Chapter 880 980. Longing for Life (Part 1)

Chapter 880 980. Longing for Life (Part 1)

During the development process in recent years, the variety show department of Fanxing has obviously become the undisputed overlord of the Chinese variety show circle.

From the very beginning of "Infinite Challenge" to the later "We Got Married", "Super Heart" and "Strange Talk", etc., one after another high-quality variety shows have occupied the throne of China's weekend prime time for several years.

However, no matter how good a variety show is, it has a lifespan.

Just like a dish, no matter how delicious it is, if you keep eating it, you will obviously get tired of it.

At present, the two ace variety shows of the variety show department of Fanxing are "Infinite Challenge" and "We Got Married".

Because the former has been seeking various challenges and changes, even though it has been broadcast for several years, it still maintains a good ratings and reputation, especially those ace units, such as the pursuit battle, the song festival, etc., which often detonate the ratings.

This variety show has long been regarded by everyone in the industry as an unrepeatable legendary variety show.

Another show, "We Got Married", has not been doing so well since the beginning of this year. Especially compared with the continued popularity of "Infinite Challenge", the ratings of "We Got Married" have begun to show a clear downward trend.

In the ratings report for April this year, the ratings of this variety show have directly dropped to the lowest point since its launch.

Although it still maintains an average rating of 1.26 and still ranks first in the same period, it should be noted that when this show was the most popular, the average ratings were maintained above 5, leaving the programs below it far behind, but now the ratings are no longer that overwhelming.

This is unacceptable to everyone in the variety show department of Fanxing.

They first wanted to find the reason for the rapid decline in the performance of "We Got Married", but after finding the reason, they helplessly found that even if they knew the reason, they would find it difficult to reverse it.

Reality shows, to put it bluntly, still rely on real people.

Although the show also has a script, it basically only gives a framework, and it mainly relies on the guests to play freely.

The highlights that come from natural interactions are what the audience likes to watch.

In order to keep the audience fresh about the guests, each group of guests will basically only participate in 20 to 30 episodes of "We Got Married". After this period, a new group of guests will be replaced. Even if it is a popular guest group, there will be only 52 episodes at most.

But this is also a key to the decline in popularity, that is, as the popular guest group leaves, a group of audiences will also leave.

If the new group cannot quickly attract the attention of the audience, the ratings of the variety show itself will inevitably decline.

So on the one hand, you want to maintain freshness, and on the other hand, you want to keep the popularity unchanged. This is like you can't have your cake and eat it too. Especially with the continuous emergence of similar programs, although they can't challenge the status of "We Got Married", they have indeed snatched away a lot of audiences.

Finally, the variety show department of Fanxing decided to make a new variety show to replace the trump card program "We Got Married".

It happened that a variety show called "The Birth of a Family" was being broadcast in South Korea, which was about a group of hosts going to the countryside to experience life. This gave the people in the variety show department of Fanxing inspiration.

Of course, they did not copy the model of the variety show "The Birth of a Family", but created a brand new variety reality show with rural life as the core.

The name is "Longing for Life".

This variety show has nothing in common with "The Birth of a Family" except that it also focuses on rural life.

For example, "The Birth of a Family" basically just stays in a place for two days and one night, and helps with farm work by the way, taking the "guerrilla warfare" approach.

But "Longing for Life" belongs to the kind of "positional warfare", directly arranging the host in a small village, giving them a house and a few plots of land, and then letting them live a self-sufficient life, and of course entertaining guests by the way.

Ma Dong found Nie Wei, hoping that Nie Wei could come to be the guest of the first episode of this program, and strive to make this program a good start.

Nie Wei was also "scared" by Shu Chang's pestering, so he agreed.

The filming location of the program is in a small mountain village near Wuling Mountain in Miyun County, not far from Kyoto.

Although this place is not far from Kyoto, it seems like a paradise. On the way to the small mountain village, Nie Wei looked at the photos of the small village taken by the program team. He didn't expect that there would be such a beautiful and peaceful place near Kyoto.

