Chapter 534: Anxiety After the Data is Too Good

The fifth episode ends.

Fan Dao looks at the show's data; even he himself cannot believe that his show could have such high ratings.

The number of concurrent viewers has already reached 8.8 million!

Moreover, just like the previous few episodes, it did not drop rapidly after the show ended.

It is not strange that many people have already impatiently started watching it a second, third, or even fourth time.

"Director, this data..." Fan Dao's assistant says hesitantly, as if in a dream.

"The data is good, very good," Fan Dao says, "but!"

Fan Dao's assistant has a constipated expression on their face.

The higher the hope, the greater the pressure.

The ratings have climbed continuously for five consecutive episodes, and while the word-of-mouth is explosive, it has also raised everyone's expectations.

It is not just the production team; even the fan comments under the official trending topic account have already reached a terrifying number.

Ever since the second episode ended, every time an episode finished airing, the related topics would occupy the top ten of the trending search list.

For a variety show to have such heat without buying trending searches or having much operational investment is rare in recent years.

Fan Dao's assistant even thinks that this show can vaguely be considered a phenomenal success.

So, the question arises—what to film for the next episode.

This question has consistently troubled the production team.

The originally planned script, that kind of tepid rhythm full of the flavor of daily life, is long since unsuitable for this show.

The first five episodes have already whetted the audience's appetite; there have been emergency rescues, surgeries on terminal Cancer Patients, ward rounds, and rare diseases. What to film next is indeed a huge difficulty.

The key is that the medical industry is also a little different from other industries.

This industry is relatively serious, and some gimmicks cannot be used, which gives Fan Dao a headache.

In itself, this show is a workplace reality show set up to perform social topics.

Originally, the third season was scheduled to include: academic qualifications, gender, doctor-patient relationships, ideals, life... each one could strike the public's nerves and detonate a wave of Traffic.

The show's original intention was undoubtedly the naive and beautiful public impression—doctors should be flourishing and dashing, should be either tall, handsome, or gentle and tender, wearing crisp, handsome white coats while sitting in bright and clean Consultation Rooms to treat various urban beauties.

The flourishing and dashing parts are there, but Ji Xiang is also too tall and handsome; everything has been achieved to the extreme that the director's team could imagine.

Although there are no urban beauties being treated and no melodramatic plots, Ji Xiang seems to have a kind of magic, using another way to firmly attract the audience's attention in just a few episodes.

Rather than saying the current show is a reality show, a huge SHOW stage, it is more and more like a documentary.

The protagonist of the documentary is the Doctor, and Ji Xiang is one of the representatives of doctors.

Under the spherical vacuum perspective of the entertainment industry, finding handsome men and beautiful women practitioners in this grueling trade, stripping away the heavy sense of reality, and showing a relaxed, elegant, and composed superficial exterior.

This would undoubtedly make the Clinical dogs who are struggling in a half-squat have no good impression from the first glance, and also make those familiar with the medical industry feel a sense of falseness that they are powerless to complain about when watching domestic medical dramas.

But after five episodes, with the paving of several cases, plus the cost-free investment from the behind-the-scenes financier and the movie-level animation displays, everything has exceeded everyone's cognition, forcibly turning a popular show into a national-level show.

Next...

The more Fan Dao thinks, the more distressed he becomes.

This difficulty is almost unsolvable.

Especially when the data hits a new high again, almost climbing to a national level, Fan Dao is so worried he is pulling out his hair in handfuls.

If he had known this reality show would become as popular as it is now, he would have definitely withstood all the pressure, soaked in the hospital for half a year himself, and then found the big shots in the country to sit together and come up with a script that would satisfy everyone, no matter what.

But now, everything has lost control; the car is moving too fast, so fast that Fan Dao feels dizzy.

The data is very high, and the higher it is, the greater Fan Dao's pressure.

"Meeting, meeting!"

Fan Dao has no time to be happy; he cannot open champagne to celebrate at halftime yet. What to film for the next episode is the priority.

The control room turns into a conference room, and the relevant people sit in a row.

The data is so good, yet everyone is hanging their heads, and no one takes the initiative to speak.

Everyone knows the purpose of Fan Dao's meeting, and this meeting is not being held for the first time today. No one has any ideas, including Lu Zhuren, who only has a wisp of hair left in that Ji Xiang medical team.

Fan Dao looks around the circle and asks, "Lu Zhuren, you are the professional; do you have any suggestions?"

"No," Lu Zhuren says very directly, "I told you long ago that this show was dead from the start."

Fan Dao looks at Lu Gang fiercely, his gaze like a knife.

He doesn't know how this person could say such a vicious curse.

"You shouldn't have found Ji Xiang. You tell me, is a person like him the norm in a hospital?!"

Lu Gang raises his hand, lifts the only wisp of hair, and coils it on his forehead, trying hard to maintain his image of still having hair.

"If you want to find someone, you can only find an old Zhuren or an old Expert like me!"

"..."

Fan Dao does not want to listen to Lu Gang's rambling anymore.

With his appearance, he could lower the show's ratings by three tiers, and it might even affect the next season of the show.

This is a reality show, not going to the hospital to see a Doctor.

Art must not only originate from life but also be higher than life!

If one were going to the hospital to see a Doctor, perhaps Lu Gang's look would be what everyone likes; many people would look for Lu Gang to see a Doctor rather than choose Ji Xiang.

However, when switched to a variety show, it is exactly the opposite.

"Director, last time Lu Zhuren proposed having a winning mechanism to eliminate people who don't meet the show's requirements. I think this is feasible," a staff member says.

Fan Dao starts to feel distressed again.

He originally wanted to PASS Zhao Mengmeng, but in the latest episode, Zhao Mengmeng wrote a thesis that was flourishing and received the approval of the directors of various departments.

Although Ji Xiang made revisions in the end, one absolutely cannot deny Zhao Mengmeng's strength.

"Then who should we pass on?"

Aside from Ji Xiang, the people selected for the show are basically all graduates from prestigious universities; there is only one Intern who graduated from a second-tier university.

This person is quite popular and has a very high sympathy score.

"Filming a reality show at a hospital, what can you guys come up with sitting here?" Lu Gang said with disdain once again. "Go to the hospital, immerse yourselves, and look at the various states of human life; there will always be something worth filming."

This sentence reminded Fan Dao.

He had already realized that his reality show had suddenly taken a sharp turn in the third season, vaguely transforming from a variety show into a documentary.

Should it just continue this way?

Fan Dao thought to himself.

"But our time is limited," Fan Dao's assistant said.

"Then that has nothing to do with me; I'm just anxious because you guys look so stupid it's written all over your faces."

(End of chapter)