BNN (television)
Encyclopedia
BNN or Bart's Neverending Network (formerly Barts News Network, as a pun on CNN
) is a Dutch public broadcasting
association
supported by the Netherlands Public Broadcasting. BNN was founded in 1997 by Bart de Graaff
, Gerard Timmer & Frank Timmer, and targets teenage and young adult
audiences. It produces entertainment
and informative television program
s, radio programs, and feature film
s. Some of BNN's programming has dealt with controversial subject matter, including most famously, a hoax reality special
made to help raise awareness of the shortage of organ donors in the Netherlands.
presented by Bart de Graaff, in this case known as Bart's News Network.
BNN became a public broadcasting association as a part of the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system on 15 August 1997, with BNN now standing for the Brutaal News Network (Flagrant News Network). The name was later changed to Bart's Neverending Network after Bart de Graaff's death at age 35 from kidney failure caused by a rejection
of a kidney transplant
he received in 1999. While Dutch media in general is known to be liberal in coverage of sexuality
and drugs
, even BNN's programming has been considered controversial.
Some of BNN's most controversial programs have included "Neuken doe je zo!" (This is How You Fuck!), a 7-episode miniseries discussing sex in a way that would be interesting to teens. "Spuiten & Slikken" (Squirt and Swallow, Spuiten can mean both "to squirt
" or "to inject") discussed both sexuality and the use of drugs. A show entitled "Try Before You Die" - where presenters attempted to do things that they think people should do at least once in their life, achieved world fame when presenter Sander Lantinga
acted as a streaker
during a quarter-finals match at Wimbledon
between Maria Sharapova
and Elena Dementieva
.
In May 2007, five years after the death of Bart de Graaff, who had suffered from kidney failure for almost all of his life, BNN announced "De Grote Donorshow
" (The Big Donor Show), an initiative for promoting the filling in of a codicil for organ donation
, in which three contestants would strive to be the recipient of a kidney donated by a terminally ill woman. The show aired on 1 June, but at the end of this show it was revealed to be a hoax, attempting to draw attention to the low number of organ donors in the country.
BNN is however not only known for its controversial shows, but also for shows such as "Nu we er toch zijn" ("While we are here anyway"), in which presenter Eddy Zoey tests the hospitality of Dutch places; and "De Lama's
" ("The Llamas"), which is a Dutch version of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?
".
BNN has created a few medical programmes, such as Je zal het maar hebben ("It could've been you") and Over mijn lijk ("Over my dead body"), in which youth with handicaps are consulted and talk about their handicaps. So did Bas van der Voort who lost his right leg to an osteosarcoma
.
CNN
Cable News Network is a U.S. cable news channel founded in 1980 by Ted Turner. Upon its launch, CNN was the first channel to provide 24-hour television news coverage, and the first all-news television channel in the United States...
) is a Dutch public broadcasting
Public broadcasting
Public broadcasting includes radio, television and other electronic media outlets whose primary mission is public service. Public broadcasters receive funding from diverse sources including license fees, individual contributions, public financing and commercial financing.Public broadcasting may be...
association
Voluntary association
A voluntary association or union is a group of individuals who enter into an agreement as volunteers to form a body to accomplish a purpose.Strictly speaking, in many jurisdictions no formalities are necessary to start an association...
supported by the Netherlands Public Broadcasting. BNN was founded in 1997 by Bart de Graaff
Bart de Graaff
Bart F. de Graaff was an influential Dutch television presenter and creator, as well as the founder and chairman of the public broadcasting network BNN....
, Gerard Timmer & Frank Timmer, and targets teenage and young adult
Young adult (psychology)
A young adult, according to Erik Erikson's stages of human development, is generally a person between the age of 20 - 40, whereas an adolescent is a person between the age of 13 - 19, although definitions and opinions vary. The young adult stage in human development precedes middle adulthood. A...
audiences. It produces entertainment
Entertainment
Entertainment consists of any activity which provides a diversion or permits people to amuse themselves in their leisure time. Entertainment is generally passive, such as watching opera or a movie. Active forms of amusement, such as sports, are more often considered to be recreation...
and informative television program
Television program
A television program , also called television show, is a segment of content which is intended to be broadcast on television. It may be a one-time production or part of a periodically recurring series...
s, radio programs, and feature film
Feature film
In the film industry, a feature film is a film production made for initial distribution in theaters and being the main attraction of the screening, rather than a short film screened before it; a full length movie...
s. Some of BNN's programming has dealt with controversial subject matter, including most famously, a hoax reality special
De Grote Donorshow
De Grote Donorshow was a hoax reality television program which was broadcast in the Netherlands on Friday, June 1, 2007 by BNN. The program involved a supposedly terminally ill 37-year-old woman donating a kidney to one of twentyfive people requiring a kidney transplantation. After a first...
made to help raise awareness of the shortage of organ donors in the Netherlands.
