Leonie ter Braak

Merel, a single midwife, is done with men, but her biological clock is ticking inexorably. And yes, she gets pregnant. However, the whole family suddenly seems pregnant. Her 60-plus father Piet has just become a father again with his young partner and her 23-year-old niece Eva is also expecting. Annet, Merel's older sister, who suffers from the empty nest syndrome, has a husband Theo who only wants to travel because he thinks is too young to become a grandfather.

Jan has been married to Gedda for 35 years. Gedda loves Jan so much that she smothers him: before he can grab a glass from the table, she has already given him one. She picks out his clothing, his friends, his vacations and all their other activities. In an attempt to get some space Jan concocts a strange plan that literally transforms his marriage into a locked ward. Their daughter finds herself in a similar predicament with her exacting and jealous boyfriend.

A well-to-do white family struck by overnight financial ruin struggle to find their place in the urban, multicultural working-class neighborhood they are forced to move into.

The Van Kampen family is in for another big surprise. They have just settled in nicely among their new friends, when they receive the news that the Hollandwijk is threatened with demolition. To make matters worse, Erik's father, the oppertatta, comes to live with them and everything the Tatta's have built up is thrown completely out of balance.

"Man-maker" Anne doesn't do relationships, but projects: every six months, she picks up a man and grooms him into a desirable specimen. Once she's successful, she breaks up with him and starts another project. That goes well, until she starts developing feelings for her new project partner.

Dit was het nieuws is a Dutch television program of RTL4, wherein two teams give a satirical account of the previous week's news. The program has the form of a game show in which two teams, each with a team leader and weekly guest, compete against each other. The scoring is not serious; after the first round, for instance, the score is always 4-4.

A talkshow about the media that week in The Netherlands.