Chapter 845 The ratings explode!
It was almost ten o'clock when Hao Ren returned to the rental house after working overtime.
Putting the takeout on the table, he took off all his clothes, only wearing a pair of underwear, then sat on a chair and started looking for a meal.
Every time he has a meal, it has become his habit to find a favorite TV series, a good variety show, or a new show to eat with his meal.
This way he can feel the warmth of being accompanied at night in a strange city.
But after searching for a long time, he couldn't find a new show to watch, and the few programs and new dramas he was following were not updated either.
Should we rewatch the last season of "Chinese Restaurant" again?
Thinking of the last season of "Chinese Restaurant", he suddenly remembered a screenshot he saw in the group at noon.
That was a Weibo post by Li Yifa. The Weibo said that the food documentary "A Bite of China" he produced would premiere on CCTV tonight.
Hao Ren looked at the time and it seemed that it was about this time.
You need to take a look at this!
He rummaged through the boxes and found the TV remote control, replaced it with the air conditioner battery, turned on the TV he had never watched since moving in, and found a CCTV set.
The last season of "Chinese Restaurant" was his favorite show and he had rewatched it more than a dozen times.
Every time he couldn't find a suitable show to go with his meal, he would dig out "Chinese Restaurant", pick an episode at random, and watch it as soon as he went in. He would never be disappointed.
He has been waiting for the filming of the new season of "Chinese Restaurant", but instead of "Chinese Restaurant", he waited for "A Bite of China".
He has heard of this documentary a long time ago, but has never paid much attention to it.
He has always believed that there are specialties in the art industry, and since Li Yi is a chef, he should cook well instead of filming documentaries.
Furthermore, how to make a documentary about food?
In his impression, documentaries are the kind that use a cold perspective to shoot nature, humanities, and animals, as if the creator is overlooking the entire world, aloof and unconventional.
Of course, this is just his impression. The only documentary he has ever watched was Animal World when he was a child.
Other than that, he hardly watches documentaries.
So, he has no idea about this food documentary.
When the documentary started playing, he even thought it was an advertisement. It wasn’t until Liu Yifei’s gentle voice came from the TV that he realized that the documentary had already started.
“China has a large population and the richest and most diverse natural landscapes in the world. Plateau, mountains, forests, lakes and coastlines.
This geographical and climatic span helps the formation and preservation of species.
No other country uses so many potential food raw materials..."
As Liu Yifei spoke slowly and leisurely, the mountains, rivers and lakes of the Chinese mainland appeared one by one.
But the broad perspective is just a fleeting glimpse, and it is quickly retracted to the details.
Heavy ears of wheat, dense mushrooms on the trees, lotus flowers hidden among the green lotus leaves in the lake, red peppers...
Looking at the ingredients flashing across the screen, Hao Ren couldn't help but twitch his Adam's apple, and then reached out to bring the takeaway in front of him.
Following that, as if cooperating with him, the screen switched to the fried shredded pork with wild rice that had just come out of the pot.
Then it’s pan-fried mackerel, boiled clams, fried lotus root…
One delicious dish after another appeared on the screen. As Hao Ren watched, his throat twitched violently, and he unwrapped the plastic takeout bag in a hurry.
Why is the bag **** by this merchant so tight? Are you going to let others eat it?
When the fried bamboo shoots appeared on the screen, he couldn't bear it any longer and tore the plastic bag open with a fierce force.
He opened the takeout box, took out the disposable chopsticks, poked them at the table, took them out, threw away the packaging bag, and took a big mouthful of rice.
Feel comfortable!
Chewing heavily, he stared at the TV screen without blinking, looking at it seriously.
So is this a food documentary?
The meal is simply invincible!
At the same time, across the country, there are countless viewers in front of televisions, all attracted by the content being broadcast.
Food is always one of the content types with the widest audience, and there will never be a shortage of viewers. When pieces of steaming food appear on TV, even a three-year-old child will be so greedy that his mouth will water.
At the same time, in CCTV’s data monitoring center, the current ratings are also displayed on the big screen in real time.
The screen showed that from the moment "Bite of Tongue" started airing, CCTV's ratings were like riding on a rocket, starting to rise at a steady pace, and soon exceeded 1%.
You must know that for a channel like CCTV that covers the whole country, even a 1% viewership rating is already quite terrifying.
Even the TV series broadcast during the eight o'clock prime time period have less than 2% ratings.
For a documentary, it is already a big hit if it breaks 1% at the launch!
But this was just the beginning. During the 50-minute broadcast of the first episode, the ratings of the entire channel continued to rise.
By the end of the first episode, the ratings were close to 2%!
Seeing this data, everyone backstage at CCTV felt reassured.
This film is solid!
At this time, in China, countless people’s mobile phones began to ding.
In various WeChat groups, there are heated discussions about the program that just ended.
“Have you watched the documentary from the set? It looks great!”
“Look at me, I’m so greedy that I got up in the middle of the night and cooked a pack of instant noodles!”
“There is actually lotus root soup from Hubei Province. The director is very knowledgeable!”
“Don’t you all watch the news? This was taken by Li Yi, the chef who became popular last year.”
“He took the photo? No wonder it looks so good, he is a professional!”
At the same time, countless netizens also talked about this show on various platforms.
Less than twenty minutes after the broadcast, "A Bite of China" quickly became a hot search topic.
Under the hot search, many netizens are discussing excitedly.
“This is my first time watching a program dedicated to food! It’s so interesting!”
“Finally someone took pictures of our Chinese delicacies!”
“It’s really amazing to have a food documentary filmed like this.”
“It’s not easy for Liu Yifei to appear in a documentary.”
“Haha! I support my boyfriend’s career.”
“This film was shot by Li Yi, of course Liu Yifei is willing to appear.”
“Produced by Yige, it’s really professional!”
“Yifei’s dubbing is really impressive. As soon as I hear her voice, I feel hungry.”
“I don’t know if my hometown will be included in the second episode. At the end of last year, I heard that Li Yi and Liu Yifei went to my hometown to shoot material.”
Amid heated discussions among netizens, topics related to the program remained at the top of the search list until the next day.
With this kind of popularity, when the second episode of the program started airing the next day, the ratings immediately exceeded 2% from the beginning.
By the time the second episode was aired, the ratings even reached around 3%, which surprised the CCTV staff.
It’s just a food documentary, how can it be so popular?
Even though they knew the quality of "A Tip of the Tongue" and knew that its ratings would not be low, they did not expect it to be so high.
With a ratings of nearly 3%, it has already crushed all prime-time TV series!
This data can really be said to be a big explosion!
(End of this chapter)