During the winter presentation of BNN-VARA, general director Gerard Timmer praised the courage of the broadcaster: “We are focusing on a broad and young audience.” In the new season, BNN-VARA focuses on a broad and young audience. According to Timmer, examples of 'guts' are the worker in the documentary series De Strijd, but also the Early Birds special by Nieuwe Wildernis maker Ruben Smit and the life of a politically incorrect teacher in Tessa (with Thekla Reuten). "It takes courage to want to get to the bottom of the stone with ZEMBLA."