Now in the autumn of 2003-2004, the six major public channels have different sitcoms.

At eight o'clock and nine o'clock, on Monday, CBS has the fourth season of "Yes, Honey" (ranked 41st in last week's rating), the second season of "Still Standing" (29), the eighth season of "Everyone Loves Raymond" (13), and the first season of "Two and a Half Men" (16), the theme and content of these four sets of dramas have one thing in common, that is, it is related to family, there are child roles, education, values and other conflicts form jokes and meanings. It's the style that CBS is now firmly set to do, and their other "sitcom day" also has a sixth season of "King of Queens" on Wednesday (34), which tells the story of a blue-collar couple who are delivery workers, and a sixth season of "Becker" (47), which depicts the interesting world of John Becker, a misanthropic doctor at a small clinic, and his patients, colleagues, and friends.

Several dramas only occupy a mid-stream position, but the ace "Raymond" has suffered a flood of bad reviews, and the adult audience has lost sharply, and the next season is about to be explained clearly...... CBS wants to get that new show from Wonder Young, to take over the ace status of "Raymond" and prop up the channel's laughter demand.

"Everyone knows that Wang Yang is going to make a sitcom. In the conference room of the CBS entertainment department, Nancy Durham's face sank, looked at the subordinates who nodded silently on both sides, and said: "The end of "Friends" is a big opportunity for all sitcoms on TV, who will become the new king?

She paused and waved her hand, a hint of helplessness flashed in her eyes, and said seriously: "We have reason to despise his drama series, but sitcoms, but now! This young man has the ability to make people laugh until their stomachs ache, and this young man knows best what young people need, and this young man has two youngest Oscars, maybe an Emmy soon. I say this because everybody has to pay attention!"

Watching her knock on the conference table, the program manager Caleb Deere and others all nodded: "Yes!" Nancy Durham also nodded, her tone was light but powerful: "Exaggeratedly speaking, whichever TV station has him, it will increase the probability of becoming NO.1 by 50%, who knows if he will suddenly join the variety show again? This time we have to treat it with all our might, and we must not let him run away." ”

ABC's Tuesday has "Eight Routines for Dating My Daughter" season two (42), "Me and Her" season one (67), "Listen to Jim" season three (48), "Far from Perfect" season two (60), Wednesday has "My Wife and Child" season four (60), "It's Relative" season one (69), Friday "George Lopez" season three (75), "Married-to-the-Kellys" season one (89), "Hope and Faith" Season 1 (63), Season 2 of "Days with Barney" (77).

The story themes in these 10 sets of dramas are about family, work, love, family and friendship...... The problem is that despite the sheer number of them, none of them can handle them. If you look at the first and second seasons, they just keep trying, praying to hit the jackpot, but the harsh reality is that almost all of them are bad movies, and then cut off the bad ones that can't be worse, and try again next season.

So now among the three major channels, no one is more eager to get that new drama than ABC to revive the decline of sitcoms.

"Guys, if you still don't understand, then I'll tell you. "The conference room of the ABC Entertainment Department, both sides of the conference table are also full of executives, and the CEO Robert Eagle, who is dressed in a black suit, has an ugly face, whether it is a feature film or a sitcom, he is almost at the bottom, and now the head office Disney is already very dissatisfied with the results of ABC Channel, and I heard that there is an intention to reorganize the top management.

Anne-Seeney may be president of the TV group, but what about him, the president of entertainment? Will that woman change or stay? He has to be able to do it.

Thinking of this, Robert Eagle said in a daze: "We want to get Magic Young, we want to get that sitcom! This is our last chance, who wants to be fired and leave, although don't care!" He looked at his subordinates with grim expressions and said: "Amazing Young has an ambiguous attitude, he wants others to participate in the competition, maybe we will still lose to NBC in the end, but let's not go?

What is Wonder Young?

