The King of Huayu Science Fiction

Chapter 180 Restarting the Weekly Theater
"Miss Su, how are you doing?"

Su Hongmei, director of Mango TV's Program Trading Center, let out a sigh of relief in the dark viewing room, took out a tissue and wiped the wetness from the corners of her eyes in embarrassment.

She has watched a lot of sensational TV dramas, but the sensational techniques in this TV drama are extremely high-level, the shock brought by the plot has a long aftertaste, every scene reveals cold, sad, rough and timeless meaning, there are many movie-level The immersive feeling brought by the mirror is like watching a movie on the big screen-of course it is a good movie.

Su Hongmei picked up the remote control and pressed pause at the beginning of the eighth episode.

"Although I haven't finished watching it yet, just based on the quality of the first 7 episodes...it is indeed a rare high-quality drama, whether it is plot, acting, picture or rhythm, it is impeccable." Su Hongmei quickly recovered from the ups and downs. Calm down, commented in a deep voice.

Next to her is Zhang Qingde, editor-in-chief of Mango TV, head of outdoor publicity, and deputy director of the program trading center.

After the rough cut version of "Signal" came out, Zhang Qingde tried it out first. Unexpectedly, after watching it, he couldn't wait to ask Su Hongmei, the purchasing director of the show, to watch it quickly, so as to decide how to deal with DreamWorks' offer as soon as possible.

In fact, as the director of the drama purchasing department, Su Hongmei does not review every drama in person. The TV dramas and programs broadcast by Mango TV in various theaters and time slots throughout the year cannot be written on a single page, and some TV dramas cost seventy or eighty at a time. If she watched every episode carefully, she, the director, would stop doing other things.

Of course, for such a heavyweight work as "Signal"-just Sun Li's name is enough to be listed as the focus of attention by various Davids, Sun Hongmei naturally has to read it all.

Originally, Mango TV was going to snatch the TV series starring Sun Li, but DreamWorks' asking price was a bit scary-if Mango TV wanted to get the exclusive copyright, it would have to spend at least 9000 million.

If the TV series "Signal" had 50 episodes, Su Hongmei would definitely support the purchase without saying a word, but 25 episodes would be a bit exaggerated.

This means that "Signal" will have at least half of the broadcast time compared with normal TV dramas. Whether it is the brewing and improvement of ratings, or the distribution and broadcasting of advertisements, it will be greatly reduced. Originally, a normal TV drama can last for a month. According to the schedule, "Signal" can only last for less than half a month, but it needs other TV dramas purchased by Mango TV to fill the gap.

However, after watching the first 7 episodes, Su Hongmei's thoughts changed. She pondered for a while and turned to ask: "Is there a big change in the rhythm of the next 18 episodes compared to the first 7 episodes?"

Zhang Qingde replied decisively: "The rhythm in the middle has some ups and downs, but there is no major change. Basically, there is a hook at the end of each episode, which can arouse the audience's sense of expectation. I have to say that the rhythm of this TV series is really exquisite. .”

"Zhou Bo..." Su Hongmei murmured after listening to Zhang Qingde's answer: "If you look at it this way, it's not impossible to put it in the Zhou Bo Theater."

Before that, Zhang Qingde proposed to put "Signal" in the Mango Weekly Theater, so as to solve the shortcoming of its insufficient number of episodes. It broadcasts two episodes a week, and 25 episodes can be broadcast for 13 weeks anyway. That is three months. If the TV series It is the most suitable mode of broadcasting if it can form a topic of discussion and maintain a good ratings. Now there are very few TV dramas that can maintain their popularity for three consecutive months.

But the only problem is that the weekly broadcast theater has been cancelled. Mango TV is the first TV station in China to try to set up a weekly broadcast theater to explore the weekly broadcast mode.

But after only broadcasting two dramas, I found that the weekly broadcast mode is indeed a bit unacceptable. First, the audience in Huaguo has been cultivated by the TV station’s long-term broadcast mode to have an inherent habit of following dramas. The operation model of the TV station has been changed. In the process of the two sides constantly competing for influence, the number of episodes of star dramas began to expand.

From forty or fifty episodes, fifty or sixty episodes to seventy or eighty episodes, the number of episodes of TV dramas is increasing rapidly just like the purchase cost, and what is generally sacrificed under this large amount of water injection is the rhythm of TV dramas.

In fact, if many TV dramas in China can cut the number of episodes in half and increase the narrative rhythm, the general ratings will increase by 1 to 2 points.

And this kind of TV series that has a slow pace and needs to be broadcast at double speed, it is even less likely that the audience will buy it if you use the weekly broadcast mode.

Mango’s weekly theater is still set at the prime time at 7:30 on Saturday night, and the final result is that the ratings of the prime time on weekends are not even as good as those on weekdays.

Therefore, Mango TV’s weekly theater has been running for about a year and then ended.

Su Hongmei originally didn't take Zhang Qingde's proposal to restart the weekly broadcast theater, but after watching the first seven episodes of "Signal", he had to admit that this TV series is indeed quite suitable for weekly broadcasting. The rhythm is very tight, and almost every episode There can be a suspense at the end of the show, which can make the audience have a strong sense of anticipation for the next episode. If the whole show can maintain this narrative rhythm, then there is no one more suitable for the weekly broadcast mode than him.

"Okay, I'll try to finish watching this drama in the past two days." Su Hongmei made up her mind. Although the TV dramas broadcast by Mango Satellite TV have mixed reviews, he must be the most courageous pioneer among the first-line satellite TVs in China: "Wait for me to watch this TV series." After watching all the dramas, discuss this matter with the director, you must keep an eye on Donghai Satellite TV and Capital Satellite TV for me, and you must not let other TV stations snatch this drama before you make a final decision."

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4月24号，好莱坞漫改电影《少年复仇者：明日英雄》上映累计21天拿到了18.3亿的票房成绩创造了华国新的电影票房纪录，而且还有望创造更大的奇迹——至今这部电影的工作日票房仍然能保持在2000万以上。

The explosion of Huaguo's film market has led many Hollywood media to even speculate that "Young Avengers" may get a box office of 4 million U.S. dollars in Huaguo, which will exceed its North American box office performance.

However, the domestic media is far less optimistic, because DreamWorks' third theatrical film "Source Code" is about to hit the theaters, and because of the word-of-mouth of the previous films, the momentum of "Source Code" is even stronger than that of "Source Code". "Signal" is even higher, after all, when "Signal" was released, there were competitors like the white-haired witch.

Although "Young Avengers" set a box office record, it has been released for three weeks, and the box office has entered the tail curve. If there is no big movie released, it will really make him more than two billion.

And "Source Code" is likely to shatter the 20 billion dream of "Young Avengers". Many media have already expected this, but can "Source Code" create a box office miracle like "Signal"?This is a question that hangs in the minds of many film critics and the media.

(End of this chapter)