"Blue lights" and a look into the past. How television replaced the average person from the screens
For years we look into new year's eve the same thing: Pugacheva and Kirkorov, Baskov, Rotaru, Leshchenko and other stars Russian stage they sing, pour each other champagne and pretend to have fun. the site recalls how it all began, and what New Year's meetings on TV were like in different years.
Photo: frame from the musical film "Old songs about the main thing"
"Blue Light"
The first, still on Soviet TVs, in 1962 appeared "Blue Light". This program started as a weekly program, then began to go out only on public holidays, well, since 1964, everyone has been associated exclusively with New Year's Eve. It was the “Blue Light” that set the tone for all subsequent programs, forming a picture familiar to viewers: pop performers and honored guests sit at tables, drink champagne, serpentine flies around the hall, everyone sings and rejoices. Still sincere. The atmosphere of the "Blue Light" of the 60s can be felt, for example, by the New Year's greetings to the citizens of the USSR from one of the guests of honor of the program - Yuri Gagarin:
Almost a quarter of a century has passed ... And during perestroika, since 1986, New Year's concerts ceased to be called "Blue Lights", and in 1987 the shooting did not take place at all in Ostankino, but in different parts of Moscow - for example, in a restaurant on Arbat and Kolomenskoye. The tradition was revived in 1998: in the year of the 35th anniversary of the program, Blue Light on Shabolovka was released. It is curious that he is filmed at Mosfilm, and only the Shukhov Tower on the screen saver reminds of Shabolovka Street.
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In a more or less unchanged format, the program is still being screened. Most often, from year to year on New Year's Eve, Russians see the same faces, although the Web is actively discussing the need to get rid of New Year's programs, for example, from Alla Pugacheva. Nevertheless, even without it, the audience will still be expected only by those faces that are most "familiar" during the year, and only those songs that the whole country has already learned by heart.
January 3, 2020, 13:47Didn't watch the blue lights, I think, like most gossips. I put it in the background and in fits and starts I saw that nothing had changed.
Therefore, right now I googled and I will hate.
Because Lopyreva, Bozhena and whom they have been discussing here all year do not annoy me, but the blue lights began to annoy because I moved into the category - we celebrate New Year's Eve with my family at home.
And please do not write that you can not watch at all or watch the culture channel or turn on the movie. You, too, my dears, are not forced to watch and hate characters on gossip all year long. Consider this my personal Lopyreva.
So what was there.
At first, the hodgepodge sings "The unquenchable light of Moscow windows", then the introduction of all the presenters and Malyshev, arm in arm with Yakubovich (How old is Leonidarkadich ??)
4.30 - Leps and Emin with some rotten song
7.45 - Sofia Rotaru with a rotten song and three eyelashes.
11.30 - Kristina Orbakaite with a rotten song.
15.30 - Lev Leshchenko with a rotten song and three girls in fur coats.
19.50 - Fat Vitas and mustachioed Sergei Polunin at the backup dance.
24.00 - Jasmine with Navka - AGAIN! - like last year, only now without fur coats. Moreover, the previous ones sang their rotten non-hit songs, and for the two of them they made a Russian cover for "Tea, bambina"
27.50 - Valery Meladze with a new song, "it seems everything changes and there is no infinite in nature ... finally let me understand what you want from me." In short, stop nag Konstantin Meladze, otherwise Valery has presented every song.
32.30 - Valeria with a rotten song in some kind of youth style, apparently wants to snatch Lena Temnikova's audience.
36.20 - Serezha Zhukov with Lolita. "let's do without goodbye hugs, we won't see each other again in this bed" Lolita as always!
41.35 - Factory group - I don’t recognize anyone except Toneva, what kind of blonde with a caret ?? Matvienko drives the tenth team.
44.50 - Bilan with a rotten song to White Roses.
49.00 - Sievert and Kirkorov sing Life. Who is promoting it?
52.30 - Broad-shouldered Brezhnev.
57.30 - Dimash sings Pugacheva's song with Krutoy.
Dimash is the only new artist, and at the 56.45th minute, the presenters say to him, “Before, to get to the first one, you had to have charm and talent, but now only a phone. With a camera. From the same business!
03/01/00 - ALLA BORISNA PUGACHEVA! I was too lazy to shoot for a spark, but you have to be present - so the recording of her concert with the aging song "Burn, burn my star"
9.00 - Polina Gagarina in a long fur coat.
