"Good morning, Pak PD. Oh, Junxian, your kid is here early, and you don't say hello when you see your brother, is there no me in your eyes?"

"Where, there is Brother Xian, it's not like I didn't see you!"

"Stop talking nonsense, buy coffee and go. ”

"Brother, wait, okay, how can I be in the mood now!"

"That's right, remember it next time. ”

Song Youxian joked all the way to the seat, preparing to attend the morning meeting of the TV Drama Bureau of the SBS Production Center, and he didn't care much about the announcement of the trial broadcast feedback.

SBS is a weak overall rating, everyone's results are similar, the trial broadcast is just going through the motions, what else can I do? At most, I will pick a few unlucky guys to beat the board, but as a senior big PD, the director also has to give him some face, how can this board not fall on his ass.

He sat very comfortably in his seat, laughing and scolding a few juniors from time to time, and soon the director of the TV drama bureau and others came in with black faces, and directly began to distribute the trial ratings report - this kind of report is not issued on the same day, compared to the ratings report, this also has to be accompanied by a market research report and audience questionnaire feedback, which takes a little longer.

Song Youxian took the report and immediately flipped through it, this thing is somewhat similar to the student's report card, even if it doesn't affect anything, most of them want to know how many points they have scored quickly, and when he saw it, a satisfied smile immediately appeared on the corner of his mouth - the average rating of the time-sharing is 11.45%, and the highest time-sharing rating is 13.01%, which is considered a first-class good result in SBS.

After he finished reading his own, he went to look at other people's.

He couldn't help laughing after just one glance, turned his head and began to look around in the conference room, and found that Rin Chihara didn't come to the meeting, so he directly stabbed a peer PD next to him, and said with a smile: "I don't know what I will think when I see this trial report." ”

The PD turned his head strangely and asked, "What's wrong?"

Song Youxian raised his eyebrows and pointed to the page of "Blue Life and Death Love", "Look at this." ”

After the PD took a look, he immediately turned the trial report in his hand to the page of "Blue Life and Death Love", and found that the average time-sharing rating was 12.21%, and the highest time-sharing rating was 13.56%, which couldn't help but be even more strange, "What's the matter, this rating is quite good on our TV station." ”

Song Youxian glanced at the director at the head of the conference table, and said with a low smile: "The agency specially invited us back from Tokyo to guide us, living in a high-end hotel, using the highest budget, and the ratings are about the same as ours, what do you say?"

The PD suddenly remembered that Song Youxian had strongly opposed accepting guidance from outsiders, and it was no wonder that he cared about this, but then took a closer look, pointed to the telephone questionnaire feedback column and said: "Song PD, don't be happy first, the audience evaluation of this drama is quite good, and there are many high scores." ”

Song Youxian glanced at it and said indifferently: "But the ratings are still about the same as ours." ”

They were talking privately there, and the director of the TV drama bureau knocked on the table and said, "Okay, you've all seen the feedback from the pilot." To tell you the truth, the ratings of the new program launched at the beginning of the year were very bad, with an average rating of only 9.89%, and the company was very dissatisfied and asked the production center to make immediate rectifications and be sure to raise the ratings to a higher level. ”

As the most senior front-line PD, Song Youxian immediately raised his hand and asked on behalf of everyone: "How does the society require us to rectify?"

The director glanced at him and said directly: "This is the main content of the morning meeting, and you front-line PDs need to brainstorm and think of a way, at least you must be able to explain to the above." ”

"But that doesn't make sense, right?" Song Youxian said unceremoniously, "This is the overall sluggish ratings of the TV station, what kind of guidance did the person invited by the agency, and the ratings not be similar to ours?"

Song Youxian believes that if these PDs can work in KBS or MBC, they can easily achieve a rating of more than 20%, and now the results are not good, it is really not to blame them, and the PDs who participated in the meeting suddenly woke up, looked at the pilot feedback of "Blue Life and Death Love" and began to echo it, and shouted injustice: "Song PD is right, Director, didn't that thousand principles say that he has made a TV series with 40% ratings?" When it comes to our TV station, the results are similar to ours, so it can be seen that the problem is not with us. ”

"Then blame us for incompetence, isn't the one invited by the agency also incompetent?"

