Wie is de Mol? (Dutch TV series)

Wie is de Mol? (English: Who is the Mole?) is a Dutch adventure reality game show. It is based on the Belgian reality game show De Mol, the original version of the format created in 1998 by Woestijnvis and broadcast on VRT.

Wie is de Mol?
GenreReality game show
Presented byAngela Groothuizen
Karel van de Graaf
Pieter Jan Hagens
Art Rooijakkers
Rik van de Westelaken
Junior seasons
Sipke Jan Bousema
Art Rooijakkers
Country of originNetherlands
Original languageDutch
No. of seasons26
(including 2 Junior series and 1 Jubilee series)
No. of episodes181
Production
Production locations
List
Running time50 minutes
Production companyIDTV
Release
Original networkAVRO
AVROTROS
Original releaseNovember 19, 1999 (1999-11-19) –
present
Related
De Mol

Format

Wie is de Mol? is a reality television competition involving 10 candidates. These candidates travel to a foreign country where they have to complete assignments to earn money to fill the prize pot. However, one of the participants is the Mole. The mole's goal is to sabotage the assignments and cause the other candidates to fail and to keep the total amount of money in the pot as low as possible. The other candidates do not know who the mole is, and have to find out who this mole is.

At the end of every episode the candidates take a multiple choice test about the mole's identity. The test contains 20 questions (40 questions in the final test) about the mole's activities since the previous test and personal questions about the mole (for example, "On which team was the mole during the castle-assignment" or "Has the mole been baptized?"). With the help of 'jokers', which they can earn during the assignments, the contestants can turn incorrect test answers into correct answers.

The person with the fewest correct answers is then eliminated from the show. In most series this process continues until only two contestants and the mole remain. The winner is the person with the most correct answers in the final test and he or she gets all of the money earned during the previous stages of the game.

Hosts

Color key:

       Host  
       Guest appearance
       Participant
HostS1S2S3S4S5S6S7S8S9S10S11S12S13S14S15S16S17S18S19S20JB[lower-alpha 1]S21S22S23
Angela Groothuizen
Karel van de Graaf
Pieter Jan Hagens
Art Rooijakkers
Rik van de Westelaken
Notes
  1. A special returning candidates season in celebration of 20 seasons of Wie is de Mol?

Seasons

The first four seasons of Wie is de Mol? had ordinary people as participants. After the break in 2004, all participants in the following seasons were Dutch celebrities.

The 7th season in 2007 was the first season to have four finalists, with two runner-ups.

The 18th season in 2018 was the first to be located in six countries: Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia, Ukraine, and Georgia.

In September 2020, a special jubilee season aired in celebration of twenty seasons of Wie is de Mol?.

