The first long-form TV series entirely generated by AI, "The Later Journey to the West," was officially released to the audience on August 31st. The series will be exclusively broadcasted on Mango TV at 6:00 PM on the same day, and then it will air on Hunan Satellite TV's prime time slot at 8:00 PM. The first batch of episodes, "The Flower Fruit Mountain Chapter," consists of 5 episodes, each lasting 40 minutes. Among them, Mango TV SVIP members can watch 3 episodes in advance, while VIP members can watch 2 episodes in advance.
In terms of content setting, "The Later Journey to the West" is adapted from the famous Ming and Qing dynasty novel of the same name, one of the three major continuations of "Journey to the West." The first season is planned to consist of 30 episodes, each 40 minutes long. The series cleverly integrates the original grand framework with the existing clues from "Journey to the West," building a complete narrative system of "The Later Journey to the West." The story is set 1,080 years after Sun Wukong was deified. Due to a new crisis in the Flower Fruit Mountain, the little stone monkey Sun Xiaosheng awakens and embarks on a legendary journey with Tang Banji and others to recover the true scriptures.
In terms of production and broadcasting mechanisms, this series has made a significant industry breakthrough, becoming the first series to adopt the "review while producing and broadcasting" model after the release of the "21 Policies" of the National Radio and Television Administration. Compared to the long production cycle of traditional films and television programs, this new model of producing, reviewing, and broadcasting simultaneously not only significantly shortens the creation and broadcasting cycle but also allows for flexible and efficient optimization and adjustment of subsequent plots based on the review opinions of the supervisory authorities and real-time feedback from the audience, opening up a new exploration of film and television content production in the AI era.
