Compared with Taiwan's political commentary programs, it is not in decline because it is still an entertainment program, while political commentary programs are silly entertainment programs that take pleasure in stupidity.

Every weekend, when you are addicted to the mentors of "China's New Voice" and the funny men of "Extreme Challenge", do you still think of the time when you were waiting hard for "Kangxi Is Coming" and "Everyone's Hot Pot" online?

A newer self? The late well-known Taiwanese artist Gao Lingfeng once asserted that "Mainland variety shows are at least twenty years behind Taiwanese variety shows." This sentence has been the common sense of TV people in both places for a long time.

However, in just a few years, the two have quietly undergone an identity transformation.

So what is the reason that makes Taiwan's variety shows rest on their laurels and even start to go downhill? Let me just say two or three points without presumption.

The world at that time: "Kangxi" has sharp words and reshapes the audience's outlook. It is no exaggeration to say that "Taiwanese variety shows have influenced an entire generation of people born in the 1980s."

In the past ten years, in almost every dormitory of college students, there has been a grand occasion of the entire dormitory watching "I Guess" and "Kangxi".

Compared with the rigid "edutainment" appearance of mainland variety shows, the loose scale and interesting topics of Taiwanese variety shows make people want to stop.

Today, many young people from the mainland can imitate a few Taiwanese dialects and sing a few Hokkien songs. This is all because of the popularity of Taiwanese variety shows.

What makes me think the most is that Xiao S sat on Ma Ying-jeou's thigh and witnessed the peak years of "Kangxi". "Kangxi Is Coming" has a "ruffian" style of Taiwanese variety shows and swept similar talk shows on both sides of the Taiwan Strait.

With his bold style and hot figure, Xiao S completely wiped out the image of the supporting character with braces next to Wu Zongxian.

Cai Kangyong's body is a mixture of bookishness and worldliness, sometimes caring and touching, sometimes sarcastic.

The combination of a sultry man and a bold woman creates a strong aura, which has made "Kangxi" firmly occupy the top spot in Taiwan's variety shows for a long time, reaching a peak of 2.01.

After seeing Xiao S's unrestrained performance, mainland audiences seemed to have their views refreshed overnight, and understood what "liberating nature" means: girls complained about Xiao S, a crazy bitch, who boldly asked Lien Chan "what color are his underwear?" and boys

They imagined that the person sitting on her lap was not Ma Ying-jeou but themselves.

At that time, mainland TV people also focused on them, hoping to learn from them.

However, the scale of mainland programs has never been as open as Taiwan's variety shows. The content cannot be copied, but the tone can be infinitely close.

Once upon a time, the coquettish and soft Taiwanese accent became an essential skill for mainland female hosts.

At that time, Li Xiang, who was still the first sister of Hunan TV's variety show, was used as a negative example by the State Administration of Radio, Film and Television because of her excessive use of "Hong Kong and Taiwan accent" on stage.

The current situation of decline: old programs will remain unchanged for a hundred years, and new programs will die immediately after they are launched. The first suspension of "I Guess" can be regarded as a watershed in the decline of Taiwanese variety shows.

Wu Zongxian's hosting style is aging, Aya is studying abroad, and Rainie Yang is finding it difficult to become popular. The ratings of "I Guess" were once as low as 0.5, which made the production unit frustrated.

At the same time, variety show veterans such as Li Jing also had their shows suspended, and the era of the "Three Kings and One Queen" (Zhang Fei, Zhang Xiaoyan, Hu Gua and Wu Zongxian) in Taiwan's variety show circle came to an end.

Since then, as a large number of talents have gone north to make money, most of Taiwan's once-famous variety show circle has "collapsed".

It is common for new programs to be canceled immediately if they do not receive enough ratings.

Regardless of whether it is Wu Zongxian or Hu Gua, the TV station does not sell face.

It seems that the production unit cannot give the audience enough time to develop a relationship with a new program. Often, one new program has been replaced by another before the audience has recovered.

The once-popular "Everyone's Hot Pot" has been suspended, resumed, and revised many times because of political factors. "I know of four or five times. This is very harmful to the vitality of the show." Chen Guanting

An expression of helplessness.

The format of old programs remains unchanged and there is no innovation. The studio of "Kangxi" has not changed for many years. At the same time, the lack of innovation in old programs is a situation that everyone has witnessed.

Even ace programs like "Kangxi" must meet the characteristics of "short, flat and fast". Dialogues are conducted in a simple studio. For ten years, the production unit is satisfied with this program format that does not cost much but is cost-effective.

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Therefore, when Taiwanese TV is turned on, almost all of them are the same talk shows, which are boring and boring.

The contents of the programs are too similar. No makeup and bag rummaging are bad. No makeup, makeup removal, husband and wife quarrels, and celebrity bag rummaging have become the four most popular topics in Taiwanese variety shows.

Chen Guanting complained: "Couples quarreling has been done in basically every program, and Su Yan has appeared on almost 80,000 programs in Taiwan." When he was a producer of "Guoguang Help", he was so stressed about choosing topics that he lost sleep.

Regarding how to avoid these topics that were badly done by "Kangxi", "It makes no sense for us to do what others have done. If we still use the themes from 7 or 8 years ago, I believe the ratings will be miserable.

Audiences like to see new things.