The recording of this episode of The Masked Singer is about to begin, and director Sunset is checking the readiness of various departments.

Recently, the ratings of the "Masked Singer" program have dropped again, and it has almost become the program with the lowest budget and ratings in the station, and the staff of the program team have lost the fighting spirit they had at the beginning these days, and they are a little slack.

Sunset can't say anything, as even he is a little discouraged.

Sunset was walking when seven or eight people walked up to Sunset, and they walked up to Sunset with shameful faces.

"Yu Dao ......"

Sunset glances at them and realizes that there are field affairs, lighting, and choreographers.

"Huh? Is there something wrong? ”

The men looked at each other a few times, and a leader was introduced.

"Director Yu, it's like this, the program team next door wants to run a new program, there is a shortage of people, and they want us to go over, and a few of us want to do this show...... It seems like...... It doesn't seem like there will be so many people, so ......"

Sunset understands that the welfare of the employees in the TV station is related to the program they are responsible for, the program ratings are good, the employees will have more bonuses, and they will talk a lot louder in the station.

The snobbery of various program groups is very common, Sunset's show is not good, and it is normal for some people to want to develop elsewhere, after all, these people are not Sunset's own team.

"Okay, after this episode is recorded, if you want to leave, I'll let you go." Sunset said.

"Thank you, Director!" The men bowed to Sunset in thanks.

Sunset was in a complicated mood and went to the monitoring office, and just went in to sit, producer Fang Minghua came.

"Director Yu......" Fang Minghua said again and again.

"What's wrong?"

"That...... The budget for the next issue has been applied for by Taili. ”

Sunset asked, "How much?" ”

“3…… 3 million, I ...... I really tried my best......"

Sunset frowned, excluding the 500,000 yuan program production fee, the seven singers, Luo Fei and Lin Li are both 800,000, Huang Haining 300,000, Hu Junfeng 200,000, and the two new guests are 150,000, Jiang Mengyao is cheaper, 100,000 appearance fees.

This adds up to 3 million, and the seven people of the guessing jury are not counted.

Two of the guessing jury are the hosts of the station, and the cost can be ignored, although the appearance fees of the other guessing jury members add up to the cost of one person, but because of this, the expenses of the guessing jury cannot be squeezed out anymore.

With such a lineup, no matter how much cost is saved for a program, it cannot be less than 3.5 million.

Now the station only gives 3 million for the next episode, a difference of 500,000, which means that according to the current program lineup, there will basically be no production fee for the next program.

Sunset and the others are silent, a little disappointed, but not surprised by the outcome.

At the beginning of each program, the station will have a budget, and then evenly spread the amount of money to each issue, if the program is popular, there will be countless sponsors to add advertising, and the station's budget for the program will also increase, but if the program is not good, the budget will gradually shrink.

Originally, the budget of "The Masked Singer" was 4 million per episode, but due to the continuous decline in ratings, the budget of the show began to shrink.

The budget of 3.5 million yuan for the previous episodes of the program was applied for by the chief director Sunset and producer Fang Minghua after they worked hard to get a package ticket from the director.

This time, the Taiwan leaders seem to have lost patience and are only willing to give a budget of 3 million at once.

Now that the station's budget has been reduced so much, the signal is very obvious, and it is almost said that the station has given up on this program.

With a gap of 500,000 yuan, the only way to do it is to change the lineup, cut off the one with a high appearance fee, and replace it with a person with a low appearance fee.

That's what Taili thinks, too.

The idea of the station is to invite some unpopular stars to scribble the show.

Luo Fei signed three episodes of the show, which means that he will definitely be there in the next episode.

And in this, Luo Fei and Lin Li have a high appearance fee, Luo Fei can't move, so he can only move Lin Li.

At this time, the budget of the show has been sharply reduced, and if the show wants to continue, it can only go through the route of a popular singer, and a quasi-first-line singer like Lin Li can no longer afford to be hired.

When Lin Li first talked to Sunset, he didn't sign many installments, but asked Sunset not to divulge his information, and to have a real masked singing to make people guess, if the people who guessed the jury guessed him, he would leave, and if the people who guessed the jury didn't guess him, he would continue.

Sunset originally hoped to work with Lin Li to keep the secret to see the effect, but now that the show budget is like this, it seems that it can't be kept.

Today, if the people who guessed the jury could guess Lin Li, then they wouldn't say anything, just take advantage of the situation and let Lin Li leave.

If the jury can't guess Lin Li, Sunset decides to tell the jury the results through the headset at the last minute, so they can announce it.

