What about the former Golden Shoe that now, many years later, trudges its way through the second provincial? With every header, some gray hairs fly away in the wind, with every dribble, some cartilage is filed off somewhere in that old body. He still wants to – what else would he do with his time?
Luk Alloo once caused something in Flemish living rooms. Of Stars and comets for example, or AllooUndercover. No top programs, but at least something happened. For the last twenty years, after sending the press kit, the silence has been broken only by a church bell in the distance.
He is not sitting still, certainly not, and whatever he does, even if it is raking the gravel, he will get it sold to VTM. Alloo in jail, Alloo from prison, Alloo in the women’s prison, Alloo in foreign prison, Alloo in the police court, Alloo in psychiatry, Hello in the night, Hello and goodbye, Allah and love, Alloo at the highway police, Alloo to the local police, Alloo at the traffic police, Alloo at Jambers, Allo at…, Alloo, Alloo Talk, Hello!, AllooLive, Alloo live, Alloo & Chris & co… Tiny doesn’t imitate him. If only it were as good as Tiny.
You’d think it’s a joke, that that body of work was made up for a half-fun piece in the newspaper, but it’s not. Then I had Alloo and the Picaros smuggled that list in for a while, or Alloo and the cargo bike cinemaor, of course, ‘Alloo ‘Alloo! Although I cannot rule out that those beer cards have also been on Davy Parmentier’s desk for a long time.
It’s not that I have anything against Luk Alloo, it’s that he seems to throw his cock at it. Again, with The last 100 hours on Pickx+, whatever the latter may be. I’m a fan of slow television, and I suspect that’s also what Alloo tries to do when talking to a BV for an hour. But in each of his interview programs the guests consist of people he knows, so minimal – read: no – preparation is sufficient. With the rest he shuffles after a champetter and asks what comes to mind. Endless research begins and ends with turning on a camera.
And when he then interviews Goedele Liekens, from whose dredge he still took part in the late 1990s, he interrupts his slow television occasionally for some quick questions, recycled from Vitaya throw Alloo, and the glow of a flashlight in Liekens’ face. If you still have something like this done by Maurice De Wilde, for that interrogation atmosphere, for some cold sweat on Pickx+, but no, it remains with weak anecdotal about a gymnastics teacher. Swivel the splint integrally onto the screen, says Alloo, and send the 30 seconds that are left on the assembly floor to VTM.
The last 100 hoursWednesday at 8.40 pm on Pickx+.