In mid-September, viewers learned that the program was leaving Channel One « Wait for me» . One of the most popular programs on Russian television for 19 years helped people from different parts of the world find each other.
Then an announcement appeared on the project website: “The program“ Wait for me ”will no longer be aired on Channel One. But the work continues. We are accepting applications for search and looking for people. Follow the news on our website and in groups in social networks!
The audience took the sad news with bitterness and disappointment. They bombarded TV presenters and the VID company with questions about what the future of the program would be.
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Lyubimov also expressed his views on the reasons for the refusal of Channel One from the program Wait for Me:
"Times change. The priorities of the First Channel have noticeably shifted towards entertainment programs. This is the main reason for the transition "Wait for me" to another federal channel. They became NTV, which has really changed a lot in two years. New projects bring people together and often make them think about something very important. First of all, this is the project “You are super!”, which, in my opinion, has become an event of this year. That is why NTV, in the form and with the content strategy that it is focused on today, is the best platform for Wait for Me.
The producer expressed confidence that the program “Wait for me” on the NTV channel would begin a new bright life.
Alexander LyubimovThe audience enthusiastically accepted the good news and hurried to leave words of support:
"Hooray! I miss this program so much! Looking forward to it”, “This is great news! I still continue to be your assistant in the search!”, “Great! How many people will regain the hope of meeting!”, “Hurrah! Good luck, beloved show! Looking forward to it no matter what! (The spelling and punctuation of the authors are preserved. - Approx. ed.).
Representatives of the program said that in the coming days they will announce the release date. The project team thanked all concerned viewers for staying close by.
« Wait for me» ( "I am looking for you" from 1998 to 2000) is an international TV project, talk show and at the same time a national people search service.
It has been on Russian television since 1998. At different times, the program was hosted by Igor Kvasha (1998 -2012), Mikhail Efremov, Maria Shukshina, Alexander Domogarov, Chulpan Khamatova, Sergey Nikonenko, Yegor Beroev, Alexander Galibin, Ksenia Alferova.
“Look for each other, no matter what, and wait no matter what!”
International Format
Since 2009, the program "Wait for me" has been released in an international format. Conducted via satellite communications with China, the USA, Israel, Turkey, Armenia and Argentina. In the largest cities of these countries, people who want to talk about those they are looking for gather in special studios.
Data
- In 2010, the program set a kind of record: they managed to organize a meeting of people who had not seen each other for 85 years.
- Since 2010, the Azerbaijani Azad TV channel has had an analogue of the program "Wait for me" - "Looking for you" (Azerbaijani Seni Axtariram) with the host Khoshgadam Hidayat gizi.
- Currently, there are only two countries on the planet where the Wait for Me program did not help in the search and did not find missing people - these are Antigua and Barbuda and the Republic of Cape Verde.
- In 2008, based on the plots of the program, a documentary mini-series "Incredible stories about life" was made, which was also broadcast on Channel One.
- In 2003, re-releases of the program on Channel One were broadcast with sign language translation.
Social project
To date, the TV show "Wait for me" has grown into a huge social project to search for missing people. More than 500 voluntary assistants from Russia, the CIS and far-abroad countries cooperate with the editorial office. The program has been fruitfully working with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation for many years.
From October 2000 to 2004, the newspaper "Wait for me" was published. In Moscow, at the Kazansky railway station, there is a “Wait for me” kiosk, where you can also leave a request to search for a person.
Story
A similar program first appeared on May 16, 1956 on the radio, hosted by Agniya Barto. On March 14, 1998, it first appeared on TV under the name “Looking for Myself”, and was later renamed “Looking for You”. The authors of the idea were journalists Oksana Naychuk, Victoria El-Mualla and Sergey Kushnerev.
Initially, the program was broadcast on the RTR channel once a month on Saturdays at 13:00 live. The first few episodes were hosted by Oksana Naichuk. On June 13, 1998, Igor Kvasha joined her. At the end of 1998, the contract between the RTR channel and the VID television company ended. Soon a new contract was signed, but the TV company no longer produced this program for RTR. However, one filmed issue remained, which was shown on September 26, 1999 on ORT.
