Translated material
One solid TV
Yakubovich and Sharapova guarding traditional values
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Manucharov’s “Empathy for Manuchi” unexpectedly showed up Arina Sharapova, the long-time host of “Good Morning” on Channel One. Having moved away from regularly watching TV over the past few years, and even in my best years I rarely watched “Good Morning” due to my physiological characteristics, I was sure that Sharapova had not been working on air for a long time, concentrating on training novice “slaves of the lamp.” But no. She is active, still fresh, good-looking, and does not grow old at heart - she hosts morning broadcasts, while simultaneously promoting and introducing traditional values into the consciousness of her fellow citizens. Manucharov did not deny himself the pleasure of finding out how old Good Morning is and how long his guest has worked there. It turned out that the program is 50, Sharapova is 20 in it. “I remember when I came to you as a young student... I think a little more,” the presenter doubted. “In general, I’ve been on the channel for over 30 years, and on the program for about 20 years,” she coquettishly admitted, adding that some young colleagues sometimes look at her incredulously: why, she’s still alive, she’s still walking on her own (she laughs, like “you can’t wait”).
In addition to universal human values, she also includes television as a traditional value. No matter how Manucharov provoked her, he stood his ground: TV is forever! “Do you feel,” he asks, “that part of the audience has completely gone to the Internet, and part has remained on TV? Who is this audience? How many millions of Russians are watching “Good Morning” now?” “We have a country of 140 million, so all 140 are watching,” she retorts. - Did I answer well? Even babies watch along with their mothers, who feed and watch them... Students watch us, young people watch us... TV will never disappear!
The Internet sometimes disappears. What works? TV. That part of the audience that went to the Internet will also return to TV if the Internet continues to “fly” like this from time to time.
In general, following the hero of the film “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears,” TV cameraman-seducer Rudik, Arina Sharapova, decades after the beginning of the TV era, again prophesies: “There will be no books, no newspapers, no theater, no cinema. Television, one continuous television!” Well, that is, with adjustments to new circumstances - there will be no Internet, but there will be only continuous TV. And, of course, Sharapova herself is on it, because veterans do not grow old in spirit, and old horses do not spoil the furrows.
According to the tradition that has developed at Empathy Manuchi, they remembered and kicked their colleagues who had left. Manucharov now feels sorry for them, just as he feels sorry for people who are sick with the flu. And Arina doesn’t care at all: “You and I are now talking about dogs that, in order to earn more money, bark... A dog barks, the caravan moves on.” Although, in her opinion, these people, left alone with themselves, will probably curse themselves: “What morons we are for leaving, what idiots we are for doing this.”
Sharapova “started working with traditional values” four years ago, not only at the behest of her soul, but also because of her professional affiliation: she, it turns out, is a philosopher, a specialist in scientific communism, and traditional values are part of her professional interests. Among her “favorites” are life itself, mercy (“If I see dogs and cats on the street, I feel sorry for them), humanity, love for the Motherland (“Our country is magical. This is such a land! We just have to kiss it and say: thank you, land, you are magical!”). Well, at the heart of it all is a strong family. And TV today is strengthening this family with all its might. Of course, there are still “formats on the Internet that confuse people. Alien winds blew on us... They wanted to destroy us. But Russia is invincible, a strong family is invincible!” “Why is it invincible?” - Manucharov is interested? “But because no one will ever defeat us,” his interlocutor says, and you can’t argue with the logic of a professional philosopher.
And to help Arina Sharapova in her beliefs is another long-running old-time show - “Field of Miracles”. 36 years on air. Leonid Yakubovich has already celebrated his 80th birthday, but he is ready, together with 80-year-old fan Lyudmila Ivanovna from the sunny city of Yeisk, to celebrate her and his 100th birthday on air (200 for two), he promised in one of the last issues. This “Field of Miracles” is a traditional value in itself, and a means for promoting these values, and a staple for a home for a family. Judging by the ratings (the capital show has consistently been in the top ten most popular programs of all leading TV channels over the past years), people demonstrate an amazing constancy in tastes and an inescapable desire to be in the studio next to “Uncle Lenya” in order to present him with man-made gifts and be sure to pinch his mustache. Some grew up on it, others grew old, life came up with new songs, but the drum is still there. “We’re going, we’re going with the whole family / To stay with Uncle Lena. / “Field” - “Polyushka of Miracles” / Arouses interest, / I spin and spin the drum / I want to guess the word,” the kid reads in a ringing voice the poems, obviously composed by the grandmother standing right there. However, Uncle Lenya does not agree: “But we did not gather to guess the letters.”
And indeed, this is not why the lucky participants come here from all over the country. Show yourself, give gifts, receive rich prizes in return and, of course, say hello to “the girls from the hairdresser and the director Vladimir Semenych.” And a bonus to all this is the correct ideological guidelines from the mouth of someone whom they trust unlimitedly.
A fragment of one of the latest episodes has gone viral online, where a school ensemble performs a song with the words “We don’t want, we don’t want, we don’t sit on your Internet.” This way, in an entertaining playful form, and even performed by children, it is much more realistic to convey to the audience the message of abandoning the harmful Internet (and this episode very timely appeared on the air precisely in the days when the mobile Internet was blocked throughout the country).
Well, the latest festive issue, entirely dedicated to the 10th anniversary of the Russian Guard troops and fully staffed with fighters from these troops, is a pure and unalloyed patriotic act. The participants in ceremonial uniforms are all perfectly matched - nice, friendly people. We came to the program with our children and household members. In their free time from service they dance, sing and compose songs themselves. Dear Leonid Arkadyevich received generous gifts - a set of uniforms, including a bulletproof vest and helmet, a bust of Felix Edmundovich Dzerzhinsky, an exact model of his legendary Mauser pistol, a live puppy of a guard dog (in the near future), and in response: “A front-line cup for everyone!” Gifts to the studio for everyone!” The winner himself, the senior warrant officer, who instantly guessed the final word (for the sake of the holiday, instead of the usual three words, he was allowed to guess one), was literally inundated with gifts, in addition to giving him the keys to the car. So what? This service is both dangerous and difficult, and therefore worthy of the most generous reward. Again - “Field of Miracles”, as it was said.
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