In recent years, it has become a trend for Hong Kong artists to work in the mainland, on the one hand, the mainland has given higher salaries, and on the other hand, it is also because of the decline in the Hong Kong entertainment industry. But Wang Zulan has become the one who "goes against the current".
After TVB Chen Guoqiang stepped down as chairman of the board, major shareholder Li Ruigang and the new ruler Xu Tao immediately recalled Zeng Zhiwei and Wang Zulan, one as vice president and the other as chief creative officer. Over the past few months, Wang Zulan has indeed made drastic changes to TVB's variety shows.
TVB's newly launched program "Good Sound and Good Drama" takes sound as the theme, comparable to the mainland's "Sound Immersion", but I did not expect that the ratings of this program were extremely high, setting a rating of 15 points, and suppressing the variety show of Hong Kong Television Entertainment Co., Ltd. ViuTV, becoming a new ace variety show.
The public, who originally did not have expectations for TVB's reform, were unexpectedly fired by Wang Zulan's cannon. Wang Zulan himself admitted that he had indeed taken on considerable pressure in the past few months.
Speaking of the reason for Wang Zulan's return to his old owner's home, it was because of Zeng Zhiwei's invitation. At that time, the two met at a dinner party in Shanghai, and the two Hong Kong artists who were also developing in the north naturally had some feelings, Zeng Zhiwei lamented that many of his friends who were born in the same period were in the mainland, and asked Wang Zulan what plans he had in the future. Without waiting for Wang Zulan to reply, Zeng Zhiwei issued an invitation to return to TVB.
In fact, Wang Zulan's development in the mainland is smooth, from "Running Man" to "Hundred Changes of Big Coffee Show", Wang Zulan has accurately found his own positioning, there is quite a market in the mainland, and the natural film remuneration is also rising. He even brought his wife and daughter to Shanghai to prepare for settlement.
Some netizens have met the couple on the streets of Shanghai, and the family of three is very low-key. However, since Wang Zulan returned to TVB, he further plans to take back Li Yanan and the child, so as to infer that Wang Zulan is likely to shift the focus of future work back to TVB.
We all know that Hong Kong artists generally earn more in the mainland than in Hong Kong, especially Wang Zulan, when asked by the media about the "poor" income, Wang Zulan said: "Probably there is no building (100 million yuan independent house)". After taking over such a hot potato as TVB and losing a building, why should it return?
This time, Wang Zulan's identity is very different from before. Before Wang Zulan was only an artist under TVB, but this time he returned, he was the chief creative officer, equivalent to the top level of TVB, and he had the right not to say that Wang Zulan himself could also control the direction of the program. In addition, the salaries of senior executives are naturally different from those of ordinary artists, perhaps not worse than those of the mainland.
TVB is a fierce heart, pull back Zeng Zhiwei and Wang Zulan, look at the strength of the two TVB reform, if it can really reproduce the glorious period, it is really possible to pull back more Hong Kong artists who have fled and gradually return. After all, there have been too many artists who have left in recent years, and the veteran masters Hua Dan and Xiaosheng have become hot and fragrant food in the mainland. For example, She Shiman, Hu Xing'er, Zhang Weijian, Lu Songxian and so on.
In the face of the departure of a large number of Hong Kong artists, Wang Zulan's return is almost a kind of "counter-current", I don't know if his decision is correct, whether he can really carry the banner of TVB's turnaround. Looking at the current situation of TVB, the old drama bone has been terminated, the salary of its artists has shrunk, there is no representative work, lack of innovation, vitality, etc., everywhere is an embarrassing dilemma, I am afraid that it is not a Wang Zulan or a Zeng Zhiwei that can be reversed in a short period of time.
I hope that Wang Zulan can really do something for TVB, and don't live up to his enthusiastic heart.