Echt Waar?!: Story, Cast and Series Facts

Story and premise

Comical entertainment show, hosted by Jack Spijkerman, in which comedians Ruben van der Meer and Tijl Beckand face each other in convincing the studio audience. Under the guidance of Jack, Tijl and Ruben are presented in various rounds with questions, humorous statements and trivial issues, a number of which also come from viewers. To these and other gnawing questions, Tijl and Ruben each formulate their own answer and bring it so passionately and convincingly that both arguments seem equally likely. But only one story is "Really?!". Everything is used to fool the hundred people in the audience and Tijl and Ruben take turns trying to play the hundred audience members away. For the people who manage to stay, €10,000 is ready to distribute.

Series details

• Title: Echt Waar?!
• Format: Game Show
• Language: Dutch
• Premiere date: 2010-03-27
• Final broadcast date listed: 2019-10-26
• Status in TVmaze: Ended
• Network listed by TVmaze: SBS 6
• Network country: Netherlands
• Typical episode runtime: 60 minutes
• TVMaze ID: 49808
• TVDB ID: 152761

Seasons in the TVmaze catalogue

• Season 1: premiered 2010-03-27; final listed air date 2010-05-22.
• Season 2: premiered 2010-09-11; final listed air date 2010-10-30.
• Season 3: premiered 2011-04-02; final listed air date 2011-05-14.
• Season 4: premiered 2011-08-20; final listed air date 2011-09-24.
• Season 5: premiered 2012-04-14; final listed air date 2012-05-26.
• Season 6: premiered 2015-04-18; final listed air date 2015-05-23.
• Season 7: premiered 2019-09-07; final listed air date 2019-10-26; episode order: 8.

Source and licence

Adapted from Echt Waar?! on TVmaze. The synopsis is reproduced as plain text; catalogue facts, cast and season records are selected and reformatted. This adapted text is available under CC BY-SA 4.0, following the TVmaze API licence. Network and web-channel credits identify the service listed in this source; they do not establish current streaming availability.