"This small village has only 58 households, about 200 people. It takes 20 minutes to drive to the nearest town. The place where the shooting took place is a new house built on a piece of land bought by our company. The overall structure is brick and wood. The style is rural style, and all the equipment is also original. For example, the stove is used for cooking, and there is a stone mill in the courtyard, etc...."

"Are you going to embarrass the hosts?" Nie Wei couldn't help laughing when listening to the introduction of the program director Wang Zhengyu.

"It's okay. We specially selected Mr. Huang Lei who can cook to ensure that they won't starve to death." Wang Zhengyu couldn't help but make a joke.

"Mr. Nie, this is the first episode of the program. You can raise any opinions you have, and you can also raise them during the program. We will improve them at any time." After the joke, Wang Zhengyu took the initiative to say.

As a director who came out of the Infinite Challenge program team, this is his first time to be in charge of a variety show independently. The key is that this variety show is also highly expected by the company, and the pressure on him is quite great.

Especially when he heard that Ma Dong invited Nie Wei, the company's big boss, to come in the first episode, he was surprised and the pressure increased dramatically.

However, after all, he is a director who has been trained in Infinite Challenge for two years, and his work ability is also recognized by the company, so even if the pressure is great, it did not overwhelm him, but made him want to do this program better.

"Don't worry, I won't show mercy." Nie Wei replied with a smile.

Wang Zhengyu nodded seriously. He was not being polite when he said that just now, but really asking Nie Wei for advice. As a company person, he knew very well that Nie Wei was quite good at variety shows. You know, the company's ace program "Infinite Challenge" is the idea proposed by Nie Wei.

With such a great god, he certainly wants to get as many useful things from him as possible. It's not just for the ratings. In Wang Zhengyu's opinion, Nie Wei's opinions are even more valuable.

"When should I leave?" Nie Wei looked at his watch. It was already eight o'clock.

Upon hearing this, Wang Zhengyu immediately asked the program team at the shooting location and learned that several hosts were about to finish the opening.

"It will take about five minutes. The program team will send me a text message notification, and then you can call." Wang Zhengyu replied.

About three or four minutes later, the program team came with a text message.

After receiving the text message notification, Wang Zhengyu handed the mobile phone that had been prepared long ago to Nie Wei. There was only one landline number saved on this mobile phone, which was obviously the number at the shooting location.

Just when Nie Wei was calling, several hosts at the shooting location were discussing what name to give their little house.

"Let's call it the cabin." Teacher Huang Lei proposed a name without any creativity. Looking at this name, you can know that it is completely determined by the appearance and furnishings of the house.

"Teacher Huang, this is too perfunctory." He Jiong, who is also one of the hosts, immediately retorted, and then did not forget to ask a young handsome guy next to him: "Yifeng, what do you think it should be called?"

"I... I don't know." Li Yifeng is obviously not very used to variety shows, so he seems a little at a loss when facing the questions thrown by He Jiong.

He Jiong saw Li Yifeng's embarrassment, so he did not pass the message to him again, but directly proposed: "I think it should be called Taoyuan House, how about it?"

"Taoyuan House? Okay, it's quite suitable." Huang Lei didn't think much after hearing He Jiong's suggestion, and directly agreed.

Li Yifeng also nodded directly. He also felt that Taoyuan House was very suitable for this place. It was obviously next to Kyoto, but it was so peaceful and peaceful, really like a paradise.

"By the way, don't we have guests? When will the guests arrive?" After confirming the name, several hosts chatted idly for a while, and Huang Lei suddenly asked the program team.

As soon as the voice fell, before the program team could answer, the phone rang in the house.

"There is a call, a call from the guest, Yifeng, go answer it." He Jiong seemed to be ordering Li Yifeng, but he was actually giving Li Yifeng a shot. As a veteran of variety shows, he knew very well that the program team would not cut out the part of answering the phone.

In this way, at least one shot of Li Yifeng can be guaranteed. Otherwise, with Li Yifeng's current state, I am afraid that he will not get a few shots in one episode, and he can only be an invisible person.

Li Yifeng is not aware of He Jiong's care for him. At this time, he just followed Mr. He's request and ran into the house to answer the phone.

"Hello, hello, this is Taoyuan House."

