Rebirth of the Director in Korea

Generally speaking TV Station is roughly composed of three parts,’News Department, Variety Show Department’ and’TV Drama Production Department’, these three can be said to be the three important components of TV Station If you have to rank a department, it’s really not a good ranking. After all, the focus and profit points of these departments are different.

MBCTV Station’s main hall, where most of the previous life Jung Hyuk-jae’s time was spent. The recording studios of various variety programs at MBCTV Station are mostly here, and only a few of them are here. Recording in other halls.

Walking into the main hall of MBCTV Station, no matter what annoying things have been experienced here, when I walked into it, my heart still has several points of feeling, after all, people are emotional animals, and time has passed. There will naturally be a sense of nostalgia.

The office area of ​​the MBC Variety Show Department occupies the upper and lower floors, the sixth floor and the seventh floor. The birthplace of all MBCTV Station’s current variety show programs is here, including “Unreasonable Challenges.” segment group.

The predecessor of “Unreasonable Challenge” is MBCTV Station’s “Unreasonable Challenge”. The name of the program has changed. Perhaps the only thing that has not changed is the dismal ratings of this block.

As a variety show program, especially the variety show program that aired on Saturday, “The Challenge of No Way” has set a ratings record of more than 20 consecutive episodes hovering between 3% and 4%. It can be said that the Chief-In-Charge of the Variety Department at that time was worried about gray hair, and the highest ratings were only 5% that’s all.

Look at the same period of “X-man”, “Love Letter” and so on. Which of these variety programs has a rating of not higher than 15%, and even worse variety programs also have a rating of 10%. , Which is more than double the ratings of “The Challenge of No Way”.

At that time, Chief-In-Charge of MBCTV Station saw the dismal ratings of its segment group, and realized that the change must be made immediately, and then “Unconscionable Challenge” was changed to “Unreasonable Challenge”. The Chief-In-Charge of the program group has changed a lot, hoping to start a new “challenge”.

However, the reality of the big stick directly hit the forehead of MBCTV Station’s variety department. Although the ratings are better than before the revision, the ratings are still terrible, and the highest ratings did not break 8. %, I thought that the revision could bring new vitality to the program, but didn’t expect the highest ratings even the 10% threshold could not be broken.

The pressure on the segment group of “Unreasonable Challenge” is very high, and the pressure on Chief-In-Charge of the variety show department is also not small.

Don’t underestimate a variety show. If this is the case, the cost of recording one episode is sometimes no less than shooting one episode of TV series, like SBSTV Station’s ace variety show “X-man”, early Half a year ago, the cost of recording an episode was almost the same as the cost of filming an episode of the TV series, and it was also dominated on Saturday, with the “Scans Maker” variety program “Love Letter”, and the cost of recording an episode was similarly different. Philippines.

Although the production cost of “Unreasonable Challenge” is not as much as that of “X-man” or “Love Letter”, it is for a variety program whose ratings cannot even be broken by 10% , Even if the recording fee is small, if the ratings cannot go up, this is a loss for MBCTV Station.

Take a look at the revenue of “Unreasonable Challenge” on the advertisement, it is called a terrible, if it is not for some manufacturers to see this program is the prime time of Saturday Variety Show, it is estimated that these two or three Sponsors will not have it. From this, it can be seen that the current “Unreasonable Challenge” has indeed encountered bottleneck.

Although I have never been to the segment group of “Unreasonable Challenge” before, I still remember whether it is “Unreasonable Challenge” or “Unreasonable Challenge”, or the later “Unreasonable Challenge”. “Infinite Challenge”, the office area of ​​the segment group has not changed from the very beginning, so Jung Hyuk-jae does not need staff to give directions at all to find it here.

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The office area of ​​the segment group of “Unreasonable Challenge”, under the guidance of the segment group staff, Jung Hyuk-jae learned that the main Chief-In-Charge of the original segment group is now in the Conference Hall After the meeting, after thanking the staff member, Jung Hyuk-jae came to the door of the Conference Hall. He just stood at the door and heard the quarrel coming from the door.

“No way, no way! It’s impossible to do that. We have done the special series you mentioned before, and the ratings can’t be raised at all, and the production cost of the special series is really too big. You say books, Based on the current ratings of our segment group, is it possible for TV Station to allocate funds to us again?”

In the Conference Hall, a male working grievances said while shaking his head violently. Own opinion.

