A drop of syrup in a barrel of slime The New Year's TV menu was as traditional as it was fresh. TV producers clearly lack neither creative streak nor just common sense. As always, the same artists roamed from channel to channel, but most of all depressing New Year's "Blue Lights". On Channel One, it was a New Year’s Eve with such a wretched plot that even an idiot with Down syndrome would seem blatant stupidity, executed, moreover, extremely unprofessional. Did the actors know they were playing? Garik 'Buldog' Kharlamov is an Italian director, and Dmitry Nagiyev and Zhanna Friske are agents of zero-zero-sex. Rare nonsense! Which of Friske's actresses? He says, “Would your Friske buy whiskey?” Pleased only new clips Pugacheva My love goodbye, Orbakaite, Angelica Varum, Agutina da Garika Sukachev.
One thing is good: after all, the First Channel invents something every New Year (albeit not always successfully), but the Rossiya channel from year to year, it seems, shows the same traction. These are endless remakes of old songs with updated lyrics, often very tense and witty. However, this time they tried to give a little sports excitement due to the victory of Sochi for the Winter Olympics in 2014, but it looked somehow parody and cheap.
And then, why Nikolai Baskov leads and "Saturday evenings" on the RTR, and New Year's "Lights"? After all, "Blue Light" is a delicacy, a delicacy, and not everyday, sorry, food. By the way, this applies to other tired TV faces, for example, Maxim Galkin. I still can’t understand why this artist has been honored for many years to lead a bunch of pre-New Year and New Year programs (many hours of “Two Stars”, wires of the Old New Year, participation in the “Song of the Year”, etc.) He is, to put it mildly, an average, outstanding artist, not Arkady Raikin or even Petrosyan! Yes, he is very good at parodies of politicians, imitations of voice and manners of Renata Litvinova, but as for parodies of singing artists, here, sorry, a complete out. Zykin in Galkin is not like, Pugacheva - not like, Rotaru, too. Maybe Galkin is smart, well-read, kind fellow, but what does this have to do with art?
More or less pretty, albeit with its flaws, was the musical film “Kingdom of curved mirrors”. Although the idea of reincarnating our artists in foreign countries is not new, it looked funny and, unlike “New Year’s Eve” on the First channel, not tense. They managed to criticize the New Year's song "Dinh-don" by Alla Pugacheva, they say, it resembles "Jingle Bells", and something from ABBA, and something else. But do not forget, friends, that New Year’s compositions around the world for each New Year are written by dozens (if not hundreds), and to expect from each of them some artistic revelation was, to say the least, naive. New Year’s hit Pugacheva is not a masterpiece, but quite cute, easy to remember. What else do you need for a holiday song?
It is a pity that the farewell concert of ABBA at Wembley Stadium was shown so inconveniently on the Culture Channel at 1:10 New Year’s Eve. Who watched that? In general, this competition of different TV channels for the attention of the public seems to me disrespectful to the viewer. Why should I choose, for example, between Pugacheva, Bashmet and ABBA, if I want to watch both? But on other days there was so much empty and uninteresting going on the same channels. What, you're telling everyone to sleep after the stormy New Year? I think that it is not about ratings, but about the viewers that TV viewers should think first.