Buitenhof (television program)

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Buitenhof is a Dutch Sunday-morning interview show produced by the NPS, VARA and VPRO public broadcasters and televised on Nederland 1. The first Buitenhof broadcast was on September 7, 1997, when it succeeded the interview program Het Capitool. The program takes its name from the Binnenhof, The Hague, which includes a place Buitenhof (lit. outer court).

Buitenhof is highly influential, and is regularly visited by the nations top politicians, policy makers, representatives of the trade unions and employers' federation, and opinion makers. The format also includes a column, presented as of March 2007 by Désanne van Brederode and Joshua Livestro. Former columnists include Ronald Plasterk, Paul Cliteur and Herman Philipse.

Peter van Ingen, Rob Trip and Clairy Polak exchange in presenting the program.

The program itself made news in 2004, when visiting VB politician Filip Dewinter was smeared with chocolate, on camera, by antifa activists.

Other Dutch-language Sunday morning talk shows are Business Class, televised on the commercial channel RTL 7, and De Zevende Dag, televised in Flanders, Belgium by the VRT.