With a huge amount of fuss you present yourself as a NEW and EPOCH-MAKING TV-station, about to change the life on earth for ever with NEVER-SEEN-BEFORE shows, formats and films. You claim to be the BIGGEST thing since the introduction of the combustion engine and the atomic bomb. You invest several million euro's in advertising and PR, you steal every ONE-DAY-FLY-GOOD-FOR-NOTHING TV-personality you can lay your hands on from the competition and you decide to call the whole operation:

TALPA

Set the date for launch, open some fresh bankaccounts and put some champagne in the fridge. Nothing can go wrong ... can there?

And than comes that wholeheartedly cursed day when somebody (preferably the part-time mongoloid janitor) asks, in the middle of the overcrowded lunchroom: "And uhh, by the way, what uhhh does TALPA mean anyway?"

Click here to find out ... oops, sorry John de Mol(e)!

 

(Jacco Mokveld)