As the sun sets, the sky turns a bright red.
At the Apple TV building, the recruitment interviews for the "Super Challenge" program crew's field staff have ended.
"Brother Zhong, want one?"
"Um."
Click...whoosh whoosh.
In the bathroom, a Mediterranean man lit a cigarette for another bald middle-aged man. The two smokers had been holding back for a whole day, and now they could finally smoke. It was so cool.
"Brother Zhong, you said our location crew is just hiring a few temporary workers, so why did Director Li come in person to interview them? Isn't that a bit..."
The Mediterranean man blew out a smoke ring, glanced outside the door, and whispered to the bald middle-aged man.
Luo Hui is the deputy director of the location crew of "Super Challenge". He was a little depressed today. He sat next to the chief director Li Wan during the recruitment process and didn't dare to say a word.
"That's understandable. The ratings for our show were so high in the first season, but they started to drop in the second. The station replaced Li Wan as the chief director in the hope that she could be the savior. Li Wan is under a lot of pressure."
The bald middle-aged man is called Zhong Lili, and he is the director of the location crew. He obviously knows more than Luo Hui.
"The station has analyzed the format of our show and found it's still a bit monotonous, which can easily lead to audience fatigue. Li Wan is young and has ideas, so he might be able to bring more creativity to the show."
"So Director Li broke the tradition of not having regular female guests on 'Super Challenge' and invited Lin Yao as a regular guest?"
After hearing Zhong Liliang's revelations, Luo Hui suddenly realized something, then frowned again:
"But even though Lin Yao is very popular now, she has never participated in a variety show. Director Li's move is quite risky."
"You don't understand this. Li Wan's approach is actually the safest." Zhong Liliang chuckled, threw the cigarette into the trash can, and continued:
"It is the most difficult to innovate a program like ours. I heard that the planning team has not come up with any ideas that satisfy Li Wan, so the best way at the moment is not to innovate in the program content, but to change the guest structure.
A female celebrity like Lin Yao, who is popular, beautiful, and topical, is the best choice. She doesn't need to have a sense of variety, she just needs to be a good vase and attract traffic. "
"Brother Zhong is still standing high up and seeing things clearly."
Luo Hui was impressed by Zhong Lili's analysis. He couldn't help but touch the sparse hair on his head, hoping that those few hairs would fall off as soon as possible so that he could become as strong as Brother Zhong.
The sun sets completely and night falls.
The lights were still on in a director's office at Apple TV. Li Wan was sitting at his desk, looking at the planning proposal for the first episode of the third season of "Super Challenge".
She has read this plan no less than ten times. The plan is perfect in details, completely inheriting all the advantages of the previous two seasons and even optimizing the details.
But Li Wan knew that this was not enough.
The audience has become a little tired of the format of "Super Challenge", which can be seen from the obvious decline in ratings in the latter few episodes of the second season.
When the station chose me to be the chief director of the third season, it clearly stated a requirement - to regain the top spot in the variety show ratings!
To achieve this goal, "Super Challenge" must seek innovation and change.
But how can innovation be so easy?
After Li Wan took office, he promoted several young planners, but the creative ideas they came up with were not good enough. In desperation, the first episode had to continue the program format of the previous two seasons.
Putting down the plan, Li Wan rubbed his temples, picked up the landline and made a call: "Xiao Su, please bring in the information of the interviewees for the location team."
Soon, there was a knock on the door, and a petite girl with a round face and big eyes walked in with a stack of documents.
"Director Li, I want the interviewer's information."
Su Yu placed the documents on Li Wan's desk, paused, and asked with concern, "You haven't eaten yet, right? Do you want me to order takeout for you?"
"It's so late?" Li Wan realized that it was already dark outside the window. She said to Su Yu apologetically:
"I'm sorry, Xiao Su, for making you work overtime. You can go first. I'll order takeout myself."
"No, no, I still have a batch of show props to count, and I'm not in a hurry to leave. I'll be out first."
Su Yu waved her hands repeatedly. She glanced at the information on the table. The handsome guy named Fang Xiaole was placed on the first page.
After Su Yu left the office, Li Wan picked up the interview information on the table, and Fang Xiaole's name was the first one that caught her eye.
"Fang Xiaole...the bar singer with a broken voice?"
I have a deep impression of this young man Li Wan. He is tall and looks energetic. He seems to be very down-to-earth in what he says and does. The location crew needs such down-to-earth people.
But his shortcomings are also obvious. He has no experience in behind-the-scenes work on variety shows.
Li Wan took Fang Xiaole's personal information and fell into deep thought...
The next day, at eight o'clock in the morning.
After finishing morning exercise, Fang Xiaole, who was buying breakfast on the street, received a call from Su Yu.
"Hello, Fang Xiaole, do you remember me?"
The other party still spoke in that playful and lively tone. Fang Xiaole thought about it and quickly remembered her.
"Are you Assistant Su from Apple TV?"
"What Assistant Su? We are the same age. Just call me Su Yu."
Su Yu pretended to be unhappy, covering her mouth and laughing. She had read the personal information filled out by Fang Xiaole yesterday, so she knew his age.
"Excuse me, Miss Su... Miss Su, what do you want to talk to me about?"
Fang Xiaole's heart beat a little faster. He thought yesterday's interview was definitely a failure, but he didn't expect to receive a call from the Apple TV staff early in the morning.
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