenada in 1935, but moved to Trinidad and Tobago with his parents two years later. Trinidad is the cradle of the calypso, usually cheerful inciting dance music with lyrics on social and political themes.

An example of this is the number Jean and Dinah had his first hit as The Mighty Sparrow in 1956. In his 60-year career, he would still write and record hundreds of songs.

Suriname

The Surinamese newspaper Starting news writes that he had a special relationship with Suriname. He performed several times and released the song Paramaribo on the album in 1998: a musical tribute to the Surinam capital.

"With his death, the Caribbean loses an artist who for decades has taken a recognizable place in the development and international distribution of calypso," the newspaper says.

Honored

The organisation of calypso artists from Trinidad and Tobago tells us that he will be remembered as a great storyteller and spreader of the calypso around the rest of the world. His country honored him with numerous awards and the University of the West Indies awarded him an honorary doctorate in the literature.

Another hit by Mighty Sparrow: Mr. Walker:

The verdicts for which Göktas was convicted were made on a show in Istanbul. He posted that performance on YouTube at the end of June and the video has been viewed 15 million times since.

In the show, Göktas, who studied psychology, calls the Turkish president a "shy dictator" and jokes that he fantasizes about what it would be like to work as his psychologist. "It pays well and it's clear you've been working on it for years."

He also hinted at the President's boyfriendism. "They would not give me the job: he would go to his relatives."

Fragments from the show were widely shared in Turkey on social media, especially the parts about the president. These fragments were blocked by the government "to ensure national security and public order." In addition, the Turkish Public Prosecutor's Office started an investigation. 185 people would have complained because the comedian had joked about the Koran, the holy book of Islam.

Upproportion 'outproportional'

Göktas was detained on 2 July at Istanbul airport after returning from holiday. Images of his arrest, in which the comedian is carried away in handcuffs, led to a fuss among Turkish artists, opposition politicians and lawyers. His arrest was called disproportionate by them.

Since then, he has been in prison for almost three months. Pending the appeal, he will be released for the time being.

Correspondent Turkey Gülsah Ercetin:

According to the prosecutor, the jokes of the comedian about the president went too far and the limits of criticism were exceeded. The president's reputation would also have been compromised. The comedian said in court today: 'If the laws have not changed, what has changed? Vulnerable drivers who cannot tolerate jokes and criticism.'

The insult of the President has been a criminal offence in Turkey for years, even before the reign of Erdogan. However, since 2015 the law has often been used: In recent years thousands of people have been charged with insulting the President."

The series of broadcasting ZDF follows CDU headlines during the campaigns for the last state elections. What should have been a successful political year resulted in a series of defeats and internal unrest. The conservative CDU achieved historically poor results, the right-radical AfD monsterzeges.

The viewer will see an accumulation of errors: a premier candidate who is too eager to hear about a young girl spokenspoken, the resignation of group president Spahn because of the omsailing of his own laws, stopping the mayor of Berlin after a set lies, a rummellige

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Robert ten Brink and Erik van Muiswinkel prefer to see someone with a bit of a heavy voice, not a whip nose, someone who is a bit tall and when he can ride a horse it is useful. But above all, he must be stately, ironic and improvise. Because in Saint's life, things always happen. Luckily, it always works out.

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These weeks Cornelisse can still be seen as a jury member in the TV program The Smartest Man. Also there she took the viewers with humour in her reflections. In the first episode, which was recorded this summer, she said about her illness that one moment she felt better than the other. "It changes a bit a day, but the dominant feeling now is insane joy that I may be here."

Cornelis was diagnosed with cancer in 2024 and has been treated since then. Also this year she was undergoing chemotherapy. She died today in front of her lovers at the Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital in Amsterdam.

