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Glancing at Chen Dewei, Wu Yuan saw the hesitation in his expression.

As the thought flashed through his mind, he understood what Chen Dewei meant.

"I really can't do anything about you." Wu Yuan curled his lips and said, "In addition to the music variety show, let's launch another special variety show next year."

"What's the point of just a bunch of unknown trainees competing for debut spots?"

"If you want to play, play big!"

"Let's organize a talent show for a girl group that goes against the aging process!"

"Anti-aging? Girl group?" Chen Dewei was a little confused and didn't know what Wu Yuan meant.

"We will find a group of older female artists, and through their training and stage performances, we will eventually select seven members to form a group that breaks the age limit!"

"Think about it, a group of unknown newcomers competing for debut, how can it be more exciting than finding a group of 30-year-old female artists competing for debut spots?"

"It would be best if we invite female artists who are about to become outdated but not yet outdated. After going through layers of competition, we will eventually select a 7-member group to debut as a limited 30-year-old sister idol group!"

"This not only meets the popularity of idol talent shows, but also opens up another track. The show will definitely be a big hit and the audience will love it!"

Yes, Wu Yuan brought out "Sisters Riding the Wind and Waves".

When the idol talent show variety show was later banned, only "Sisters Riding the Wind and Waves" and the similar "Brothers Overcoming Troubles" were not taken down by the authorities. They were still produced as usual and were even produced for several seasons.

From the perspective of program planning, this variety show is almost exactly the same as "Creation 101". The only difference is that the talent show "Creation 101" finds a group of young new trainees, while "Sisters Riding the Wind and Waves" finds 30 30-year-old sister artists in the circle.

So why wasn't this show cancelled?

It is because this program does not have the operation of selling milk to vote, and the audience can only vote through the normal voting page, and does not need to spend money to cast more votes.

It has to be said that Mango TV is indeed very sensitive in this regard. When "Creation Camp" became popular, it did not choose to follow the trend to make this kind of program. Instead, it created a program with a variant theme and kept to the red line.

I can only say that it is worthy of being a TV station. After experiencing the chaos of talent shows, they know what they can and cannot do. After all, they are different from Internet companies that have no bottom line.

That is why, after the test of time, only "Sisters Who Make Waves" survived.

"If you want to make this program, let's cooperate with Mango TV." Wu Yuan instructed again.

Guangying Kuaibo and Mango TV have collaborated several times. A few years ago, Wu Yuan proposed the concept of "slow variety show" to Chen Dewei, and created the program "Longing for Life", and also included Peng Peng as the main creator from the first season.

"A Longing for Life" has been running for several seasons now. The TV ratings and platform playback volume are very good, and it is considered a benchmark among slow variety shows.

Of course, after "A Longing for Life" became popular, it also led many TV stations to launch other slow variety shows, such as "Unforgettable Restaurant" and "Dear Inn", which were later produced by Guangying Times in cooperation with other TV stations, and the results were also good.

It is also through these programs that Guangying Kuaibo has trained several excellent variety show production teams.

It’s also good to continue cooperating with Mango TV to produce “Sisters Riding the Wind and Waves”. As for why we should cooperate with TV stations instead of just making platform programs, of course it’s because the influence of TV stations today is still more attractive than pure online variety shows.

If it is a purely online variety show, it would be difficult to invite 30 female artists aged 30, and most invitations would not be accepted.

For a pure online variety show like nowadays, it is already very difficult to invite three or five artists in the circle to be the main guests.

But it’s different with TV stations. They have very extensive cooperation with these domestic entertainment artists and can invite a large number of artists in the circle to participate in their variety shows through various resource exchanges.

To be honest, it is inevitable that a program like "Sisters Riding the Wind and Waves" will appear on Mango TV. Even if you change to another TV station, it would be difficult to gather so many artists to compete on the same stage.

So after Mango TV produced this program, no other TV station or video platform could produce a similar program, including the sister program "Brothers Who Overcome All Troubles", which was also produced by Mango TV itself.

There is no other way. After counting all the TV stations in the country, only Mango TV has the ability to invite so many artists in their 30s to "compete" together.

These are the fruits of Mango TV's efforts to become younger and more trendy over the past 20 years and to establish good relationships with most domestic artists.

Just like Teacher He and Teacher Wang are the only two hosts in the circle who know half of the artists in the entertainment industry. Even Hua Shao, the host of "The Voice of China", cannot compare to them.

For some programs, such as "Escape the Room" and "Star Detective", it is inevitable that they can be produced on Mango TV. Even if the same program planning is given to other TV stations, it will be very difficult to promote it.

Maybe only Blue Whale TV has a chance, but the team of Blue Whale TV is mainly the two teams of "Running Man" and "Ace vs. Ace". It is indeed difficult for them to produce this kind of script-killing type program that requires "brains".

We can’t let Shen Teng and Jia Ling be the “great detectives”, right?

Therefore, for some variety show ideas, even if Wu Yuan can come up with them, he still has to cooperate with Mango TV in the end. He won’t be able to do it well if he does it alone.

This is why Wu Yuan doesn't focus too much on variety shows. Even though he has many good variety show ideas in his mind, he doesn't arrange for light and shadow quick production.

When doing variety shows in China, good ideas are secondary, and the guests’ personal connections are of utmost importance. Otherwise, a good cook will be unable to cook without rice.

In this regard, Guangying Kuaibo still has a long way to go.

"This "Sisters Riding the Wind and Waves" has a similar project, "Brothers Who Make Waves", which only changes the guests from female artists over 30 years old to male artists. This is enough to shut up other shareholders."

"This can be considered as eating a piece of the idol talent show cake. If you take these two projects to prepare, the company's shareholders will have nothing to say."

"The only downside is that we have to work with Mango TV, which is not as easy as doing music variety shows on our own."

“But it’s not a big problem.”

Wu Yuan patted Chen Dewei's shoulder amiably and said, "Within a week, I will write the project plans for these variety shows and give them to you. You can arrange the rest yourself. We hope they will be online in the second or third quarter of next year as soon as possible!"

"By then, our Guangying Kuaibo's variety show section will definitely become the top of the four major video platforms!" (End of this chapter)