"That's right, it doesn't make sense for the agency to unilaterally accuse us, Director, you should fight for our reason!"

"We're already doing the show very seriously, KBS and MBC have a first-mover advantage, no one can do it, the people of the company just stand and talk without backache, right?!"

"Let's rectify it, how can we change it? This is not a problem of the show at all!"

These PDs are very united, and they all feel that they are particularly wronged, which means that it is not a crime of war, so don't be so strong, just make do it, anyway, it used to be like this one day a day.

The director was speechless for a while, Chihara Rin was specially invited by the headquarters to guide, and now the ratings are not a blockbuster, and he doesn't know what to say, and he was about to slap the table and lose his temper to forcibly suppress the scene, and suddenly found that Chihara Rin was standing at the door of the conference room, and couldn't help but quickly turn around and say politely: "Chihara matter, why are you here?"

Rin Chihara raised a document in his hand and smiled, "I'm sorry, I'm stopping by to get the original record of the audience's telephone questionnaire and disturbing your meeting." ”

The PDs in the conference room were silent, but they didn't expect to say bad things behind their backs, and they were bumped into by someone, and they couldn't help but be slightly embarrassed, and Chihara Rin looked around the room, and asked the director of the TV drama bureau with a smile: "Do you mind if I say a few words?"

The director was stunned for a moment, and hurriedly said, "Uh...... No, of course don't mind, you please. ”

Rin Chihara calmly walked into the conference room, directly squeezed the director aside, and stood at the head of the conference table, holding the table with his hands, but his expression was also gentle, and he smiled first: "Ladies and gentlemen, I am not proficient in Korean, and honorifics, plain and semi-languages in the workplace are often confused, and sometimes I don't know which one should be used at the end, if there is any rudeness, please bear with me." Trust me, I don't mean to be insulting. ”

After the scene was finished, he continued: "I heard everyone's conversation outside the door just now, although it is a fact that SBS, as a new commercial TV station, lacks a natural viewing group, and it is understandable that everyone's ratings are generally not good, but I personally think that the bad environment should not be a reason to admit defeat and mess around, we as a producer...... Or as a PD, shouldn't you look for change in this situation? If you don't start changing now and start accumulating, the environment will never change, right?"

His speech speed is extremely slow, and he can speak Korean for a long time because he has practiced communicating with screenwriters and actors during this time, and some words are indeed very vague, but the general meaning is correct.

He paused, and said in a very sincere tone: "Although hard work may not win, but if you don't work hard, you will definitely lose, I have always thought so, I hope I can encourage you PD." ”

The PDs were stunned for a while, but soon most of them showed disapproving looks on their faces, only a few younger PDs were thoughtful, and Chihara Rin didn't care, just said with a little regret: "Of course, I shouldn't have said something now, after all, "Blue Life and Death Love" has just aired the first episode, and I haven't been able to prove myself yet, it's not the right time to say this, but since everyone mentioned me, and they plan to use me as an excuse, I have to say some things......"

As he spoke, he turned to Song Youxian, and his gentle smile retreated a lot, and he asked directly: "This is Song Youxian Song PD, right?"

Song Youxian frowned when he heard this, because Qianyuan Rin was half-talking, and he usually spoke like this to children or friends with very casual relationships, and he was much older than Qianyuan Rin, and he felt that Qianyuan Rin was very impolite like this, but Qianyuan Rin had spoken before before, which showed that he was not fluent in Korean, and he couldn't blame him.

Finally, he had the same distinctive expression on his face as the Koreans were dissatisfied, and replied in half a word, "It's me." ”

Rin Chihara nodded, he had an impression of this person, when he first arrived at the SBS production center, this guy was a hundred disobedient to his neck, and he made a lot of noise.

He wasn't polite, and asked directly: "Just now, Song PD used me as an excuse first, so do you want to make a bet?"

Song Youxian didn't understand Chihara Rinto's words a little, and asked strangely, "What kind of bet?"

