The end of the documentary?

The last few seasons, journalists writing about television and illuminating the television process on the radio, after a huge list of minuses of domestic TV in the section of a few advantages, the first number was called documentary.

The night channel “New Day” on the “first”, almost night (23.20) documentary line on “Russia”, the “reflection” project on Ren TV, coupled with separate high -quality projects of other channels, looked like our indulgence for all its endless curves - mirrors - alens - brigades - purple recognitions - for all the same brainwood, which is powdering. It brings ratings, and with them advertising income.

Three years ago, speaking to regional television people and explaining the appearance on the night air of the New Day documentary project, the general director of the First, Konstantin Ernst emphasized that his channel was “forced to make dense commercial television” and only after midnight can “afford to be friends with normal people”.

“Normal people”, of which among consumers of television products from year to year, are less and less, and night friendship was happy. And they retold to each other missed: the paradoxical and accurate issues of the genius and villains of Leo Nikolaev, breaking out from the point of view of television technologies “New Miracles of the World” Sergei Ilyin-Kozlovsky, amazing programs of Russian and foreign authors about living water or the biological difference of women and men.

And suddenly overnight, exactly from the beginning of the current television season, everything disappeared. And intelligence, and cognition, and a new television language. On the site of good documentary projects, it suddenly arose that it is difficult to call documentaries. Rather, "jaundice".

“Littlement magic”, “The Queen’s Personal Life” (Natalia Gundareva), “Andrei Mironov and his women”, “Star divorces”, “Thefts in supermarkets”, “Black magic”, “Victims of jealousy”, etc. And all this is only on the very “first” who, in a documentary timeage, intended to “be friends with normal people”. At the same time on “Russia” - “Stalker’s tragedy” (Alexander Kaydanovsky), “A broken heart. Evgeny Evstigneev ”,“ Valery Obodzinsky. Unknown confession ”,“ Zoya Fedorova. Three shots on Kutuzovsky ”and more and more.

And all the same or similar voices. The voice of the documentary on the channel "Russia" was actor Sergey Chonishvili. His voice also sounds in separate projects on the “first”, and in other films - that its own production, which are ordered from third -party manufacturers, for example, from the company “Top Secret” - the voices of voicing actors are almost indistinguishable from one another.

And the orders of the text? “Many people came to take him on the last journey, but among them there were not a single one who would tell him“ beloved! ” - This is in the film of the channel "Russia" about Frunzik Mkrtchan. “On the last journey, the beloved actress escorted many people, but among them there was no one who could call her“ mother ” - this is about Natalia Gundareva on the“ first ”. “People walked and went to say goodbye to him, and all this time his cat and a dog sat at his feet - perhaps the two closest creatures” - this is about Alexander Kaydanovsky, also on “Russia”.

You can continue, but I do not want to. As I do not want to, the next morning, revealing files with rating measurements, to see that the share of the audience of such projects is steadily from 25 to 38%. That is, from a quarter to almost forty percent of the audience who turned on the TV in the evening, watch a similar crap. And they learn how to bewitch a man they like, to put a husband or lover from the separation, to damage the enemies - Fortunately, in films about magic there is a short course in stock. They will teach how to cut an apple, put something into the core, pierce something and leave to dry with sentences, so that the beloved is your beloved one, like an apple dries. Or like a hair to wrap an enemy on a pin and not like you to pin a person under a chair or put under the threshold - and a rival or competitor will die ... Learn, dear spectators, everything for you!

The plots of the latest Russian documentary are also infinitely struck by their dense. And I also do not want to. Only now, the country is a large, unhappy, unhealthy country, ready to believe in any grab, in any love magic, ready to flood with tears and wip off with snot, seeing, as the rich and famous crying, getting jealous, - this camp was hooked on such documentaries according to the full program. What is scary. Why try life in your home, in your village, to make it better on your street, if it is easier to lower your hands, all your failures on someone else's evil eye or write off the damage. Why try to build a complex relationship in love, if it’s easier to look for a sorceress - good, the same films of the most expensive of them are advertised - and order a love spell from that sorceress. Why think, study and work if the films are clear that everything is predetermined by all magical forces. It is necessary to wait for the pens and wait for the help of magical forces. In the meantime, let your house collapse, it brings your street with snow and mud. What is in vain to resist this force and just work, it is better to watch a documentary film in which the futility of such efforts will be explained in a detailed way!

However, in past seasons, in addition to the intelligent “new day”, in a more convenient mass audience, the time on all channels was published in the now fashionable style of “reconstruction”. The "new day" rested, and these projects come out to this day. Excessive events are played out by unknown actors, and the effect of supposedly hidden camera or stylization under documentary shooting of past years creates a feeling of awkwardness and bewilderment - is it not gabash is the declassified surveillance of surveillance of Onasis, who risked to get a Soviet husband and live in a Moscow small -sized “three”, are they showed to us? Did the secret archives of the FBI from a distance captured the secrets of the bed life of Marilyn Monroe? But how, in this case, explain the presence of filming in the corridors of Smolny on the day of Kirov’s murder?

It is in the style of the reconstruction that the most “viewable” projects of the Genre of Details are removed, in which the events of our recent history, leaders and stars appear “as living”. Even with traces of sperm on the subscesses. Like the linen of the murdered Kirov. Journalists of the Ostankino television company, the authors of the documentary about this murder itself, prove that they killed Sergei Mironovich not for political reasons, but purely out of jealousy: the deceived husband caught him with his mistress right in Smolny. And the main evidence is the very traces of sperm that after seven decades they discovered at the murderer stored in the museum of the murdered ...

Sperm of politicians, cosmetic operations of actors, kitchen scandals of show business stars-all this is now called “documentary broadcasting”. Why?

What happened to Russian channels in just a year? Why did this Surrogate poorly digested by public consciousness sudden

The answer is simple. The law on the restriction of beer advertising on TV entered into force. Russian lawmakers, preoccupied with exclusively by the spiritual health of the nation, ordered to move a beer advertisement to the evening air. Beer can now be advertised only from 22-00. And this timeage - the last two hours of the day - turned out to be the most important for beer advertisers. The same Konstantin Ernst, who talked with regional colleagues in the fall of the past year, admitted that it was the beer that caused the disappearance from the broadcast of better documentary broadcasting: “For three seasons, we had a new day channel, which was oriented mainly on smart people. Closed. The numbers were such that my media -seller recommended that I put a product with a higher rating potential to post a beer advertisement. ” And all.

Although, of course, not all. After midnight, the same “Channel One” showed the grandiose work of Leo Nikolaev “Brotherhood of the Bomb”, which, as the creators dreamed, “closes the topic”, because after this project that contains both science and love, there is nothing to add to the topic of creating an atomic bomb.

But this, alas, is an exception. And the rule - love spells, murders of jealousy and conspiracies in documentary projects of all Russian television channels. Today and daily ...