The program “While everyone is at home”: why it was closed. Why Channel One closed the program “while everyone is at home” Channel One says goodbye to “while everyone is at home”

Entertainment“While everyone is at home” - an old-timer on domestic television. It has been on the air since November 8, 1992. Author and presenter Timur Kizyakov came to visit famous artists, musicians, athletes and asked about life over a cup of tea. But the program will not be aired in the new season - Channel One decided to close it due to ethical and financial problems.

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The scandal erupted over the column “You’re Having a Child,” which had been published since 2006. Timur Kizyakov’s wife, Elena, spoke about children from Russian orphanages, promoted foster care and foster families, and helped with adoption.

According to the State Procurement website, in 2011, companies that belong to the creators of the program “While Everyone is Home” received a lot of money in tenders of the Ministry of Education and Science, as well as regional authorities, to create videos about orphans. The amount is really huge – 110 million rubles. They spent it, as the Vedomosti newspaper writes, on creating so-called video passports about orphans: 100 thousand for each.

At the same time, Channel One bought a license from the manufacturer on commercial terms for the entire program, including the section “You will have a child.” The channel did not know that videos about orphans were produced at the expense of the state, the Channel One management assures.

Everything was revealed at a meeting at the Ministry of Education and Science. According to TASS and the newspaper " TVNZ", department employee Evgeny Silyanov said that Kizyakov receives money from the budget to create videos about orphans and is suing others charitable foundations, if they try to use the term "video passport".

As a result, Channel One terminated the contract with the production company “While everyone is at home.” “We closed it because of its tarnished reputation; it was difficult to make it to the end of the season, but we have already been preparing since April new program", sources on the First told the site.

The host of “While everyone is at home” Timur Kizyakov told RBC that he did not know about the termination of the contract: “I don’t have such information - I’m away.” Co-owner of the Dom company, Alexander Mitroshenkov, noted that he could not comment on anything, since he “does not have any information.”

Today this news was officially confirmed by the TV channel. The TV channel terminated the contract with the production company of “While Everyone is Home” after a scandal involving the financing of the filming of videos about orphans.

Since the program does not belong to the TV channel and was created by the production company, “While Everyone is Home” will no longer be broadcast on Channel One. The decision to terminate the contract was made about a month ago.

According to an RBC source, the termination of the contract with Dom LLC occurred as a result of an internal audit organized by the TV channel after the funds mass media there were reports that the hosts of “While Everyone is Home,” Timur and Elena Kizyakov, took money from several sources at once to produce so-called video passports of orphans, which were shown in the section “You will have a child”

The section “You will have a child” talked about children from orphanages who need adoptive parents. “The channel began checking as soon as the first publications appeared in the media. As a result, the information about the fraud was confirmed, and the decision was made to close the program,” explained RBC’s interlocutor. " main reason- damaged reputation of the program. And everyone was waiting for some action from Channel One,” the interlocutor added.

According to an RBC source, it turned out that the company received money for this section from the TV channel (for outsourcing the production of the program), the state (for the production of the so-called video passports for children) and from sponsors (for example, from the manufacturer ceramic tiles Kerama Marazzi). According to RBC’s interlocutor on Channel One, the production of the “While Everyone is Home” program was carried out by Dom LLC, registered in Moscow in November 2015. According to the United state register legal entities(Unified State Register of Legal Entities), 49.5% of the LLC belongs to Timur Kizyakov, the same share belongs to his long-time business partner Alexander Mitroshenkov, another 1% belongs to the head of the company Nina Podkolzina.

The fact that companies that belong to the creators of the “While everyone is at home” program received funding in the amount of about 110 million rubles. to create videos about orphans from the Ministry of Education and Science and at the same time from regional authorities, the Vedomosti newspaper reported at the end of December 2016. According to procurement documents studied by Vedomosti, the production of one such video passport costs 100 thousand rubles.

Channel One representative Larisa Krymova then told the publication that the TV channel was not aware that the company producing the program was filming video passports with money received from the state. She also said then that the channel intends to look into whether this violates the terms of the contract. According to the newspaper, Channel One pays about 1.5 million rubles for one episode of the program “While Everyone is Home.” The “You're Having a Baby” section also has a separate sponsor - the tile manufacturer Kerama Marazzi, and the creators of the show also receive part of this money. For the column “You will have a child,” Alexander Mitroshenkov, Timur Kizyakov and Elena Kizyakova received the Russian government award in the field of mass media in 2015.

