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Thursday, November 12th, 2026

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To my dismay, I see that all character names for the Dutch TV-series "Welkom bij de Romeinen" have been erased

I just noticed that all character names played by the (almost) stock company of actors for the Dutch history/comedy TV-series "Welkom bij ..." have been erased and replaced with the generic "Various characters", expect for the regular host: 

For instance: Welkom bij de Romeinen

Compare the 2017 page saved in the Internet Archive: https://web.archive.org/web/20170213075444/http://www.imdb.com/title/tt5304672/

And also, for one of these actors in the 2025 version: https://web.archive.org/web/20250114160157/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5304672/characters/nm0761911

This appears to be true now of all instalments of these series directed by Niek Barendsen, from 2012 to present.

This recent (?) procedure (?) may have even been applied to similar TV series as well?

Who authorized this dramatic loss of information? All the different disguises of the actors make it extremely hard to recognize them on sight to begin with, so this used to be a big help.

For instance, I remember that special guest actors Pierre Bokma, Carice van Houten, Paul de Leeuw and Frank Lammers played only one, major role in the 'Roman' series, and now they have been reduced to 'various'!

Please investigate.

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