In 2012.

Qinzhou.

TA City.

Star Entertainment Company Headquarters.

Variety Show Production Department.

The atmosphere in the conference room was somewhat oppressive.

Producer Zhao Ya sat on the main seat, her pretty face was frosty, her brows were furrowed, her white fingers with red nail polish on her right hand tapped lightly on the table, and her left hand was flipping through the documents in her hand.

The rest of the creative team shrunk their shoulders like ostriches, and sat on the side tremblingly.

Everyone even lowered the sound of breathing to the minimum, and their bodies were tense, for fear that they would accidentally pop out of a fart and touch Zhao Ya's moldy head.

Chen Yi, as one of the three deputy planners of the "Variety Show Joy" program team, also sat silently on the side.

Chen Yi is 24 years old this year, originally a student in the literature department of Qinzhou Film Academy, according to the trajectory of a normal literature student, he should go directly to work in a film and television company after graduating from university.

Unfortunately, when he was a sophomore, his father fell seriously ill and died after ineffective treatment, leaving the family with a debt of 500,000 yuan.

The family has lost its backbone, and there is no main source of income, and his sister, who is three years younger than him, is also going to college, and his mother is just a traditional housewife, and after his father died, he found a job in a supermarket in his mother, but how can that salary be enough to afford two college students, not to mention the huge debt.

As the saying goes, the eldest brother is like a father, after thinking about it, Chen Yi resolutely dropped out of school, and then entered the variety show production department of Star Entertainment under the introduction of a friend.

He was under heavy pressure, worked diligently, did not dare to relax in the slightest, and climbed up step by step from chores, props, locations, and announcements, and it took him four years to finally become the deputy planner of the "Variety Show" program.

However, the good times didn't last long, and the show couldn't go on.

"Variety Show" is a talk show that airs on Qinzhou TV from 11 to 12 p.m. every Monday to Thursday.

The TV station was very dissatisfied with this and had already issued an ultimatum that if the ratings of the program did not improve within half a month, the program would be directly suspended.

The senior management of the TV station called the deputy director of the variety show production department of Star Entertainment, and the deputy director made a lot of losses, and the accumulated anger quickly burned to the "Variety Show Joy" program team, and I heard that the cup was dropped during the producer's morning meeting in the morning.

The ratings of the show have declined, and the biggest person in charge is Zhao Ya, who is the producer.

Fortunately, Zhao Ya is a woman, and she is an extremely beautiful woman, otherwise the director's foaming star can make Zhao Ya wash her face several times.

......

The sound of fingers tapping on the table stopped abruptly, Zhao Ya closed the document in his hand, his eyes swept over everyone, and said expressionlessly:

"The ratings are declining, and everyone in our creative team is responsible, and I, as a producer, have an unshirkable responsibility.

But now is not the time to hold accountable, but to immediately adjust the program and respond to it, and never let the program stop broadcasting.

Once the show is off the air, it will inevitably become a stain on our professional resume, and everyone will not have good fruit to eat. You are all old people, and I don't need to say much about the cruelty of the industry, and I hope you can fully realize the seriousness of the problem. ”

Zhao Ya is a typical strong woman in the workplace, shrewd and capable, and resolute, otherwise she would not have become a producer at the age of thirty.

Her oppressive gaze swept over everyone, and everyone sat up straight unconsciously.

"Everybody talks about what they think about how they can save the ratings. ”

Speaking of this, Zhao Ya's gaze paused from the seat on her right, and the corners of her mouth lifted a sneering arc, and said:

"Planning Zhang is well-informed, so let's start with Lao Qian. ”

The entertainment company is strictly hierarchical, and the seats are ranked according to their status in the program group, and the person who originally sat on Zhao Ya's right hand should be Zhang Yice, the chief planner of "Variety Show".

But a few days ago, Zhang Yice saw that the ratings of the program had repeatedly declined, so he applied for transfer and directly smeared oil on the soles of his feet.

Zhang Yice was able to run all the way because he had a good father and was a seasoned producer of Star Entertainment, and when he saw that the situation was not good, he was transferred out of the program team to avoid the limelight.

As for Chen Yi and others, they have no background, so they can only live and die with the show.