The permanent presenter of the program, Timur Kizyakov, first assured that he knew nothing that the contract had been terminated, then he stated that the producers of the program themselves decided to stop collaborating with Channel One. He said this in a commentary to the radio station “Moscow Speaks”.

The main reason is that we do not accept the methods of the management of Channel One that are currently being practiced there,” said Kizyakov. What methods exactly? we're talking about, dont clear.

According to Kizyakov, in December 2016, after publications were published about the situation with video passports of orphans (then it turned out that Kizyakov received money from the budget for them), Channel One simply stepped aside.

Now I believe that Channel One is trying to save face when programs with a long-standing reputation are leaving,” the presenter said.

According to Kizyakov, the decision to terminate cooperation with Channel One in the Dom company (half owned by Kizyakov) was made in May 2017. At the same time, the Vedomosti newspaper writes that the decision to terminate the contract was made in April. According to Vedomosti, one of the reasons for this was the decline in the program’s ratings. “The scandal with video passports of orphans became the final point for the channel,” the newspaper reported, citing a source on Channel One.

Kizyakov does not consider the claims to be justified. According to him, “While everyone is at home” is a “bone in the throat” for competitors who also make videos about orphans. However, he did not specify which programs he was talking about.

As long as we exist, we have someone to compare with. Look closely at these programs through the eyes of a potential adoptive parent - what information will give you a reason to travel across the country to see your child? - says Kizyakov.

He emphasized that thanks to the “You will have a child” section in “While everyone is at home,” 2.5 thousand children from orphanages left for families. “And when 20-30 thousand videos are filmed, and five children are arranged, the effectiveness is zero,” he believes, calling competitors’ content “props” and “appearance.”

Kizyakov said that all funding for the production of video passports came from government agencies - the Ministry of Education and Science or regional authorities.

In order for a child to be seen, a certain amount of information, a certain amount of professional work is needed,” he explained.

At the same time, Kizyakov claims that the sponsor of the column - the tile manufacturer - had nothing to do with the videos, and the sponsor's gift goes to the children's institution where the child - the hero of the column - lives. Kizyakov included the costs of the journalists' trip to the orphanage in the program production estimate - it was assumed that Channel One would pay for this.

I’m interested in how the channel will comment on the fact that the presenters are leaving one by one. We will not make excuses, but will continue to do what we were doing. The program may die, but it cannot die, said Kizyakov. He added that he was considering the possibility of concluding a contract with another TV channel and continuing to show “While everyone is at home.”

The press service of Channel One did not comment on the information about Kizyakov’s departure.

• The program “While Everyone is Home” has been broadcast on Channel One since 1992 on Sundays. The TV presenter visited celebrities and talked with their families.
• According to TV meter Mediascope (formerly TNS), the program “While everyone is at home” remained in Lately in the second half of the rating “100 most popular programs among Russians over the age of 4 years.” The ratings for the releases “While Everyone is Home” in the spring did not exceed 3%.

The host of the program “While Everyone is Home,” Timur Kizyakov, told RBC that the creators of the program themselves terminated the contract with Channel One. Kizyakov said that the working methods of the channel’s management have become “unacceptable” for the project team

Timur Kizyakov (Photo: Sergey Kuznetsov / RIA Novosti)
The host of “While Everyone is Home,” Timur Kizyakov, told RBC that the Dom television company, which was producing the program, itself decided to stop collaborating with Channel One.
According to him, official letter The Dom television company sent a message to Channel One on May 28 about the termination of cooperation. “[The letter] is official. We have it in our outgoing papers, with an outgoing number registered when received by Channel One,” he clarified.
“The brief content of the letter can be formulated as follows: the methods that the management of Channel One began to adhere to are unacceptable to us, so we are stopping cooperation,” Kizyakov said in a conversation with RBC.
He also added that the decision to no longer film the program for Channel One was made due to the fact that “it became unbearable to work.” “We made this decision, it’s not my personal decision, the team supports it,” said Kizyakov.
Earlier, RBC reported that Channel One decided to stop showing the program While Everyone Is Home, which has been airing since 1992, due to a scandal involving the financing of filming videos about orphans, in which the Dom television company was involved, as well as its owners Timur and Elena Kizyakov. “The main reason is the damaged reputation of the program. And everyone was waiting for some action from Channel One,” said RBC’s interlocutor.
At the same time, Timur Kizyakov, during the preparation of the material, told RBC earlier today that he knew nothing about the termination of cooperation with Channel One. “I don’t have such information, I’m away,” he said during his first conversation with RBC.
Later, in a conversation with RBC, Kizyakov said that he had a “different” interpretation of the “story” that the channel made its decision “on the basis of some scandals.”