History
BNN had its origins in a program broadcast on VeronicaVeronica (television channel)
Veronica is a commercial TV channel in the Netherlands, owned by ProSiebenSat.1 Media . Other channels of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG in the Netherlands are SBS6 and NET 5....
presented by Bart de Graaff, in this case known as Bart's News Network.
BNN became a public broadcasting association as a part of the Netherlands Public Broadcasting system on 15 August 1997, with BNN now standing for the Brutaal News Network (Flagrant News Network). The name was later changed to Bart's Neverending Network after Bart de Graaff's death at age 35 from kidney failure caused by a rejection
Organ transplant
Organ transplantation is the moving of an organ from one body to another or from a donor site on the patient's own body, for the purpose of replacing the recipient's damaged or absent organ. The emerging field of regenerative medicine is allowing scientists and engineers to create organs to be...
of a kidney transplant
Kidney transplantation
Kidney transplantation or renal transplantation is the organ transplant of a kidney into a patient with end-stage renal disease. Kidney transplantation is typically classified as deceased-donor or living-donor transplantation depending on the source of the donor organ...
he received in 1999. While Dutch media in general is known to be liberal in coverage of sexuality
Human sexuality
Human sexuality is the awareness of gender differences, and the capacity to have erotic experiences and responses. Human sexuality can also be described as the way someone is sexually attracted to another person whether it is to opposite sexes , to the same sex , to either sexes , or not being...
and drugs
DRUGS
Destroy Rebuild Until God Shows are an American post-hardcore band formed in 2010. They released their debut self-titled album on February 22, 2011.- Formation :...
, even BNN's programming has been considered controversial.
Some of BNN's most controversial programs have included "Neuken doe je zo!" (This is How You Fuck!), a 7-episode miniseries discussing sex in a way that would be interesting to teens. "Spuiten & Slikken" (Squirt and Swallow, Spuiten can mean both "to squirt
Ejaculation
Ejaculation is the ejecting of semen from the male reproductory tract, and is usually accompanied by orgasm. It is usually the final stage and natural objective of male sexual stimulation, and an essential component of natural conception. In rare cases ejaculation occurs because of prostatic disease...
" or "to inject") discussed both sexuality and the use of drugs. A show entitled "Try Before You Die" - where presenters attempted to do things that they think people should do at least once in their life, achieved world fame when presenter Sander Lantinga
Sander Lantinga
Sander Lantinga is a Sander Lantinga is a Sander Lantinga is a [[, [[Netherlands|Dutch]] program maker at [[BNN |BNN]], and a radio-DJ at radio station [[3FM]]...
acted as a streaker
Streaking
Streaking is the act of running nude through a public place.-History:On 5 July 1799, a Friday evening at 7 o'clock, a naked man was arrested at the Mansion House, London, and sent to the Poultry Compter...
during a quarter-finals match at Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon
The Championships, Wimbledon, or simply Wimbledon , is the oldest tennis tournament in the world, considered by many to be the most prestigious. It has been held at the All England Club in Wimbledon, London since 1877. It is one of the four Grand Slam tennis tournaments, the other three Majors...
between Maria Sharapova
Maria Sharapova
Maria Yuryevna Sharapova ,. is a Russian professional tennis player and a former world no. 1. A US resident since 1994, Sharapova has won 24 WTA singles titles, including three Grand Slam singles titles at the 2004 Wimbledon, 2006 US Open and 2008 Australian Open...
and Elena Dementieva
Elena Dementieva
Elena Viatcheslavovna Dementieva is a retired Russian professional tennis player. Dementieva is most notable for winning the singles gold medal at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. She won 16 WTA singles titles and reached the finals of the 2004 French Open and 2004 US Open. Dementieva achieved a...
.
In May 2007, five years after the death of Bart de Graaff, who had suffered from kidney failure for almost all of his life, BNN announced "De Grote Donorshow
De Grote Donorshow
De Grote Donorshow was a hoax reality television program which was broadcast in the Netherlands on Friday, June 1, 2007 by BNN. The program involved a supposedly terminally ill 37-year-old woman donating a kidney to one of twentyfive people requiring a kidney transplantation. After a first...
" (The Big Donor Show), an initiative for promoting the filling in of a codicil for organ donation
Organ donation
Organ donation is the donation of biological tissue or an organ of the human body, from a living or dead person to a living recipient in need of a transplantation. Transplantable organs and tissues are removed in a surgical procedure following a determination, based on the donor's medical and...
, in which three contestants would strive to be the recipient of a kidney donated by a terminally ill woman. The show aired on 1 June, but at the end of this show it was revealed to be a hoax, attempting to draw attention to the low number of organ donors in the country.