Qian Jihua was named, his face was bitter, and he said cautiously:

"Now talk shows have already entered a bottleneck, the homogenization is serious, the themes come and go, and the programs are all those regular units, which is the dilemma faced by all talk programs.

Those well-known artists with their own ratings are reluctant to come to our small show, and the performances of those announced artists are not too fresh......"

Before Qian Jihua finished speaking, he was interrupted by Zhao Ya waving his hand, his delicate face was shrouded in evil, and he said coldly:

"I want you to provide a solution, not to complain to me, the topic of the show is old, then think of ideas to open up new topics!

The director wants ratings, the TV station wants ratings, and the advertiser wants ratings, do these grievances help the ratings?!"

Qian Planning is a few years older than Zhao Ya, but he was dripping with Zhao Yaxun's cold sweat, and he didn't dare to let a fart go.

Next, Zhao Ya asked the second deputy planner, the other party swallowed his saliva, and with the experience of the past, he racked his brains to think of a few topics, but it was still not novel and interesting enough, and they were all rejected.

If there was a good theme, it would have been used a long time ago, so how could it be left until now.

The atmosphere in the conference room became more and more solemn, and the air seemed to freeze.

In the end, Zhao Ya set her eyes on Chen Yi, but she didn't let Chen Yi speak, raised her hand and looked at her watch, waved her hand a little tiredly, and said:

"It seems that no one will be able to come up with any good themes for a while, so be it, everyone will go back after work and think about it, prepare the theme well, and discuss it in the morning tomorrow morning.

In addition, Xiao Zhang, you continue to contact those well-known artists, I don't care what method you use, what I want is the result. ”

"I'll do my best to get in touch. Xiao Zhang, who was in charge of the announcement, hurriedly agreed.

"What I want is not to do my best, but to do your best!" Zhao Ya said with blazing eyes.

At the end, she looked at Chen Yi:

"Xiao Chen, you just took seven days of sick leave a while ago, are you feeling better?"

Chen Yi hurriedly said: "Thank you Sister Zhao for your concern, it's already much better." ”

"That's good, since you're coming to work, cheer me up, you have responded well to several themes on the premise, and now you have to think about it carefully, the program team is exactly when you need it. ”

Chen Yi hurriedly nodded yes.

......

After the meeting, Zhao Ya went directly to her independent office, and everyone rushed out, returned to their workstations, packed up their things, and prepared to get off work.

"Hey, what if the show stops broadcasting?"

"It's not like I'm unemployed, the company should assign us to other program groups, but the treatment is definitely not as good as now, when I think of my mortgage, hey, it's really a big head. ”

"As a loser, I went to other program groups, and people didn't treat us well. ”

The atmosphere of the creative group was quite bleak, and everyone whispered a lot of discussions.

......

Compared with the uneasiness of others, Chen Yi seemed quite calm and did not participate in the discussion.

"The decline in ratings is a major crisis for the program team, but it is a rare opportunity for me. ”

Chen Yi's eyes lit up.

His confidence is related to the fact that he was sick and took leave a while ago.

Seven days ago, Chen Yi had a drink with two roommates at night and went to bed drunk.

After falling asleep, he dreamed that he had come to a parallel world called Earth and became another person also named Chen Yi.

That Chen has also worked as a TV station program planner, an advertising director, a crew, and even made a movie that is not popular, and has been in the entertainment media industry all his life.

In the past seven days, once he fell asleep, he became the same Chen Yi as if he was possessed by his soul, and he didn't return to normal until yesterday.

Under normal circumstances, he can't remember what he dreamed when he woke up from a dream, and he really can't remember other things clearly, but he has a deep memory of all kinds of knowledge about entertainment.

Every variety show, every movie, every novel, and every song that Chen Yi has watched seems to be engraved in his mind.

I can't remember anything else, but I have a deep memory of entertainment knowledge, why is this?

Chen also thought about why.

In the end, it was concluded that it may be that "Chen Yi" in parallel time and space is too obsessed, and his desire to become a great director is rooted in the depths of his soul and he never forgets it, resulting in some kind of abnormality.

"God has given me such a large amount of wealth, and I must firmly seize this opportunity to create a wonderful life. ”

Chen Yi retracted his flying thoughts, his fists clenched slightly, "Then, everything starts with saving the ratings of "Variety Show". ”