Then there's the rapist, Qian Feng. Tian Yuan cheated on his wife multiple times. When Yano Koji was making money in China, China was like a loving father to him; but after returning home, he spoke ill of Chinese people and belittled them.

Xiao Wu from South Korea sells counterfeit goods whenever he has free time.

Wang XX is completely illiterate, doesn't even recognize the Chinese character for "traveler" (游), was a petty thug, went to South Korea to train for two and a half years, and came back to become a top celebrity overnight. Can you believe this incompetent person actually obtained a host qualification certificate?!

Teacher He would often go to the leaders' homes to give gifts.

Xie, you crazy woman, pretending to be stupid and acting crazy, associating with whoever is popular is fine, but you're wrong to support a mistress to climb to the top, to promote your brother Jie, to buy fans and spend money to promote him, and to use shady tactics to help him rise to the top.

Fatty Du, upon seeing G-Dragon, immediately knelt down and fawned over the Korean. He has absolutely no bottom line as a host. No one cares if you fawn over someone in private, but to do it on a TV show is to utterly disgrace Chinese people.

She's still selling secondhand items at high prices on secondhand platforms, ripping off fans along with Shen Mengchen. Birds of a feather flock together.

It seems like employees of Hunan TV always have a sense of superiority, from top to bottom, inside and out.

"So, Mr. Song, please just say what you have to say."

Song Jiongming smiled: "President Shen speaks frankly. I've heard about that Super Girl project. Hunan TV is making quite a splash. If they can do it, why can't our Shanghai TV station do it too?"

"You want to start a match?"

Song Jiongming nodded: "That's right."

Shen Fang stroked his chin: "Is it necessary?"

"It's necessary. We're not fighting for the steamed buns, we're fighting for our pride. Even if we can't beat him, I'll still disgust him to death," Song Jiongming said viciously.

Um... the hatred of having one's wife stolen is irreconcilable...

However, it's not impossible.

“Song Tai, if you really want to fight, Longteng can cooperate. However, the production cost of this kind of mass talent show is not a small matter, not to mention manpower, material resources, and all other aspects.”

Song Jiongming looked at Shen Fang: "As long as we can snatch food from Hunan TV's mouth and disgust them, Shanghai TV will give us its full support."

Shen Fang laughed: "I actually have a plan here. Hunan TV is doing Super Girl, and we can do Happy Boy. It's the same talent show. They choose female singers, and we choose male singers. We can follow their methods and procedures. I will have the person in charge, Long Danni and Ma Dong, come over to oversee the details. But please don't tell anyone. It's not proper to try to do both."

Song Jiongming slapped his forehead: "I forgot about that. Oh right, let's have a male talent show. Okay, it's settled then. I'll make him sick of me."

"Regarding the online copyright, we need Shanghai TV to authorize Tencent Video, and we will need to transfer the live broadcast to the internet."

Song Jiongming nodded: "No problem."

While online broadcasting may divert some viewers, how many people actually watch programs online these days? Television stations don't seem to value this new media much.

As they ate and chatted, Pansy Ho thoughtfully placed a piece of crab meat on Zhang Gui's plate, without any hesitation. At the table, she always smiled and stared directly into Chen Fang's eyes.

She just felt that this man was really charming, talking eloquently and giving advice on current affairs. Men are most handsome when they are working, and Shen Fang was already very handsome.

"Actually, the reason I came here this time is to make Shanghai Media Group a new force to be reckoned with."

Song Jiongming put down his wine glass and frowned upon hearing this: "Creating a faction? You're thinking too simply, Xiao Fang. The Shanghai clique has existed for a long time, but it has never really taken off. Do you know why?"

Shen Fang nodded: "Of course I know. The State Administration of Radio, Film and Television has the right to review films. Only Beijing has that kind of authority."

Wu Shaohua laughed: "Since you know this, why did you still bring up this idea? In this industry, you can't make a name for yourself just by making TV dramas, because without the right to self-censor and final review of films, the Shanghai film circle has never been able to develop."

The Shanghai, Northwest, and Northeast film and television circles used to be considered the cradle of China's film and television industry. Why did they decline in the past? Apart from a large number of talented people emerging from the Beijing circle, an important reason was the loss of the final approval power.

Without censorship rights, whether you're filming a script or submitting a finished film for review, you need to go north. Film review generally takes at least a month, and you can only release it after approval. That says a month, but that includes the time spent traveling, sensitive topics, and shots—you'll have to spend money to hire people to work on them.

You say you just won't film anything sensitive, but sorry, how strict is China's film censorship? Compared to the rest of the world, it's arguably the strictest. Gore, violence, explicit content, nudity, politics, and so on—you can't film any of that. But if you want to attract viewers, who's going to watch a movie if you don't film something provocative? Back then, the mainstream directors were mostly from the 6th, 5th, and 7th generations. These people were full of raunchy ideas; basically, anything that got released on the big screen was covered in sensitive material.

Not only is time wasted on submissions for review, but if you want to develop, why don't you establish a presence in Beijing? Sorry, don't overthink it. If you're not a local media company, then you're an outsider. Between outsiders and locals, who comes first? Locals always help locals; that's the unspoken rule.

Shen Fang smiled: "Isn't this year the document was issued from the bottom up? It seems that Shanghai is about to have the right to conduct its own reviews."

Song Jiongming smiled slightly.

"The local review system was actually delegated as early as 2000. At that time, the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television delegated the film review power to local radio and television bureaus for the first time, and seven provinces and cities, including Beijing, Shanghai, eastern Guangdong, Jilin, Shaanxi, Hubei and Zhejiang, were included in the pilot provinces."

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