How much do Ukrainian experts earn on Russian television? How much does it cost to participate in the Channel One talk show “Let Them Talk”

Perhaps not a single political talk show on Russian television is complete without foreign guests. Every time they speak out against our country, they receive insults and even kicks in response, but they do not stop going to the programs. It turned out that the role of a whipping boy is a very profitable business.

According to an informed source, some experts attend such shows for free, while others go to them as a job. For example, Ukrainians come to the program only for money.

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For example, the most expensive Ukrainian expert on the show is political scientist Vyacheslav Kovtun. He earns from 500 to 700 thousand rubles a month, and sometimes his income amounts to a million rubles, writes Komsomolskaya Pravda.

US journalist Michael Bohm earns the same amount. “The American generally has an exclusive contract and rate. He is obliged to attend a certain number of broadcasts,” the publication’s interlocutor said.

There are also more modest experts. For example, Polish political scientist Jakub Koreyba earns less than 500 thousand rubles a month. It’s just that the expert doesn’t manage to come to Moscow often for programs.

“Everything is official – they sign the contract, pay taxes,” the source added. An expert like Ukrainian blogger Dmitry Suvorov receives 10-15 thousand rubles per broadcast. More popular guests are paid up to 30 thousand rubles for participation.

Earlier it was reported that American journalist Michael Bohm was almost beaten in the midst of the “Time Will Tell” show on Channel One. The host of the program, Artem Sheinin, began to threaten the guest, and then jumped up to him and grabbed him by the jacket.

“What do you think, I can only use my tongue? Are you provoking me? Did I tell you to sit? Sit!” – he said angrily. Despite such humiliating treatment, Bom did not leave the studio and stated that he did not hold a grudge against Sheinin.

How much do they pay for participating in extras?
“Fashionable sentence” (1 channel) - 350 rubles for 9 hours
“Malakhov +” (1 channel) - 350 rubles for 10 hours
“Let them talk” (1 channel) - 250-350 rubles per filming
“Two Stars” (1 channel) - 200 rubles for 5 hours
“The Smartest” with Tina Kandelaki, “Children’s Pranks” with Glucose (STS) - 300 rubles for 12-13 hours
Comedy Club (TNT) - 100 rubles per filming (1.5 hours)
“Thank God you came” (STS) - from 300 to 500 rubles for 10-13 hours

How much do talk show characters get paid?
“Trial by Jury” (NTV), “Federal Judge” (Channel 1) - witness (2,500 - 3,500 rubles), main role (4,000 - 5,000 rubles)
“The trial is coming” (Russia) - witness (1,500-2,500 rubles), main role ($100)
“Judicial Passions” (DTV) - from 900 to 1,200 rubles
“The Hour of Judgment with Pavel Astakhov” (REN-TV) - 1,200 rubles for 20 minutes

The crisis forces Muscovites to look for sources of income, and some of them find them under the spotlights. Experts say that the demand for participation in the crowd of television talk shows has increased significantly. DAILYONLINE spoke with those who sell applause and laughter, and with those who buy them. A day on the set of the program “Thank God, you came!” convinced DAILYONLINE that the world of “show business” is limited to a small, stuffy studio, and fees most often only cover transportation costs. For such an activity to bring real income, you will have to sacrifice your reputation.

“When they find out that they also pay money for it, they sign up for the shoot with double enthusiasm.”
In order to get on the blue screen, just call the phone number indicated on the air, or type the corresponding request on the Internet. Viewers for the filming of television programs are recruited by full-time employees of television channels, special agencies or foremen “on free bread”.
However, for the “actor” himself, it doesn’t matter which way he got to the shooting - this does not affect his salary in any way.
The more popular the program, the less work its administrators have.

Guest editor of the talk show “Malakhov +” Kirill told DAILYONLINE that in his work “the mountain itself comes to Mohammed.”
“The program is rating, designed for a specific audience - housewives and pensioners. They are bored of sitting at home all the time, but here they watched Ostankino, showed themselves, and their friends have something to brag about. They call themselves and ask to film. When they find out that they also pay money for this, they sign up to participate in the filming with double enthusiasm,” shares Kirill.

The demand for filming as extras has increased, but fees have fallen by 2-3 times
For another DAILYONLINE interlocutor, Irina, recruiting as an extra is an unofficial job. She is a free foreman for hiring spectators. The more people from her who come to the shoot, the more she will earn. The girl says that within a year she has already acquired regular clients and favorite viewers.

