Het Gesprek (Dutch for "The Conversation") was a Dutchtelevision channel, started on 2 October 2007. The channel offeredinterviews anddebates, broadcast in the evenings.
Founders of the television channel were Dutch journalistsFrits Barend,Ruud Hendriks andDerk Sauer. Barend is known for producing several successful sports and current event programs on television and radio with fellow journalistHenk van Dorp.
The channel used various "conversationalists" for the interviews, ranging frompoliticians andtelevision personalities toactors andauthors. The channel also broadcast theLate Show with David Letterman on Weekdays at 11:00 p.m.[1]
Due to financial problems Het Gesprek stopped broadcasting on 21 August 2010.
