The new comedy series God Kultury (Year of Culture), featuring Fyodor Bondarchuk in the lead role, will debut on the OTT-platform of TNT-PREMIER (part of Gazprom-Media Holding) on November 22. TNT created the series together with Comedy Club Production (part of Gazprom-Media Holding) and Art Pictures film company. The project was produced by Vyacheslav Dusmukhametov (Univer, Interns, Comedy Woman and Tantsy), Semyon Slepakov (Univer, SashaTanya, HB) and Artur Janibekyan, founder of Comedy Club Production.

TNT4 television channel (part of Gazprom-Media Holding) received a gold from The PromaxBDA UK Awards, a prestigious international competition in the field of television marketing and design, for the second year in a row. Last year, TNT4 brought three statuettes from the contest, and this year it won a symbolic four. The award ceremony took place in London on November 9. Among its rivals at the awards ceremony in 2018 the Russian channel had such television giants as BBC, Sony Pictures Television, The Walt Disney Company, and Channel 4.

The multiplatform company Shout! Studios (part of Shout! Factory) has acquired all types of rights for North America to the mystical horror directed by Svyatoslav Podgaevsky, Rusalka. Ozero Myortvyh (Mermaid. Lake of the Dead), which was produced by KIT Film Studio (part of Gazprom-Media Holding) and QS Films. At the same time, a deal was made with the British distributor 4Digital Media. Central Partnership is managing the international sales of the film.

Match TV remains the flagship channel for sports broadcasting in Russia, bringing more and more new spectators into the world of sport. At the time of its third anniversary, the channel does not rest with what it has already accomplished, but is preparing new projects, from sports documentaries and entertainment programs to exclusive contracts for broadcasting key tournaments.

The biggest premieres of the year, leadership in digital, television and production of entertainment content is what TNT is preparing for 2019, said the channel’s director Roman Petrenko.