When the subject of this came up, Yao Mi shook her head and said, “Look at ‘Lecture Room’ now, what the heck is going on? When Zhang Ye created this program back then, he was in charge of the planning and hosting and look at how well he spoke. The ratings were through the roof, but look at what happened to ‘Lecture Room’ now? The professionals and professors they invited, they aren’t even a tenth of what Zhang Ye was!”
Li Ying concurred, “That’s true. Those professors make me speechless. They just hold a script and stand there, reciting whatever is on it, yet the audience still applauds? It’s obviously staged! When Zhang Ye used to lecture, when did he ever need a script? Did he lower his head once to read from a script? The difference is too obvious and the key point is that they all can’t speak as well as Zhang Ye. Making those long speeches and being uninteresting, such a good program has been destroyed by those so-called professionals and professors. The current ratings can’t even compare to a quarter of Zhang Ye’s ‘Analysis of the Three Kingdoms’?”
A junior seated at the back added, “Right, without Zhang Ye, BTV-Arts has become a failure.”