“The price is hot”
Two former assistants are also celebrating a comeback
Harry Wijnvoord (right) in “The price is hot” with his assistants and Walter Freiwald (left).
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Two former assistants are also celebrating their comeback alongside Harry Wijnvoord in the new edition of “The price is hot”.
The TV nostalgia wave continues to race unstoppably: Harry Wijnvoord (72) is back in the spring with his cult show “The price is hot” on RTL. “It is a logical conclusion that the show is returning,” said the Dutch presenter in an interview with spot on news. The fact that he was allowed to lead the show again made him “particularly proud and happy”.
Fans can also look forward to two more familiar faces from the cult show. “Two of my assistants are also coming back,” reveals the moderator. “Two women who took part in ‘The price is hot’ 25 years ago.” However, Walter Freiwald, who led the show alongside Wijnvoord, will be absent. He died of cancer in November 2019 at the age of 68.
Harry Wijnvoord builds on that
“We will do everything we can to follow in the footsteps of that time,” promises Wijnvoord. There will be a total of three two-hour programs that will be broadcast with a time delay. “I hope that we hit the nerve of the viewers and that we have such gigantic ratings that RTL finally says: ‘Wait a minute, there’s no other way. We still have to do more.’ That’s what I’m building on,” hopes the 72-year-old.
“The price is hot” ran from 1989 to 1997. In the game show, which RTL broadcast from Monday to Friday, candidates had to estimate the price of various products as accurately as possible. In 2017, the RTLup broadcaster broadcast a new edition of the program with moderator Wolfram Kons (57), which was discontinued in 2018. The format is an adaptation of the US original “The Price is Right”.