Last week's biggest entertainment news was the news that mbc entertainment signboard Kim Tae-ho PD expressed his gratitude after 20 years of joining. The turnover of competent PDs always took a place in entertainment news, but the expectation of the future led to a lush prediction in that it was the top star PD who opened the era of new entertainment with the most groundbreaking event in the history of entertainment in Korea and the only big player remaining in Major TV Channel entertainment camp. In addition, the weight class of mbc entertainment bureau has become inevitable because the symbolic person who has been responsible for a large part of mbc sales over the past decade leaves.
In 2021, when the second half of the year has passed, it is a year when the cable and the TV entertainment crisis have been overtaken by Major TV Channel. After everyone ran to the trot board, saying that they were looking at the middle-aged, the competition, golf, and entertainment became more intense, and the results were cool. Most of the popular cultural products and trends that hit this year (though there are many programs produced by the broadcasters, of course) from the Brave Girls' reverse to the Buccaneers' settlement, the Buccaneers' world view of the University of Pisik, and the Trans-Love or D.P., which leads the boom of love entertainment. As we can see in the self-portrait of the Penthouse series, it is a major league at the top of the pyramid of the popular culture for over half a century, and the status of TVContent, which had authority and dignity as a leverage to expand and reproduce all cultures, has been reversed in earnest.
Even if you go into entertainment, the next paradigm of observation has now moved to Webentement, which inherits YouTube's V-log and names the performers. Now, it is impossible to show more than that on TVContent unless you see a match with Spectacle. Character shows, which are typical of TV entertainment, are still difficult to be beautiful until the end. Look at the swelling of the only character show, The Brother Knowing, that was born and maintained in the era of observation.
So I was very surprised by the recent "Infinite Challenge" season 2, which was named "What do you play?" It was time for a new Top Model to be developed. Although it has performed well for the past two years, the retro music entertainment that sees the Remady structure of <Infinite Challenge> and the Top Model pattern with the power of reciprocal power was infinitely repeated like Mobius' band. The fun of the bouquet, which opened the trot boom as a rug, was also followed by the younger versions of the comedy that went out of the TV while the familiar Remady started with Yoo Jae-Suk grumbling to Kim Tae-ho PD repeated.
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But this assessment is also a case of competition among TVContent: retro can be a trend, but it can not be a spirit of the times that defines the time. It is difficult to make a way forward except for the network of memories just by reviving the vibes of those days again. The Americas do their best to emit energy that is not overwhelmed by other entertainment veterans, the Dabujin Shin Bong-sun quickly takes on the character and plays the most difficult striker, Haha shows the energy full of old energy, takes charge of goodness and Chain Reaction, and Jeong Jun-ha becomes the exclusive sandbag of Yoo Jae-Suk. The maximum value of the fun to make is the laughter of a few scenes where memories of the past spread.
Everyone works hard, but like Park Myung-soo, Noh Hong-chul, and Jung Hyung-don, sometimes there is no member who breaks through the powerful command of Yoo Jae-Suk and makes unpredictable fun and improvisation. Above all, even if it is made well, it has a decisive limit that it can not restore the essence of a living character show that was delivered as the growth of the actual performer and the growth of the program Remady fit.
But I think that <What do you do +>, which is currently in full swing, is not Remady for the finale. I guess it’s a kind of farewell trip that starts with the fact that the Infinite Challenge cannot be done in its entirety, and then says goodbye to the Infinite Challenge, which has continued to the How to Play, and to the viewers who still miss it, and to thank them for their gratitude.
The most obvious, quick, and easy reflection of will for change is to change the environment. In this regard, I am really curious about the next of Kim Tae-ho PD who left mbc, which was also a righteousness, responsibility and ankle sandbag. In the mid-2000s, the Infinite Challenge began its history with the existing entertainment and line. It was a revolutionary moment that it was okay to reveal honest humanity on the air, and beyond laughter to entertainment fun, it included Remady and emotion. Could it be the Infinite Challenge as well as the employee ID that comes out of the mbc office this time? Could Kim Tae-ho PD exist as Content rather than <Infinite Challenge>? There has been no case in which the identity of the planner has been regarded as one of the identity of a program so far.
Previously, senior star PDs existed. However, emotional intimacy is more supportive of the first entertainment PDYi Gi, which presented a new way of speaking of entertainment, communicating with the public, creating a new cultural window, and defining the time. TVContent is losing power, and the overall energy and fun of entertainment continues to fall. Kim Tae-ho PDYi Gi, who upgraded entertainment to the protagonist of popular culture a decade ago, is looking forward to another time as usual in the new Top Model in 20 years.
columnist Kim Kyo-seok