Who's the Murderer
Who's The Murderer () is a Chinese variety program produced by Mango TV. The show features the main cast of He Jiong, Sa Beining, as well as resident guests Wang Ou, Gui Gui (Emma Wu) and Bai Jingting. The show was licensed by JTBC's "Crime Scene". Format. Season 1 (2016). In a prologue, the cast is introduced to the settings and suspects of a murder case for the new episode. The cast then chooses their role in the episode, as a particular suspect or the detective. Other than the detective, each person is given detailed  information about the suspect they are portraying including their personalities, alibi, relationship to the victim and other suspects, history, criminal motive, etc. Every suspect can conceal information until explicitly questioned by other suspects or the detective, but only the criminal can lie. Season 2 (2017). In the second season, minor changes were made to the format of the show. The gold bars are given to the cast members beforehand. If they vote correctly, they can keep the gold bar. If not, they will have to return it. When the cast members are choosing their roles, they do not know who  is the detective until they open their character cards. The detective is no longer allowed to make his first vote publicly, so that the cast will not be influenced. At the end of the game, if the right suspect is voted as the criminal, only those who voted correctly get to keep their gold bars. If the detective voted correctly both times, he or she gets two gold bars. If the suspect successfully hides his or her identity, he or she gets all six gold bars. In episode 12, all six cast members are suspects. Season 3 (2017). In the  third season, all the scenes have become realistic, in which the cast members experience the whole crime setting themselves. Props and the background of the cases are all original and solid, such as the hotel in episode one. There are one to two victims for each case, making the cases far more complex than the previous two seasons. Season 4 (2018). Season 4 began in October 2018, and continued to use actual sets for some of the episodes. The detective's assistant role, which appeared briefly in Season 2, was brought back for this season and played by various university  students. Season 5 (2019). Season 5 began in November 2019, and in the first episode an actual location (cruise ship) was used as a set instead of a production set which was utilized in previous seasons. The detective's assistant role has also returned for this season, and the format of the previous seasons appear to have been unchanged in this season. Season 6 (2020). Season 6 began in December 2020. This season has a new addition of the double detective mode. Double detective mode means there are now 7 players in total and the detective's get to cast  two votes each. Other than that the format is the same as the previous seasons. Season 7 (2022). Season 7 began in January 2022. This season is the first season where Benny Sa is absent from the cast. While this season continued the double detective mode, the detective's assistant only gets to vote once during the second voting round. Another change was the change from gold bars to detective badges for scoring. Similar to the previous seasons, if the criminal is caught, the detective gets badges equal to the number of times they voted correctly, and the assistant and  other players get a badge if they voted correctly. If the criminal wins, they win 6 detective badges. Players also vote for the MVP at the end of the episode, and each episode's MVP earns one badge. The winners of episode 0, the prior gathering, also earn one badge each. At the end of the season, among all the cast members (except for fixed member He Jiong), the four cast members with the most badges earn the title of "Stellar Detective". Episodes. Season 7 (2022). List of episodes in seventh season (episode 7/01 to 7/12) Controversies. Temporary suspension. The  second episode of season 3 was pulled down 30 minutes before the show was due to be uploaded to streaming website Mango TV on September 29. The crew of Who's the Murderer responded by saying that "the show needed more time to optimise the plot". The episodes returned online on November 3. Season 7 episode 6's modification. Season 7 episode 6 was originally slated to be "Revenge of the Puppet 2", with guests Zhang Ruoyun, Da Zhangwei, Qi Wei, Deng Lun and Wang Mian. However, due to Deng Lun's tax evasion scandal, the broadcast of this episode  was cancelled and "The Wise Elderly Life" was uploaded a week early instead. Show content being maliciously interpreted. In season 7 episode 6, Justin Huang portrayed the character of an elderly man. Cast member He Jiong joked that he did not respect elderly people as he was not wearing long johns. Following which, the hot search "He Jiong says Justin Huang does not respect elderly" began trending on Weibo. The show responded by saying that "since the show was uploaded, there have been many malicious misinterpretations of the show content online meant to incite negative emotions. Regarding the malicious attacks  on the show content, we have immediately handed relevant evidence to Weibo officials, and have used legal means to maintain our rights."