In short, Lin Li can only participate in this issue.

Although Sunset is unwilling, he has already suffered a lot of criticism from the director in the previous episodes, and he has promised many times, but the show has not improved, and he has no face to fight for anything with the director anymore.

Sunset looked at the others and asked, "Lin ...... Forehead...... That one...... The guests have arrived, right? ”

"It's all here, and you can record it right away."

"Hmm."

Sunset walks out of the monitoring room and heads to the Lin Li lounge.

He also wanted to catch his breath.

Lin Li sat in the lounge and soon heard a knock on the door.

"Knock knock."

Lin Li has been in a state since he got out of the car.

For Lin Li, coming to participate in this show and hiding everyone on stage is only half the success, and if you have to hide it on and off the stage, that is the real success.

"Please come in." Lin Li used the voice of Sa Dingding.

Sunset pushed the door in, but was dumbfounded when she saw Lin Libai's impermanence.

He didn't know what image Lin Li would appear in today.

Sunset froze in the doorway, looking at Lin Li.

Lin Li saw that Sunset was alone, so he didn't hide it, and said in his own voice, "Director Sunset, please come in." ”

Sunset saw such a cold and gloomy beauty in front of her in front of her, and her voice was not good, and she still didn't enter the door.

"Please close the door."

Lin Li saw that Sunset didn't move, and smiled.

Sunset reacted to her gaffe, feeling embarrassed by her gaffe, and walked in and closed the door, but his eyes still didn't take his eyes off Lin Li.

"Something?" Lin Li asked.

Sunset didn't answer, but smiled, "How did you do it, if you don't speak, I won't believe it's you." ”

Lin Li changed his voice and said in a sa dingding voice: "What about talking like this? ”

Sunset's expression froze, and he couldn't help but look around, and found that Lin Li was the only one here, and then he realized that he had just knocked on the door, and it was a woman's voice coming from inside.

At that time, Sunset thought it was Lin Li's agent, but now it seems that this is Lin Li's voice!

Lin Li can actually make a woman's voice!

The world is so big that there are still some people who can dress up as women or women as men who can fake and be real, but at the same time, there are very few who can perfectly make the voice of the opposite sex, and there are few people in the entertainment industry who can do these two things, Sunset has never heard of it.

But there is one in front of him, this person is still a well-known straight man of steel in the entertainment industry, no one will believe it if he says it.

Sunset's heart was extremely excited at the moment, she couldn't believe all this in front of Lin Li, let alone those viewers who didn't know the inside story at all and in front of the TV!

Sunset's heart swelled for a while, and she suddenly understood why Lin Li had set so many rules with herself, Lin Li was going to stage the most incredible scene in the history of Chinese variety shows!

It's about playing all the audience in front of the TV!

And that's what this show is all about!

There is no show that can deceive all the viewers like its own show, which is the most successful thing!

Sunset changed his mind in an instant, how could he not tell Lin Li's identity today, even if the budget for the next period was not enough, it was a breach of contract to let the guessing panel tell Luo Fei, he couldn't take the initiative to say Lin Li's identity!

Because, Lin Li is the only hope for this show to turn over!

Lin Li saw that Sunset was wandering outside the world again, and waved his hand in front of Sunset.

Sunset came to her senses again, smiled apologetically, and said, "What's wrong?" ”

"I asked you." Lin Li said.

"Oh, yes, that...... Everyone in our show must have a code name, what is your code name, do you have any ideas? Sunset was still excited.

The code names of the guests on the show were originally set together with the styling, but Lin Li is more special, he made this style himself, and the program team naturally did not set his code name, so Sunset came to ask.

Lin Li asked: "What do you think is the best code name for my style?" ”

Sunset glanced at Lin Li and said with a smile: "If you really want to hear it, I really have it, why don't you call Qingben a beautiful woman to be a thief!" ”

Lin Li listened to what he said, as if he was saying that he was a good woman, how could he be a man.

Lin Li smiled: "Yes, it seems that you still have to rely on yourself." ”

"Have you thought about it?"

"Of course, in my image, the code name is called: Others sing for money, I sing for life."

Sunset was stunned for a moment, then laughed and said, "Okay, this code name is good, then call this code name, I'll let you know." ”

There was a live broadcast of the signal connected to the studio in the lounge, and not long after Sunset left, the big screen in the lounge lit up.

The audience in the studio began to enter.

The studio of "The Masked Singer" had 500 auditoriums, but Lin Li found that the auditorium was not full, and several rows in the back were empty.