BNN is however not only known for its controversial shows, but also for shows such as "Nu we er toch zijn" ("While we are here anyway"), in which presenter Eddy Zoey tests the hospitality of Dutch places; and "De Lama's
De Lama's
De Lama's is a Dutch television show made by BNN and first aired on 26 June 2004. It is an adaptation of the Channel 4 show Whose Line is it Anyway?....
" ("The Llamas"), which is a Dutch version of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Whose Line Is It Anyway? is a short-form improvisational comedy TV show. Originally a British radio programme, it moved to television in 1988 as a series made for the UK's Channel 4, for a 10 series run...
".
BNN has created a few medical programmes, such as Je zal het maar hebben ("It could've been you") and Over mijn lijk ("Over my dead body"), in which youth with handicaps are consulted and talk about their handicaps. So did Bas van der Voort who lost his right leg to an osteosarcoma
Osteosarcoma
Osteosarcoma is an aggressive cancerous neoplasm arising from primitive transformed cells of mesenchymal origin that exhibit osteoblastic differentiation and produce malignant osteoid...
.
Television shows
- Costa!Costa!Costa! is a 2001 Dutch film from BNN. It was the first movie that used several famous Dutch soap stars. Other movies that used soap actors, were Volle maan and Honeyz. The television series with the same title was based on the movie. It had the same cast members...
- De nationale IQ test
- De Grote DonorshowDe Grote DonorshowDe Grote Donorshow was a hoax reality television program which was broadcast in the Netherlands on Friday, June 1, 2007 by BNN. The program involved a supposedly terminally ill 37-year-old woman donating a kidney to one of twentyfive people requiring a kidney transplantation. After a first...
- FinalsFinalsFinals may refer to:* Final , the final stages of a sporting competition* Final examinations, tests given to students at the end of a course of study or training.* Finals , a four-issue comic book mini-series....
- Get smarter in a week
- Je zal het maar hebben
- BNN presenteert AVRO's Sterrenslag
- De Lama'sDe Lama'sDe Lama's is a Dutch television show made by BNN and first aired on 26 June 2004. It is an adaptation of the Channel 4 show Whose Line is it Anyway?....
- Hey DJHey DJ"Hey! DJ" is a song by the World's Famous Supreme Team. Writing is credited to Larry Price, Malcolm McLaren, Ronald Larkins Jr. and Stephen Hague. Released on 12" in 1984 on Island Records, there were three mixes included...
- Kannibalen
- Neuken doe je zo!
- World according to BNN
- Nu we er toch zijn
- Atletico Ananas
- ONM (Onderweg Naar Morgen)
- Try before you die
- Spuiten en SlikkenSpuiten en SlikkenSpuiten en Slikken is a Dutch television program on public television. It is a program about sexuality and drugs...
- BNN University
- Cash CabCash CabCash Cab is a TV game show devised by Adam Wood that originated in the United Kingdom and has been licensed to television networks in numerous other countries...
- Top of the PopsTop of the PopsTop of the Pops, also known as TOTP, is a British music chart television programme, made by the BBC and originally broadcast weekly from 1 January 1964 to 30 July 2006. After 25 December 2006 it became a radio program, now hosted by Tony Blackburn...
- Over Mijn Lijk
- Mystery Party
- Teringtubbies (a spoof on the TeletubbiesTeletubbiesTeletubbies is a BBC children's television series targeted at pre-school viewers and produced from 1997 to 2001 by Ragdoll Productions. It was created by Ragdoll's creative director Anne Wood CBE and Andrew Davenport, who wrote each of the show's 365 episodes. The programme's original narrator was...
) - Veronica MarsVeronica MarsVeronica Mars is an American television series created by Rob Thomas. The series premiered on September 22, 2004, during television network UPN's final two years, and ended on May 22, 2007, after a season on UPN's successor, The CW Television Network. Veronica Mars was produced by Warner Bros...
- Afkicken
- Kebab tv
- Ruben vs Sophie
- Weg met BNN!
- Doe maar normaal!
- Rat van fortuin
- Ranking the stars
- EntourageEntourage (TV series)Entourage is an American comedy-drama television series that premiered on HBO on July 18, 2004 and concluded on September 11, 2011, after eight seasons...
- Loverboys
Radio shows
- Alle 40 goed!
- BNN Today
- Het Huis van de Heer
- Los!
- Lust For LifeLust for LifeLust for Life may refer to:* Lust for Life , a 1934 biographical novel about Vincent Van Gogh, written by Irving Stone* Lust for Life , a 1956 film based on the novel, starring Kirk Douglas...
