Chapter Ninety-Three: Finalist for the Newcomer of the Year Award

Variety shows also have to evolve by themselves, a certain link that has just been created, its degree of interest is definitely not as interesting as more than ten years later, after countless experiences summed up, Zhou Xiao has not seen all the plans for the 99 final exam, but the few issues after 2011, especially the few episodes with AKB members participated, he has seen them all, just from these, and then referring to the first final exam plan in 2000 that has just been broadcast, Zhou Xiao can easily see a lot of differences.

Although the plan is someone else's, Zhou Xiao knows very well how important these differences he is going to propose, for a show, such details are the most important thing that constitutes a program, as for the real plan, it is nothing more than finding a group of people to take the exam, so it is not fun at all.

"You...... Do you still want to do variety show planning? Keiko Watanabe covered her face, although he had been prepared for Zhou Xiao's "versatility", but he even had to stretch out his hand for variety show planning, which was too lenient.

But Zhou Xiao also has his reasons, in fact, the father of AKB, Yasu Akimoto, he is also a very famous and powerful program script planner, the very, very famous "TheBestTen" in the entire eighties, he planned it with several other producers, as a music program, this music group even got 41.9% ratings, which is very amazing.

With such a senior, Zhou Xiao attaches great importance to the prestige of the TV station, and the difficulties that AKB will encounter in the future are also one of the reasons why he cares about the TV station very much.

The main reason for AKB48's popularity is the national handshake party, but in the case of a handshake party, AKB can only be a home-oriented monster combination at most. Attempts at nationalizing the AKB will be useless by shaking hands.

There is only one way to nationalize, and that is on television. They have enough haode fixtures, such as AKB's opponents in a variety of fields. Janiss's Arashi, they have "VS Lan", "Secret Lan", "Give it to Lan" and other programs broadcast in prime time all year round. And this is something that AKB has never done in the history that Zhou Xiao has experienced.

In order to master the prime-time TV station, AKB has tried many times. The show "True or False" invited Jun Tamura, who was quite influential at the time, to be the MC, with a large amount of capital investment, heavyweight guests and funny artists, but the boredom of the plan and the fact that the AKB members couldn't take the lead made the show still not get any good results. At its lowest, the ratings were only three percent.

In addition, AKB also tried to do a music program, which brought the old MC of SMAP Nakaju Masahiro and the eldest sister of the second class of general affairs Makiko Ekaku as MC, but the show was so bleak that it couldn't compare with "True or False", and it only lasted for a little more than a year before it ended quickly. (Actually, the airtime is very insufficient, and many times you have to make way for all kinds of other programs, because no one watches them at all.) )

He felt that if he could produce eye-catching programs in the five years before founding AKB, he might be able to greatly improve his relationship with the TV station. Relying on this relationship, I tried to make enough haode programs after founding AKB, and changed the situation that AKB became popular but there was no program on the TV station that could be used, which can be regarded as a situation without any foundation.

How to lead AKB to survive in prime time in the future. Zhou Xiao doesn't have any ideas yet, but this goal is a must for him, so now if there is a chance. More involvement in the production of TV shows is also very necessary.

"Well, now that they've invited. Then I'll write a script and show it to them, and if they think it's good, I'll use it. It's okay if you don't use it, when was the recording? Zhou Xiao asked.

"A week later, on November 9th, and three weeks later, one more after the recording was completed." Keiko Watanabe said.

"Okay, I know their recording process, it's a bit of a tight time, you come to my house tomorrow, and I'll send it to you when I'm done." Zhou Xiao said.

The general plan is to record it once, and the final exam is a project, the reason why it is divided into two recordings is because the first recording is the answer sheet, and the second recording is to publish the results, but the two weeks in the middle are not the time to judge the paper, and the judgment can be completed in a few hours, and these times in the middle are the time left for the program team to make the script, in other words, when the program has not yet started recording, the program team basically has no script.

But Zhou Xiao knows very well that there are still many things that can be done before the results are published.

First of all, in terms of selection, this project was initially held for the first time, and the fixed team of the 99 program was selected, such as the square-faced Yasuko Mitsuura, such as the ancestor stupid Yu Hamaguchi, such as the rabid Koji Kato and the handsome saxophone man Takeda Shinji. But Zhou Xiao knows very well that these people are not enough, and they must join transfer students to increase conflicts, such as joining highly educated people to fight against Mitsuura Yasuko, joining other fools to fight against Hamaguchi Yu, etc., and at the beginning of the show, the opening of the show was just to let the members come to the classroom one by one, and of course it was a bit boring to appear like this in the later stage, so in the later final exams, when the members appeared, they would be assigned all kinds of fun or funny tasks, While they were concentrating on doing a lot of fun, the door on the side suddenly opened, which brought laughter to the show.

For example, there are many places where the host Takashi Okamura needs more laughs, such as every time before the show starts, the camera will focus on Okamura's feet in slippers, and at the beginning of this project, the camera is just so boring to focus on the feet, and there is no inevitable stalk that will appear when Okamura suddenly stands on his heels in the later stage.

There are many, many small changes like this, not only to the performers, but also to the surrounding environment, and these changes and details are the real attraction of this project that has been done for many years and still has many people like it.

A few days later, Zhou Xiao appeared on TV again and was still the reason for his song "Little Love", after a few months, the Japanese Music Association finally certified the song's two million sales and sent him a certificate of two million sales, along with this certificate, there is also the news that he was shortlisted for the Japanese Music Awards Newcomer Group and the Annual Record Award, among these two awards, Zhou Xiao of the Annual Record Award is almost certain to not win, and the 2000 annual award in history was given to " TSUNAMI", whether in terms of fame or sales, Zhou Xiao will definitely not be able to fight the Southern Star led by Yoshiyu Kuwata, even if the award is not given to Yoshiyu Kuwata, there is Masakurazaka of Fukuyama behind him, although Zhou Xiao's "Little Love" is stronger than a large number of singers behind, but it is still a lot worse to win the award.

As for the newcomer award, Zhou Xiao can still look forward to it, the newcomers who debuted this year include Chihiro Onishu, Ai Neirina, Hitomi Yaida, BUMPOFCHICKEN (known as Bangbang Chicken), Glacier Kiyoshi and others, and in December, there will be two other newcomers Nana Mizuki and Koda Laiwei, but the latter two people are counted as the category of the 2001 Record Awards, among the previous people, the only one who poses a threat to Zhou Xiao is the glacier Qingzhi who later won the annual award and is known as the little prince of singing.

In terms of sales, Glacier Qingzhi is naturally not as good as Zhou Xiao, who has two million sales, but what makes him better than Zhou Xiao is that he made his debut as a singer, and the other is that he ...... Most of the time, Zhou Xiao doesn't feel that as a Chinese, there is any difference in the Japanese entertainment industry, but at the critical moment, the singer and the Japanese identity of others who fell to the ground are his opponents, and even Zhou Xiao himself feels that it is inevitable that he is connected with the nation, the country or something.

Of course, he doesn't want to be associated with these things, and on the surface, the Japanese media may not mention this stubble at all, but when the judges choose newcomers to be rewarded, Zhou Xiao can't guarantee that they can really be as fair as he hopes. (To be continued......)