The program resumed on October 12, 1999 on ORT. Andrey Razbash, the producer of the ViD television company, put forward the following condition for this: well-known people who have become famous in another area should lead (as described in the book The Beatles of Perestroika). Because of this, Oksana Naychuk was fired, and actress Maria Shukshina replaced her. Oksana Naichuk sued the management of the VID television company more than once, and on January 18, 2001, with difficulty, she won 2,084,460 rubles. On May 9, 2000, when she decided to sue in a higher court, the name of the program was changed to "Wait for me." Since February 7, 2005, the program has also been running in Ukraine.
Over the 17 years of the transmission's existence, more than 193,620 people have been found.
". The premiere will be marked by personnel changes. Instead of Yulia Vysotskaya and Sergey Shakurov as the hosts of the popular project, viewers will see an actress and People's Artist of the Russian Federation.
“Becoming a part of the Wait for Me project is a very big responsibility. I was amazed by the team that sincerely empathizes with every person who asked for help. And I was even more impressed by the fact that the “Wait for me” team is not only the editorial staff. It turns out that these are thousands of volunteers around the world who constantly go somewhere and double-check something. The scale is incredible. This is a truly popular project, and it is an honor for me to participate in it. This program proves with every broadcast that there are still many more good people than bad ones, ”Arntgolts shared her impressions.
According to Alexander Lazarev, the new role prompted him to take a fresh look at the program, which has been on the air for 20 years: “Watching“ Wait for me ”on TV and being inside this program are completely different things. I used to empathize with the heroes of the program who lost each other, but when I found myself in the role of host, I felt a huge responsibility for their destinies. Whenever people met on the set - honest, sincere, with unimagined emotions, I felt joy and felt great satisfaction that now our heroes are doing well. The program "Wait for me" is engaged in socially important business. And, which is nice, the stories that the guests of the program tell are not far-fetched, not turned inside out. Their stories are written by life itself. And that's nice."
Shot from the filming of the program "Wait for me"
Tatyana Arntgolts and Alexander Lazarev became the new hosts of the program "Wait for me"
It is worth noting that during the existence of "Wait for me" more than 200,000 people were found. On the basis of the program, a network of voluntary assistants has been created in Russia, the CIS countries and abroad. Today, "Wait for me" helps more than 500 people. In addition, the program fruitfully cooperates with the Criminal Investigation Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation.
Recall that at the beginning of September 2017 it became known that one of the most popular programs on television "Wait for me". It turned out that the TV company "VID" did not renew the contract with the presenter, offering to replace it with or. Representatives of Channel One were against the dismissal of the presenter, so they decided to close the program.
A month later, rumors appeared that NTV would become the new "home" of "Wait for me". A little later, the information was confirmed by the general producer of the NTV channel Timur Weinstein. “It was hard to imagine two years ago that such a project as “Wait for me” could appear on NTV. However, today "Wait for me" harmoniously fits into the new content policy of NTV. This is a project with a long history, which has incorporated a huge number of good deeds, and we are proud that it will appear on the channel's air, adding to the line of socially oriented projects,” Weinstein said. popular actress Yulia Vysotskaya, theater and film actor Sergei Shakurov and founder of the search and rescue organization " Lisa Alert» Grigory Sergeev. Why the channel did not renew the contract with them has not yet been reported.
Yulia Vysotskaya and Sergey Shakurov as hosts of "Wait for me"
In early September, it became known that one of the most popular programs on television " Wait for me" ceases to exist. It turned out that the TV company "VID" did not renew the contract with the presenter Alexander Galibin, offering to replace him with Sergei Zhigunov or Andrey Sokolov. Representatives of Channel One were against the dismissal of the presenter, so they decided to close the program.
For a long time, the further fate of the program remained unknown. Today, an open letter from the producer of "Wait for me" Alexander Lyubimov appeared in the microblog of the VIDgital company on Instagram. He officially announced the return of the famous program to television. The NTV channel became the new "home" of the program.
