Andy Warhol left many works in various fields of art, from painting to cinema. But the vast majority of people remember the iconic American artist because of two reasons. The first is a painted in a different color photograph of Marilyn Monroe, the second - a phrase that in this, the modern world each have absolutely every person through the development of information technology, especially television, have the opportunity to get their own 15 minutes of fame. Here it is on this principle - "land to the peasants, factory workers, all for 15 minutes of fame" - and built the First Channel television show "Minute of Fame".

Russian version of the world's television product

Of course, I would like to flatter the national television and state that the transfer is successful creative discovery of a new generation of creative workers of Russian TV .  However, everything is much simpler: like almost all of the really rated programs in our television, "Minute of Fame" is a Russian-language version has invented and has received wide popularity in the West TV product .  Original sources of all these television shows in the world is considered to be an American show Simon Cowell «America's Got Talent», which loosely literary translation means "not translated yet talantushki in the land of the American", and in a literal translation sounds like "in America there is talent" .  This project started in June 2006 and quickly became one of the leaders on the television ratings, and gave life to about fifty such programs worldwide .  We must pay tribute to the foresight of producer groups in the first channel and wisdom personally Konstantin Ernst - our television reacted to a successful novelty one of the first .  Judge for yourself: "Minute of Fame" was launched on February 17, 2007, while by no means the most backward in general, and television in the UK and Germany against the national version of the program appeared only in June and October 2007, respectively .

The essence of the project is simple, clear and understandable - in front of three judges there are various people who for one reason or another (existing real achievements and awards, private belief or statement mother and friends) are confident that they have one or other unique abilities. They are given a specific time for the demonstration of their talents (and then of course the old man lost his temper Warhol: 15 minutes air time - too much for one person), for which they have to convince the judges that this case deserves particular attention. Judges can either accept this and give a ticket to the final program, which award a cash prize or can say "thank you" or some other words and send a contestant home.

"Minute of Fame" - a noble version of "House-2"

In general, "Minute of Fame" is really talented television show .  Firstly, for the reason that it is based on the demonstration of the participants of the abilities and talents .  Secondly, that there were TV people, who failed to understand that such a banal program will be a huge success with the audience .  In fact - in this format is based on the ancient custom, when fairs and other more or less positive human gatherings vividly brings to life the principle of "people-watch to show themselves" .  But it works: people with great enthusiasm to try to get this program to show themselves, and the audience gathered at the TV, to these very people to see .  In addition, a special piquancy, and a fair share of adrenaline and adds a financial interest: the winners of the first three seasons of the project received a cash prize of 1 million rubles, the victor of the fourth season, made a fortune of 10 million rubles (hard to imagine the degree of jealousy on the part of the first three winners) .

However, if you try to understand, it turns out that the basis of the concept of "Minutes of Fame" is the same principle upon which sadly already famous project "Dom-2" .  And all we are talking about the same "15 minutes of fame" .  Of course, the "Minute of Fame" is a huge evolutionary leap compared to the "House-2" .  If the child Kseniya Sobchak to find in the "box" is quite a cocktail of unscrupulousness, cunning and willingness to follow the rules, the "moment of glory" should already have some real skills .  Another thing is that often the ability of participants limited ability toes to keep pen and write them in your own back word "Bob", but that is the cost format .  In fact the judges to separate the eccentricities, even putting professional skills to a certain extent, from the real talents .  But one psychological basis of high ratings from "Minutes of Fame" and "House-2" in common: to provide the viewer the opportunity to feel themselves above a certain number of participants of the TV project .  Only in the "House-2" is the ability to say "phew, what they're bad, false, stupid and so on", and when viewing the program of the First Channel is the ability to laugh and say, "Well, it was not worth with the step on the stage of shame" .

Alexander Babitsky

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