De Wereld Draait Door (; DWDD) is an early-evening talk show on Dutch television, broadcast every weekday at 7:00 p.m. on NPO 1. It was the Netherlands' longest-running, regularly scheduled TV entertainment show and had the second-highest viewing figures of any Dutch television program, beaten only by the main evening news at 8.00 p.m. The title meant "The World Keeps Turning", or figuratively "The World Is Going Mad". The show, created by Dieuwke Wynia and produced by BNNVARA, was discontinued after the last episode on 27 March 2020.
Content
The chat, conducted at a large table, was hosted by Matthijs van Nieuwkerk and a rotating guest co-host. Guests were politicians, celebrities, artists, or simply people involved in projects or organizations that were topics of interest. The show contained a mixture of news, information, television bloopers and general entertainment. Frequent guests and panelists included Jan Mulder, Yvon Jaspers, Halina Reijn, Giel Beelen, Mathijs Bouman, Sylvana Simons, Marc-Marie Huijbregts and André van Duin. House poet Nico Dijkshoorn had a weekly column in the show, usually on Wednesday. Each show had a live performance of a band in the studio. The show's closing sequence was Lucky TV, a small movie clip that featured a parody of news with changed voice-over text added to the video. One of those ending clips, where Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump were singing a duet during a presidential debate, became a viral phenomenon. From 2014, Dutch Eurovision Song Contest entries were premiered on the show.
DWDD University
DWDD University was a series of special episodes, in which a professional expert in a certain area held a one-and-a-half hour long lecture to a general audience. It commenced in 2012 with a lecture by then IAS director Robbert Dijkgraaf about the Big Bang.
The following speakers have contributed to DWDD university:
Date Speaker Subject Location Viewership 17 May 2012 Robbert Dijkgraaf Big Bang Ronde Lutherse Kerk (Church) 991,000 16 November 2012 Robbert Dijkgraaf The smallest (microcosms) Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam 1,056,000 26 April 2013 Alexander Klöpping De Wereld van Klöpping 1.0 (the past of Silicon Valley)MC Theater 586,000 3 May 2013 Alexander Klöpping De Wereld van Klöpping 2.0 (the present of Silicon Valley) 466,000 10 May 2013 Alexander Klöpping De Wereld van Klöpping 3.0 (the future of Silicon Valley) 536,000 29 November 2013 Robbert Dijkgraaf Albert Einstein theories Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam 859,000 13 December 2013 Cows 725,000 28 November 2014 Robbert Dijkgraaf Infinity 1,104,000 12 December 2014 Freek Vonk Poison 1,462,000 30 April 2015 Erik Scherder Human brain (part 1): De AanknopPodium Mozaïek 7 May 2015 Erik Scherder Human brain (part 2): Bloedstollend 14 May 2015 Erik Scherder Human brain (part 3): Het Geheugen 28 May 2015 Twan Huys DWDD Summerschool: Bill and Hillary Clinton 858,000 4 June 2015 Gijs Scholten van Aschat DWDD Summerschool: William Shakespeare 645,000 11 June 2015 Claudia de Breij DWDD Summerschool: Het Nederlandse lied (Dutch song) 925,000 18 June 2015 Wim Pijbes DWDD Summerschool: Rijksmuseum Amsterdam 998,000 25 June 2015 Mart Smeets DWDD Summerschool: American big four: baseball, ice hockey, basketball and American Football 719,000 2 July 2015 & DWDD Summerschool: Miles Davis 27 November 2015 Robbert Dijkgraaf Black holes Westergasfabriek, Amsterdam 1,212,000 12 March 2016 Beatrice de Graaf Terrorism 1,216,0002 December 2016Robbert DijkgraafLightWestergasfabriek, Amsterdam9 December 2016Freek VonkEvolutionWestergasfabriek, Amsterdam
References
External links
Website Lucky TV