Timur Kizyakov named the reasons for his dismissal from Channel One. Timur Kizyakov said that he left Channel One on his own initiative. Kizyakov left Channel One.

The average Russian TV viewer, turning on the TV on Sunday morning, will no longer see a positive person drinking tea with the stars.

According to the source, this decision is related to the results of an audit, during which it became clear how the program was financed.

The program that sent the country “crazy”

“While everyone is at home” is a true symbol of the era. The first episode aired on November 8, 1992, during the period of traumatic shock from the collapse of the USSR. There was very little positivity on TV at that time, and Sunday gatherings with tea became a real outlet for viewers, and presenter Timur Kizyakov quickly became a star no less than those to whom he came.

For the poor of the 1990s, the column “Crazy Hands” was a godsend, in which inventor Andrey Bakhmetyev together with Kizyakov they created simple crafts from scrap materials. The most popular of them were, of course, plastic bottles, from which, it seems, Bakhmetyev was ready to assemble anything, even a space station.

In 1996 and 2006, “While Everyone is Home” won the TEFI Award in the “Best Educational Program” category.

Over a quarter of a century of existence, the program has become so recognizable that, perhaps, there have been no major humorous projects where they did not joke about it, from parodies in “Big Difference” to hurricane numbers in “Comedy Club”.

“While everyone is at home” spoiled the “children’s question”?

TV critics frowned, believing that the format of the program was outdated, just as Timur Kizyakov himself was outdated after 25 years of continuous tea drinking.

And yet, at first glance, nothing foreshadowed the current turn of events.

However, back in December 2016, at a seminar-meeting chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Olga Golodets Head of the Ministry of Education and Science Olga Vasilyeva drew the attention of the regions to the dishonest work of foundations for placing children in families. Vasilyeva also mentioned the “While everyone is at home” program, in which since 2006 there has been a section “You will have a child”, which helps in the adoption of children left without parental care. The program prepared so-called child video passports, and the minister noted that filming video passports of orphans for adoption funds was a big problem. According to Vasilyeva, it is precisely because of such funds that there is a high return of children in the regions.

At the same time, information surfaced that the column “You will have a child” allegedly receives additional funding from the funds that Minister Vasilyeva spoke about.

Timur Kizyakov: Channel One’s methods are unacceptable to us

Sources at Channel One claim that the decision to terminate cooperation with Timur Kizyakov was made back in the spring. A new show aims to fill the “hole” in the Sunday broadcast schedule Yuri Nikolaev"Honestly".

In turn, Timur Kizyakov, in an interview with RBC, confirmed the termination of cooperation with Channel One, but at the same time stated that this was done on the initiative of the team creating “While Everyone is Home.”

The television company Dom, which produces the program, sent an official letter about the termination of cooperation to Channel One on May 28.

Earlier it also became known that Alexandra Oleshko was also in the new season on Channel One. Malakhov goes on maternity leave, and he moved to NTV.

Photo: TASS/Rodionov Publishing House/Natalia Lvova

After Malakhov and Oleshko, Timur Kizyakov, the host of the “While Everyone is Home” program, quits Channel One. The program has been published on the first button since 1992, for 25 years.

According to media reports, Channel One has terminated the contract with the Dom company, which is creating Timur Kizyakov’s program. According to a source close to the channel's management, the decision to close the program was made a month ago. This was prompted by the results of an internal audit, which confirmed the machinations of the presenters with the “video passports” of orphans.

A year ago, the media reported that Timur and Elena Kizyakova broadcast videos about children looking for parents for money in the section “You will have a child.” The "Dom" company received money for this section from three sources at once: from Channel One - for the production of the program, from the state - for the production of "video passes" of orphans, as well as from sponsors. Over six years, the company received about 110 million rubles for broadcasting videos. Timur Kizyakov himself is now outside of Moscow; we were unable to get his comment. However, as TASS reports, the TV presenter said that he left Channel One of his own free will due to the lack of support and protection from the channel in the situation with video passports.

Earlier, the host of the program “Let Them Talk” Andrei Malakhov left Channel One. Russian society has been discussing this news for two weeks now. The reason for the star’s departure could be a conflict with the new producer of “Let Them Talk” Natalya Nikonova. Having returned to Channel One, Nikonova decided to change the vector of the program and focus on socio-political issues. This decision categorically did not suit Malakhov, and he decided to voluntarily leave the channel where he had worked for more than 15 years.

The presenter announced his desire to take leave to care for the child that Natalya Shkuleva is about to give birth to. “I hasten to please good citizens and those who, during the six years of our marriage, attacked my wife with unceremonious questions about the perinatal situation in the family. Yes, Natasha and I are expecting our first child!” - Malakhov wrote on the social network. The producer of the talk show responded to this by saying that “Let Them Talk” is not a nursery, and Malakhov needs to make a choice about who he is - a TV presenter or a babysitter. This formulation of the question seemed unacceptable to the TV presenter, and he decided to quit.

Another TV presenter who left Channel One in early August, Alexander Oleshko, confirmed his departure. “Being a free artist, I accepted an offer that I couldn’t refuse!” he wrote on his page on social networks. In the new season, Alexander Oleshko will become the host of the NTV channel project “You are super! Dancing.”

“Happily working with and for children in a variety of projects, films and television programs has accompanied me for a long time. “You are super!” Dancing" is a unique NTV project that you want to be involved in!" – said Oleshko. The new show will premiere in September this year.

Photo: TASS/Evgeniy Stepanov/Interpress

The host of the “Health” and “Live Healthy” programs, Elena Malysheva, did not announce her resignation, but actor Stanislav Sadalsky suggested that she leave. “When will they fire Malysheva - the personification of ignorance, extremely unsightly with her food advertising,” he wrote in his blog on LiveJournal. The actor wrote a story about how a year and a half ago in St. Petersburg, a TV presenter gave a presentation of her new book about diet.