12.20 - Tamara Gvertsiteli with Stas Mikhailov. I didn't recognize Tamara at all.
16.00 Ani Lorak with a fur coat ala Gucci.
21.00 - Egorushka Creed.
23.00 - Loboda with the same song under Agatha Christie.
28.00 - Syutkin with Volodya Kristovsky. Well, since Syutkin is in Golos, then here too. And despite his old-fashionedness - "late hour half past one" is still a cunning for all time.
37.00 - And again Bedrosych, now in the Hellsing costume, wants to get into Lena Temnikova's audience.
43.00 - LOVE USPENSKAYA SINGS WE RUN WITH YOU AS IF FROM A CHEETAH!
47.00 - Dzhanabaeva with Meladze family in a row.
51.00 - Not only is Gazmanov still alive and singing, but he came up with another song, two slams, three stomp. "Light out, lights out in the offices."
54.00 - Malikov and Karaulova sing blue frost. Nothing.
59.00 - since soon the next Olympiad came up with some kind of combined hodgepodge with Anita Tsoi with a stupid pop song in honor of the 1980 Olympics, while inserting footage from the closing of the Soviet Olympiad that Dolphin used in his video "Spring". Spring has been much better for these shots.
03/01/00 - boring Emin again.
09/01/00 - Varum and Agutin. Good track, well they know how.
01.14.00 - Lyube in a quilted jacket. After a bunch of singers in fur coats for two lyamas.
01.17.00 - Iconostasis, again.
01.22.00 - Elena Vaenga. Dressed up for the occasion.
01.27.00 - Malinin, Botox in it!
01.30.00 - Zara sings Parole, password, and Gerard Depardieu, sitting next to her, corrects her French. For lovers of French on New Year's Eve.
01.36.00 - Intars Busulis and Anastasia Spiridonova - who are they? Is this from Voices guys?
01.40.00 - Alexander Marshal and Elena Sever. As she got to the first one, I thought her husband could only push through the radio.
01.44.00 - Larisa Dolina sings "We are proof that there is love in life."
You are proof that there is a pull in the world!
at the end - Daineko, Gorod 312 and Panayotov sing in chorus. All!
"Blue Light" first appeared on screens in 1962. It received the status of the country's main New Year's show much later, in 1967. Currently, Blue Light is a popular New Year's program that attracts viewers not only in Russia, but throughout the entire post-Soviet space. The show involves young performers and the "constellation" of show business.
Philip Kirkorov
In the 90s, new faces appeared in the project. One of them was Philip Kirkorov. The participation of the artist is widely discussed by the audience. The images of the singer are luxurious: feathers, sequins, unusual headdresses and amazing costumes.
In 2015, the actor completely shocked the audience with a samurai costume. And on New Year's Eve 2014, Kirkorov changed more than three outfits during the evening. The singer's performances are real shows. Bright, outrageous and memorable.
Edita Piekha
Soviet and Russian pop singer, actress. People's Artist USSR. Today, Edita's compositions are the golden fund of the Soviet and Russian stage.
The singer has been participating in the program since the 70s. The popularity of the star made it possible to perform two songs at the event. Piekha is still a welcome guest on the set of the New Year's program. Fans are looking forward to the artist's performance in Blue Light.
Valery Leontiev
The legend of Russian show business, whose popularity has not subsided over the years, and the artist’s work continues to be admired to this day.
The singer has been on the show since the 80s. Not all of the artist's performances remained in the final release of the program. For too frank costumes, Leontiev was censored more than once, the artist's numbers were simply cut out. Since the 90s, the caesura has softened, and the artist has become a regular participant in the New Year's show.
Alla Pugacheva
The development of television in the 1970s opened up more and more new faces. One of these discoveries was Alla Pugacheva. At that time, Pugacheva was just beginning her career.
Later, in 1975, the singer received the Grand Prix of a music competition for the song "Harlekino". This victory lifted the artist to the peak of popularity.
Alla Pugacheva is a permanent participant in every Blue Light. Every year it pleases its fans with either a new song or a proven hit.
Alexander Rosenbaum
The artist's career began in the 70s with songs with a guitar. Ten years later, Rosenbaum's repertoire consisted of familiar songs about love, friendship and hometown. Alexander received the status of Honored Artist of the Russian Federation, and then People's Artist.
The singer is annually invited to take part in the Blue Light. Alexander performs proven hits, and also sings a duet with young performers.
