Russia 1 and Channel One replaced entertainment programs with many hours of talk shows about Ukraine
The two most popular Russian TV channels, Rossiya 1 and Perviy, have changed their broadcast network since the start of the war in Ukraine. Daytime series and entertainment programs have been replaced by long hours of talk shows about politics. attention to it processed Russian service “BBC”.
Before the start of the war, viewers of Channel One could watch the programs Fashionable Sentence, Let’s Get Married, Male / Female and Let They Talk during the day. these are the newscasts and the show “Time Shows” which spans seven and a half hours each day with successive households visible.
“The focus is on a special military operation that the Russian armed forces are conducting in Ukraine. Live – reports, arrests of eyewitnesses and the latest investigating authorities, data on violations in Ukraine, ”the BBC quotes the description of the Information Channel”
Viewers of “Russia 1” before the war could get special news by watching “Malakhov” or “The Fate of a Man” with Boris Korchevnikov. in the daily grid; instead, two extended episodes of the 60 Minutes program with Olga Skabeeva (two and a half hours), as well as the program of the pro-Kremlin political scientist Dmitry Kulikov, Who is Against?
How the BBC works, Channel One moved entertainment programs to weekend nights. In addition, on March 18, the information and political flow will be diluted with the show “Voice. Children” and a film with Tom Cruise in the late evening.