According to Irina’s experience, the most popular programs are “The Smartest” with Tina Kandelaki and “Children’s Pranks” with Natalya Ionova (Glukoza), since mothers combine business with pleasure: they entertain the children and earn a little money.
“We place advertisements for paid audiences on special websites and give out our mobile number. Once the information gets onto the Internet, the phone literally doesn’t stop ringing,” says Irina.
According to her, since the beginning of the crisis, those interested in this type of income have increased many times more, but not everyone agrees to participate in the filming; the number of spectators has even decreased.
“Since January, most TV channels have cut pay for extras by 2-3 times, so they call, ask questions, and when they learn about the fee, they hang up,” explains Irina. She argues that the crisis has also shuffled the composition of television viewers.
“Those who used to travel constantly are now protesting against the meager payment, which is barely enough for travel. But “fresh” faces appeared - those who were fired from their jobs. True, they will come once or twice and never appear again. They think that such income is a pleasure, but in reality it is hard work,” says Irina.

“You are not joking here, you are getting paid for this!”
DAILYONLINE experienced what it's like to be an extra. The test took place on the set of the show “Thank God, you came!”
In the TV version, the entire show fits into 40-50 minutes. In fact, filming one program lasts three hours or more.
Humorous improvisation requires careful preparation: setting up the scenery, adjusting the sound, training the audience to applaud and laugh at the right moment. At least half an hour is allotted to master the art of competent applause. The clapping of delight should be emotional, clear and loud. But not for long, so as not to prolong the moment and give the hero the opportunity to make a new joke in silence.
Filming takes place in a small, stuffy room, with the producer seating the audience.

The “chairman of the jury” sits in the center of the hall; the camera lens will most often be turned on him, so the most beautiful and photogenic spectators are placed nearby.

The remaining extras are seated randomly. The most advantageous place is in the central part of the hall. For those sitting on the sides, many aspects of the show will be out of view as the stage is divided into 3 separate rooms.
You see it or you don’t see it, but you still have to smile - after all, the TV cameraman also earns his salary.

When the audience was seated and prepared, and the scenery had not yet been assembled, the producer himself had to act as a comedian and amuse the audience.
We waited for more than an hour for the show to start.
The program's intro music plays. Presenter Mikhail Shats comes on stage - the audience falls silent, straining their ears in anticipation of a joke. Schatz's microphone doesn't work and he goes backstage again. The sound takes another half hour to adjust.
Finally, Schatz comes out, and the microphone works, and the joke sounds - everyone laughs and claps.
The presenter introduces the participants. Everyone claps again. And they clap again. And again.
After 10 minutes, my palms begin to burn and my ears begin to clog.
But now the participants are introduced - filming of the first scene is finished. There is still half an hour of preparation ahead for the next episode. It is necessary to set up a stage for improvisation, and dress the participant in a costume that matches his scenario.

One elderly lady, during breaks, threateningly scolds those who, in her opinion, clapped and smiled sincerely enough: “You are not joking here, you are paid money for this!”
It turns out that she is one of the show's many administrators. When asked why she is so unkind, she snaps: “Sit here like me for days, you’ll hate everyone.”

“The persistent and patient are paid from 300 rubles”
One program has 5 scenes. There are long breaks between them. The programs are prepared in bulk - three per day. You can stay for just one, but the fee is quite cheap. And those who are persistent and patient are paid from 300 rubles.
Filming begins at 13.00, in theory it should end no later than midnight, but the regulations are not always observed.
A regular viewer of the show complains: “The prices have been reduced, but they keep it up until the night. I often leave by taxi, since this is a residential area (near Profsoyuznaya metro station), a car is not cheap. In the end, God willing, I’ll earn 100 rubles per day. What should I do? Every “ten” is important to me now.”
The extras are repeatedly reminded that they are here at work. A young girl administrator runs between the rows and warns: whoever doesn’t wait until the end will not receive a penny. However, despite her threats, with the arrival of dusk the hall begins to empty...

It is worth noting that in general the atmosphere at such events is very friendly - stars do not “star” in front of the people, producers during breaks turn themselves inside out in front of the audience so as not to run away. But spending a day in the stuffiness, without food and with a forced smile on your face is a dubious pleasure.
“At first it was very funny, joyful, show business,” says Vdamimir, a regular on the set. “However, over time, even the best jokes lose their sharpness when you sit here for 10 hours and really want to eat and sleep, and not laugh at all.”

