This year VK Fest, a festival traditionally held in the Park 300-Letiya Sankt-Peterburga will be held in an online format for the first time. It will be the biggest virtual event of the year - the stream will begin on May 15, last seven days and offer free admission.
TNT channel takes part in the festival, hosted by the social network VKontate, every year.This year the television channel will continue to be VK Fest’s information partner. During the entire week TNT stars will join the VK Fest stream to speak to viewers and support them, to show premieres of the channel’s new season, perform songs, dances, stand-up acts and interactive numbers. The festival’s stream will be available on its official community page (https://vk.com/fest) and can be watched for free by all VKontakte users.
The live stream will come from a special TNT studio where all rules of social distancing will be followed. Some of the artists will join the festival via Zoom or Skype. TNT is preparing live interaction with the stars of the Comedy Club show Demis Karibidis and Zhenya Sinyakov, the participants of the reality show Soldatki (Female Soldiers) Alina Bosh and Sasha Khitrichenko, bloggers and participants of the new show Ostrov Geroev (The Island of Heroes) Nelly Ermolaeva and Zhenya Iskandarova, actors of the series Realnye Patsany (Real Guys) Zoya Berber and Vladimir Selivanov, as well as the actresses Yulia Topolnitskaya and Darya Rudenok from the new drama comedy 257 Prichin, Chtoby Zhit (257 Reasons to Live), among many others. The most popular bachelor in Russia, Anton Krivorotov, will sing some of his songs live, while stars of the series shown on PREMIER will talk about the new projects of the video platform: Grigory Konstantinopolsky’s film Groza (The Storm), the series #SidYadoma (#StayingHome) and Avanpost (The Outpost). The studio will also welcome the entire team of young actors from the series Mir! Druzhba! Zhvachka! (Peace! Friendship! Chewing Gum!) together with the series director Ilya Aksenov.
TNT was one of the first channels to adapt to the new reality of self-isolation and switch to remote work in preparing new episodes of its shows and promos. The channel has launched the projects Pochustvui Nashu Lubov Distantsionno (Feel Our Love Remotely) and Comedy Club Quarantine Style as video conferences, and has also shown the first episodes of the screenlife series #SidYadoma.