Lev Leshchenko
Popular Soviet and Russian pop singer, vocal teacher, owner of one of the most pleasant and recognizable baritones in Russia.
Lev Leshchenko has been participating in the Blue Light for no less than 50 years (since 1970). Despite the great creative experience, he performs well with young performers. Alsu, Sergey Lazarev, the Disco Crash group, Diana Di, Anna Semenovich - all these artists were honored to sing with Lev Leshchenko himself. The singer also performs songs loved by fans.
Oleg Gazmanov
Oleg Gazmanov began his career in his youth, when he played with the guys at school events. He remembered forever the way the girls looked at him. And it was then that for the first time I felt like a real artist.
Changes in the country in the 90s and the competition of New Year's TV programs require the discovery of new performers. Then for the first time Oleg Gazmanov began to participate in the Blue Light. The artist performs solo, participates in duets with stage colleagues and with his son, Rodion Gazmanov.
Yuri Antonov
The legend of the Soviet stage, composer and poet, whose songs are listened to and sung by entire generations.
Yuri Antonov has been participating in the Blue Light since the 80s. The singer has always performed with his songs and with his music. Since 2010, the artist has been invited to perform solo and sing a duet. Also Antonov's songs are performed by young musicians.
Larisa Dolina
The Valley first appeared in Blue Light in 2000 with the song Three Roses. The artist won the love of the audience instantly.
In 2016, Dolina performed with the Turetsky Soprano, in 2017 Igor Butman accompanied the singer, and in the New 2018, the artist performed with her granddaughter, Sasha Dolina.
Soso Pavliashvili
The romantic artist warms the soul of each of his listeners with his poems and music.
Soso has been on the New Year's Eve show since early 2010. Every year, the artist is invited to perform favorite songs of fans, sing a duet with stage colleagues, and also participate in humorous skits.
The artist with a memorable Georgian timbre fits perfectly into the entertainment show.
Laima Vaikule
Laima Vaikule has been a permanent participant in the show since 1984. The artist performed the song "Merry Fly Agaric". The artist's performances were distinguished by frankness and were remembered by the audience.
After more than 30 years, Vaikule does not lose popularity. Elegant concert costumes have replaced provocative dresses, but the performances of the performer are still spectacular and memorable for the audience.
Valeriy Meladze
Valery Meladze's first solo performance took place in 1996 with the song "Sera". The performance of the artist was remembered by the audience not only for the beautiful song, but also for the unusual props. Valery performed in a Georgian cap and with a watermelon in his hand.
After such an extravagant image, Meladze became an annual participant in the Blue Light. Valery performs solo, in duets and supports young performers.
The "Blue Light" can be treated in different ways. Some watch every year, others scold the show for its monotony and pretense. One thing is clear for sure: "light" is a tradition. The same as "Olivier" and "Irony of Fate ...". And traditions are respected.
This TV program united a large country even in those years when nothing united it. General secretaries and presidents succeeded each other, but she remained. And it was she who was popularly elected - "Blue Light". Actually, its history is the history of the USSR and Russia.
What New Year without... TV? Even now, more than half a century after the blue screen lit up Soviet apartments with joy, it remains an unchanged festive attribute. For many years, on the evening of December 31, all citizens froze in front of a black and white TV in anticipation of a truly kind and sincere "Blue Light" with cordial presenters, cheerful songs, confetti and serpentine...
The version of how Ogonyok appeared is as follows: in 1962, the chief editor of the musical editorial office received a call from the Central Committee of the CPSU and was asked to come up with a musical entertainment program. Then, in the early 60s, the authorities realized the importance of television.
In 1960, the Central Committee issued a resolution "On the further development of Soviet television", in which this television itself was proclaimed "an important means of communist education of the masses in the spirit of Marxist-Leninist ideology and morality, intransigence towards bourgeois ideology."
Since approximately in this spirit it was necessary to contrive to come up with an entertaining program, no one could cope with this. Then someone, seeing a young screenwriter Alexei Gabrilovich in the corridor of Shabolovka, asked him to think, and he agreed - however, he immediately forgot about it. A couple of weeks later he was called to the authorities. The screenwriter, who was celebrating something in a cafe the day before, came up with the shape of a zucchini on the go, where actors come after evening performances and tell funny stories....
Home feature"Blue Lights" had a relaxed atmosphere, created with the help of serpentine, "Soviet champagne" and treats placed on the tables of guests.
