Recently, the seventh season of "Star Detective" changed its name to "The Great Detective" and returned, and the seventh season of "Ace vs. Ace" also started.

As a "longevity" variety show, these two programs have maintained a good reputation for the first six seasons and have a large number of fans.

However, the word-of-mouth of the latest returning programs has declined. Is there really a "seven season itch" for variety shows? It is indeed worth paying attention to how the variety N-generation programs become "evergreen trees".

　　Qilu Evening News Qilu One Point

　　Reporter Shi Wenjing

　Not seeking innovation is stepping back

　　The seventh season of "Star Detective" was renamed "Big Detective", maintaining the original program mode and program content, but the program type was changed from a star reasoning reality show to an Internet legal popularization education reasoning program.

In the "Big Detective" program, each guest plays different roles according to different fictional case themes, searches for evidence at the "case scene", deduces and finds out the real "murderer", and at the same time popularizes the law.

In the new program, except for Sa Beining, who is the most "stalker", he did not return. He Jiong, Zhang Ruoyun, Da Zhangwei, Wang Ou, Yang Rong, Wu Xin, etc. are all guests familiar to the audience.

　　The reason why "Star Detective" has maintained a good reputation for six seasons is that the show is a mature indoor reasoning variety show. In each episode, guests will be in train cars, cruise ships, castles, hotels, libraries and other scenes, interpreting and Reasoning about a complex fictional case, such as homicide, domestic violence, child protection, school violence, etc., to straighten out the process of the case and find the real "murderer".

In the reasoning of each case, the program team will create a lot of clues, evidence, interference information, etc. While playing different roles, the guests will find clues together and solve the case through reasoning.

The focus of the program game lies in the script, the logical reasoning is rigorous, and the analysis process of stripping the cocoon is very enjoyable.

The combination of high-energy plot, rigorous brain-burning reasoning, funny guests and humanistic care is the secret to the "longevity" of this variety show, especially the brain-burning rigorous reasoning, which has attracted many audiences to become loyal fans.

"The Great Detective" continues the style of the previous work, and each program deduces a case, but in general, unlike the previous work, which focused on scientific professional reasoning, the new show pursues the novelty of the story and sets a lot of elements for the characters that have nothing to do with reasoning. It confuses the audience and weakens the logical reasoning, which makes the reasoning fans complain that the reasoning book is too badly written.

The audience is also a little tired of the fixed reasoning method of the show. It is difficult for the show to present more novel cases, and it is difficult to meet the audience's demand for freshness.

　　The seventh season of "Ace Vs Ace" was also broadcast recently. In the first episode, the "Ace Family Team" started a very elegant "Song Yun" tour. The guests finished the game and the famous Yue Opera performing artist Mao Weitao and Song history expert Jiang Peng came on stage to spread and explain traditional culture.

The theme of the second episode of the program is "anti-fraud". Many game links are promoting anti-fraud knowledge. While entertaining, they do public welfare science popularization, and it can be seen that the program is seeking innovation in the theme.

"Ace vs. Ace" is known as a "longevity" variety show with its "Golden Comedy Partner + Emotional Killing". The reunions of old crews, actors, and tributes to classic works that continue to appear on the show have left a deep impression on the audience.

But looking at the seventh season, the audience can see a hint of perfunctory from the program's less particular editing, a large number of interstitial advertisements, a large number of guests reciting lines, and the game combination that has not changed all the year round.

Although Jia Ling and Shen Teng are still working hard to support the show, the rough program content that has not been carefully polished has disappointed many viewers' expectations, and the reputation of the new season program has bottomed out.

Evergreen variety show is hard to find

　　The seventh season of "The Great Detective" specially set up the "Great Detective Collegiate Court" section. This section interprets the fictional cases in the show's game, explains which national laws and regulations have been violated, and how to deal with such cases. The social significance of the show is even greater. protrude.

Although the show has made innovations, the quality is still difficult to be equal to the previous work.

Many netizens believe that the decline in the quality of the program is due to the fact that the reasoning of the program and the deduction of cases are becoming more and more routine. Hard to come up with new ideas.

　　The biggest difficulty of "Star Detective" is the script creation.

The script creation of a reasoning program is extremely difficult, and it needs constant highlights and transcendence from episode to episode in order to meet the needs of the audience and prevent the program from being eliminated by the market.

The screenwriter of the show once complained that there was a lot of pressure to write the script. "From the second and third seasons, I felt that I couldn't write a story, but I forced it into the sixth season." He Jiong, a guest of the show, also said that everyone Worrying that "Star Detective" will have a bottleneck, the program writers do need time to prepare the script and the story.

It can be seen that the seventh season of this reasoning variety show has surpassed everyone's expectations, but the creative team is unable to do what they want. After dozens of episodes, the audience also fell into aesthetic fatigue.

　　The first phase of the seventh season of "Ace vs. Ace" chases "the hot spot of ancient aesthetics", and the second phase starts anti-fraud promotion. It can be seen that the show is also making more attempts on the theme, but this show's dependence on popular stars High, and more and more commercialized, advertising squeezes content, if the quality of the content drops again, loyal fans will "abandon the drama".

　　Aesthetic fatigue, difficulty in producing new products, and declining word-of-mouth are the insurmountable obstacles for most comprehensive N-generation programs.