Arjen Lubach announces that he is quitting popular TV show and leaving broadcaster

Arjen Lubach is quitting his television program, De Avondshow. Lubach and his team will create one more season of the satirical news program, which was first broadcast by VPRO in February 2022. The presenter said in a press release that his work with VPRO will come to a close after the final season.

"For ten years, we were given the space and opportunity to make satirical television for the VPRO. I have unlimited gratitude to the VPRO for that. I have enjoyed all the contact I have had with the employees at VPRO in both a business and personal sense. Yet sometimes, it is time for a new adventure, and our collaboration will now come to an end. But don't be worried: comedic television is in my blood, so the Netherlands has not yet gotten rid of me," Lubach said.

VPRO said they were grateful to Lubach for the last ten years, during which he made the program Zondag met Lubach weekly and has hosted the De Avondshow with Arjen Lubach daily since 2022.

Editor-in-chief Willem van Zeeland said that Lubach and his team made classic television for the broadcaster. "It made him an important voice in the Netherlands, and he was able to reach millions of people with his sharp humor."

Lubach won the the Zilveren Nipkowschijf award in 2016 for the Zondag met Lubach show. The program also received the Gouden Televizier-Ring award in 2017.

His show gained international recognition with the segment "America First—The Netherlands Second" after Donald Trump's inauguration as President of the United States.