Variety shows have always been a good project for leisure and entertainment and to pass the time. In recent years, Chinese variety shows have flooded the screen, and the quality of the programs has become higher and higher. There have been many variety shows that are worth watching. In the past, we have introduced the hottest variety shows in 2021 and the top 10 variety shows in 2020. So, what changes will Chinese variety shows have in 2022? This post will introduce you to the most popular variety shows in China in 2022.
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Top 10 latest and most popular variety shows in China in 2022

1. The Flash Band 闪光的乐队

“The Flash Band” is a music social band program launched by Zhejiang Satellite TV, produced by Zhejiang Satellite TV Program Center. In the program, the musicians participated in the public performance music festival in the form of a band. In the process, they constantly adjusted and reorganized, and collided with music works that broke through the classics, and finally formed a shining band.
Zhejiang Satellite TV has always maintained market sensitivity in the research and development of program innovation, and is committed to using “beautiful innovative spirit to empower the brand”. “The Flash Band” is fused and forged with multi-dimensional resources to accumulate potential energy for the creation of the next super IP.
Music variety shows have grown exponentially. The production team has been continuously upgrading and innovating under the basic model centered on music competition, trying to superimpose many new elements to find a way to break the circle of music variety shows. As a new attempt of Zhejiang Satellite TV in music programs, “The Flash Band” is the first to open music social networking, inviting 27 powerful musicians to gather in the music community to find music confidants.
After each performance of the first theme music festival (first stage) of “The Flash Band”, the 300 “flash music fans” at the scene gave them a thumbs up according to their own preferences. Each thumbs up was converted into a sound value. Six musicians get the priority to form a band, become the captain of the field, and take the lead in inviting other musicians. The objects invited by the six captains are not limited to the “flash musicians” at the scene. They can also choose each other among the captains, and the invited objects also have the right to reverse the election.

2. Director Please Advise 导演请指教

“Director Please Advise” will be updated on Tencent Video every Friday and Saturday at 20:00 starting from November 5, 2021. It is a reality show for film and television directors launched by Tencent Video, featuring Wang Jing, Fang Li, Chen Zhixi, Hao Lei A team of producers was formed, with Ke Lan as the manager. In the program, 4 outstanding industry producers and 16 directors who are ready to go, call on powerful actors with superb acting skills to jointly create film and television works, strive for filming opportunities, and compete for the honor of annual value director.
The profession of director is familiar and unfamiliar to the public. With the improvement of public appreciation ability, more and more audiences are familiar with each director’s style, characteristics and experience. At the same time, they are curious about how and what they work behind the scenes. “Director Please Advise” will focus on this market industry vacancy, and let the director, the “light talker” hidden behind the big screen, move from behind the scenes to the front of the stage in the form of variety shows.
The show is composed of 4 top producers in the industry, assembles 16 directors who are ready to go, and calls on dozens of powerful actors with superb acting skills to jointly create film and television works, face the real industry ecology, and finally 16 directors strive for the best filming opportunities , compete for the honor of the annual value director.
The program focuses on restoring the market mechanism and creating a miniature picture book of the film and television industry. The “Producer Resource Pool”, “Actor Resource Pool” and “Angel Resource Pool” form a joint resource to help, and the works shot by all directors will also receive the evaluation of professional film appraisers and real feedback from the public. The audience can not only see the directors’ professional skills, communication skills, leadership thinking, stress resistance, social emotional intelligence and other comprehensive abilities in the program, but also can see the directors’ growth and progress in many tests.

3. Youth Travel Season Ⅲ 青春环游记第3季

“Youth Travel Season III” is a cultural tourism exploration variety show launched by Zhejiang Satellite TV. Jia Ling, Yang Yang, Fan Chengcheng, Song Xiaobao, Yang Di and Wang Sulong form the “Spring Tour Family”. The program is combined with local traditional culture to carry out interesting interaction of urban cultural characteristics, push urban culture to the public eye, and convey happiness to the audience.
“Youth Travel Season” is a variety show of cultural tourism exploration experience. It explores the vitality of the city during travel, glimpses the city’s style and the beauty of traditional culture in the scenery, and establishes a culture in a subtle way in order to carry forward and inherit the excellent traditional Chinese culture. Confidence makes a contribution. “Youth Travel Season III”, as the flagship of Zhejiang Satellite TV, returns with sincerity, rushes to the audience and the market with a stable and reliable attitude, and gathers momentum and empowers the brand.

4. Let’s Work Together Ⅱ 哈哈哈哈哈第2季

“Let’s Work Together Ⅱ” is an inspirational travel reality show produced by Tencent Video and iQIYI. This season’s new generation of “Wuha Tour Group” consists of Deng Chao, Chen He, Lu Han, Peng Yuchang, Guo Jingfei and Wang Mian. The program is set off by a new generation of “Wuha Tour Group” with a spirit of “five flavors of life, haha ​​is right”, taking time out of the busy and trivial daily life to start a journey across China.
Like ordinary 30+ groups, members of the tour group are also faced with the dual pressure of work and life, and usually have almost no time for themselves. Fighting for “the rest of the time is yours” has become the biggest pursuit of the tour group. It is also the spiritual resonance of the majority of people over the age of 30. In the traveling journey of “half work and half play”, the tour group will face endless problems and the plight of people on the road. “How to better balance work and life” to obtain happiness in life has become the subject of the tour group. Consideration of the important values ​​of the program.