In the first year, Blue Light began to be released so actively that it came out as much as a weekly, but then the creators' enthusiasm dried up somewhat, and other programs began to appear one after another. And for the "Blue Light" the role of the main entertainment program country, which in the New Year created a mood for the people for the whole year ahead.
For the first time on New Year's Eve, "Spark" was released on December 31, 1962. During the first ten years of its existence, the creators of the "Blue Light" came up with and mastered everything that today's entertainment television lives on. The difference is only in the technical performance, but the ideas and content remained the same. In what was shown in the New Year's "Lights" more than forty years ago, one can easily discern individual features and entire programs of today's television.
I would like to tell you about the appearance of such a strange name - "Blue Light". The TV show owes them to the black-and-white TV. By the early 1960s, the huge wooden box with the small screen was slowly becoming a thing of the past. Aleksandrovskiy radiozavod began production of "Records". Their kinescope was significantly different from its predecessors. From model to model, it increased in size, and although its image remained black and white, a bluish glow appeared on the screen. That is why the name, incomprehensible to today's youth, appeared.
The creators quite logically assumed that if the program comes out at the end of the year, then they should sound in it the best songs performed this year. The competition for a place in the composition among the performers was such that in one of the first releases even Lyudmila Zykina with the song "The Volga River Flows" was shown only in a small passage.
The first presenters of Blue Light were actor Mikhail Nozhkin and singer Elmira Uruzbayeva. It was with Elmira that an unforeseen incident happened in one of the first episodes of the program. And it's all to blame - the inability to work with a phonogram.
AT live"Blue Light" Uruzbaeva, singing a song, went to one of the tables of the music cafe. One of the invited guests handed her a glass of champagne. The singer, confused by surprise, took the glass in her hand, took a sip and, in addition, choking, coughed.
While this action was taking place, the phonogram continued to sound. After the broadcast of the program, television was flooded with letters from surprised viewers. Not accustomed to the phonogram, they did not stop asking the same question: “How can you drink and sing a song at the same time? Or is it not Uruzbayeva singing at all? If so, what kind of singer is she?
The genre layout was different: the viewer was even treated to opera numbers, but even then the rare "Spark" did without Edita Piekha. And Iosif Kobzon in the 60s was almost no different from his present self. He was everywhere and sang about everything. Although sometimes he still allowed himself experiments: for example, in one of the "Lights", performing the super-actual song "Cuba - my love!", Kobzon appeared ... with a beard a la Che Guevara and a machine gun in his hands!
It was unthinkable to miss the transfer - they did not repeat it. Of course, "Spark" would have remained a vague impression of childhood, if not for the surviving records. I think film is the best invention of the past century, and those shots are left as a reproach to us - how low we, the current ones, have fallen!
Stars on the screen
Like today, in the 60s, the highlight of TV treats was the stars. True, the stars in those days were different, and they paved their way to glory in a different way.
Not a single New Year's "Blue Light" was complete without cosmonauts, and Yuri Gagarin until his death was the main character of television holidays. Moreover, the astronauts did not just sit, but actively participated in the show.
So, in 1965, Pavel Belyaev and Alexei Leonov, who had recently returned from orbit, portrayed cameramen filming how young Larisa Mondrus sings. And Yuri Gagarin walked around the studio with the most modern hand-held movie camera. At the end of the story, Leonov also danced a twist with Mondrus.
Watching the "Lights" of the 60s today, you can even trace how the number one astronaut grew in the rank. First, he appeared in a tunic with the shoulder straps of a major, then a lieutenant colonel, and then a colonel. This is now an astronaut - just one of the professions, but then they were looked at as heroes. If Gagarin or Titov said something, no one dared to move, everyone listened with their mouths open.
Now there is no person who could compare in popular adoration with Gagarin in the 60s. Therefore, the astronauts on the New Year's Ogonki have always been welcome guests. And only 1969, the first after the death of Yuri Alekseevich, was met without astronauts.
Gradually, the "Blue Lights" become artificial, like many Christmas trees. With the advent of recording, the program began to be filmed in parts: participants and guests sat at tables and clapped for the performer of the number as if they had just seen him, although the number was recorded on another day.
At first, real champagne (or at least real tea and coffee) and fresh fruit stood on the tables. Then they poured lemonade or tinted water. And fruits and sweets were already made of papier-mâché. After someone broke a tooth, Blue Flame members were warned not to try to bite off anything.
