Rebirth of Hong Kong - 1978

Chapter 353 Another Contest

With the broadcast of the last episode of "Shanghai Bund", the ratings reached a terrifying 90%, and almost all the TV stations that night were watching TVB.

Such a result caused ATV's ratings to drop to single digits for the first time. It can be said that this is the biggest shame since Qiu Degen took over ATV.

This incident made Qiu Degen very angry. The next day, he called all the producers and senior executives of ATV to the conference room for a meeting. It is said that he even patted the table inside.

But looking back at TVB, even with such a good ratings, Fang Yat Hua was not happy at all.

Even when she saw that ATV's ratings had dropped to single digits, she didn't show much smile on her face, because Fang Yathua knew that she would switch to ATV next time.

"I haven't found out the specific situation. I only know that Lin Daoqiu will send the script to ATV in the next few days."

Fang Yihua has been keeping people's eyes on ATV's situation, and now she really wants to know what kind of TV series Lin Daoqiu wrote for ATV.

After all, if you know yourself and the enemy, you will never end in a hundred battles. If you can know the TV series that the other party will shoot in advance, then Fang Yihua can find a way to deal with it.

"How is Qiuguan's health?"

All Fang Yathua can think of now is to get Zheng Shaoqiu and the up-and-coming Chow Yun-fat together to star in a TV series.

Anyway, putting a bunch of celebrities together in a TV series, this method can be said to be tried and tested, and it can bring good results to TVB every time, so Fang Yat-hua likes to use this method to deal with ATV.

But Fang Yihua probably didn't think about it, before she was able to taste the sweetness in this way, it was because Li's original cast was too weak that she succeeded repeatedly.

But the situation is different now. With Qiu Degen's capital injection and the addition of Michelle, Huang Yuncai, and Huang Yuanshen, as well as the popular young stars Leslie Cheung and Chen Yulian, ATV's star lineup is no longer inferior to TVB.

"Qiu Guan's health has improved, but at least he needs to recuperate for two months before filming."

Hearing this, Fang Yihua's face sank immediately, she urgently needed Qiu Guan to come out to rescue her, but unfortunately the other party's body couldn't support the high-intensity filming work.

"Forget it, if that's the case, let Chow Yun-fat play the leading role in this drama."

Fang Yat Hua wanted to take advantage of the momentum of "Shanghai Bund" and launch a TV series to completely destroy ATV.

Although her idea can be said to be beautiful, it is not easy to make it happen.

At the beginning, "Shanghai Bund" was just an unintentional move. The originally scheduled lead actor, Zheng Shaoqiu, was replaced by Chow Yun-fat because of physical discomfort.

At first, everyone in TVB, including the cast, director and producer of "Shanghai Bund", didn't expect this TV series to be so well received.

It may not be a simple matter for TVB to replicate the miracle of "Shanghai Bund", but what kind of TV series they want to make is the top priority they need to consider now.

"How about we continue filming "Shanghai Beach"?"

"No, no, Xu Wenqiang has already been written to death. The second part is about Ding Li's story. There is no Chow Yun-fat in it."

"Wouldn't it be possible to add him without him? We can make Xu Wenqiang feign death, and then come out to take revenge after being revived. Isn't that wonderful."

Now everyone including Fang Yat Hua has decided that Chow Yun Fat must be the protagonist in the next TV series.

But when everyone was still arguing about whether to continue filming "Shanghai Bund", Li Tiansheng suddenly made a suggestion to Fang Yathua.

"Miss Fang, I think we should dig out more new actors. After all, being poached by ATV before and three popular actors all at once hurt us a lot."

At this time, everyone was arguing about what to shoot, but Li Tiansheng suddenly proposed a new drama for newcomers to act in, which made Fang Yathua not very happy after hearing it.

"I have a different idea from Producer Li. I think we should continue to use the star lineup, and we can definitely make a costume drama, because if we continue to shoot "Shanghai Bund" type TV series, I am worried that the audience will get tired of watching it."

"Shanghai Bund" is indeed a good subject, but the audience will inevitably feel a little fatigued if they continue to come to another one immediately after filming, so they have to change their appetites.

It can be said that Fang Yihua has already made up his mind that the new drama must use a star cast, so she is not interested in Li Tiansheng's proposal at all.

At this time, Fang Yihua suddenly thought of Xiao Sheng who had just jumped over from ATV, because the other party was famous for making costume dramas.

"Since Xiao Sheng just came here, why not let him supervise and produce this costume drama."

Fang Yihua thought to herself, the more she thought about it, the more she felt that this method might be feasible.

After the meeting ended, Fang Yihua asked someone to call Xiao Sheng to her office.

"Miss Fang, did you call me?"

"Producer Xiao, please sit down. I invited you here today because I want you to supervise a costume drama, so I want to hear your good suggestions."

Fang Yihua didn't know what to shoot, so she called Xiao Sheng over to hear if he had any good ideas.

In fact, before Fang Yihua called him over, Xiao Sheng had guessed to some extent what the other party was looking for him for, so he had already thought about what to say before he came.

"I think if you want to make a costume drama, you should remake Mr. Jin Yong's novel."

Fang Yihua nodded while listening, after all, the ratings of remakes of Jin Yong's works have always been guaranteed, so Xiao Sheng's proposal is considered a very safe way.

After all, Jin Yong's novels have so many fans. Once his novels are made into TV dramas, they will naturally attract the attention of many fans.

"Which work of Mr. Jin Yong are you going to remake?"

Fang Yihua has basically agreed to Xiao Sheng's proposal, and now she just wants to know which Jin Yong's work Xiao Sheng wants to remake.

"I want to remake Mr. Jin Yong's novel "Dragon and Babu"."

When Fang Yihua heard this, a faint smile appeared on his face, it seemed that she was very satisfied with Xiao Sheng's proposal.

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It didn't take long for TVB to remake "Tian Long Ba Bu".

And when Lin Daoqiu heard the news, he actually laughed out loud in front of Fang Jinsheng.

Because Chen Yulian, who originally played the role of Wang Yuyan, is now on ATV's side, God knows who TVB will replace to play the role of Wang Yuyan.

Although Fang Jinsheng wondered why Lin Daoqiu laughed out loud when he heard that TVB was going to remake "Tian Long Ba Bu", it was not something he could ask.

"Call ATV and ask Mai Dangxiong and Xu Xiaoming to come to my place."

Lin Daoqiu had already finished writing the script of "Heroes Huo Yuanjia". The reason why he called Mai Dangxiong and Xu Xiaoming over was because Lin Daoqiu wanted to tell them what they should pay attention to when filming.

After all, this is a very classic TV series. If the filming is not good, Lin Daoqiu will never agree.

(End of this chapter)