Channel One received almost half of the total number of prizes at the TEFI ceremony

Yulia LARINA

It seems that this was not the closing ceremony for TEFI. Many feared that TEFI would be held for the last time. They joked about this topic from the stage. Although the president of the academy, Vladimir Pozner, said at the very beginning: “Today during an interview they asked me: “Is this the last TEFI?” I want to reassure everyone - it won’t be the last.”

This time the ceremony was bright, but not pretentious. So much so that, for example, the person who came out to receive a prize for Kirill Nabutov, who was absent in the hall (he was recognized as the best sports commentator), read the response SMS sent by Nabutov (!).

The envelopes opened from the stage could have read “Moscow. Kremlin": the results of the secret vote of academicians were announced in the small hall of the Kremlin Palace.

It's funny to say, but the best Russian presenter of an information program was Kevin Owen from the Russia Today channel. He thanked those gathered in English. Although they say that his award is well deserved, this apparently happened because NTV left the academy in English, and the Rossiya channel did not broadcast its programs this year.

Marianna Maksimovskaya, who was nominated for TEFI for the fourth time, finally received it. Even twice—both for the “Week” program and as a presenter. Ironically, it was in the Kremlin that the most non-Kremlin analytical program received TEFI.

Everyone was sitting at laid tables. The Academy of Russian Television held the ceremony according to the principle “No one is superfluous at our table,” but quite a few academicians, apparently, considered themselves superfluous this time. The first was not on the tables, but the second was. And in the hall there was the First, but there was no second: the academicians from the second channel mostly ignored the ceremony. And among the heads of TV channels, only the general director of the TV Center, Alexander Ponomarev, appeared. The channel officials came, but the top officials did not. By the end of the ceremony, most of the seats at the tables were empty.

Those working on the first button took 24 prizes out of 50 nominations (five nominations had two winners each). VGTRK has 9 figurines, programs were exhibited by their producers (Russia - 6, Kultura - 1, children's Bibigon - 2), STS - 9, REN TV - 5, TV Center - 2, NTV - 0. The series “Liquidation” received 5 statuettes out of 7 possible, and, for example, “King of the Ring” received one out of six. Four TEFI went to the regions. The prize “For personal contribution to the development of Russian television” was awarded to Sergei Kapitsa. He is known not only as the host of the “Obvious-Incredible” program, but primarily as a scientist, the creator of a phenomenological mathematical model of hyperbolic growth in the Earth’s population. The population that likes to watch TV.

Photo by ANDREY TKACHENKO

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