Vladimír Železný is a Czech businessman and politician. He was the first CEO of TV NOVA, a popular Czech television station and was a member of the European Parliament between 2004 and 2009. As a media mogul with political influence, he has been compared to Rupert Murdoch and Silvio Berlusconi. He was convicted of tax evasion in 2007.
Miroslav Kalousek is a Czech politician, former leader of KDU-ČSL and TOP 09, and a member of the Chamber of Deputies (MP) from 1998 until his resignation in 2021. He served twice as Finance Minister in the cabinets of Mirek Topolánek and then again from 2010 to 2013 in the government of Petr Nečas.
The Czech First League, known as the FORTUNA:LIGA for sponsorship reasons, is a Czech professional league for football clubs. At the top of the Czech football league system, it is the country's primary football competition. Seasons typically run from August to May, most games are played on Saturdays and Sundays with few games played on Fridays. All Fortuna liga clubs qualify for the Czech Cup.
Television was introduced in Czechoslovakia in 1953. Experimental projects with DVB-T started in 2000. Finally on 21 October 2005, multiplex A (DVB-T) was launched with three channels of Česká televize and one of TV Nova and radio channels of Český rozhlas.
Petr Kellner was a Czech billionaire entrepreneur, the founder and majority shareholder (98.93%) of the PPF Group. At the time of his death, he had an estimated net worth of $17.5 billion, making him the wealthiest person in the Czech Republic.
The Anděl Awards is a Czech music award ceremony organized by the Czech Academy of Popular Music.
Marian Jurečka is a Czech politician, who has served as Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Labour and Social Affairs since 17 December 2021 and Minister of the Environment from November 2022 to March 2023, both in Petr Fiala's Cabinet. He was previously the Minister of Agriculture in Bohuslav Sobotka's Cabinet from 2014 to 2017.
CEFC China Energy was a Chinese conglomerate. The company was among the 10 largest private companies in China in 2014. In 2017, the company was listed as 222 on the Fortune Global 500. In March 2020, the company—along with its subsidiaries CEFC Shanghai International and CEFC Hainan International—was declared bankrupt. The company used a complex web of affiliated companies to facilitate fake deals, inflate trade figures, and obtain bank loans to fuel its aggressive expansion.
Matrix AB is a 2015 Czech documentary film by Vít Klusák. It centers on Czech politician and businessman Andrej Babiš whom Klusák filmed for about one year with Babiš's permission. It shows Babiš in his private life and also during the political campaign for the 2013 legislative election. It also shows Babiš's business partners, critics and members of his party and their views of Babiš. These people include Martin Komárek, Jan Kasl and Sabina Slonková. There are also moments when Babiš forgets that he is being watched by cameras and says controversial things. The film ends with Babiš's reaction to the film where he calls it a "dirty trick".
A week with the President was a Czech Journalist television program broadcast by TV Barrandov. The first episode was broadcast on 16 March 2017. It was presented by Petr Kolář and Alex Mynářová, as they interviewed Czech president Miloš Zeman, who commented on current events. It quickly became one of the most viewed journalistic programs in the Czech Republic. The program was considered part of Zeman's re-election campaign for the 2018 presidential election. It was discontinued in January 2020.
Simona Postlerová was a Czech film, stage and television actress.
Jana Černochová is a Czech politician who has served as Minister of Defence in the Cabinet of Petr Fiala since December 2021. She has been a member of the Czech parliament since 2010, representing the Civic Democratic Party (ODS).
Petr Bystron is a German politician. He was a candidate for Munich North for the Bundestag during the German federal election in 2017 for the far-right Alternative for Germany party. Czech intelligent service BIS presented evidence in 2024 that Bystron was bribed by Russia to represent its interests in the European Parliament and German Bundestag.
The Cabinet of Petr Fiala is the current government of the Czech Republic, appointed on 17 December 2021. Following elections in October 2021, President Miloš Zeman asked Petr Fiala, as the leader of the Spolu alliance, to form a new government. On 17 November 2021 Fiala presented Zeman with the names of his proposed cabinet, and Zeman agreed to appoint Fiala as the new Prime Minister on 28 November 2021.
Premiér is a Czech television sitcom that was broadcast in 2019 by TV Barrandov. The series deals with the office of the government, and the title role of the newly elected Czech Prime Minister Pavel Diviš was played by the owner and director of the television Jaromír Soukup himself, who presented and moderated nine other Barrandov programs at the time of the series premiere. The first episode premiered on October 9, 2019. A total of nine episodes were created, the last of which was shown on October 22, 2019. The regular footage of the piece was 20 minutes, the creators of the show and the individual actors were not mentioned in the credits of the series.
Jindřich Rajchl is a Czech political activist, lawyer and former football ambassador. He gained a public profile as a leader of demonstrations against measures to control the COVID-19 pandemic in the Czech Republic, and subsequently also against the government of Petr Fiala. He is widely considered to be a participant in the spread of misinformation in the Czech Republic.
Barrandov Krimi is the third TV channel of the TV Barrandov group. It started airing on 16 May 2015. It is the next launched channel of the TV Barrandov group after the Kino Barrandov channel, which started broadcasting a month earlier.
Ondřej Kolář is a Czech politician and lawyer who has been a member of the Chamber of Deputies of the Czech Republic since 2021. He was mayor of the Prague 6 district from 2014 until 2022. According to the Phoenix Research survey, Kolář was the second-most popular mayor of Prague in 2017.
The 13th StarDance series is an upcoming dancing reality TV show, scheduled to premiere in October 2024. Hosts in this series are again Marek Eben and Tereza Kostková. Jury Zdeněk Chlopčík was replaced by Jan Tománek. Choreographer Marek Zelinka was replaced by Ivana Hannichová and Martin Kolda.
OK TV is a Czech television channel, launched in 2024. It started broadcast on 16 May 2024. It is described as entertainment-lifestyle and music television. It focuses on positive programming without violence and without reports focused on war conflicts or other negative events.
