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Very Russian TV
I liked it.
“The First” did everything in terms of quality TV series. “Still I Love” turned out to be no worse than “Gromovs”. And something will be ahead.
It’s nice that the iconic reputation programs “Closed Screening” and “Historical Chronicles with Nikolai Svanidze” have been resumed on “First” and “Russia”. They are not always smooth, but they always become a TV event. Especially the film “Separation” with a discussion in “Show” and a program about Tvardovsky in “Chronicles”.
The program “Only at Night” (TV Center) is gradually becoming the best talk show on TV: unbiased, furious, meaningful.
A repeat of Vladimir Orenov’s brilliant program from the series “More Than Love” about Anatoly Efros and Natalya Krymova (“Culture”).
"Life Line" with Valentin Gaft ("Culture") and "School of Scandal" with Sergei Yursky (NTV). As long as these people, real stars, comets are with us, we are alive. And to the “School of Scandal,” even in the absence of slander, thanks for the cult of unglamorous, non-party people.
"Football night on NTV." Despite the presence of the Comedy Club resident and Miss Russia, presenter Georgy Cherdantsev, in half an hour, quickly manages to show all the goals of the last round of the national championship, get the guest talking and demonstrate the most delicious moments of foreign championships.
At the same time, bright co-hosts become a necessary bow in the program.
"Football of Russia" ("Sport") is a high-quality analytical program with a competent presenter Ilya Kazakov.
I didn't like it.
When high officials suddenly begin to fight for morality on our TV, what should we expect? These people are so pure and immaculate that they have already solved all the problems in the country, in themselves, and for complete happiness they only need a morality committee on television?
When religious figures fight cartoons, it would look funny if it weren't so sad. Are they so crazy about the “2x2” channel that they don’t even have the strength to click another button? There is also something to be horrified about there.
Or are they so hooked on TV that they can’t bring themselves to leave the threshold of their own home? Wake up, brothers, look around, there is a wild field all around for your righteous anger. After all, people are killed for TV, and people die, not painted bears and raccoons.
It is not clear why “First” decided to intercept the NTV audience with its documentary in late prime time. Non-judgmental peeping, winking, copying style... Is it worth pleasing everyone indiscriminately? So you can overstrain yourself.
I have a lot of respect for STS President Alexander Rodnyansky. He talks about the ideology of the channel and its programs in such an incendiary and colorful way that you want to run to the TV, having raised your staff. But you turn it on, and often it doesn’t work. It was with exactly this sparkle in his eyes that Mr. Rodnyansky anticipated the self-parody program “Very Russian TV.” To say that it's vulgar is too fat for this "humor". There's no way at all. I am sure that if I had put the STS president alone in the frame, he would have joked a thousand times better, more fun and interesting.