Season Start date Host The Mole Winner Runner-up/s Amount won International destination
1 November 19, 1999 Angela Groothuizen Deborah Petra Robin ƒ82,500.[lower-alpha 1] Australia
2 January 5, 2001 Nico Sigrid Yvonne ƒ70,000[lower-alpha 2] Scotland
3 February 8, 2002 George John Jantien €42,300.- Portugal
4 March 15, 2003 Elise Ron Chandrika €35,550.- Canada
5 January 14, 2005 Yvon Jaspers Marc-Marie Huijbregts Lottie Hellingman €23,000.- Australia
Indonesia (Bali)
6 March 10, 2006 Karel van de Graaf Milouska Meulens Frédérique Huydts[lower-alpha 3] Roderick Veelo €24,475.- Argentina
7 January 4, 2007 Inge Ipenburg Paul Rabbering Renate Verbaan[lower-alpha 4]Eva van der Gucht[lower-alpha 4] €17,300.- Thailand
8 January 3, 2008 Pieter Jan Hagens Dennis Weening Edo Brunner Regina Romeijn €20,375.- Mexico
9 January 8, 2009 Jon van Eerd Viviënne van der Assem Anniek Pheifer €22,650.- Northern Ireland
Jordan
10 January 7, 2010 Kim Pieters Frits Sissing Sanne Vogel €21,950.- Japan
11 January 6, 2011 Patrick Stoof Art Rooijakkers[lower-alpha 5] Soundos el Ahmadi €19,540.- El Salvador
Nicaragua
12 January 5, 2012 Art Rooijakkers Anne-Marie Jung Hadewych Minis Liesbeth Staats €12,601.- Iceland
Spain (Andalusia)
13 January 3, 2013 Kees Tol Paulien Cornelisse Carolien Borgers €17,120.- South Africa
14 January 2, 2014 Susan Visser Sofie van den Enk Freek Bartels €16,700.- Hong Kong
Philippines
15 January 1, 2015 Margriet van der Linden Rik van de Westelaken[lower-alpha 6] Marlijn Weerdenburg €10,500.- Sri Lanka
16 January 2, 2016 Klaas van Kruistum Tim Hofman Annemieke Schollaardt €13,020.- Dominican Republic
17 January 7, 2017 Thomas Cammaert Sanne Wallis De Vries Jochem van Gelder €24,320.- United States (Oregon)
18 January 6, 2018 Jan Versteegh Ruben Hein Olcay Gulsen €17,750.- Georgia[lower-alpha 7]
19 January 5, 2019 Rik van de Westelaken Merel Westrik Sarah Chronis Niels Littooij €10,150.- Colombia
20 January 11, 2020 Rob Dekay Buddy Vedder Miljuschka Witzenhausen[lower-alpha 8]Nathan Rutjes[lower-alpha 8] €13,400.- China (Henan)
JB[lower-alpha 9] September 5, 2020 Jeroen Kijk in de Vegte Nikkie de Jager Tygo Gernandt €12,580.- Italy (Tuscany)
21 January 2, 2021 Renée Fokker Roxanne 'Rocky' Hehakaija Charlotte Nijs €9,675.- Czech Republic
22 January 1, 2022 Everon Jackson Hooi Fresia Cousiño Arias Kim-Lian van der Meij €8,065.- Albania
23 January 7, 2023 Jurre Geluk Daniël Verlaan Ranomi Kromowidjojo €11,650.- South Africa
Notes
  1. Guilder, the national Dutch currency at the time. This amounts to roughly €37,437.
  2. Guilder, the national Dutch currency at the time. This amounts to roughly €31,765.
  3. Frédérique Huydts died on 3 April 2006, during the period that season 6 was broadcast on television. As requested by her, the airing of the season continued. The €24,475.- that she won was donated to WWF and Foundation KiKa.
  4. The final of season 7 had four finalists. Renate and Eva both lost to Paul.
  5. After unmasking the Mole in season 11 and winning the season, Art went on to present Wie is de Mol? from seasons 12 to 18.
  6. After unmasking the Mole in season 15 and winning the season, Rik went on to present Wie is de Mol? from season 19 onwards.
  7. Candidates began the first episode in Armenia, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Russia or Ukraine. The first assignment involved finding plane tickets to Georgia, where the remainder of the season would be filmed.
  8. The final of season 20 had four finalists. Miljuschka and Nathan came second and third respectively and lost to Buddy.
  9. To celebrate the 20th season, an extra Jubilee season, which aired in 2020, was announced at the end of the season 20 finale.

Junior editions
Season Airdate Presenter The Mole Winner Runner-up Prize money Destination
1 17 May 2008 Sipke Jan Bousema Amin Naomi Lara 6970 Two and a half cent coin (Netherlands) (€79) Zwolle
2 9 March 2014 Art Rooijakkers Jenny Davey Roeland €1,020 Maastricht
Zeeland

Locations map

The 1999 and 2005 seasons of the show were both filmed in Australia (in 2005, part of the show was also filmed in Indonesia). The 2013 and 2023 seasons of the show were both filmed in South Africa.