5. Hello Saturday 你好星期六

“Hello Saturday” is a program launched by Hunan Satellite TV. The program will be broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV every Saturday at 20:10 from January 1, 2022. Program slogan: Hello Saturday, I can’t watch enough!
host
He Jiong, Xiao Yang (internship host)
Fixed guest
Cai Shaofen, Qin Xiaoxian, Wang Hedi, Bridge

6. Half-familiar lovers 半熟恋人

“Half-familiar Lovers” is a reality show of young and mature love observation produced by Tencent Video and jointly produced by Penguin Films and Gaoge Culture. Jing Tian, ​​Tang Yixin, Wang Ziwen, Wang Yanlin, Xie Nan, Xue Zhaofeng six “half-familiar observers”, on the basis of different experiences, observe the process of getting along with male and female guests from their own perspectives, share and express their life, emotions, marriage. , growing up stories and thinking, to discuss the appearance of love together.
The program invites a group of urban young men and women to stay in a “half-cooked apartment” to start a one-month love and social experience. Before everyone met, the program team specially set up an online chat session to leave a first impression on each other with the method of “seeing the three views without looking at the five senses”. After the official check-in, the male and female guests have enhanced mutual understanding through multiple mutual elections, individual appointments, group travel, etc.
“Half-familiar Lovers” penetrates into the mental state and love concept of young mature age groups, and derives multiple views of marriage and love. Pull the audience’s emotional resonance with a positive attitude, think about the emotions and relationships of marriage and love, people and ideas, and try to find answers to these questions from various angles.

7. INTO Miles 音途万里

INTO Miles is a musical documentary. The “INTO Miles” program invites INTO1 members to go deep into the three cities of Foshan in Guangdong, Zhongwei in Ningxia, and Chongqing in a small team mode. Together with a number of inheritors of intangible culture, they will learn Chinese traditional skills and experience the fireworks of Chinese cities.
INTO1’s music collection documentary “INTO Miles” will be combined with the new EP, bringing the music producers who were originally hidden behind the scenes and the music collection process to the screen, presenting INTO1’s “INTO Miles” music through a documentary plus a music album journey of. Continue to try to explore and gather inspiration. Compared with the single music lyrics and melody transmission, the introduction of documentary-style audio-visual expression will undoubtedly open up a new perspective for the audience, show the creative process of each song more realistically and vividly, and deepen the audience from a new dimension. understanding of the work.

8. Super Sketch Show 一年一度喜剧大赛

“Super Sketch Show” is an original comedy competition variety show produced by iQiyi and co-produced by Mi Wei. Ma Dong served as the secretary general of the organizing committee, and Huang Bo, Li Dan, Xu Zheng, and Yu Hewei served as the chairman of the organizing committee. With the help of the content design and work performance of different themed units, the program will display high-quality and diverse Chinese original and innovative comedy works in an all-round way, bringing life-loving, optimistic and cheerful new comedians into the public eye, and selecting creative and collaborative abilities from them , The group with the most outstanding performance.
The program covers sketch comedies, comics, musicals, mimes and other forms, which not only brings more types of comedies into the public eye, but also provides an opportunity for new comedians to show themselves.

9. FORGET ME NOT FARM 忘不了农场

“Forget Me Not Farm” is a public welfare program launched by Tencent Video that focuses on cognitive impairment and the elderly in China. Huang Bo, Tong Liya, and Yoko Lame join in. The program tells the warm story of the “unforgettable family” composed of director Huang Bo, deputy director Tong Liya, Yoko Ramu, celebrity chef Wang Yong and five elderly people with different characteristics, who jointly run a youth farm that forgets their age.
China’s population aged 60 and above reaches 264 million, accounting for 18.7% of the national population, and the population is aging further. The prevalence of mild cognitive impairment among people aged 60 and above is as high as 15.5%, and there are nearly 5,500 people with cognitive impairment in China. However, the popularization rate of knowledge of cognitive impairment among the citizens only accounts for 53.5%. The conflict between the high prevalence of cognitive impairment and the low cognitive rate persists, and the task of popular science for the whole people is a long way to go.
“FORGET ME NOT FARM” broke through the focus on cognitive impairment in the first two seasons, expanded the line of sight to the entire elderly group, created a new “ideal retirement” environment like a paradise for them, and showed the real state of the elderly to everyone. Looking at the old with youth, let the young people see the living conditions of the contemporary elderly, face the passage of time with a peaceful attitude, establish a correct concept of pension, and guide the yearning for pension; and life patterns, the colorful elderly life in the new era has been magnified and focused.

10. Tian Tian Xiang Shang 天天向上

“Tian Tian Xiang Shang” is a cultural public welfare talk show on Hunan Satellite TV. It is currently hosted by five ian Tian brothers, Wang Han, Qian Feng, Da Zhangwei, Wang Yibo and Gao Tianhe. Since its launch in August 2008, it has grown into one of Hunan Satellite TV’s two ace programs, and is the most iconic program of Hunan Satellite TV’s weekend entertainment programs.
“Tian Tian Xiang Shang” was created by Hunan Jingshi. It has the charm of “strategy” and the social responsibility of promoting Chinese virtues. The starting point of the program’s creativity is that China has been a country of etiquette since ancient times. However, in the 21st century, the traditional virtues of the Chinese nation have gradually disappeared, and the excellent etiquette of the people has gradually degenerated, which is far from the title of a civilized country. With the approaching of the Olympic Games, it is imperative for the world to know the true traditional virtues and etiquette of the Chinese nation. How to let the people feel the essence of traditional Chinese virtues and carry them forward while entertaining and laughing is the deep embodiment of the program’s positioning and the background of the program’s creation.