« The program "Wait for me" will no longer be aired on Channel One. NTV will become her new home.We are grateful to the First for the fact that almost 20 years ago its producers believed in the then still crude project and supported it.All these years, the program "Wait for me" was released on a weekly basis, not only in Russia. Studios "Wait for me" worked in Yerevan, Chisinau, Minsk, Astana, Kyiv. Special issues for Ukraine and Kazakhstan continue to be aired to this day. Together we managed to find more than 200 thousand people.But times are changing. The priorities of the First Channel have noticeably shifted towards entertainment programs. This is the main reason for the transition "Wait for me" to another federal channel. They became NTV, which has really changed a lot in two years. New projects bring people together and often make them think about something very important. First of all, this is the project “You are super!”, which, in my opinion, has become an event of this year. That is why NTV, in the form and with the content strategy that it is focused on today, is the best platform for Wait for Me.
It seems to us that on NTV, “Wait for me” will begin a new bright life, ”said Lyubimov (the spelling and punctuation of the author are given unchanged. - Note. ed.)
President of VIDgital Alexander Lyubimov officially announced the return of the famous program to television.
Previously, the last host of the program Ksenia Alferova spoke about the fate of "Wait for me". In her microblog on Instagram, Alferova posted a frank and emotional post (spelling and punctuation are given unchanged. - Note. ed.): “Dear friends, for several weeks now you have been asking me if the program “Wait for me” will go on the air. I know the same as you. I know that the VID TV company was preparing a new, updated studio, that the team creating the program had many new ideas, that at the end of August we were supposed to have a new recording, but the first channel did not renew the contract with the TV company. For what reasons? One can only guess. I can assume that the matter is in the painful ambitions of those in power. How do I feel about it? And how can one relate to the fact that at once, with one stroke of the pen of hope, thousands of people have sunk into oblivion?! I'm hurt, I'm sad! It hurts for those people in whose life a miracle will not happen, their life will not turn around 180 degrees, they will not be able to hug their daughters, sons, brothers, fathers and mothers! Bitter for the amazing team of people who, many years ago, under the leadership of the last Romantic of our time, Sergey Anatolyevich Kushnerev, created this unique system for finding people, created this bright, talented, such a real program. And they continued his work, after his sudden departure. After all, this is not just a TV program, this is a phenomenon, this is the truth, this is life! And it doesn't matter who leads it, it is important that it lives, that people believe, wait and find each other! I can't wrap my head around how it was possible to take on such responsibility and stop it. Kind of crazy, in my opinion. But let's hope for a miracle, common sense, God! Let's believe that this program will continue its life, no matter on which channel, and we will see tears of joy and happy smiles on the faces of the heroes who have found their relatives, friends, dear friends! Don't get lost, hope, love, stay and believe no matter what! Your Ksyusha!
Another host of the program, Maria Shukshina, did not stand aside. The actress, who hosted Wait for Me from 1999-2014, was ready to return, but made it a condition to return the same team that started the show in 1998. TV company VID was not satisfied with such conditions.
Screensaver of the program "Wait for me"
Maria Shukshina hosted the Wait for Me program in 1999–2014
According to a source familiar with the situation, the new team, which was recruited by the TV company after the dismissal of the creator of "Wait for me" Sergei Kushnerev, quarreled with the host Alexander Galibin and fired him. At the same time, no one informed the channel about this. In turn, the First, who was completely satisfied with the host, tried to return it, but "VID" refused to do so.
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Ultimately, the manufacturer and the channel did not agree in negotiations. The television company offered the First to leave Ksenia Alferova in this position, making her co-host of the actor Sergei Zhigunov or his colleague Andrei Sokolov. As a result, it was not possible to find a consensus, and now "Wait for me" will be released on "Russia 1".
Recall that in the new season on Channel One there was a global rearrangement of personnel. Andrey Malakhov left, Alexander Oleshko with the show "Just the same", Yulia Menshova with the program "Alone with everyone", Roza Syabitova with "Let's get married!", Alexander Vasilyev with "Fashionable sentence", Timur Kizyakov with “So far, everyone is at home,” and Alexander Galibin left the program “Wait for me”.
The program "Wait for me" has been released since 1998. The first episodes were shown by the RTR channel (now Rossiya-1), since 1999 it has been broadcast on ORT (now Channel One). The hosts of "Wait for me" were artists Igor Kvasha, Maria Shukshina, Mikhail Efremov, Alexander Domogarov, Yegor Beroev, Chulpan Khamatova. The program is dedicated to the search for missing and lost people. The transmission website provides data on more than 200 thousand missing people found with the help of "Wait for me".
