100 Days to Go: The Post-00s Generation Takes Charge of the Spring Festival Gala

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On the fiftieth anniversary of CCTV's Spring Festival Gala, a hundred days before the countdown, the original chief director is suddenly hospitalized with a heart attack. Twenty-two-year-old Lin Chen is given the job in the crisis, becoming the youngest chief director in the Gala's history.

All the planned acts are scrapped. Dance performances are cut by two-thirds, while the number of comedy and language acts reaches an all-time high.

Lin Chen personally invites back a number of familiar faces who had faded from the Gala, and gives the intangible cultural heritage performers half the stage.

No one had any faith in this year's Gala. But by New Year's Eve, word of it has spread quietly through every street and alley, and its ratings have returned to their peak.

Countless people watch the screen with tears in their eyes: "Now this is the Spring Festival Gala I remember..."