Rin Chihara said slowly: "Do you think that SBS's ratings are naturally sluggish, and no one can do the show under such conditions, but I think it's okay, then let's bet on the ratings of "Blue Life and Death Love"...... Don't you think that I can't adapt to the Korean ratings market and am not worthy of directing the production center? If you win, I will go back to Tokyo immediately, and I don't care what you do in the future. ”

Song Youxian was stunned, a little surprised, if he could drive away the "gringos", or the "legendary big man" who was said to be able to call the wind and rain in the broadcasting industry, it would be an achievement that could blow for a lifetime, and even publicize it, so it was not impossible to attract the attention of KBS and MBC, but he thought about it a little, and he was not careless, and asked very cautiously: "What are the ratings you are talking about?"

Rin Chihara said casually: "You can decide, there are professionals in the industry here, and they think it's okay." ”

Song Youxian looked around at the colleagues who were in a state of confusion indoors, and wanted to set it super high, such as a 40% or 50% or something, but this kind of drama KBS and MBC can only be released in a year or two, so I am afraid that Chihara Rin will have to retract immediately, so this bet will not be successful.

He hesitated for a moment before saying, "How about 35%?"

This is basically three times the ratings of the first episode of "Blue Life and Death Love", and if you kill him, you don't believe that the ratings of a show may triple, and I feel that this should be a sure win, and Chihara Rin agreed in one bite, and smiled angrily: "Then 35% is good." ”

Song Youxian suddenly looked at Qianyuan Rin a lot of people, and felt that this person simply ran from Tokyo to Seoul in order to achieve his reputation, and immediately said without hesitation: "Then it's a word!"

As soon as Chihara Rin stretched out his hand, he signaled not to worry, and said with a smile: "Wait, what if Song PD hasn't said anything about losing!"

Song Youxian also said in a grand manner: "It's okay to be casual, you can decide!"

Chihara Rin nodded, the gentle smile on his face completely disappeared, and said softly: "If you win, I'll leave, then I'll win, Song PD will also leave, SBS Production Center doesn't need a frog like you!"

Originally, he didn't want to deal with these PDs now, after all, "Blue Life and Death Love" has only released the first episode, and SBS has not accumulated it before, and the natural ratings group is very poor, and the ratings of the first episode of "Blue Life and Death Love" are really not ideal, and now I have no confidence to speak at all.

Of course, he is not in a hurry, it is not an easy task to open up the ratings market and establish a reputation for production, not only the quality of the works is required, but also time is needed to accumulate, which is expected. If this matter is simple, he doesn't need to be here in person, but he is afraid that in case, he will not be able to make up for the weakness of the Kanto United Sports Program.

It's just that he can't accept that Song Youxian, a group of frogs at the bottom of the well, uses him as an excuse, and wants to give him some color, and by the way, it can be regarded as killing chickens and monkeys - you want to mess around, don't use me as an excuse!

Song Youxian didn't expect Rin Chihara to make such a request, so he stood up angrily and pointed at him and said, "You ......"

Rin Chihara will not be polite, Song Youxian doesn't dare to gasp in front of him when he puts this kind of goods in the Kanto United United, even if he gives him face now!

He directly interrupted Song Youxian's words and asked in a cold voice: "Didn't Song PD mean that it was impossible for anyone to make a show in this kind of viewing environment, even me?

As he spoke, he squinted slightly, shaking his head with disdain, "I don't dare to understand, but I didn't expect Korean TV people to be so ......"

Song Youxian was even more angry, this matter was serious and said that it would damage the national character, and now that he recognized it and turned around and spread it, he couldn't even get out of the door. He immediately exclaimed: "There's nothing you don't dare, if you can make the show achieve a 35% average rating......"

He didn't care about it, but the PD who was familiar with him around him was shocked, and secretly jerked his sleeve, signaling him to calm down, don't risk his career future, and Song Youxian couldn't care about it at all, so he suddenly shook his hand and called out the last words, "Attention, it's the time-sharing average ratings, as long as you have 35% of the time-sharing average ratings, I will resign!"

Chihara Rin nodded lightly, yes, very hot-blooded, sure enough, South Korea has a stick!

Since the gambling contract has been established, he doesn't need any written documents, so he just shook his hand and left, leaving only one sentence: "Then so be it, write a resignation letter in advance, Song PD." ”