Thank God you have come!

In each program there are four participants, which are famous people (in the releases of 2019, three participants). Usually the three guests are men, and the fourth guest is a woman. Each of them must make his own improvisation: put on a costume issued by the costumers of the program and go into a special room. Actors of the program group greet the guest with the title phrase “Thank God you have come!” (Or its variations, with rare exceptions). Next, the participant is asked the questions prescribed by the miniature script, which he should answer as funny as possible. The improvisation is stopped by the judge by pressing the red button that makes a loud sound. The program ends with a “general" improvisation, in which all four participants participate. After all five improvisations, the judge determines the winner, who, in his opinion, was the best, and gives him a prize - a plastic figurine in the form of a door.

Since 2018, at the beginning of each issue, a song has been performed by Sergey Svetlakov’s children's choir ^[3] .

2006—2010

Since 2018

Season 1

Season 2

Season 3

Season 4

Season 5

Season 6

Season 7

In the fall of 2012, Nezavisimaya Gazeta , citing the press service of STS, reported that the channel planned to resume filming the program ^[4] , which was to be held on October 30 and 31, 2012 ^[5] . Later filming was postponed to November. Production was supposed to be handled by the production company of Alexander Tsekalo “ Sreda ”, where at that time most of the team of season 1 worked, and Tsekalo himself was to become the judge again ^[6] . However, the channel urgently and without giving any reason completely canceled the shootings, which, according to Tatyana Lazareva (wife of Mikhail Shatz), is a reaction to Shatz joining the Coordination Council of the Russian opposition ^[7] .

In July 2018, it became known that the project was decided to resume, the judge and producer was Sergey Svetlakov , who had previously participated in the tenth issue of the first season, creative producer - Alexander Nezlobin , who was a participant in the fifth issue of the third season, the producer - previously worked as a creative producer of the first season and screenwriter The first 50 issues of the show are Ruslan Sorokin ^{[8] [9]} . In September, a new presenter was announced - Igor Vernik , who had previously participated in the first release of season 3 on May 2, 2009. The previous presenter Mikhail Shatz admitted that he hoped until the last that he would lead the program again ^[10] . In turn, the general producer of STS Anton Fedotov said that he invited Shatz to come to the shooting as a guest ^[11] , and he eventually agreed, taking part in the 84th issue ^[12] . Subsequently, Schatz himself got sick again to conduct the show ^[13] .

To improve the quality of the television project, the creators went to a more expensive production model: for one shooting day, only one release of the program is shot ^[14] (two releases were shot a day earlier). The premiere of the updated show took place on October 26, 2018 at 22:00 ^[15] .

At the beginning of 2019, the project was extended for season 7, in which Alexander Nezlobin became the lead ^[16] , working behind the scenes, while Svetlakov speaks alone with the participants on the stage. Также впервые за историю программы в одном выпуске передачи участвуют три человека. Незадолго до старта 7 сезона Незлобин в интервью Юрию Дудю сообщил, что недоволен качеством 6 сезона (в частности, сценариями импровизаций, не соответствовавшими первоначальным концепциям) и надеялся на более удачные итоги последующего ^[17] , а затем в августе того же года в интервью петербургскому телеканалу « 78 » заявил, что ему и его коллегам необходимо было сменить название шоу, чтобы зритель не делал сравнений с первоначальной версией, которая, по его мнению, была недостаточно динамичной и смешной ^[18] .

С 17 января по 21 февраля 2009 года по субботам на СТС выходил спецпроект «Слава Богу, ты пришёл! Лучшее», где были показаны лучшие импровизации первого и второго сезонов шоу ^[19] .

ТЭФИ 2008 — в номинации «Развлекательная программа: юмор» ^[20] .

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Sources

• Официальный сайт программы «Слава Богу, ты пришёл!» на сайте СТС
• Форум программы на сайте СТС
• Thank God you have come! на сайте YBW Group
• «Слава Богу, ты пришёл!»: Где у Галыгина находится кнопка? (секреты шоу) // Комсомольская правда , 16 июля 2009