Healing Doctor

Chapter 533 Anxiety After the Data Is Too Good

End of episode 5.

Looking at the program's ratings, even Director Fan himself couldn't believe that his program had such high viewership.

The number of concurrent online users has reached 880 million!

And just like the previous episodes, it didn't decline rapidly after the show ended.

It's not surprising that many people are already eagerly watching it a second, third, or even fourth time.

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

"The data is excellent, very good," Director Fan said. "But!"

Director Fan's assistant looked constipated.

The greater the hope, the greater the pressure.

The ratings for the five consecutive episodes continued to climb, and the show's rave reviews raised everyone's expectations.

Not only the production team, but even the official Weibo account for trending topics has seen a terrifying number of fan comments.

Since the end of the second episode, after each episode airs, related topics have occupied the top ten of the trending search list.

It's rare in recent years for a variety show to achieve such popularity without buying trending topics or investing much in operations.

Even Director Fan's assistant believed that the show could be considered a phenomenon.

So, here's the question—what will the next episode be about?

This problem has been troubling the production team for a long time.

The original script, with its lukewarm, slice-of-life style, was no longer suitable for the show.

The first five episodes have already whetted the audience's appetite, with scenes of emergency rescue, surgery on a late-stage cancer patient, ward rounds, and rare diseases. What to film next is indeed a huge challenge.

The key difference is that the healthcare industry is slightly different from other industries.

This industry is relatively serious, and there are some gimmicks that can't be used, which gives Director Fan a headache.

This program is essentially a workplace reality show that serves as a platform for discussing social issues.

The third season was originally planned to include topics such as education, gender, doctor-patient relationships, ideals, and life... each of which was expected to resonate with the public and generate significant online buzz.

The show's initial intention was undoubtedly to create a naive and idealized public image—that doctors should be dressed in fine clothes and be either tall and handsome or gentle and kind, wearing smart white coats and sitting in bright and clean clinics to treat urban beauties.

The scene was indeed lavish and vibrant, but Ji Xiang was also incredibly tall and handsome, achieving the ultimate in everything the production team could imagine.

Although there are no urban beauties going to the doctor, and no melodramatic plot twists, Ji Xiang seems to have a kind of magic, using a different approach to firmly attract the audience's attention in just a few episodes.

Rather than calling this show a reality show or a giant SHOW, it's more accurate to say it's increasingly resembling a documentary.

The documentary focuses on doctors, and Ji Xiang is one of the representatives of doctors.

From the spherical vacuum perspective of the entertainment industry, we find handsome men and beautiful women working in this tough industry, stripping away the heavy reality to reveal their relaxed, elegant, and composed superficial appearance.

This will undoubtedly make clinical doctors, who are struggling to sit in a semi-squatting position, feel no goodwill from the first glance, and also make people familiar with the medical industry feel helpless and unable to criticize the artificiality of domestic medical dramas.

But after five episodes, the rapid-fire presentation of several cases, coupled with the massive investment from the behind-the-scenes financial backers and the cinematic animation, all of this exceeded everyone's expectations, transforming a wildly popular program into a national phenomenon.

Next...

Director Fan became increasingly distressed as he thought about it.

This problem is almost unsolvable.

Especially when the data hit a new high, almost reaching the national level, Director Fan was so worried that he kept pulling out handfuls of his hair.

If I had known this reality show would become such a hit, I would have withstood all the pressure, spent half a year in the hospital, and then sat down with the bigwigs in China, determined to create a script that would satisfy everyone.

But now, everything is out of control. The car is going too fast, so fast that Director Fan is dizzy.

The data is very high, and the higher it is, the greater the pressure on Director Fan.

"Let's have a meeting!"

Director Fan didn't have time to be happy; he couldn't celebrate with champagne right now. The important thing was what to film for the next episode.

The control room was transformed into a conference room, with relevant personnel sitting in a row.

The data was so good, but everyone kept their heads down and no one spoke up.

Everyone knew the purpose of Director Fan's meeting, and it wasn't the first time such a meeting had been held. No one had any objections, including Director Lu from Jixiang Medical Team, who only had a wisp of hair left.

Director Fan looked around and asked, "Director Lu, since you're the professional, do you have any suggestions?"

"No," Director Lu said bluntly. "I told you long ago, this show was dead from the start."

Director Fan glared fiercely at Lu Gang, his gaze like a knife.

I don't know how this person could utter such a vicious curse.

"We shouldn't have gone to Ji Xiang. Do you think people like him are the norm in hospitals?!"

Lu Gang raised his hand, lifted the only strand of hair, and coiled it on his forehead, trying his best to maintain the image that he still had hair.

"If you're going to look for someone, you can only look for a senior director or expert like me!"

"..."

Director Fan didn't want to listen to Lu Gang's rambling anymore.

His appearance alone could lower the show's ratings by three notches, and might even affect the next season.

This is a reality show, not a hospital visit.

Art should not only originate from life, but also transcend it!

If people were to go to the hospital for treatment, they might prefer Lu Gang's appearance, and many would choose Lu Gang over Ji Xiang.

However, when it comes to variety shows, the roles are reversed.

"Director, Director Lu suggested last time that we should have a merit-based system to eliminate people who don't meet the program's requirements. I think that's a good idea," a staff member said.

Director Fan began to worry again.

Originally, they wanted to pass on Zhao Mengmeng, but in the latest episode, Zhao Mengmeng's paper was so well-written that it won the approval of the heads of various departments.

Although Ji Xiang made some changes in the end, Zhao Mengmeng's talent cannot be denied.

So who should we eliminate?

Apart from Ji Xiang, most of the people selected for the program were graduates of prestigious universities, with only one intern who graduated from a second-tier university.

This person is quite popular and receives a lot of sympathy.

"What can you possibly come up with by filming a reality show in a hospital?" Lu Gang said dismissively once again. "Go to the hospital, immerse yourself in it, observe the various aspects of human life, and you'll find something to film."

This sentence reminded Director Fan.

He had realized that his reality show had taken a sudden turn in its third season, subtly transforming from a variety show into a documentary.

So, shall we continue down this path?

Director Fan thought to himself.

"But we have limited time," said Director Fan's assistant.

"Then it has nothing to do with me. I'm just worried because you guys are so stupid that you hung up your photos."

(End of this chapter)