For the sake of real earnings, you should forget about a respectable image
Those who have been attending filming for a long time know that you can’t earn much as an extra, you have to come out of the shadows and into the foreground.
Sergey works as a driver at the Ostankino television center. He says he got a job specifically to have a pass into the holy of holies of Russian television. At his main job he earns 12,000 rubles, but this is only a third of his personal budget. The rest comes from filming in programs.

He started as an extra, but now he is no longer interested in such trifles. He is the main character of staged TV shows. Over the course of a year of such part-time jobs, Sergei has already tried on the image of a murderer, a thief, a sexually anxious school teacher, an abandoned husband and dozens of other masks.
“The most disgusting role was this role of a corpse for a crime program, then I couldn’t close my eyes all night. It gave me goosebumps,” admits the extra.
The producers of talk shows on almost all central channels recognize him by sight, and some respect him for his willingness to sacrifice his reputation for the sake of acting.
Many, on the contrary, no longer pick up the phone - the face on the screen is too lit up.
“You have to put on a wig, a mustache, and makeup,” admits the driver-actor.
Most of all, Sergei remembers 2 embarrassments. One day he was recognized on the street by an old woman who had watched a crime program. The pensioner literally pounced on him and was going to tie up the “criminal” in order to “take the bastard to the police.”
Grandma had to explain for a long time that not everything that is shown on TV can be trusted.

The second unpleasant incident is related to the fact that a crime program was again broadcast on competing TV channels at the same time, and in both he was in the lead roles. The producers of the programs paid a premium for such inconsistencies, and Sergei is now denied filming. But this doesn’t upset him very much - there are enough TV shows now.
“I get 1000-1500 rubles for an hour of shooting, sometimes there are even 2 shootings a day, so I’m not afraid of a crisis,” said the “main character.”

Sofia Doronina, Inga Kazmina

Few people want their secrets to be discussed by the whole world. But Nikita Dzhigurda puts his intimate relationships with women on display - he assures that this is how he opposes the propaganda of same-sex love. Well, you can always justify your behavior. But former director of Dzhigurda Antonina Savrasova sees a different reason for the showman’s frankness.

“Nikita generates news about her life in order to make money from it! – says Savrasova. – Dzhigurda has not worked anywhere for a long time - she does not play in the theater, does not act in films. He gets money from TV shows. He comes to the program, breaks comedy and earns large sums.”

From his divorce from Marina Anisina and Lyudmila’s will, Bratash Dzhigurda squeezed out the maximum “dividends”. His rating soared, and on federal channels he was paid up to 600 thousand rubles for participating in talk shows. But time passed, and the hype began to subside.

“A couple of months ago Nikita called me with disheveled feelings,” continues Antonina Savrasova. – He complained: they say they don’t invite me to the TV channels, there’s no reason. He said that he had run out of money and couldn’t even give the driver money for gas. I felt abandoned and alone. And suddenly - luck! Donna Luna appeared on the horizon - a sultry woman, a poet’s dream.”

A jewelry designer from Italy herself contacted Dzhigurda, offering to collaborate. He did not miss his chance, and now the couple’s personal pages were flooded with joint photos and videos.

The other day, Dzhigurda, together with Donna Luna, was invited to Dmitry Shepelev’s show “Actually.” The artist agreed to come to the program for 400 thousand rubles, but then suddenly announced a new amount - a million! The TV people were nearly paralyzed. How the auction ended is still unknown. Meanwhile, the editors of the same program are also showing interest in Nikita. And the channel has already asked the showman to talk about his new love, but so far the parties have not agreed on the amount of the fee.

How much do stars get paid to appear on TV shows?

There are no uniform prices: it all depends on the artist’s rating, the news story, the exclusivity and originality of the story. Let's say, while there is excitement around an event, its participants receive an increased fee. Who now remembers the biker Ishutin, who hit the singer Yuri Antonov at a gas station? Meanwhile, he hit his jackpot - he earned a total of 1.5 million rubles from the talk show (300 - 400 thousand rubles per appearance on a TV show). It is curious that the court ordered Ishutin to pay the singer 60 thousand rubles. In the end, the biker won. Just open a business - beat famous people and then make money on the show...

The singer Danko’s wife agreed to talk about difficult family relationships for 150 thousand rubles (the artist himself announced this). Anastasia Volochkova’s driver, now in jail on suspicion of theft, boasted to his friends that he had asked “Let Them Talk” for 800 thousand rubles. However, whether he received this money remains unknown. Not the most popular serial actor Sergei Plotnikov recently earned 150 thousand rubles from revelations about his abandoned son.

