It was broadcast on TV screens in Ukraine and Russia from 18 May 1996 to 1999, combining the Ukrainian language with Russian and surzhyk.
[1] Filming for the new episodes stopped in 1998, when the show's creators decided that it should be closed so as not to lose quality due to a lack of new ideas.
At the beginning there is a meeting where the director scolds the staff or talks about his next plan to raise the popularity of the show, to save money, etc.
Since the early 2000s the phraseme of the "dovhonosyky show" has been known to refer to meaningless and/or comic events in Ukrainian politics.
[4][5][6] In 2013, the Russian website oKino included the Dovhonosyky Show as one of the turning points of Ukrainian television.