In mid-September, autumn is in full swing.

Al Jazeera's new variety show "Brother I Know" has received a good response.

The ratings of the first episode exceeded 2%, becoming another successful variety show launched by the TV station after "The Masked Singer".

On the other hand, the new online variety show "New Journey to the West" filmed by Luo Yingxi PD and Jiang Hudong, a former member of "Two Days and One Night", also successfully appeared on the online platform of naver TV, and the program relied on the feelings of "Two Days and One Night" and the tacit performance of Jiang Hudong and others, and the video has reached 10 million views in 5 days after it was released.

In addition, this is the first variety show to be broadcast simultaneously between Huaxia and South Korea, and it has also received a very high number of playback clicks on Huaxia's contracted video website.

Moreover, as the topic of the two variety shows has risen, more and more viewers have also noticed that the two programs "Brother I Know" and "New Journey to the West" are both under the hands of Al Jazeera President Shen Zhengyuan.

It also made Shen Zhengyuan in the limelight for a while, and he became one of the variety show producers with the highest topics in South Korea.

Just when the outside world was discussing Shen Zhengyuan's variety show production ability more and more intensely, Al Jazeera suddenly announced a news that pushed Shen Zhengyuan and Al Jazeera to the cusp.

On September 17, Al Jazeera announced that it would produce the station's first TV series, "The Producer".

And announced that actor Cha Tae-hyun and national sister IU have been confirmed to appear in the play.

It is understood that the script of the TV series "Producer" is also written by Shen Zhengyuan, which is the TV series "Dragon Bayi" that Al Jazeera and SBS tried to shoot, and once again took charge of the creation of the TV script, and focused the content of the TV series on the field of variety shows that he is most familiar with.

The plot mainly tells the story of Bai Seungcan, who does not understand the world, "unintentionally" entering the variety show, knowing how to live in the real society in the collision with Luo Junmo, Zhuo Yizhen, Cindy and other work partners, understanding the cruelty of the real world, and understanding the importance of not forgetting the original intention, and gradually growing into a mature PD.

Cha Tae-hyun said through the agency: "The script is very attractive to me, especially the description of the behind-the-scenes of variety shows by screenwriter Shen, which is full of reality, so that he, an actor who has starred in variety shows all year round, can't help but empathize." ”

IU also immediately issued a statement: "I will try my best to play my role well, so that everyone can see a completely different actor Lee Ji-eun." ”

In the face of Shen Zhengyuan, Al Jazeera suddenly announced the filming of the first TV series.

The response on the web has been mixed.

On the one hand, it is natural to express support for the TV station's TV series.

"Looking forward to it, I have liked President Shen's TV series since "Dragon Bayi", and this time I finally waited for Al Jazeera to produce its own TV series. ”

"Al Jazeera's first TV series, I wonder what it will be like?"

"Now that Cha Taehyun has taken over the script, he said that it shouldn't be too bad. ”

"IU has finally started filming a new drama again, and there has been no news since the "Infinite Challenge" ballad festival. ”

Judging from the introduction of the new drama "The Producer", it should be the same as the previous "Dragon Bayi", which is a TV series mainly focused on workplace majors. ”

"Behind the scenes of variety shows, I've always been curious, I don't know what it's like?"

There is a side of praise, and naturally there are a lot of harsh comments.

"The Producer doesn't look forward to the plot much when I hear the name. ”

"Al Jazeera has no experience in filming TV dramas in the past, and I don't think TV stations can shoot good TV series, after all, there are so many cable stations, and there are not many TV series that can shoot good TV series. ”

"It's true that not long ago, a cable station also tried to shoot a TV series, but it failed, and the ratings of the first TV series were not even 1%, and it was hastily closed after a few episodes. ”

"After all, variety shows and TV series are two completely different worlds. ”

"Variety TV series, is it still a TV series?"

"Cha Tae-hyun hasn't had a good work for a long time, and this time he actually agreed to the invitation of the TV series of the cable station, and he is simply going back more and more. ”

"Lee Ji-eun is starring in a TV series again, and obviously he doesn't have much acting skills. ”

The outside world has not paid much attention to the good or bad evaluation of the drama "The Producer".

Before the official filming of the TV series, any discussion was just an expression of popularity, and there was no other superfluous use except for bringing popularity to Shen Zhengyuan.

In fact, Shen Zhengyuan's current focus is on the casting of the other two leading actors in the drama "The Producer".

Regarding the casting of the characters in the play, although the staff of the TV station have worked quite hard, the result is not as ideal as Shen Zhengyuan thought.

On top of Zhuo Yizhen's role, there are already some eyebrows, and a suitable actress has been found, and the TV station also sent an invitation to the other party's agency, and the other party obviously expressed a certain intention to perform, but because the actor himself has a fixed variety show starring relationship, there may be certain difficulties in the filming schedule of the TV series.

However, Shen Zhengyuan didn't care much about this.

After all, Cha Tae-hyun, another leading actor in the play, also starred in KBS's "Two Days and One Night", as long as it does not affect the normal filming process of the TV series, it is not too difficult to adjust the filming of the TV series to some extent according to the actors' schedules in the play.

Cho Ye-jin's role is not a big problem, but the other role starring Baek Seung-chan is not so smooth.

The TV station asked many actors from brokerage companies, and they were willing to appear in a large number of films, after all, just with the starring lineup announced by "The Producer" at present, Cha Tae-hyun and IU are enough to attract a lot of attention, plus Baek Seung-chan appears as the starring actor in the whole drama.

Young actors who are eager to come out will naturally not let go of this opportunity.

It's just that it's one thing for young actors to be willing to act, but Shen Zhengyuan can't just find an actor and easily hand over the role of "TV Series Starring" without caring about anything.

"The Producer" is the first self-made TV series on the TV station, and Shen Zhengyuan has shown considerable attention in all aspects. After all, this is a TV series that has invested real resources, and if it fails, for the current Al Jazeera, although it will not return to the pre-liberation period, it will definitely be a nerve-wracking degree.

With such a risk, Shen Zhengyuan naturally can't just find a young actor to shoot a TV series.

First of all, actors who don't have much experience in TV drama shooting directly give up considering, the TV station itself has no experience in TV drama shooting, and then find a leading actor with no experience in TV dramas, isn't it looking for a problem for yourself. Immediately afterwards, according to the image of the characters in the play, another batch of actors were brushed......

In short, there are many young actors who come and go, but they have never been able to find a candidate that Shen Zhengyuan is satisfied with.

Kim so-hyun in "The Producer" impressed him too deeply, and under his preconceived ideas, he couldn't find the actor he liked.

"No, I'll do it myself, right?"