“I interpret it differently. The channel now needs to save face at all costs and find reasons so that the reason is in them,” said the TV presenter.

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According to Kizyakov himself, in December 2016 he and his colleagues became victims of a “colossal hoax” that they were making money by filming videos about children in need of adoption.
He noted that at that time Channel One simply stepped aside and pretended not to know them, and only now found a way to “somehow save face.”
The fact that the companies Videopassport of the Child LLC, Videopassport-Tula LLC and the Videopassport charitable foundation, which belong to the creators of the While Everyone Is Home program, received funding in the amount of about 110 million rubles. to create videos about orphans from the Ministry of Education and Science and at the same time from regional authorities, the Vedomosti newspaper reported at the end of December 2016.
The videos, which were called video passports, were shown in the “You’re Having a Baby” section of the “While Everyone is Home” program and posted on the Channel One website. The section talked about children from orphanages in need of adoption.
According to procurement documents studied by Vedomosti, the production of one such video passport costs 100 thousand rubles. Vedomosti also found out then that the creators of “While Everyone is Home” were suing other charitable organizations that tried to use the term video passport and obtain government contracts for their production.
The representative of Channel One Larisa Krymova then stated that the channel did not know that the company producing the program was filming video passports with money received from the state. Krymova also added that the TV channel intends to look into whether this violates the terms of the contract.
In June 2017, Dom LLC entered into a contract with the Ministry of Education and Science for 10 million rubles. for the production of at least 100 new videos about children in need of adoption. The contract stipulates that at least 100 videos lasting 30 minutes must be posted on an Internet site “dedicated to the family arrangement of children without parental care,” with an average monthly traffic of at least 15 thousand unique users. Another “at least six” videos, each with a running time of at least six minutes, must be shown “on a federal television channel.”

Who else wanted to produce videos?

"While everyone is at home"

On the evening of August 15became known, that the TV show “While Everyone is Home” will no longer air on Channel One. This was reported by RBC, Vedomosti and Komsomolskaya Pravda, citing sources on the TV channel. Sources from RBC and Komsomolskaya Pravda linked the termination of the contract between Channel One and Dom LLC, which produces “While Everyone Is Home” (49.5% of the company belongs to presenter Timur Kizyakov), with the events of the end of 2016 - then journalists learned about government funding for video profiles orphans coming out of the program. At the same time, Vedomosti’s source clarified that the reason could be a drop in the program’s ratings over the course of recent years, and the situation with video profiles became the “final point” for the channel.

“While Everyone is Home” has been broadcast on Channel One since 1992 (during this time the channel has changed its name more than once); Timur Kizyakov was the presenter all this time. In 2016, he joined the supreme council of the United Russia party, promising that he would be involved in the development children's television and placement of orphans.

Information that Kizyakov’s company receives budget money for filming video profiles of orphans appeared in December 2016; Channel One knew nothing about this. Since 2006, “While everyone is at home” there has been a column “You will have a child,” which is hosted by Kizyakov’s wife Elena. The section shows stories about orphans - “video profiles”, for each of which “House” receives 100 thousand rubles under a government contract (over three years the organization received 35 million rubles). At the same time, Kizyakov is suing other producers of video profiles and criticizing charitable foundations involved in placing orphans in families (for the fact that when they film their videos about children, they “cook up who knows what”).

In December 2016, Channel One promised to investigate whether the manufacturer violated the terms of the contract. Immediately after the publications, the First initiated an audit. “As a result, the information about the fraud was confirmed,” said RBC’s interlocutor.

An employee of the Channel One directorate, which oversaw the broadcast of the program (asked not to give his first and last name), confirmed this information in a conversation with Meduza: “After the New Year, proceedings began regarding the scandal with orphans, and that was the end of the story. But even before that, the channel had a million complaints against them [the creators of “While Everyone is Home”].”

