It is presented by Lay Zhang with Li Ronghao, Jackson Wang, MC Jin, Cheng Xiao and Zhou Jieqiong serving as mentors.
In the final episode, the nine most-voted-on trainees got to debut as a boy group and were set to promote for 18 months; The voting system is similar to those of South Korean reality television shows Produce 101 and Mix Nine.
[citation needed] (邓烺怡) Bruno Mars (何东东) (李长庚) Rumors (Dance Performance) Jake Miller The rating for the first round is unveiled while the grading sessions for trainees continue.
The coaches give a re-evaluation prior to the filming of the performance to reassign the trainees to another A-F grade.
Two teams will be performing and competing against each other for each of the 8 songs: Jay Chou's "半兽人 (The Orcs)", "PPAP", Jolin Tsai's "大艺术家 (The Great Artist)", "Dance to the Music", "代号魂斗罗", Zhang Yixing's "Shake", CNBLUE's "Can't Stop", and "Get Ugly".
After the performance of each pair of groups, the live audience is given the opportunity to vote for their favorite member out of both of the competing teams.
你复不复古，你不复古我复古 螢火蟲戰隊 维纳斯战队 逆袭的向日葵 我想换Center 代號氣鼓鼓隊 一起摇摆 five fire fly wow visual 你的苹果 扎手的菠萝 老寒腿组合 好难啊组合 Snow Prince (雪花王子) 七个隆咚呛 The top 60 trainees with the most votes are announced, starting from rank 59 and announced in groups of ten.
Judges Cheng Xiao and Zhou Jieqiong select the winners of the dance battle, who ask that their reward be to let the entire group of trainees go eat Haidilao Hot Pot, a request which the director grants.
There are five songs for the vocal category: (Ed Sheeran's "Shape of You", Stefanie Sun's《我怀念的》(What I Miss), Chen Li's 《小半》(Little Half), Kimberley Chen's 《爱你》 (Love You), and "Always Online" by JJ Lin); four songs for the dance category ("Me Too", "Sheep" by Zhang Yixing, "Flow" by Khalil Fong ft. Wang Leehom, and Jay Chou's《双节棍》(Nunchuks)); and four songs for the rap category ("Very Good", "Turn Down for What", "Artist" by Zico and Papillon by Jackson Wang).
Trainee and Leader of "Nunchucks" Zhou Yanchen, who has been practicing late into the night, collapses at the end of the dress rehearsal due to hypoglycemia.
"Little Half/Xiao Ban" (Vocal, Chen Li) Team, "Me Too" (Dance, Meaghan Trainor, composed of lower-ranked vocalists) also performed.
(739) (717) (595) (461) (1020) (549) (502) (767) (885) Color Key The day after the Position Evaluations, Zhang Yixing provides his own Q&A session and shared his own experiences as a trainee, and how his agency's system differs from Idol Producer's system, like a 3-hour-only hire on practice rooms where you must sign for time slots, and the meals must be pre-ordered in the SM cafeteria.
On the morning of the reveal of the top 35, they write their final diary entries, which also serve as letters of gratitude to the mentors.
Cai Xukun retained his no.1 spot, while Li Junyi unofficially released his self-written song "The Greatest Dream" before he was eliminated.
Since "Listen to What I Have to Say" Group was decimated by the latest round of eliminations, with only three of the original 12 members left in the group, it added extra burden and frustration on leader Bu Fan because the original members' choreography and singing parts also needed to change with the adjustments.
The risk of being in free agency is the same as the group with few original members, they must completely relearn a different song from scratch with less time.
The Top 20 would have 18 days (on April 6, 2018) to prepare the live broadcast, which is the final episode to determine the 9 members of the new boy group.
The third and final round of elimination occurs, with the trainees ranked 21-35 leaving the show, but only after the collaboration stages with the mentors, which is screened in episode 11.
Clips of trainees participating in various activities are also screened in this episode, such as playing musical chairs wearing inflatable suits.
Another segment involves them being given the opportunity to 吐槽，or to expose other trainees in their daily life, such as Wang Ziyi's "Hey bro."
Color Key In another clip, the 20 trainees also dress in the clothes they've worn for their first self-introduction, and speak in reminiscence of what they've said during that introduction, and express their thoughts.
Following that in the live broadcast, is a performance of a special song, titled "Forever", depicting the wishes of the trainees to stay like they once were, and as a thank-you to the fans for their support.
The lights are then turned off, which throws the scene into a humorous one as the trainees get paranoid about the situation being another ghost prank, with varied amusing reactions.
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(果然娱乐) (次元文化) (红熠文化) (乐风艺社) (捷特联合) (亚歌文化) (野火娱乐) (新湃传媒) (英皇娱乐) (慈文传媒) (传奇星娱乐) (华谊兄弟) (华影艺星) (天津中视) (點星文化) (MLody工作室) (臻星娱乐) (星焕文化) (辰星娱乐) Idol Producer is jointly created and produced by iQIYI and Beijing Caviar Communications, a television production start-up founded and headed by ex-HBS employee-turned-executive Lei Ying.
On December 17, 2017, a press conference was held where coaches Lay Zhang, Jackson Wang, Cheng Xiao, Zhou Jieqiong and MC Jin attended.
[14] On February 3, 2018, a total of 21 contestants[a] were invited by Lay Zhang to guest star on Chinese variety show, Happy Camp.
[20] Individual trainee Song Shuijiao was forced to leave Idol Producer due to verbal misconduct degrading women widespread over the internet.
[22] A handwritten letter of apology was posted on the official Idol Producer dormitory Sina Weibo account.
[23] Two of MERCURY NATION'S trainees, GIGEL and Wang Youchen, were removed from the show as disciplinary action for ground fighting in the dormitory.