The NPO has a plan for the ‘successor’ of the hit series The Jewish Council shot off. This was said by screenwriter Roos Ouwehand in the NPO Radio 1 program With a view to tomorrow. Ouwehand has been working on the script for the series for a year and a half now The returnset in the year after World War II.
“We heard last week that the NPO is not interested in the series,” said Ouwehand. “That is a very bitter pill and the last word has not yet been said about it. The NPO found the series too complicated because there were too many main characters. The viewer wouldn’t understand that.” The return would follow ten characters. The hit series Eyeballswhich Ouwehand also writes, more than twenty follow.
The NPO does not make any statements about the reason why the series will not be made. A spokesperson said this on Sunday. “We do not make any statements about internal processes,” reports the NPO spokesperson. The NPO does say that ‘we greatly appreciate these makers’.
The return would be made by pretty much the same team as The Jewish Council, the series that attracted one and a half million viewers every week earlier this year. Mayor Femke Halsema referred to one of the main characters, Virrie Cohen, in her speech on Dam Square. The resistance fighter saved hundreds of babies from the crèche opposite the Hollandse Schouwburg, where Jewish people were brought together for transport.
Mosaic narrative
“While making The Jewish Council I came across many stories that I found increasingly interesting,” says Ouwehand. “The Netherlands was in ruins, it was utter chaos. I wanted to make a mosaic story about all the characters returning to the Netherlands. People who were employed abroad, for example.” Paula van der Oest would be the successor, just like The Jewish Councilto direct.
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