Londongrad (TV series)

Londongrad (Russian: Лондонград) is a Russian crime comedy television series, the first series on Russian television to be shot in the capital of the United Kingdom.[1]

Londongrad
GenreCrime comedy
Written by
  • Mikhail Idov
  • Andrey Ryvkin
  • Elena Vanina
  • Lily Idova
  • Owen Matthews
  • Alexandra Smilyanskaya
  • Galina Rubinstein
Directed by
  • Dmitriy Kiselev (1-4 episodes)
  • Vitaly Shepelev (5-8 episodes)
  • Vlad Nikolaev (9-16 episodes)
  • Kirill Kuzin (17-28 episodes
Starring
Composer(s)Vadim Nekrasov
No. of seasons2
No. of episodes28
Production
Executive producer(s)
  • Galina Sytsko
  • Georgi Rozinov
  • Vladimir Neklyudov
Producer(s)
  • Vyacheslav Murugov
  • Alexander Kessel
Production location(s)London, United Kingdom
Running time48 minutes
Production company(s)Sputnik Vostok Production
Release
Original networkSTS
Original release7 September (2015-09-07) –
22 October 2015 (2015-10-22)
External links
Website

The television series was created by Sputnik Vostok Production, commissioned by STS.[2][3]

Plot

Londongrad is a special agency which solves any problems that Russian people might face in the capital of the United Kingdom for a hefty fee; starting from ordinary tourists who lost their luggage, to the children of major officials arrested for mixing up the Winston Churchill monument with a public toilet. The owner and only employee of the agency is 27 year old Misha Kulikov (Nikita Yefremov), a mathematics genius and former Oxford student who dropped out five years ago and now takes up any orders as a kind of "fixer". But Russian clients of Kulikov in London have problems more of the domestic type than of criminal...

Cast
  • Nikita Yefremov as Misha Kulikov - founder and senior partner of the agency "Londongrad"
  • Ingrid Olerinskaya as Alisa Zagorskaya - daughter of an oligarch, junior partner of the agency "Londongrad"
  • Pavel Ilyin as Stepan Sysoev - former policeman, now - driver of the agency "Londongrad"
  • Sergey Rost as Boris Brikman - lawyer and main client of the agency
  • Regina Miannik as Jeanne Brickman - Boris's wife, former model and aspiring actress
  • Eugene Morozov as Oleg Dorokhov - Misha's friend from Oxford
  • Kirill Dubrovitsky as Viktor Sergeevich Zagorsky - Alisa's father, a major Moscow construction businessman
  • Alexander Ilyin as Alexey - Zagorsky's aide
  • Andrei Kaverin as Alexey Danilin - a young and successful businessman, Zagorsky's main competitor
  • Sergei Yushkevich as Gleb Tsygankov (man in a raincoat) - Misha's mysterious creditor
  • Artem Osipov as Pavel Grigoryevich Kulikov - Mikhail's older brother, talented programmer from St. Petersburg
  • Elena Valushkina as Pasha and Misha's mother - teacher from Manchester
  • Sergei Lanbamin as Gennady Vadimovich Akimov - resident of the Foreign Intelligence Service at the Russian Embassy in the UK
  • Nikita Panfilov as Vadim Komarov - chef at the restaurant "Less", friend of the agency
  • Maria Zykov as hacker Sasha / FIS agent "Viktoria"

Ratings

The series premiered successfully on the STS channel. The first episode of Londongrad was watched by every fifth Moscow resident. The project, according to TNS Russia, became the leader in its slot in Moscow among all TV channels, with a share of 20.9% in the audience of 10-45 and a share of 27.5% among viewers aged 11 to 34.[4] In the category of viewers older than four years old, the first season started with a rating of 2.5 and a share of 8.7,[5] by the beginning of the second season the rating had dropped to 1.7, and the share had dropped to 5.4,[6] after which the series ceased to be in the top 10 programs of STS.[7] The reason for the decreased viewer interest was that the ruble dropped after the first season (1-16 episodes) and for financial reasons the rest of the episodes were no longer shot on location.[8][2]

References
  1. Shaun Walker. "Londongrad: TV comedy shows London through eyes of its Russian inhabitants". The Guardian.
  2. "Londongrad: New TV series on Russian expats in London". BBC.
  3. "'Londongrad': Russian TV Premieres First Ever Show Set and Shot in London". The Hollywood Reporter.
  4. "Великолепный старт нового сезона канала СТС". STS channel.
  5. "Данные по аудитории Россия (города 100 тыс.+) 07/09/2015 — 13/09/2015 Программы-лидеры на канале СТС". MediaScope.
  6. "Данные по аудитории Россия (города 100 тыс.+) 05/10/2015 — 11/10/2015 Программы-лидеры на канале СТС". MediaScope.
  7. "Данные по аудитории Россия (города 100 тыс.+) 12/10/2015 — 18/10/2015 Программы-лидеры на канале СТС". MediaScope.
  8. "Всё о современных российских сериалах. Часть 2". SNC.

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