“The book cost 1,500 rubles. An autograph session was promised. And when a couple of hundred spectators bought a book for this money and stood in line, Malysheva took a stamp with a facsimile from her bag and began to put a stamp on the book for everyone, saying: “There is no time for everyone to write, I’ll be late for the peregrine falcon.” Several people came up to her and said that they needed an original autograph, because they paid one and a half thousand for the book. Malysheva answered them: “No, if I write to you, everyone will want it.” People asked for the money back, but they were also refused at the cash register. One man put the book in front of Malysheva, sent it... in public and left," Sadalsky said.

The actor himself several years ago hosted a medical program called “The Tablet” on Channel One, but it was not on the air for long.

For many years, the permanent presenter Leonid Yakubovich has been ready to leave the “Field of Miracles” program. He himself has repeatedly stated this, but the general director of Channel One, Konstantin Ernst, has not yet released the public’s favorite.

The “While Everyone is Home” program is being closed due to disagreements over allegedly inflated funding for videos about orphans

Timur Kizyakov. Photo: Alexandra Mudrats/TASS

Another departure from the First: Timur Kizyakov is leaving the channel. The program “While everyone is at home” will no longer be broadcast. The formal reason for closing the program, which turned a quarter century old this year, was a scandal over the financing of the filming of videos about orphans. It turned out that the money was allocated from three sources at once: the channel, the state and sponsors. Kizyakov stated that he resigned himself.

The decision to close the program, according to RBC, was made not on August 15, but a month before. Allegedly, Channel One has long been dissatisfied with the quality of “While Everyone is Home,” although we still need to look for such long-lived people on television: the program has been airing since 1992 and has changed little over the past quarter century; attempts to somehow update it have failed, and the only innovation is more than ten years old .

In 2006, the program featured the section “You’re Having a Child.” They say that it was the situation around her that was the last straw. On television, such issues are usually resolved quietly, without washing dirty linen in public. This is what happened with Malakhov, and the intrigue continues to this day. Oleshko’s departure went almost unnoticed. In the case of Kizyakov, it is literally about money.

At the end of last year, the company that produced the program received 110 million rubles from the Ministry of Education and Science to produce videos, so-called video passports, about orphans. The channel also paid for this, and sponsors also helped. According to Vedomosti, one column costs 100 thousand rubles. Kizyakov could do this for less money, says Mitya Aleshkovsky, head of the charity foundation “We Need Help.”

Mitya AleshkovskyHead of the charity foundation “Need Help”“He was accused of producing these videos on a commercial basis. They said that since you are doing a good deed, you should not engage in commercial activities. This, in my opinion, is wrong, because everything in this world has a commercial value, even the production of a video, and the people who produced these videos, of course, should receive decent payment according to market conditions. There is nothing wrong with a charitable foundation paying for any commercial task. The question is whether they paid a reasonable price or not. If this price is not justified, then it is not justified in the case of a commercial organization.”

At the same time, the prices for operator work in Moscow are known - 20 thousand rubles. What if you go to the regions, pay for tickets and accommodation for the film crew, and what if there are more children than the original budget expected?

Komsomolskaya Pravda and Vedomosti were the first to draw attention to the scandal, catching on to the status of the defendants and the amount. At the end of last year, at a meeting of the Ministry of Education and Science, it turned out that “While Everyone is Home” was making videos about orphans with public money. This in itself is not a problem, but the difficulty is that the word “video questionnaire” turned out to be a registered trademark, and Kizyakov allegedly even sued other philanthropists on this issue.

And, of course, it turned out that the production of “While Everyone is Home” received double, if not triple, payment, which became the reason for the investigation within Channel One. The situation became clearer just before the start of the new season. Timur Kizyakov himself commented on her Business FM:

Timur Kizyakov TV presenter “I give a simple example. Do you know how much it costs to dig a grave? 40 thousand! Through Sberbank, official payment. 40 thousand. Two diggers will work with shovels for an hour, and then save a child’s life, and not with funds that were begged from people, but with government funding or large companies. This suddenly became a crime, and we have to justify ourselves, explain something. If the video passport disappears, this will never happen again, because no one will do anything like that for such money. If this were a profitable business, wouldn’t other TV channels, having both staff and equipment, do something similar at home? They would have lowered the price—not 100 thousand, but 95 thousand—and won these competitions. Why don't they do it? The cost is higher. We are working on this matter, and 2.5 thousand children placed out of 3 thousand filmed is the result. If we had withdrawn 30 thousand, we would have arranged 28 thousand.”

“While Everyone is Home” is criticized, among other things, for the fact that it only films cute, healthy children, while the Kizyakov family built a house. Now the former presenter of Channel One assures that the building was erected a year before the start of the project about orphans and that there is no point in making excuses - the sponsors transferred the money not to the program’s accounts, but to the guardianship authorities.

There was no official reaction from Channel One, but it is obvious that the breakup turned out to be scandalous. Timur Kizyakov directly says that he wrote his resignation letter at the end of May, because the channel’s management “had become difficult to work with.” However, on the First, even after the departure of Malakhov and Kizyakov, there were enough legendary projects and star presenters.

By the way, one of the first versions of Malakhov’s departure from Channel One is related to the fact that “Let Them Talk” is becoming a more politicized program, which the presenter allegedly did not agree with. This assumption of the BBC, in fact, was confirmed: the first full-fledged episode of the program with a new presenter was dedicated to Mikheil Saakashvili.