'Original spirit'

Paulien Cornelisse was born in Amsterdam on 24 February 1976 and grew up there. Between 1988 and 1994 she attended Barlaeus Gymnasium, after which she studied for a year in the United States, near Boston. On her return, she decided to study psychology at the University of Amsterdam. She also studied in Hiroshima, Japan, in the late 1990s. She started her career in the cabaret world. Early years 00 she played with Comedytrain and in 2008 her first cabaret program Daybreaks was premiered. She was awarded the Neerlands Hoop cabaret prize.

The jury said about Cornelisse that there was a "normal person" on stage. "But she is contrary and innovative and has a surprisingly original mind, from which quirky humour around language and bizarre finds sprout."

Language as research object

To the general public Cornelisse became known in 2009, thanks to her book Language is really my thing. She discussed all kinds of language phenomena, such as the popularity of the word "thing" or the effects of capital use.

People often say something different than they mean, Cornelisse wrote in the foreword. That's okay, but makes language an interesting research object, she argued.

"Why do one sentence make your neck hair stand upright and do you prefer to dance to the table naked? And why aren't these phrases the same for everyone?"

A few years later, And then something appeared, which also focused on how people talk. Of both books hundreds of thousands of copies were sold.

In The Smartest Human Cornelisse explained last week as a juror where her love for language comes from. "If you like language, you never have to get bored," she said. "You're somewhere, you hear people talking, and then you can start to think: "Why does he say that? What fun," or: 'That's weird, but what does they really mean?' Studying language had become "a kind of way of life" for her. Not only language was a great love of Cornelisse. Also Japan always knew how to captivate her. Ever since she was five, she was fascinated by the country and her interest continued to grow during her studies in Hiroshima.

For the VPRO in 2018, she presented the four-part documentary series Tokidoki, named after her favorite Japanese word (meaning: sometimes). In the series she studied Japanese society and culture using specific Japanese words.

Cornelisse wanted to show that the country is not as strange as many Dutch people think, she said at the time in newspaper Trouw. "When it comes to Japan, they usually speak in terms of 'always' or 'never'," she explained. "But the country is more than those clichés." In 2020 there was a second season of Tokidoki.

On apegapen

Eternal wonder even came back when it came to the disease that hit Cornelisse. In her last column for the Volkskrant, last week, she surprised herself about the word "apegaps."

"I get an infusion and then lie on apegapen for a while. Well, then you're not in the mood for much more than thinking about the word "apegaps." Do monkeys gawk a lot? I imagine a gaping monkey; I don't think monkeys necessarily gaat much, but always full of surrender."

The author of, among others, Language is really my thing and De confused guinea pig was loved by readers, colleagues, family and friends and people who came into contact with her work or herself, can be heard and read in the responses to her death.

Clock mentions her death "a loss for the whole of the Netherlands." For eight years she was a columnist at the newspaper, but Cornelisse called him last week to say that her column might not come back. Despite her disease detected in 2024, he says she managed to stand up bravely.

He praises her work: "She gave the newspaper a pleasant, original and light tone." But Cornelisse was also "a very sweet colleague," says Klok. "It was a party when she came to the editors."

This is how the Netherlands met Paulien Cornelisse:

The book world has also responded to her death with great sorrow. Book Dome CPNB claims to be deeply affected by Cornelisse's death. "Paulien was language," says Evelien Aendekerk, who was director when Cornelisse wrote the Book Weekessay. "She wrote a lot of books about it, and they reached everyone in a fun and accessible way."

The foundation speaks of "an unique in the history of Book Week" when the essay was sold out completely on the second day. That same year Cornelisse won the NS Audience Award with her slightly absurdist book The confused guinea pig - back at the office.

That book, like many of its titles, was on the list of best-selling books for months, says CPNB. "We treasure the special cooperation we had with her."

View much given

Omroep KRO-NCRV, for which Cornelisse made The smartest man , praises Cornelisse for her quirky glance, raucous remarks and curiosity, with which she managed to surprise candidates and audiences. The network is deeply affected by its death, says director Arie Koornneef.