“The channel systematically works with charitable foundations, but it turned out that we help them, and our program makes money from charity. It is also interesting that Kizyakov did not take part in a single charity event for children organized by the TV channel. Every year on June 1, the channel travels to one of the cities to visit hospitals and orphanages. And in the cities they always asked to bring Kizyakov, the friend of all children,” an employee of Channel One told Meduza.

“We understand that news about the First fiercely generates traffic, but no, we are not closing “Let’s Get Married,” “Fashionable Sentence,” “Test Purchase” and “First Studio.” For the future, we are not closing “Field of Miracles,” KVN, "What? Where? When? AND " Evening Urgant"Everything is fine with Who Wants to Be a Millionaire. Feels great." Good morning"The Vremya program is still broadcast at 21.00. Smak has not run out of food. Dmitry Krylov is buying tickets for his next trip," the press service of Channel One told RIA Novosti.

“Let Them Talk” with Dmitry Borisov collects excellent ratings. See an updated "Tonight" soon. (Vladimir) Posner, by the way, is also with us. But we are glad that our programs are so popular that news about each of them rises to the top of Yandex. We advise our colleagues not to wishful thinking,” the channel added.

Earlier, information appeared in the media that the host of the “Let Them Talk” and “Tonight” programs Andrei Malakhov may leave Channel One. On Wednesday, the press service of Channel One RIA Novosti reported that on the initiative of presenter Yulia Menshova, the project “Alone with Everyone” is being closed in the new television season; At the same time, the channel is working with the TV presenter on two new projects, which viewers will see in the near future.

It also became known that another presenter of Channel One, Alexander Oleshko, moved to NTV and in the new season will host the competition “You are super! Dancing.”

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At the end of last year, Kizyakov told Vedomosti that over the course of 10 years, he, his wife Elena Kizyakova and the “While Everyone is Home” film crew created about 3,000 video passports of children; the video broadcast on “First” was a small transformed version of the video passport. These videos were shot using funds won at the tender and payments from the TV channel and sponsors: “State financing of our work has never been a secret, no one hid it,” but Kizyakov himself did not earn anything from this. The cost of one video is 100,000 rubles, he said. He assured that he does not declare the real cost of the video at tenders, since 100,000 rubles. and so it looks like a frightening amount: “And we will not be able to justify unforeseen expenses according to the estimate if the children we came to rent get sick.” You can’t skimp on the quality of videos, he’s sure.

Tenders for the creation of video passports about orphans were won by four companies, the founders of which were Kizyakov, his wife and Mitroshenkov: Videopassport LLC, Children's Videopassport LLC, NPO Charitable Foundation Videopassport and Dom LLC. Most of the purchases of videos about orphans regional authorities in 2011–2014 produced by a single supplier - companies associated with “While everyone is at home.” Officials justified this purchase by the fact that the company had registered the trademark “video passport” and an Internet search did not find alternative providers of this service. The creators of “While Everyone is Home” sued charities that tried to use this term. Vedomosti discovered two such claims, one was withdrawn, and in the second the owner of the trademark received compensation of 20,000 rubles. It is illegal to declare only one trademark in tender documentation - officials must indicate alternatives, says Nikolai Voznesensky, head of the Goltsblat antimonopoly service: “But challenging the results of the tender will be problematic. Only a company that submitted an application to participate in the tender, but was rejected, can sue.”

State funding for video passports became known after a meeting at the Ministry of Education and Science in December last year, where, as TASS correspondent Tatyana Vinogradova and the Komsomolskaya Pravda newspaper wrote, ministry employee Evgeny Silyanov said that Kizyakov receives money from the budget to create videos about orphans and is suing others charities if they try to use the term “video passport”. A ministry representative did not answer questions from Vedomosti yesterday.

Mitroshenkov did not answer calls from Vedomosti. A representative of Channel One declined to comment.

Kizyakov confirmed to Vedomosti that he will no longer produce a program for Channel One. He insists that the producer of the program, Dom LLC, at the beginning of June, on its own initiative, sent Channel One an official notice that it would no longer create a program for them: “We did this because unacceptable methods the work of the channel management." Kizyakov refused to disclose the essence of his claims. “We know nothing about the fact that the channel allegedly decided not to work with us anymore in April,” he emphasizes.

Kizyakov also insists that the severance of relations with “First” for the “Dom” company is not directly related to the scandal around video passports: “Although we were extremely unpleasant that the channel did not protect us in this situation.”