149 Variety Show (1/2)

9 o'clock the next morning, Zhang Xiaohua came into the company.

”Is Director Liu of Huaxia Central here?” Zhang Xiaohua asked a female staff as she walked past.

”Yes, he's already here. At present, Manager Xu is entertaining him.” The female staff member said with a smile.

”Call them to the conference room.” Under the watchful eyes of everyone, Zhang Xiaohua went straight into the conference room. Soon, the executives of various departments came in one after another, among them was Director Liu. The whole conference room was packed.

Xu Fengnian, facing a middle-aged man wearing a tunic suit, introduced him to Zhang Xiaohua: ”This is Director Liu of Huaxia Central.” Then he introduced him to Director Liu: ”This is the boss of our company, Zhang Xiaohua.”

Director Liu smiled and stood up, he took the initiative to extend a friendly hand to Zhang Xiaohua, and said: ”It's a pleasure to meet you, the rising star of the entertainment circle. So young, but already so promising.”

Zhang Xiaohua also stood up and symbolically shook hands with Director Liu. He smiled and said: ”Director Liu has come to visit us, it's a great honour for our company.”

The two laughed and then settled down into their seats.

Xu Fengnian was also full of smiles. He took advantage of the harmonious atmosphere and took the lead in speaking: ”This time Director Liu has come seeking cooperation with us. I have read over the plans. Personally, I think it's a great idea, but I'll allow Director Liu to explain the specifics.”

Zhang Xiaohua nodded.

Director Liu took out several doc.u.ments from his briefcase and distributed them to everyone present. He said: ”This is the outlay of our plans. The station wants to produce a brand new variety show. It will be called 'Game's Week.' At present, we have invited over 20 famous stars for this program and now we wish to incorporate Miss Ling and Mr. Yang into the show as well, with them onboard, we can all watch as the rating burst through the roof and money starts raining down. ”

Zhang Xiaohua took a hard look at the plan in his hand.

To put it bluntly, there plan was to bring together stars and then let them interact while partic.i.p.ating in different games in different locations. When necessary, the female stars were to wear ”appealing clothes” to attract the attention of the audience, such as wearing bikinis, etc.

From his knowledge of similar shows back on earth, he could roughly estimate how the show would turn out.

Back on Earth, to improve the ratings, the organizers would always specially arrange accidents in the program. For example, a female star would accidentally fall during the game or the bikini would accidently show off a bit too much skin. These types of shows aimed for publicity, they didn't mind in the slightest whether it was the good kind or not.

In fact, there were many similar TV shows here, most of their stars were inconspicuous third degree stars. Real big-name stars would never show up on this kind of low-level variety show, which would seriously affect their image. It could cause a rapid decline in popularity.

Take Ling Ming for example, if she was allowed to partic.i.p.ate in this program and made to wear a bikini, it might draw in a lot of male fans but likely a lot of the general public would take a dislike to her. If parents saw her on a tv show full of drama, arguing, insults and people showing off their skin, they would conceive a negative image of her in their minds. Now, with this, she would lose out on her general appeal to all audiences and adults and parents might even restrict their children from listening to her music.

He understood why these shows exited, drama always attracts attention, but in Zhang Xiaohua's eyes, such a program was quite unbearable.

He didn't want to let Ling Ming and Yang Kun partic.i.p.ate in such a program. In his heart, all the stars of HuaXiang Entertainment were destined to become big-name stars.

Plus he had to protect the company's image.

However, this time Director Liu came with a lot sincerity and they had already turned down Huaxia Central when they rejected their offer to buy the live broadcast rights to Ling Ming's concert.