"The way she looked at language, people and the world, made her presence very special," says Koornneef. The network is grateful for everything she's given the viewers, he says. "We'll miss her enormously."

The episodes of the program are already recorded before the summer. In consultation with her family, the broadcaster decided to >The smartest person not to broadcast tonight. The broadcast will be overtaken at a later date.

"It may be very difficult for the viewer to see that she is there, in all her energy and all her joy and all her wit, while we all know she is no longer there," says presenter Herman van der Zandt at NOS With the Eye on Tomorrow.

He says to be "unbelievably sad" about her death. "She was someone I could really laugh with. We had a lot of fun and fun," remember Van der Zandt. "She came in, despite the fact that she was very sick and between the treatments, super energetic."

Cornelis managed to catch others thinking about language and events from everyday life. Read on about her life here:

Colleague cabaretier Dolf Jansen met Cornelisse when they were both part of the Comedy train. He saw her last summer, at the theatre festival Oerol on Terschelling, he says in radio program The Red Thread. "It's so unbelievably sad," he says. "Whether in theatre, a book, poetry or a column, she showed in so many ways how important language is. She was a warrior for language."

Previous radio presenter and language lover Frits Spits calls Cornelisse sparkling. "She has given new colour to the Dutch language, which occasionally tends to be a little grey," he said at Newshour.

By Cornelisse, Spits realizes how rich language is. "That language is more than a bribe of words or a bribe of phrases, but actually a treasure room full of beautiful diamonds. Yes, we really owe it to her."

Will be missed

On Instagram, Femke Halsema, mayor of the city where Cornelisse was born and lived until her death, writes that a peculiar language virtuoso is lost. "Someone who loved the small, the everyday, the absurd and the theatre. Unfortunately, that stage was no longer given to her," the Amsterdam mayor said.

Under Cornelisses' last Instagram message last June, there are over 200 comments, most of which consist of hearts and messages in which readers say to miss Cornelisse. "The world lacks color without Paulien," can be read in one of them. Another reaction is that the writer's books mean a lot to me. Someone else writes: "Oh dear, funny Paulien. How you'll be missed."

"Intrepid sad news," writes Prime Minister Jetten about the death of Cornelisse. He taught her during the recordings of The Smartest Man know as "sharp, funny and incredibly sweet." "The fight against cancer should not be won, but the impact she has made with her words, stories and performances lives on."

The States feared that the new megagroup would gain too much power and could thus increase the prices of films and television. There were also concerns about the impact of the merger on employees.

Last week reached Paramount and States an agreement. The group undertakes to spend 300 million dollars extra each year over the next five years on film productions in the United States. The company also has to release at least 30 films in American cinemas every year.

Also, within six months of the takeover, a separate journalistic council should be set up to oversee the news stations CBS News and CNN. CBS News is now part of Paramount, CNN of Warner Bros. Discovery.

Previous boss Endemol

After the judge's agreement, the company announced that Ynon Kreiz will become co-CEO of the new company. He will be responsible for the daily management and integration of the two companies. David Ellison remained on as chairman and CEO.

Kreiz is currently ceo of Mattel. Under his direction, brands of the toy manufacturer were expanded to media productions, with the success film Barbie as the best-known example. For this reason Kreiz was head of the Dutch television company Endemol and co-founder of children's channel Fox Kids in Europe.

As it now appears, the acquisition worth more than 110 billion dollars will be completed early next week.

[p> Yesterday it was decided to cancel the broadcast. Tonight at 9:30 p.m., presenter Herman van der Zandt will be discussing his death.

Friday is a double episode, after which the rest of the season will be broadcast as planned, with Paulien Cornelisse in her chair as a juror. "That decision was taken in consultation with Paulien's family," announces KRO-NCrv.