On the NTV channel’s “Secret to a Million” program, Vladimir Friske was paid 300 thousand rubles. Diana Shurygina and her family, according to media reports, earned the same amount for participating in several episodes of “Let Them Talk.” Hollywood star Lindsay Lohan cost the “Let Them Talk” program 600 thousand rubles. And model Naomi Campbell was paid 10 thousand dollars at the same show in 2010.

However, not all celebrities and experts get paid. Someone participates on the air for free in order to shine. Some people hope to solve their problems with the help of television. And often people are ready to speak in a talk show studio for free out of respect for the person, topic being discussed, or simply out of interest.

Prices

Celebrity fees for filming on TV

Rates for popular talk shows

Editor's comment:

The purposes for which media owners use all these “stars”, encouraging them with large amounts of money to engage in various scandals and inappropriate behavior, are described in detail in the video reviews of the Teach Good project. Analytics for the most popular TV shows are collected in. It is also useful to know whose funds are organizing this entire banquet, and who ultimately pays the fees for degradation:

Channel One will receive additional assistance from the federal budget. The broadcaster will receive 3 billion rubles for the production, procurement and distribution of content. On October 27, State Duma deputies adopted a bill “On amendments to the Federal Law “On the Federal Budget for 2017 and the planning period of 2018 and 2019”, in which this amount is included “for reimbursement of costs associated with the production and acquisition of a software product, filling it with television and with provision of measures to bring it to television viewers.” .

TV Show – Lowland Industry

In any country you can find a thousand decent, outstanding, talented people, or you can find a thousand degraded individuals, murderers, maniacs, perverts. If you want the best for your country and your people, you will be a positive example for them to follow.

If you want to lower the population to the level of animals, turn the inhabitants of the country into a brainless crowd, into slaves, you will look for all the dirt, vulgarity and baseness and broadcast it all on the screen every day. At its core, the situation with television is similar to raising children. Whatever example a child sees in front of him, positive or negative, is how he will grow up.

Andrei Malakhov's show “Let Them Talk” is one of the most popular on Russian television. Previously, it was published in a similar format, but under different names - “The Big Wash” and “Five Evenings.” Viewers witness touching stories, scandals and quarrels. We decided to find out what tricks the creators of the program resort to in order to achieve such a high rating.

The executive producer of documentary television projects, Natalya (not her real name), worked for some time next to the pavilion where the “Let Them Talk” program was filmed. For more than a year, the woman watched the process of creating the show and concluded that only an unscrupulous person who is ready to lie, deceive and persuade (not without compensation, of course) the heroes to come to the program can work there.

“An ordinary citizen can be offered 15 thousand to begin with (this is in addition to paid travel and accommodation). Rubles, of course. If he doesn’t agree, the rates will rise. Not to say that the editors were wasting money. 50 thousand - this is if the story is completely “chic”. Most potential heroes, if they are from the provinces, fall for the very opportunity to see Moscow, get on television - it turns out to be a free excursion,” Natalya said in an interview.

Celebrities receive more serious amounts. For example, the American actress Lindsay Lohan, who had a scandal with her Russian boyfriend, was lured to Moscow with a fee of 600,000 rubles, according to press reports. However, she did not come to the broadcast, so Malakhov had to go to her hotel to interview her.

The family of Diana Shurygina received about 200,000 rubles for five programs. Moreover, contracts are concluded with the heroes of all talk shows, implying non-participation in other television projects.

Smaller stars are paid around 100,000 rubles. “Prokhor Chaliapin, who had two scandalous affairs in a row, at one time turned out to be a kind of business: he gets married, then gets divorced, then starts a new one. The ratings are good, everyone is happy,” added Natalya.

It is worth saying that the “Let Them Talk” program has been criticized more than once by the public. Thus, the well-known actor Alexei Serebryakov publicly criticized the show:
“This program most clearly demonstrates to us that, it turns out, putting up for sale someone else’s pain, tears, troubles, digging through dirty laundry in full view of the whole country without any moral right today is called the simple word “format.” Or rather, a format that brings good money. The degree of cynicism simply boggles the mind<…>And what do you want?! Of course this will be in demand! Toilet paper, for example, will always be in greater demand than Dostoevsky's manuscripts! And stupid reality shows, in which participants endlessly sort things out and sleep with everyone, will a priori have a higher rating than a Tarkovsky film.”