In the 70s, extras in the hall corresponded to the time: for example, girls from the Ministry of Agriculture could sit at the tables. The first clips appeared in the Blue Light, although then no one suspected that it was called that. In the absence of yellow press and gossip, people learned about the events in the personal lives of idols from Ogonki. Muslim Magomayev and Tamara Sinyavskaya got married in November 1974 and soon sang a duet in the New Year's Ogonyok. So the country realized that they became husband and wife.
In the 70s, Sergey Lapin was the chairman of the USSR State Radio and Television. Under him, it was forbidden for men to appear on the screen in a leather jacket, in jeans, without a tie, with a beard and mustache, for women in a lace-up dress, in trouser suits, with a neckline and with diamonds.
Valery Leontiev in his tight-fitting suits was cut from the programs. The rest were cut out for other reasons. Tap dancer Vladimir Kirsanov recalled how in the mid-70s he danced with his wife on Ogonyok to the song of Yevgeny Martynov. And when I turned on the TV, I saw myself dancing to a completely different tune. It turned out that the reason was the dislike of the television leadership towards Martynov, and they explained to Kirsanov: “Say thanks for being left on the air.”
comedians
Humorists already helped to celebrate the New Year in high spirits. The frontman of the genre was Arkady Raikin, a participant as obligatory as Ivan Urgant today.
Two duets were super-popular: Tarapunka and Shtepsel, who managed to “scrap” bureaucracy on the New Year’s stage, and Mirov and Novitsky, who joked not too sophisticated, but relevant.
So, in 1964, they responded to the terribly fashionable theme "Cybernetics". The real veterans of the New Year's show - Edita Piekha, Iosif Kobzon, Alla Pugacheva, Muslim Magomayev, Sofia Rotaru - were allowed to perform two or even three songs in a row.
Foreign hits were a novelty, and then performed by domestic stars.
It was impossible to imagine "Spark" without humorous miniatures. Soviet comedians, such as Khazanov with his eternal student of the culinary college, were especially appreciated in the 70s.
The fashion to perform songs from your favorite old films was also not born today.
In "Ogonyok" at a meeting in 1965 in honor of the 20th anniversary of the film "Heavenly slug" Nikolai Kryuchkov, Vasily Neshchiplenko and Vasily Merkuriev, who played the main characters of the film, with great success they performed “Aircraft First of All” right in the studio, and even attracted real army generals to this.
And a few years later, the trinity Nikulin - Vitsin - Morgunov arranged an eccentric on the set based on "Dog Barbos and an unusual cross".
Even then, Alexander Maslyakov was the face of youth humor, however, a much younger face, although his intonations were the same as today. The humor of KVN was less paradoxical and not at all avant-garde. And the word “kaveenschik” that is popular today has not yet been used, they said: “A song performed by KVN players.”
"Moment of glory"
Funny weirdos were always in demand, and even the harsh Soviet television could not do anything about it. True, the freaks were still not as outrageous as those that are now participating in the "Minute of Glory", but "with a cultural bias." And they showed them, but treated them without enthusiasm. So, the host of the "Blue Light" in 1966, young Yevgeny Leonov, spoke directly about the musician who played the bow on the saw: "Abnormal, or what?"
But in the 90s, the Rossiya TV channel revived the tradition of the Blue Light and already in 1997 a release dedicated to the 35th anniversary of the program was released. Today, the Blue Light has been replaced by a weekly program called Saturday Evening (Nikolai Baskov is the TV presenter, and the duet of Mavrikievna and Nikitichna is now replacing the duo of New Russian Babok).
The “evening” is broadcast on the same channel “Russia”, the main difference between the program and the “Blue Light” is that now only the stars of the domestic “showbiz” become guests of the program. By the way, the “Blue Light on Shabolovka” came to replace the “New Year's Blue Light”.
This is how it happens, the original past of the program has gone down in history on Youtube with the words “Do not remember dashingly” ... Now “Spark”, as before, consists of songs and jokes. Its creators say that since the channel is state-owned, the participants have no right to joke below the belt. True, we note that the belt itself has long since fallen. In fashion - low waist.
The "Blue Lights" reflected the era. Milkmaids and cosmonauts at the tables were replaced by Sliska and Zhirinovsky, and no one replaced Pugachev and Kobzon ...
The emergence of the New Year's blue light format, beloved by millions of viewers, in December 1962 was associated with the era of the thaw and the liberalization of the USSR's policy in the field of culture, and specifically with the resolution of the Central Committee of the CPSU "On the further development of Soviet television."
