Yulia Vysotskaya was smashed to smithereens after the release of the first issue of the updated program “Wait for me. Who hosts the program "Wait for me": the old and updated versions of the project Surname of the host of the program wait for me

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".

". 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 him 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"

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.

The program "Wait for me" when it will be aired again

The program "Wait for me" is not yet indicated in the NTV program grid. When exactly the show will be restarted, Alexander Lyubimov did not specify. This is expected to happen in October.

Who will host "Wait for me", new presenters

The names of the new hosts of the program "Wait for me", which will be aired on the NTV channel from the end of October, have become known. By tradition, these are actors: instead of Alexander Galibin and Ksenia Alferova, the people's artist of Russia Sergey Shakurov and Yulia Vysotskaya will be the hosts. A third permanent presenter will also appear - as KP reported, this is the founder of the Lisa Alert volunteer rescue squad, Grigory Sergeev, who previously participated in the program as an expert.

On NTV "Wait for me" will be released in a new format.

As before, these will be incredible stories about real life. But now all this will take place in a new studio, the boundaries of which will expand. For the first time, viewers will see how searches are actually carried out: the search center “Wait for me” will be working daily and around the clock,” says Alexander Lyubimov, general producer of the VIDgital television company. The creators of the program will join forces with the famous volunteer search squad "Lisa Alert", and one of the leaders will be its leader Grigory Sergeev.

Why was the program "Wait for me" closed?

Wait for me: watch the last episode of the program in 2017 online on Channel One. Issue dated September 1, 2017 (YouTube video).

According to RBC's interlocutor on Channel One, the contract for the production of another popular VID production program, Field of Miracles, has been re-signed. “From the “Field of Miracles” everything is in order. The contract for it was extended, as it has been done automatically over the past 20 years,” he explained.

As a source on Channel One explained to RBC, the main reason for the non-renewal of the contract with VID for the production of Wait for Me is "the personnel policy of the new program team."

Why is there no program Wait for me on Channel One? The reasons.

“They [the new Wait for Me team] fired Alexander Galibin, the host of the program, without agreement with Channel One. And at the moment, the manufacturer has not presented a host candidate that would suit Channel One,” he said, adding that as a result it was decided not to renew the contract with VID for the production of the program.

A source told RBC that the TV company nominated actor and producer Sergei Zhigunov for the role of the host of Wait for Me, but Channel One rejected her.

“The show will no longer be aired on Channel One,” another RBC source clarified. - On September 15, a repeat of one of the old episodes will be on the air.

He confirms that "the conflict between the producer and the TV channel was provoked by creative disagreements over the candidacy of the host of the program."

The producer of the program, TV Company VID, declined to comment on RBC. Channel One did not respond to RBC's request.

People's Artist of Russia Igor Kvasha died today. He was 79 years old. Brilliant roles in the theater and cinema, 55 years of service in the same brilliant Sovremennik Theater, 14 years of work on television in the Wait for Me program. In the television community, Igor Vladimirovich was proudly called his colleague. Igor Kvasha had enough strength, time, boundless talent and love for everything.

He always tried to hide tears from viewers, but they were still noticed. They were so sincere. And everyone understood that this was not an acting game. That's why he hid his tears, believing that sometimes emotions were unforgivably overwhelmed. Host of the program "Wait for me", which changed dozens of destinies. And for him, a great actor, it was not a role. That's life.

Who knows if we would ever see, if not for the war, the actor Igor Kvasha. A boy, born in the center of Moscow, whose father went to the front in 1941 and never returned, decided to become an actor after being in a kindergarten in Siberia, where he and his mother were evacuated from the capital, for the first time he played in a play in hospital, in front of the wounded.

“The very first role was at the age of seven, really. I was in a boarding school in Siberia. And we had a wonderful teacher Kremer there, who worked wonderfully with children. And we performed a lot, went to the hospital to the wounded, read poetry,” recalled Igor Kvasha.

Then in Moscow there was a theater studio in the House of Pioneers. Ironically, not far from the place where he worked all the remaining years - at Chistye Prudy. In the theater, which was first called the Studio of Young Actors, but gained popularity as the Sovremennik Theater. Igor Kvasha was one of its founders along with Oleg Efremov, Evgeny Evstigneev, Oleg Tabakov and Galina Volchek.

“I happened to be in Moscow, our theater is on vacation. And suddenly I found out today. I don’t know how we will cope with this loss. It’s impossible to imagine that he doesn’t exist,” says Galina Volchek, artistic director of Sovremennik.

Igor Vladimirovich Kvasha was faithful to the "contemporary" for more than fifty years. A stage where dozens of images were created. A soldier and a minister, a pensioner and a German communist, Falstaff and Stalin. He never talked about his creative plans. And he never singled out his favorite from his roles.

“Somehow we absorb everything that happens around us, everything that happens in life, everything that happens to people. From meeting people, something is put off in you,” said Igor Kvasha.

Igor Kvasha called himself an exclusively theatrical actor, and spoke of cinema as something secondary. But neither the audience nor the directors ever thought so. Although, as he laughingly told reporters, he always got the role of charming villains. Such as the Pastor in "The Man from the Boulevard des Capucines" or the Burgomaster in "The Same Munchausen".

“We had one picture with Igor. He played a pastor. A wonderful long unobtrusive friendship. He was wonderful, talented, demanding, first of all, to himself,” recalls director Alla Surikova.

He painted pictures that few people saw, except for his wife. He was proud of his grandchildren. And at home, with the usual cigarette in his hands, he smiled, looking at their drawings. And at such moments he said that he felt happy, because he considered the ability to love to be the most positive human trait.

President Vladimir Putin and Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev expressed their condolences to the family and friends of Igor Kvasha.

Farewell to the actor will take place on the main stage of the Sovremennik Theater on September 4. The funeral ceremony starts at 10 am. The funeral will take place at the Troyekurovsky cemetery.

« 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.