Reborn As Lucky Star
Chapter 763: Reality Show

Chapter 763: Chapter 763: Reality Show

Yue Qingqing finally received a call from her junior fellow apprentice after two days.

The person on the other end started with a slew of complaints.

"Sob sob, Qingqing, you have no idea how horrible the place I was staying at was; there was no signal at all, absolutely no way to make a call; it was simply unbearable," the voice cried.

Yue Qingqing felt too weak to retort; how could an ancient person be unable to live without a signal?

It was a bit too much integration into the modern world.

Gong Qiming was truly stifled; everyone on the film set was busy shooting, and they weren’t supposed to make noise during sound recording, leaving him with no one to talk to about all he wanted to say.

Trying to find a place with a signal to make a call was fruitless, and Gong Qiming almost suffocated from the frustration.

Fortunately, as he made his way, he nearly filled up his manager with complaints, and Gong Qiming spoke with renewed energy, "I am in the car right now; it will take about two more hours to reach your place, the address you gave me before is correct, right?"

"That’s right, that’s right." Yue Qingqing turned her head and saw Yue Xiaohu’s eyes light up. She smiled and said, "There’s also your little fanboy in my house."

"Hey, that’s some taste; worthy of being my junior sister’s family. Get paper and pen ready, huh; I’ll have to give someone a proper autograph."

Yue Qingqing held back a laugh, feeling pretty sure that Yue Xiaohu would be disillusioned soon.

"Alright, we’ll be waiting."

Yue Qingqing informed her family, and upon hearing that her granddaughter’s friend was coming over, Lin Chunju immediately sent the children out to buy groceries.

They were preparing to set a full table to entertain the guest.

The three of them set off to buy groceries right away. On the way, Yue Xiaohu and Yue Xingxing discussed the current renowned artists in the entertainment circle.

All of a sudden, Yue Xiaohu brought up Zhang Caidie, "I saw her on TV last time; she has changed quite a lot."

Yue Xingxing, carrying a basket of vegetables, waved her hand at the comment, "Don’t mention her. Last time I saw her on an idol drama, I was so irritated I turned off the TV immediately. I used to like the male lead too."

One bad apple spoils the whole barrel.

Yue Xiaohu had no choice but to change the topic, but he kept wondering to himself about how Zhang Caidie had changed a lot from before, even her facial features seemed different.

If it wasn’t for knowing each other since childhood from the same village, he might not have been able to recognize her, and he wondered whether Sister Qingqing’s "senior brother" had heard of her before.

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In the taxi, Gong Qiming, wearing sunglasses, finally talked a bit less. Qiao Jing took the opportunity to discuss the reality show with him in earnest.

"The company suspects that someone targeted you specially to create this show," she said.

Gong Qiming expressed his surprise, "How could that be? Aren’t they just handing me money?"

For others, this reality show indeed seemed like a lucrative trap falling from the sky.

Qiao Jing took out some documents from her bag to read through.

Currently, reality shows are somewhat scarce in China, although they are flourishing abroad.

The earliest known reality show dates back to the fifties in foreign countries, with one named ’Queen for a Day’.

The guests invited were ordinary housewives.

The attraction of the show was watching the guests go through various terrifying challenges to ultimately win prizes like fur coats and household appliances.

The content was quite interesting, and audiences often felt sympathy watching the female contestants’ embarrassing moments on the various segments, so the viewership was also pretty good.

This was the prototype of the earliest reality shows.

From there, it spiraled out of control, with documentaries about ordinary families that were filmed for over seven months, attracting thousands of viewers who experienced everything from childbirth to family breakdown, prompting many sighs and lamentations.

There were also adventure programs that searched for a group of men and women of different ages and races, filming them twenty-four hours a day as they embarked on adventures in the seaside or forests.

There were even more daring and risqué shows that placed age-appropriate men and women in a setting to monitor their lives, drawing in audiences with their steamy chats and the messy emotional entanglements between them.

These programs often yielded very cost-effective viewership rates.

Therefore, with the proliferation of televisions in the past couple of years, many TV stations have also imitated foreign shows or created their own variety of different TV shows.

And among them, the ones closest to reality shows were only amateur quiz shows, which although were appropriate for all ages, weren’t particularly remarkable.

The program proposal Gong Qiming received this time was entirely different.

The production team planned to invite four groups of celebrity guests, set up various challenges, and showcase the celebrities’ daily interactions.

And this would become the first celebrity reality show in China’s television history.

The top executives at the TV station had immense confidence and were sure this program would be a hit in China, pushing the viewership ratings to a new peak.

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