In 1960, the party leadership drew attention to the fact that “there is no heartfelt conversation, easy conversation in speeches on television” and decided that since the dialogue does not start on its own, it must be organized.
In the same year, a youth cafe was opened in Moscow on Gorky Street, where disputes were held, artists and poets performed. With the help of the musical editorial staff of the central television, live broadcasts were conducted from the cafe hall, which quickly took shape in a separate independent program, the authors of which managed to preserve the main thing - the very atmosphere of "easy conversation".
The name of the program changed - "TV Cafe", "On the Light", "On the Blue Light" and, finally, "Blue Light" - the air dates also changed. If at first the program was broadcast on weekends every week, then over time, the depletion of the material began to be felt and viewers could see it only on holidays - March 8, May 1 and New Year.
But first of all, the audience was attracted by a rare opportunity in the USSR to see and listen to the stars of the first magnitude of those years. Among them, a separate place was occupied by Yuri Gagarin - main character era. He starred in several episodes of the program and was even a co-host of Blue Light, timed to coincide with March 8, where the first woman in space, Valentina Tereshkova, also appeared.
At the same time, both stars of the first magnitude and ordinary Soviet workers could participate in the filming of the program - a humorous sketch on this topic can be seen in the film Thirty-Three by Georgy Daneliya (also, by the way, dedicated to the "space" theme).
The creators of the "Blue Light" did not bypass the policy of the Central Committee of the CPSU in relation to other countries - for the majority of the country's inhabitants, the television screen was almost the only place where foreign guests from the countries of the socialist camp could be seen. And sometimes catch such a “hello” to friends of the USSR from other countries, like the performance of Joseph Kobzon, performing the song “Cuba is my love” with a glued beard a la Fidel Castro and a machine gun in his hands.
A separate item was the performance of comedians. The apogee of the comedy program has always been the numbers of Arkady Raikin, comic duets were popular - Veronika Mavrikievna and Avdotya Nikitichna (Vadim Tonkov and Boris Vladimirov), Shtepsel and Tarapunka (Efim Berezin and Yuri Timoshenko"), as well as Lev Mirov and Mark Novitsky, who performed under their own names.
"Spark" gave domestic television and many other formats. It was here that figure skaters first began to perform often, laying the foundation for today's demand for ice skating. The tradition of “nostalgic” musical numbers also began here - in 1965, the performers of the main roles in the film “Heavenly slug”, in honor of the twentieth anniversary of its release on the screens, sang the song “Airplanes First of All”, which became the first “swallow” of the genre “Old songs about the main ".
With the advent of glasnost and perestroika, the Blue Light began to gradually disappear from the screens - first the name disappeared, then the venue changed: in 1987, the audience was shown the Blue Light, glued together from scenes filmed in different parts of the capital - from the Arbat restaurant to the museum-reserve "Kolomenskoye". The songs of the ABBA group sounded on the air, Alla Pugacheva and Valery Leontiev congratulated the fans from India, and at the end the ensemble of stars of the first magnitude sang the song “Closing the Circle”.
After that, the "Blue Light" disappeared for a whole decade. The first issue of the revived program was released in 1998 under the name "Blue Light on Shabolovka". The new transmission diligently imitated the features of its legendary predecessor, finally becoming a nostalgic phenomenon.
The presence on modern television of a program that copies the bygone style at the highest-rated and expensive holiday time has become the reason for frequent indignation, jokes and disputes due to the annually increasing curiosity of the entire format - even the unused Shukhov Tower in the screensaver of the new "light" began to look like a kind of irony.
Paradoxically, the ironic, and later post-ironic attitude towards the Blue Light format helped him survive, transform and continue his life. So, at the end of 2018, the Evening Urgant program team organized the filming of a show with the provocative name Blue Urgant with the participation of the stars of the younger generation.
And although the driving motive of many of the participants was the desire to say goodbye to the dilapidated heritage of bygone years, their parodies of the "unfunny" New Year's jokes turned out to be as "unfunny" as the originals, and the musical numbers, although strikingly different in genre and sound from the usual "lights ”, nevertheless continued the traditions of both the sixties and the new time. The final detail was the appearance of Philip Kirkorov in Blue Urgant, whose "self-parody" at the end of the program finally convinced the doubters that despite the change in names, channels and venues, the "light" will outlive today's viewers.