In addition to the quality of the series itself, he is also a producer who has enough ability to invite many big-name stars to make cameos, and he is also one of those super popular youth stars who are popular with young people! This is a good way for a sitcom to soar to the ratings. A person like Magic Young, who writes his own scripts and produces his own films, has very good popularity and connections, he just wants to have big star cameos in the first season of episodes, and he can do it.

Robert Eagle thought casually and there were a bunch of names, his fiancée Jessica Alba, or Rachel McAdams, Anne Hathaway, "Gilmour Girl" Alexis Bledell, "Juno" Natalie Portman, Tom Welling, Robert Downey Jr., Zach Galife Anakis of "The Hangover", and many more...... Don't forget that there is also the magic of himself, who wouldn't agree to spend a day recording an episode of a sitcom by a superdirector?

Worried about making a cameo in a bad movie? Worried that there is no room to play? What a funny joke!

"If we join, we still have the possibility to win. Robert Eagle felt overwhelmed by the pressure and said in a deep voice, "Remember, this is our last chance!"

Today's comedy powerhouse NBC has the first season of "hoopi" (72), the first season of "Happy Family" (74), the eleventh season of "Happy Family" (27), the second season of "Good Morning, Miami" (65), the tenth season of "Friends" on Thursday (3), the third season of "Anatomy" (31), the sixth season of "Will and Grace" (15), and the first season of "Rivals" (26).

After losing "Friends" and "Happy Family" next season, the gap between them and CBS will suddenly become smaller, or even weaker than each other. And the results of several new dramas this season are not ideal, and Tuesday's two dramas are almost certain to be cut in half.

What to do with Wonder Young's new show? Kevin Rayleigh tells everyone at NBC Entertainment that they are determined to win! If you want to be promoted, if you want a high bonus, you have to hold on to that young man!

The classic long-lived animated sitcom "The Simpsons" (32), but in terms of live-action comedy, FOX, which is almost all outside the top 100 and has a mess of ratings, and UPN and B, who are even more confused outside the 150, also coveted Wang Yang and wanted to snatch him home. But on the other hand, they know that they have no conditions to attract him, and it seems unrealistic to want to win the three major channels, try your luck!

A sitcom with no name, no content, no plan, just a blog post "made with more than 20 million viewers", has caused a storm at the Monday meeting of the entertainment department of the major TV channels, and everyone is on the lookout, and there is a tension that has never been felt before. After all, Steven Spielberg has also tried commercial blunders, and Marvel Young has not.

"YES!!Good news, Jan is really going to make a sitcom!!"

In the dormitory building of the women's apartment of the University of San Francisco, looking at the computer screen on the table, showing a new journal that Wang Yang's blog had just updated, Evelyn shouted excitedly: "I'll meet you on TV in September next year!" Under her shout, her roommates Sophia and Lillian, who didn't go out, immediately surrounded her, also full of surprise: "Sitcom!", "I've been looking forward to this day since "Juno"!"

"There's another must-see show next season, it's so busy!" Evelyn left a message for the journal, her hands on the keyboard, and asked with a happy smile, "What kind of show do you think this show will be?" Sophia, who walked away with the magazine, replied, "I don't know, aren't Jan and Jessica about getting married? Could it be about newlyweds, families, and neighbors?" Evelyn shook her head slightly: "That's too old-fashioned, are you sure you're talking about Young?" I don't think so. ”

Looking at the screen, Lillian thought, "Well, it can't be an adaptation of Juno, right?" or the lives of a couple of MIT students, maybe USC, USF, ......" She shrugged, "But anyway, it's going to be funny!" So I don't care about the genre, I'm looking forward to it now, who will play it? Will anyone else make a cameo? I want to see Yang ...... at 8:00 p.m.

Evelyn looked at her nymphomaniac and suddenly felt a little reasonable: "Will it be as smart as BlackJack and "Prison Break"?