“Ming PD, you are wrong to say that. It was before. It has been more than half a year since the last special issue was broadcast. Maybe the audience at that time was not special about such a special. Interested, but the time has passed for so long, have you ever thought that the audience’s appreciation taste may change?” The man who was praised as PD stood up and retorted desperately.

In a simple meeting, the two of them just turned into a debate match, and they were not convinced one by one.

“Okay, okay, don’t quarrel!” Seeing that the two people in front of you tend to go violently every minute, the colleague on the side hurriedly said to calm down. After all, it was just a meeting within the segment group. It’s good to explain your own opinions to each other, you don’t have to be so blushing.

After persuading the two, this person opened the mouth and said: “Everyone talks about their views on the program at the meeting…”

Before I finished speaking, I heard a knock on the door outside. Everyone at the conference table, look at me, and I look at you, not quite clear who the person outside the door will be.

“Please come in!” someone said.

Hearing a “please come in” from the Conference Hall, Jung Hyuk-jae pushed the door and walked in, and saw several people in the Conference Hall greet with a smile.

“Are you?” Seeing Jung Hyuk-jae, some people think they are familiar, but when the name is here, they want to do not raise.

“Hello everyone, my name is Jung Hyuk-jae!”

“Ah, it turns out that he is Jung Hyuk-jae~ah.” Someone saw Jung Hyuk-jae in front of them, and a trace of disdain flashed in my heart. They looked the same There is no difference in myself. Everyone has the same nose and a pair of glasses. How can there be such a big difference?

“Hyuk-jae~ah, you are here!”

Hearing this familiar voice, Jung Hyuk-jae glanced over the others and saw sitting Yoo Jae-seok on the table was waving his hands at him.

“Brother, why are you here?” Seeing Yoo Jae-seok, Jung Hyuk-jae couldn’t help feeling a little strange.

“I came to the program group discussion meeting as the host!” Yoo Jae-seok said truthfully.

I heard Yoo Jae-seok say so, Jung Hyuk-jae also reacted, whether it’s “Unconscionable Challenge” or “Unreasonable Challenge”, as the main MC of the column In addition to the staff of the segment group, Yoo Jae-seok can be said to be the person in the segment group who has the deepest understanding of the program he hosted.

“Oh, you are Jung Hyuk-jae-ssi, who Minister Xu introduced to come over, right?” A man who appeared to be middle-aged smiled and stretched out. His right hand came to Jung Hyuk-jae’s side, and he had to shake hands with him.

“Hello, I am Jung Hyuk-jae!”

Although I don’t know who this is in front of me, among these people, Jung Hyuk-jae also discovered Among the sitting people, there are also people who are familiar with themselves. For example, the surnamed Jin man sitting under the stage, haunted in terms of appearance, is definitely the bottom of the sitting people, even Yoo Jae- Seok is better than that!

“I am the PD responsible for “Unreasonable Challenge”, and I am surnamed Gao!” The middle-aged man in front of him introduced himself.

“High PD, hello!”

For the high PD in front of me, Jung Hyuk-jae really doesn’t know, after all, the previous life Jung Hyuk-jae entered MBCTV Station It’s too late. At first, he wanted to be a director. After running into the wall, he submitted his resume to the three major TV Stations. It was only after going round and round before he entered the TV industry.

“This is Ming PD!” After introducing himself, the responsible high PD also introduced other people to Jung Hyuk-jae.

“This is full PD!”

“This is South PD…” A series of names have been introduced, and Jung Hyuk-jae felt his head The shell hurts a little, and I really can’t remember it for a while.

“This is Kim PD!” After listening to Gao PD’s introduction, Jung Hyuk-jae’s face suddenly showed an intriguing smile.

“Hello, Kim PD!”

Looking at Jung Hyuk-jae in front of him, Kim Tae-ho suddenly felt something about Baby in his heart, especially when Jung Hyuk-jae When his gaze fell on himself, it made people feel even more undressed, which made him particularly unhappy.

“Hello, Jung PD!”

In the eyes of everyone, Jung Hyuk-jae pushed a chair away and sat next to Yoo Jae-seok Coming down, the two chatted quietly.

“Some of you may not quite clear Jung Hyuk-jae -ssi, then I will introduce him!” As the first organizer of this meeting, PD Gao, he naturally helped introduce him. The identity of a Chinese character is here.

“SBSTV Station’s currently popular variety program “X-man” was revised for the first time by this Jung PD. After that, there is another variety program from SBSTV Station. -“Love Letter” is also from the hand of this one in front of you!”

“wa!”

“Really?”