This is how the Netherlands met Paulien Cornelisse:

The new season of The Smartest Man was kicked off last week. The writer and cabaretier advanced for the third season as one-headed jury, after in 2025 Maarten van Rossem was succeeded. At the beginning of the new season Cornelisse announced that she would be seen daily with a "cap or cap or hat" because she had lost her hair through chemotherapy. "It doesn't feel like myself at all, but of all possible options it is now the best," she explained. "I definitely didn't want a wig."

Presentator Van der Zandt said yesterday that he was sad because Cornelisse died. "Paulien was sweet, funny and also - even between treatments in - great energetic. Always positive and full of plans."

On the author's site, a condolenceregister is open. People are reminiscent of her work as a cabaret, language lover and writer.

There were only about 500 TV sets in the country in 1951 and the influence that the medium would have could not yet be estimated. The radio, that's where it happened. The first broadcast lasted for less than half an hour. Everything was live from the studio in Bussum, because there was no recording equipment yet. The guests were in the studio and were announced by announcer Jeanne Roos. The actors of the play The Magic Mirror that was broadcast that evening performed live in front of the camera.

View a lookback here that we made earlier:

The first TV sets cost 785 guilders, which was a third of an average annual income. The reception was not as good everywhere. As a result, the growth of the medium took a few years.

The politics had been reluctant with the introduction of television. The Drees cabinet was reconstructing the Netherlands and kept wages low. The Prime Minister felt there should be houses and no luxury items. TV sets were expensive and he was afraid that TV would distract people from work and lead to a "dirty youth." ==History====History======History======History====History===History====History===History===History====History====History===History===History===History===History===History==*History===History==*History===History====History===History===History====History===History===*History==History===History===History===*History===History===History=*History====History===*History===History====History====*History=History===*History When he launched the medium TV, he immediately showed that he was actually an opponent of it. In that first broadcast he warned of the potentially pernicious influence that television could have. He regarded it as entertainment and saw it as "a violation of good morals and superficiality."

Threat

Philips had seen the rise in the US and was determined to become a major producer. President-Director Otten threatened that Philips would perish if the Netherlands didn't get television and that Philips would set it up himself. It wasn't until that day that the government went over. [p>State Secretary Cals of Education, Culture and Science said in his opening speech of the first broadcast that it was still to be seen whether "this acquisition" was a good idea. An experiment of two years was therefore decided.

This is how the Netherlands fell behind the United Kingdom for years, where the BBC Television Service has been broadcasting since 1936, and the United States, where after World War II there was an explosive growth. Denmark began broadcasting a day earlier than the Netherlands, West Germany was a year later.

In 1958 there were about 250,000 aircraft in the Netherlands. In the 1960s the big breakthrough came and in 1962 the transmission time was extended to 30 hours a week. In 1964 the Netherlands 2 joined and in 1988 the third net.

Radio with view

Media historian Huub Wiefjes says that in the beginning TV was nothing but a copy of existing forms. "Play, film, radio, puppetry. It could only be live or on film and the assembly took a long time."

But the influence was great. From the beginning, TV has been decisive for trends, says Wiefjes. "Fashion, cars, the decoration of your home, holidays, it is a continuous interaction between creating and reflecting. TV always tries to get ahead. That's a constant factor."

"Tv took a dominant position and had its peak in the 60s, 70s and 80s. The medium replaced the radio," says Wiefjes. "New forms, with unheard of ratings of 7 to 8 million. Programs had a much greater impact than now, because everyone saw the same."

"And it is still the dominant medium in our society," he says. "The power of image is inimitable."

75 years of television in the Netherlands commemorated:

Tonight, Cornald Maas and three TV-makers will discuss the anniversary in the program 75 Year TV. He will retrieve memories with Soundmixshow-presenter Henny Huisman, journalist Cees Grimbergen (Rondom 10) and actress Jetty Mathurin, who played in Women's wing. They are - not by chance - all three 75.

The program can be seen at AVROTROS at 23.10 hours at NPO 1.

