star of the peninsula

Chen Chen was a little confused and couldn't understand what this woman's sudden confession meant.

However, Bae Joo-hyun didn't expect him to understand. It was best for her to understand her little thoughts herself.

It's just that I was a little nervous when I saw my boyfriend showing his capital side, so I quickly used the people around him to test his attitude. I was satisfied after confirming that my boyfriend was still the same boyfriend.

"Speaking of which, has anyone said when Zombie School will be aired?" Chen Chen changed the subject. "This drama was filmed a long time ago, why haven't I heard any news about it?"

"Who knows about the TV station?" Pei Zhuxuan's smile was a little unpredictable. "But I have an unreliable rumor here. Do you want to hear it?"

"Tell me about it." Chen Chen stepped back cautiously. "You're not going to say this news has anything to do with me, are you?"

"It really has something to do with you." Pei Zhuxuan cleared her throat and said seriously: "According to our director, the TV station wants to avoid the drama "When the Camellia Blooms" and wait until it is finished before broadcasting it."

"Then TVN has a long wait. When the Camellia Blooms has 40 episodes, and it will not be finished until late November." Chen Chen frowned immediately. "Besides, do they want to make Zombie School a success?"

"Is it not possible?" Pei Zhuxuan asked in confusion: "There is no TV series that does not want to strive for results, right?"

"The crew and actors can think this way, but the TV station can't." Chen Chen said harshly, "The TV station must distinguish between the primary and the secondary, and know where to focus the TV series, whether to pursue results or to make money."

"So in your opinion, 'Zombie School' is a TV series that makes money rather than a TV series that can achieve results, right?" Bae Joo-hyun confirmed.

"My fellow zombie, you are also a character with a lot of scenes in the drama. What groups of people do you think will like to watch this TV series?"

Chen Chen answered questions with questions, guiding Bae Joo Hyun to think for herself.

"Young people under 30?" Bae Joo Hyun said uncertainly, "If you are older, you may not like these campus, special effects, zombies and other elements."

"Yes, the audience of this TV series is quite limited. As you said, it is limited to people under the age of 30." Chen Chen pointed at the TV. "Then the question is, how many of these people are willing to pick up the remote control?"

"..."

This is a question that does not require an answer, but the answer makes Bae Joo-hyun somewhat uncomfortable.

This was the first time I got a role in a TV series with quite a lot of screen time, but I could only pursue economic benefits instead of thinking about achieving results. I couldn't accept it for a while.

"Without a broad audience base, there will be no excellent ratings. Without ratings, it will not be possible to cross the threshold of other important awards and achieve results." Chen Chen couldn't help but guess a little more, "Did someone mislead TVN, making them think that this is a TV series that can achieve results?"

"It's just a rumor we heard. It's likely that the TV station has other ideas." Pei Zhuxuan picked up the cup and took a sip of water, his eyes following Chen Chen all the time, "Is the TV series of C headquarters also arranged like you?"

"Of course. Let's take the recent TV series as an example." Chen Chen took the TV series he had submitted to JTBC as an example. "'When the Camellia Blooms' was designed to achieve results, so it didn't accept any advertisements and focused on telling the story. And 'Model Taxi Season 2' was obviously designed to make money, so it accepted a lot of advertisements."

"Fortunately, we shot the commercial in a cool way, as if the people in the show were really using the advertised products." Chen Chen breathed a sigh of satisfaction, "Otherwise, the audience would be upset."

"But the performance of "Model Taxi Season 2" is also very good, right?" Pei Zhuxuan always heard some rumors outside, "I heard that JTBC TV station is very happy." "It's okay, it can be regarded as benefiting from the first season." Chen Chen said, "After all, the first season was broadcast on the three major channels and had a great influence."

"Uh, I'm a little hungry. Do you want to have a midnight snack?" Chen Chen felt that this topic was boring, and the TV series on TV was not to his liking, so he simply thought about eating something. "I plan to make fried rice."

"You're making fried rice with lots of oil and salt late at night, right? It's not healthy at all!" Bae Joo Hyun scolded her boyfriend harshly, and said, "Give me two bites, two bites should be fine."

"Okay, I'll do it now."

Chen Chen smiled and left the sofa.

"Wait a minute, I have one last question."

Bae Joo-hyun suddenly grabbed him from behind, knelt on the sofa and stretched out a finger cutely.

"Go ahead." Chen Chen stopped and said lovingly, "Because you are cute enough, I allow you to ask longer questions and also allow you to mix other questions in your questions."

"Does C headquarters have any more TV series scheduled?" Pei Zhuxuan was seriously worried about her boyfriend. "All the TV series projects currently running were decided at the beginning of the year. It seems that you have no plans since then. What's going on?"

"Thank you for your concern, but the arrangement for the TV series module has actually always been there." Chen Chen explained to her very seriously. He wanted to respond to his girlfriend's seriousness. "But the focus has changed from C headquarters' full production to participating in production and letting our own artists star in TV series produced by others. It's a very simple transformation attempt."

"Besides, the trump card has already been obtained." Chen Chen added.

……

There is only one work that Chen Chen can call the ace of the TV drama section, and that is "Squid Game" broadcast in 2021.

The script completed ten years ago has been rejected by the South Korean industry. When it wanted to be restarted ten years later, it happened to witness the rise of C Headquarters in the TV drama industry. No one should be surprised that Hwang Dong Hyuk, who can be both a screenwriter and a director, contacted C Headquarters in 2019, right?
Since Chen Chen recognized the script as "Squid Game", there was no way he would miss it.

The only thing that gave Chen Chen a headache was how to convince Huang Donghe to move the shooting time to a later time.

Chen Chen’s idea is to broadcast "Squid Game" as originally scheduled in 21, so that it will be possible to replicate the legendary journey of the TV series to the greatest extent.

Although the change of production company from Netflix to C headquarters will definitely make the response of this drama in the US market much worse, it will not be to an outrageous degree, because C headquarters will choose to cooperate with Netflix on this TV series and select them as the only broadcasting platform.

It is a correct inference that even if filming starts now, it will most likely be postponed to 21 due to the epidemic. However, if the producer is C headquarters, it will not be delayed for so long.

No one knows how to face that natural disaster better than Chen Chen.

...(End of chapter)