Locations of the Dutch version of The Mole.

Ratings

[1]

Season Timeslot Premiere Finale (Reunion) Average ratings
Date Ratings Date Ratings
1 Friday, 20:30 19 November 1999 807,000 21 January 2000 915,000 793,000
2 5 January 2001 1,070,000 2 March 2001 960,000 1,006,000
3 Friday, 21:35 8 February 2002 928,000 19 April 2002 1,005,000 909,000
4 Saturday, 21:00 15 March 2003 1,115,000 24 May 2003 626,000 785,000
5 Friday, 20:30 14 January 2005 1,289,000 18 March 2005 1,485,000 1,450,000
6 10 March 2006 1,168,000 12 May 2006 1,147,000 1,106,000
7 Thursday, 20:30[2] 4 January 2007 1,358,000 15 March 2007 1,270,000 1,188,000
8 3 January 2008 1,922,000 6 March 2008 1,563,000 1,513,000
9 8 January 2009 1,597,000 12 March 2009 1,409,000 1,460,000
10 7 January 2010 2,040,000 25 March 2010 1,558,000 1,673,000
11 6 January 2011 2,146,000 17 March 2011 2,031,000 1,922,000
12 5 January 2012 2,136,000 8 March 2012 2,105,000 1,899,000
13 3 January 2013 2,070,000 7 March 2013 2,579,000 2,132,000
14 2 January 2014 2,455,000 20 March 2014 3,148,000 2,464,000
15 1 January 2015 2,486,000 5 March 2015 3,359,000 2,403,700
16 Saturday, 20:30 2 January 2016 2,163,000 5 March 2016 2,982,000 2,114,900
17 7 January 2017 2,882,000 11 March 2017 2,999,000 2,536,000
18 6 January 2018 2,669,000 10 March 2018 3,227,000 2,582,300
19 5 January 2019 2,986,000 9 March 2019 3,500,000 2,869,400
20 11 January 2020 3,002,000 14 March 2020 3,894,000 2,591,300
Renaissance 5 September 2020 2,665,000 25 Oktober 2020 3,567,000 2,741,750
21 2 January 2021 3,117,000[3] 6 March 2021 3,348,000[4] 3,180,700
22 1 January 2022 3,120,000[5] 5 March 2022 3,242,000[6] 2,894,000
23 7 January 2023 2,634,000[7] 11 March 2023 3,081,000[8] 2,451,400

References
  1. "OVER WIDM". widm.nl. 2018.
  2. Except for episode 5 of season 15 because of an incident in the Media Park. The episode aired the following Friday at 20.30.
  3. "De TV van gisteren: Record voor start nieuwe seizoen Wie is de Mol?". televizier.nl (in Dutch). 3 January 2021. Retrieved 24 February 2021.
  4. "Wie is de Mol sluit Tsjechisch seizoen af zónder kijkcijferrecord". Mediacourant (in Dutch).
  5. "Persbericht Kijkcijfers Tv Zendertotaal (Week 51 2021) En Uitzenddag (Week 52 2021)" (PDF). kijkonderzoek.nl (in Dutch). 3 January 2022. Retrieved 5 January 2022.
  6. "Persbericht Kijkcijfers Tv Zendertotaal (Week 8 2022) En Uitzenddag (Week 9 2022)" (PDF). kijkonderzoek.nl (in Dutch). 7 March 2022. Retrieved 22 November 2022.
  7. "Persbericht Kijkcijfers TV Zendertotaal (Week 52 2022) En Uitzenddag (Week 1 2023)" (PDF). kijkonderzoek.nl (in Dutch). 9 January 2023. Retrieved 15 January 2023.
  8. "Persbericht Kijkcijfers TV Zendertotaal (Week 9 2023) En Uitzenddag (Week 10 2023)" (PDF). kijkonderzoek.nl (in Dutch). 13 March 2023. Retrieved 24 March 2023.

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