A recipient, in 2003, of the annual Zilveren Nipkow best-show award from Dutch television critics, the programme was produced by the left-of-centre public broadcaster VARA.
In recent episodes even historical characters, like Napoleon Bonaparte, Anne Frank, Plato and Joseph Stalin were imitated.
The first imitation episode showed sensationalist TV presenter Willibrord Frequin chasing Osama bin Laden asking "why he had been so cowardly" and "why he sent thousands of people into death".
In 2005, Jack Spijkerman decided to cancel his contract with VARA and sign with the newly formed channel Talpa.
Spijkerman made a similar (but commonly deemed of less quality) show on Talpa, called Koppensnellers [nl] but after bankruptcy of the channel it disappeared of the Dutch TV.