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This paper presents an investigation into the theatrical planning strategies of TV entertainment programs. It examined what kind of narrative strategy TV entertainment programs were using to commune with the viewers and achieve their intended goals and effects with three entertainment programs representing the three terrestrial broadcasting stations, Infinite Challenges, One Night, Two Days, and Running Men. The characters of TV entertainment programs are built based on the accumulated communication among the production staff, cast, and viewers. The old characters are strengthened or new ones are created as dramatic events are placed to fit each character and induce responses from the viewers. That is, characters are organic beings that go through a cycle of creation, change, and extinction through the communication among the many different subjects. The viewers accept a dramatic situation as if they were experiencing it right now through familiar characters. They get to feel that the fictional worlds of entertainment programs are the stories told by all the people of contemporary times instead of something separate from them. That feel of companionship creates a third effect when the viewers return back to their realities from the fictional worlds. Like in the cases of reflection on the problematic reality in Infinite Challenges, provide culture information in One Night, Two Days, and development of tourist products in Running Men, they accept an entertainment program as their own thing and get the driving force to change the reality. Those findings indicate that TV entertainment programs are a form of dramatic art to offer fun and laughs, communicate with the viewers, and speak to the reality by utilizing the theatrical attribute of ultimately stimulating their internal changes through communion as a narrative strategy.

entertainment, TV entertainment program, planning, Infinite Challenges, One Night, Two Days, Running Men, communion, character