- Muijst Wanted
- ruuddewild.nl (1999–2004)
- Storing (Radio)
- Sven & Dave
- That's Live
- Weg met BNN
- Wout! (2004–2006)
- ZoëyZo
- De Coen en Sander show (2006-)
Presenters
- Astrid de Jong (2002–2003)
- Bart de GraaffBart de GraaffBart F. de Graaff was an influential Dutch television presenter and creator, as well as the founder and chairman of the public broadcasting network BNN....
(1998–2002) - Bridget MaaslandBridget MaaslandBridget Maasland is a Dutch VJ and television presenter and producer.She worked as a model and appeared on the catwalk in fashionshows for children. Her debut on television was a commercial for fruit as a healthy alternative to candy.Later, Maasland became a professional model, working in Barcelona...
(2000–2005) - Curt Fortin (2005-)
- Dennis Storm (2006-)
- Eddy Zoey (1998–2000, 2002-)
- Eric Corton (2005-)
- Edo BrunnerEdo BrunnerEdo Brunner , Dubbeldam is a Dutch actor and presenter.-Filmography:* De Baby en de bakfiets - Willem Slootkant* Benidorm - Sammy* Enigma * De Zwarte Meteoor...
(2006) - Filemon Wesselink (2004-)
- Hanna VerboomHanna VerboomHanna Verboom is a Dutch actress. She was born in Belgium. Verboom spent her early childhood in the African nations of Kenya and Sudan. After moving to the Netherlands, Verboom worked as a model and won the "Dutch Elite Model Look 2003". She also majored in economics and philosophy, and minored in...
(2004–2006) - Jeroen Kijk in de Vegte (1999–2004)
- Jeroen Pauw (1998–2003)
- Katja SchuurmanKatja SchuurmanKatja Römer-Schuurman is a Dutch actress, singer, television personality and occasional VJ.-Youth:Katja grew up in Bunnik as the eldest daughter of a Dutch father and a Chinese-Surinamese mother; she has one younger sister, Birgit, who is an actress as well.-The 1990s:Schuurman made her acting...
(2001–2008) - Ramon StoppelenburgRamon StoppelenburgRamon Stoppelenburg is a world traveler and a Dutch author, currently residing in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.-Education:...
(2005–2006) - Kurt Rogiers (2004–2006)
- Lucien Foort (2003-)
- Martijn Muijs (2004–2006)
- Nicolette KluiverNicolette KluiverNicolette Rianne Kluijver is a Dutch television presenter and Model. She is currently working for the Dutch Broadcaster BNN....
(2006-) - Patrick LodiersPatrick LodiersPatrick Emanuel Martinus Lodiers is a Dutch television presenter and the chairman of BNN.Lodiers is the presenter of Dutch programs like De Lama's, Over Mijn Lijk and The Big Donor Show....
(2001-) - Ruben Nicolai (2006-)
- Ruud de WildRuud de WildRudolf Alexander de Wild is a Dutch radio host. He is also a former DJ, VJ and was one of the faces of the now-defunct television network Talpa....
(1998–2004) - Sander de Heer (2000-)
- Sander Guis (2005-)
- Sander LantingaSander LantingaSander Lantinga is a Sander Lantinga is a Sander Lantinga is a [[, [[Netherlands|Dutch]] program maker at [[BNN |BNN]], and a radio-DJ at radio station [[3FM]]...
(2005-) - Sophie Hilbrand (2004-)
- Willemijn Veenhoven (2005–2006)
- Wouter van der GoesWouter van der GoesWouter van der Goes is a Dutch radio DJ.At age twelve, he was tinkering with audio equipment as a hobby. Later, during his free time, he worked with several local radio stations, as well as pirate stations, while having a regular job as an insurance salesman.In 1995, Van der Goes is hired by Radio...
(2004–2006) - Yolanthe Cabau van KasbergenYolanthe Cabau van Kasbergen-Early life:Sneijder-Cabau was born on the Spanish island of Ibiza. Her father, Xavier Cabau , was Spanish, while her mother, Richarda "Rici" van Kasbergen, is Dutch. Xavier Cabau was a wealthy entrepreneur known as the "King of Ibiza", who owned several discothèques, restaurants, and bars...
(2006-) - Coen Swijnenberg (2006-)
- Floortje DessingFloortje DessingFloortje Dessing is a Dutch radio and television presenter. She has worked with Veronica, Yorin, RTL 5, LLiNK and BNN . She is known for her various travel programms, such as Arrivals, Yorin Travel, RTL Travel and 3 op Reis. She has also written several travel guides...
(2010-)
External links
- BNN – official website
- BNN TV at the Internet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie DatabaseInternet Movie Database is an online database of information related to movies, television shows, actors, production crew personnel, video games and fictional characters featured in visual entertainment media. It is one of the most popular online entertainment destinations, with over 100 million...