For ordinary people, anyone who can go to the TV station to participate in the recording of the program will not refuse.

However, the audience of this show is not satisfied with the audience now, which shows how low the attraction of this show is to the audience.

More than ten minutes later, the audience entered the venue, and the on-site director began to invite the seven members of the guessing panel to appear.

There are two people in it who Lin Li knows, one is Cai Wenli and the other is Sun Yunhan.

There are also Liu Gang, Xu Zhenchun, Hong Jianping, and sitting at the very edge of the back row are Zhang Xiao and Cheng Qinghong, the two young hosts of Litchi Channel.

Guess the seven members of the jury are either out-of-fashion singers, but they have a good sense of variety shows, or they are newcomers who have just debuted, in short, the appearance fee is not expensive.

Only Xu Zhenchun, who sits in the C seat, has hosted a first-line variety show because he is 20 years old, and the appearance fee is a little higher, but it is only 300,000.

The seven judges sat down, and the on-site director held a loudspeaker and shouted: "The scene is quiet, let's start recording immediately, let's record the material first, first applaud, everyone cooperate, I shout 321, everyone applauds together......"

There were live recordings of applause, laughter, and scenes of intoxication and shock.

Many programs will record the material in advance so that they can be used in the final editing, and many viewers who come to participate in the recording of the program for the first time are quite cooperative.

A few minutes later, the recording ended, and the on-site director shouted: "Okay, thank you for your cooperation, the recording will start immediately, all departments are ready, three-two-one, start!" ”

The music sounded, and the host Li Hao walked out with the music and lights.

The audience and the guessing panel applauded, Li Hao is the first brother of Lychee Terrace, who jumped from Mango Terrace seven years ago, and was also the target of Mango Terrace's key training, but Li Hao saw the two mountains of Liang Sheng and Xu Zhe, and knew that it was difficult for him to have the opportunity to take the lead alone, so he resolutely jumped to Litchi Terrace.

Although he has not hosted any popular variety shows over the years, the level of hosting is still obvious to all.

Especially at the New Year's Eve party, Lizhitai took the lead in getting a poetry recitation program for the rescue team of the Moth Mountain fire, which was also proposed and led by Li Hao to recite, so although Li Hao's popularity is a lot worse than that of Liang Sheng and Xu Zhe, his reputation is still very good.

"Good evening everyone, welcome to "The Masked Singer" jointly created by Litchi Terrace and Xingcan Productions!"

Li Hao's clear and sonorous voice echoed.

There was applause at the scene.

Li Hao paused for a while, and then said with emotion: "Today is the ninth issue, today, we have three newcomers, but I will give you a break here, among these three people, there is one person who even I don't know who it is." ”

After Li Hao finished speaking, he guessed that no one in the jury shouted: "We don't know either." ”

Many people in the audience cheered up when they heard this, full of curiosity, but many viewers also reacted.

Li Hao, as the host, knows the true identity of the new guest in every issue, it is normal, do you guess that the jury is here to guess the singing guest, I don't know if it should be?

It's as if he's weird too.

Guess the jury said that there was one of the newcomers and they didn't know who it was, which doesn't obviously admit that they know who the other two are!

If everyone guessed that the jury had already known who the singers were, then this sentence can obviously be used as evidence!

The audience thought to themselves that it was no wonder that this show was not good, and guessed that it would be better if the jury found some professional actors.

However, the casual words were more credible, and everyone suddenly lost interest in other people, and they were only full of expectations for this newcomer whose identity was unknown to the host and the guessing panel.

Li Hao heard that someone in the jury came up with this sentence, and his heart trembled, secretly thinking that it was really cheap and not good!

Li Hao hurriedly attracted everyone's attention and continued: "This newcomer can be said to be the most mysterious guest in the history of our show, he didn't bring an agent, he came to our program group alone, and his way of arriving is very special, I won't talk about it first, sell it, everyone will see it later, I believe this will be the first time you have seen this unique way of appearance." ”

Li Hao's words really made the audience even more curious, and even the people in the guessing panel looked like they were full of curiosity.

Li Hao himself was also very curious about the newcomer who appeared tonight, and when he saw that it was almost rendered, he didn't continue to talk about it.

Li Hao was afraid that when this mysterious guest came out and would be guessed in minutes, it would be embarrassing.

So, the point is there.

Li Hao looked at the expectant eyes of the audience, and silently thought in his heart:

I wish the new man deserved to be so mysterious.