In the classification of television literature, compared to the artistic aesthetic value of TV dramas, variety shows often play a more important role as "emotional regulators". Looking back at 2024, old variety shows have updated their highlights, comedy shows reflect on life, cultural variety shows nourish people's hearts, and various programs provide emotional value from different perspectives, creating wonderful emotional connections with audiences. This year, with the iteration and update of traditional variety shows, the "comprehensive N generation" still remains a significant "dominant" presence on the viewership chart. Singer 2024 did not receive high expectations before its broadcast, but the show cleverly chose to approach it from the perspective of a competition between China and foreign countries, providing a new key to victory for the veteran variety show. Live streaming, live singing, and duels, with overlapping highlights, have brought "singers" back into the mainstream view. The program went from only 6 brands participating in its premiere to receiving sponsorship from a total of 30 brands at the end, making it the undisputed king of viewership for variety shows at the beginning of the year. This year, the return and restart of old variety shows can be said to be coincidental. At the beginning of the year, Hunan TV's "Flowers and Youth: Silk Road Season" had a good reputation and won six awards, including the Best Variety Show at the 29th Magnolia Awards and the 2023 Radio and Television Innovation and Excellence Program; The "Hua Shao" IP followed suit and launched "Hua Er and Shao: Friends" and "Hua Er and Shao 6" consecutively this year, airing in the second and fourth quarters. Previously, "Silk Road Season" warmed and healed the audience in front of the screen with its joyful "team spirit", and the friendship between the stars in the program is still talked about by the audience today. Emotional observation variety shows have become displays of social emotions, and "My Girlfriend 2024" and "My Son 2024" have returned after a four-year hiatus, bringing intergenerational relationships back to the forefront for discussion. The group variety show presents real friendships, and the customized and co created "Happy Friends" for "re employment male groups" provides the healing function of slow variety shows for old friends in a relaxed and lively atmosphere; The spin off of Taohuawu 650 radio station's ensemble "Team Building Cannot Stop" and the similar themed "Mao Xuewang" have both emerged as rising stars, with their short and light style highly praised. No one could have imagined that 2024 would be the "big year" for comedy programs, as comedy programs hit people's hearts. This year, "King of Comedy: Stand Alone Season", "Wonderful Night", and "Talk Show and Ta's Friends" were released in large numbers. After breaking the comedy pattern created by "Talk Show Conference" and "Annual Comedy Competition" in the past, they continued to produce exquisite jokes and comedy performances, and new comedy talents represented by Fu Hang, Xiaolu, Heideng, Tang Xiangyu, and others emerged. The competition of three types of programs is not only a fierce battle for top comedy creators on the platform, but also brings about an opportunity for self innovation in comedy variety shows. The introduction of Stephen Chow elements in "King of Comedy: Stand Alone Season" has given a new definition of "stand up comedy" to talk show programs. In the past, the "big demon kings" of talk shows have turned their talents into behind the scenes "strategists" and handed over the stage to young people from offline stages. The talk show "Talk Show and Ta's Friends" chooses to start with the works. Not changing the "old man" does not mean that the works "cannot be fought". Hulan, Doudou, and He Guangzhi still have outstanding works, while the emergence of new "groups" such as Da Guo Shou and Bu Jingyun has revitalized the program. As the only comedy competition variety show, "Pleasant Night" may seem like a twin of a "comedy competition" at first glance, but its creations revolve around themes such as ordinary people's daily lives, hot topics, and emotional resonance, constantly breaking through memes and upgrading its expression and content in more diverse stage forms; The emergence of actors such as Yan Peilun, "Cool Tianfang", Liu Yang, and Song Tianshuo has continuously brought comedic talents to the film and television stage. The innovation of the program is only in its external form, and what truly touches people's hearts always comes from its content. Through their sharp creative talents, the "Xiren" deeply satisfy the emotional needs of the audience. Fu Hang's moving style is not a "monkey show" style of jumping up and down. Through the experiences of ordinary people, he tells everyone, "As long as you are brave enough to be yourself, someone will always love you." Da Guo Shou and Bu Jingyun represent the rise of female talk show actors, who use their own works to make the expression on the talk show stage more diverse. Continuous innovation in the integration of culture and tourism. Against the backdrop of the explosion of culture and tourism, cultural variety shows have mostly begun a deep integration of "culture+tourism" this year, placing cultural content on a broader and better landscape, and empowering local culture and tourism with active cultural elements. CCTV's variety show has launched a new program called "100 Places to Go in This Life", Jiangsu TV continues to expand "Must Come 2", while Dragon TV's "Chinese Medicine Youth Chronicles" focuses on traditional Chinese medicine study tours. Hunan TV's "Travel Anywhere", "City Hide and Seek", and iQiyi's "Blind Box Travel Bureau" explore new ways of travel socializing. In the annual variety show data inventory provided by Huanwang Big Data, almost all of the top ten ratings of China Central Radio and Television Station are occupied by cultural variety shows. Works such as "2024 Chinese Poetry Conference", "China Traditional Chinese Medicine Conference Season 2", "Three Meals in Four Seasons", "Home in the Mountains and Rivers Season 3" rank among the top in terms of taste. "Biographies of Grandmasters: Biographies of Tang Dynasty Poets", "Urban Charm Record", "China in Intangible Cultural Heritage Season 2", "Bamboo Slips Exploring China Season 2" continue to be updated, expanding more content areas for cultural variety shows. In terms of satellite TV, "Shine! The Grand Canal" deeply explores the culture of the Grand Canal, and "I Read on the Island 3" has gone abroad for the first time. These innovations contain the desire of cultural variety shows to break through problems, and have also achieved outstanding performances in niche tracks, presenting the unique charm of cultural variety shows. (New Society)