"Taoyuan House? Hello, I am a guest. I will be there in about two hours, so I may have lunch at your place. Can I order now?"

"Order!?" Li Yifeng was confused, but before he could come to his senses, the person on the other end of the phone had already ordered directly.

"I want to order a dish of shredded pork with Beijing sauce, and a dish of stir-fried mixed vegetables. Oh, and a dish of stir-fried lamb with green onions. Remember it? If you don't remember it, go find a paper and pen, and then I'll say it again and you write it down."

"Ah... I'll find a paper and pen right now. Wait a minute, Teacher He, where are the paper and pen?" Li Yifeng was completely led by Nie Wei's words and had no time to think.

Teacher He was also a little confused when he heard Li Yifeng's call. While helping Li Yifeng find a pen, he asked him what was wrong. When he heard that the guests were coming to lunch, Teacher He was obviously a little flustered.

"Why are the guests coming to lunch? This is too sudden."

"Shredded pork with Beijing sauce, stir-fried mixed vegetables, and stir-fried lamb with green onions, remember, these are the three dishes, right? Okay." Li Yifeng hung up the phone and then remembered that he hadn't asked the guest's name yet.

Huang Lei also walked into the house at this time to ask about the specific situation.

"Oh, this guest is really rude, but I know from the name of the dish that this person must be from Kyoto." Huang Lei guessed Nie Wei's hometown instantly after hearing the name of the dish.

However, there are at least 800 celebrities in Kyoto, so just knowing that he is from Kyoto is really useless.

Li Yifeng frowned, thinking that the voice on the phone was familiar, but he couldn't remember where he had heard it for a while, so he didn't say it in the end.

Just when everyone was guessing who the guest who suddenly ordered food was, the phone on the table rang again.

"Don't forget to ask who the guest is. I want to see who dares to instigate us like this. Teacher He and I are almost eighty years old together."

Teacher He was obviously so amused by Huang Lei's sudden self-deprecation that he laughed and lay on the kang, while Li Yifeng nodded and picked up the phone again.

But before he could ask, Li Yifeng was stunned by the voice coming from the phone over there.

Because this is not the voice of the man before, this time it is the voice of a girl.

"Hello, is this Taoyuan House?"

"Yes, yes, this is Taoyuan House, you are..." This voice also felt familiar to Li Yifeng, but the other party seemed to have adjusted the tone of his voice very naughtily, so he couldn't remember where he heard it before.

"I'm a guest. I'll be at your place in about two hours. I may have lunch at your place. Can I order now?" the girl on the other end of the phone asked directly.

"Get out of the way and give me the phone. These people are going too far. Are they treating our place as a restaurant?" Teacher Huang Lei squeezed Li Yifeng away and took the phone.

"If you want to eat, tell us first who you are?" The voice on the other side sounded like that of a young girl. Given Huang Lei's age, he asked directly without being polite.

"Teacher Huang, I want to eat fried noodles, hang up!" The girl was obviously startled by Huang Lei's voice. After ordering a fried noodles, she hung up the phone directly.

Huang Lei, who was holding the phone, suddenly had a speechless expression on his face.

"Call me Teacher Huang. I suspect that this person may be a student of Jingdian." Although Huang Lei was a little flashed by the girl's sudden hanging up the phone, he immediately found clues from the girl's title after he thought about it.

"I also think that girl's voice sounds a bit familiar. Let me think about it again." Li Yifeng frowned and continued to think hard.

At this time, Huang Lei stopped guessing. He waved his hand and said with a smile: "Don't think about it. Anyway, these two guys will come over in two hours. Then we will decide how to deal with these two 'evil guests'."

Although Huang Lei said he was a 'bad guest', he then started to prepare the ingredients for lunch, while Nie Wei and another guest also started to take the car to Taoyuan House after finishing the phone call.

After about a two-hour drive, two cars carrying guests met at the entrance of the village at the same time.

Thanks to Mr. Leng i for the generous reward, and thanks to Eris, Book Friends 2017100, Bookworm Who Loves Books, Villain Personality, Fantasy Paradise, Spotted Han Cypress, and 0773 for their generous reward.