Mediamuseum Video and Sound in Hilversum has created 75 TVs from each year one, showing how television has developed. The iconic archive images form a shared memory. Even grass dunes in 75 years of television can be viewed via The Schatkamerof Image and Sound.

"I came from Israel to tell the truth," she started her story. She told me that her 17-year-old son and her husband were killed in the attacks on that day.

In a video that the woman herself posted on Instagram, you can hear how people from the room call to her that she doesn't care, she should be ashamed and leave. Eventually the lights went on in the hall.

Israeli soldiers

In Israeli film NAZA 24 Israeli soldiers tell how the army attacks Gaza, including civilians. The documentary leads to elevation. Since yesterday, the film is in the Netherlands.

The woman who disturbed the display is the French-Israeli Sabine Taasa. She was to be part of the Israeli group Ad Kan, who, in her own words, is fighting anti-Israeli organisations. The group consists of Israeli army officers and former intelligence officers, writes the organisation. They say that they work with undercover agents who "infiltrate anti-Israeli organizations."

The head of Ad Kan also travelled to the Netherlands, writes the Israeli news site Ynet. In Delft, Avichai Shorshan tried to project images of the Hamas attack of October 7 on the cinema screen using a portable projector. According to the organization, he was hindered by several visitors to display the images further.

"I've always hated people who say every three months in the café that they quit smoking. Go away, I thought. You can only stop something once. If you quit, you quit. Done."

The Tröckener Kecks announced today that they will be performing again for the first time since 2001. At first, 15 times. From the spring of 2027 the Amsterdam band travels through the country, from Deventer to Amsterdam, from Groningen to Maastricht, to play songs like Now or never, A day, so beautiful and The hunt is more beautiful than the catch.

With heart and soul

They are numbers which grew into dutch pop classics in the 80s and 90s and made De Leeuw a pop star in the Netherlands and Belgium. The band was praised for its energetic live performances and for the lyrics written by De Leeuw, who mainly called for a life of surrender. In 1990 he sang in perhaps their most famous song With heart and soul: "Do it and for the money, and for the show, but do everything you do with heart and soul."

In 2001 the band was over and out. The cookie was up at the time, says De Leeuw on the phone. "A band is like a boat. You got to keep maintaining it, because like a boat, a tire always sinks. You have to keep that from happening all the time."

At some point it was no longer possible. The Lion: "I started the band in 1980 as a 19-year-old to guarantee my own freedom, to escape a 9 to 5 life. But the autonomy that the band once gave me slowly turned into a lack of freedom. In 2001 I was 40, I had children. Life had changed so much that the band became a harness. Stopping felt like a release."

Life without plan

The Lion focused on other things. He wrote the book I, Jan Smeken, about the 15th century Brussels city poet Jan Smeken. He published several collections of poetry, worked as an actor in the television and theatre world and presented television programmes, mainly in Belgium.

And now he suddenly announces that the Kecks are back. Then what happened in the last month that caused The Lion to fall off his own faith? It's hard to explain, he says from the Belgian village Witch where he's lived for ten years.

He did not want to stick to his own stubbornness, explains De Leo. The years felt the need to perform especially with the Kecks suddenly fell away, he says. And maybe the most important thing: The Lion says he suddenly felt new eagerness.

Cannot wait

But what was all that? That is difficult to make concrete. "It would have been nice for the story if there was a clear momentum, I get that, but there isn't." Until after some reverence, he says, "We simply cannot afford to wait another 25 years. We can't say: Let's take another look. Perhaps this is the last moment that we are physically able to do our repertoire live."

To then laugh: "You can see how erratic man and life are. Sometimes things can fade at great speed."

The question now is whether after 25 years people are still waiting for a tour of Tröckener Kecks and whether those rooms will be full. The Lion says not to worry about that. Laughing: "We'll start this tour in a small year. So we have plenty of time to call people to ask them to come by."