Bibi:

Thanks for the clarifications.

Pumping up the ratings is a selfish act. Saving his sister isn’t.? So why doesn’t he donate a kidney? It’s a can’t-lose, three-for-one winner. 1] It saves her life; 2] It would end their estrangement; 3] It would boost ratings (arguably more so than finding his birth mom).

How will finding his birth mom save his sister? It seems like a separate goal. What is the primary objective goal that drives the plot?

>>>The audience cares cause the main character cares
and because the protagonist cares for something that’s worth caring about. Saving his sister is worth caring about. Pumping up his ratings, not so much.

>>> the producers of his show want him to do a reality tv show about his own estranged family coming together and reuniting.
Well, then, it’s the producers’ goal — he doesn’t own it. It’s better if the protagonist owns his objective goal, particularly if he undertakes it in spite of what others say, not because of it.

fwiw