"Evelyn, don't look at it. Sophia, who sat down on the couch, quipped, "I've never seen a person laugh like that when watching TV! That's "Eight Rules for Dating My Daughter", how bad! If you watch Magic Young, I don't know what it would be." Evelyn pressed ENTER and smiled, "Probably asthma." Lillian asked, "Do you have asthma?" Evelyn said, "Just laugh out of it." ”

In Los Angeles at night, in the bright study, after updating an announcement log to the blog, Wang Yang began to think about this set of sitcoms, and the huge expectations of fans and fans in the blog in September next year...... He held his chin in his right hand, picked up a model of a soldier on his desk with his left hand, and recently because of "Fireflies", he missed the soldiers he had treasured since he was a child in his hometown in San Francisco, so he carried some of them.

I got married next year, and I had to move into my new home, including the models.

Turning the World War II soldier in his hand, Wang Yang gradually pondered that idea, as well as a future sitcom. This idea, or inspiration, and interest, was sparked during the filming of "MIT-21-TEAM", and USC will not use numbers to become the lingua franca of the school, but MIT will use numbers instead of numbers, which is very interesting.

They can also make that kind of balloon bomb to trick Harvard, or they can build remote-controlled cars and count cards...... The reason why others feel these interesting and cool is because of yearning, which is the ability of some different people, the ability of smart people, and the ability of geniuses, and human beings always respect the strong and yearn for the strong.

In fact, other schools will also have a unique school spirit, with extraordinary abilities and cognitions. For example, film school is about film and television, medical school is medicine, and law school is law, but these doctors and lawyers are too common and ordinary, my son is a doctor, his daughter is a teacher, and her son is an athlete...... No freshness, no mystery!

So sitcoms with these themes want to make new surprises, and it is not impossible to find unused ones from the pile of almost rotten jokes, but it is even more difficult.

However, MIT and CIT have all kinds of strange science students, the group called "smart people", "high IQ", "scientists", and "geniuses", but they have not yet set foot in sitcoms! From "Threesome", "Friends", "Everyone Loves Raymond", and so on, the sitcoms on the screen in the past and present are mainly aimed at the lives of ordinary people and ordinary occupations; in contrast, "genius" is full of mystery, freshness, fun, and coolness.

"MIT-21-TEAM" puts math geniuses on the big screen, but how do you get science students to hit the screen with sitcoms focused on everyday life?

This is not a youth campus drama, it is a comedy that wants the audience to burst into laughter. "21" tries to be cool because it is meant to be cool, and the same is true of the exciting "Prison Break". But if you want others to laugh, you must make the audience burst out with an unconscious sense of superiority, in other words, the people in the play have to be stupid and ugly, how can a group of geniuses with superb IQ keep making stupid and ugly things? In sitcoms, they will.

In fact, the idea is very simple to follow here, just deal with it according to the usual sitcom character setting method, that is, "madman". They are not normal people's words and deeds, and they have a lot of exaggerated personality traits, just like the six people in "Friends" have quirks.

The theme of "Idiot Smart People" is undoubtedly very new, there is no rotten substance in its laughing fruit pile, and it should be the trend of the times. In the next few years, the on-screen comedy market finally remembered this group, with the "IT genius" British drama "IT Maniac" (2006) and the "Science Genius" "The Big Bang Theory" (2007), the latter of which dealt with the "stupidity" of scientists by setting them all as geeks, or nerds.

Comic book fans, science fiction fans, not good at socializing...... "Heh!" Wang Yang couldn't help but smile when he thought about it, fiddling with the guns in the hands of the soldiers, making a "whoosh" sound, this is it! He remembered the scene of the San Diego Comic-Con Convention in July, those anime fans were wearing superhero clothes, just like Halloween, but those people were very talkative people.

It can be said that he is also a geek to a certain extent, and his collection of various model toys, comic books, movie props and other items since he was a child is not much less than that of "Sheldon", and at the same time he is "half a game fan". Because he doesn't let himself be a fan of games, he likes to play video games, but it's very easy to get addicted to them, but he's long been in strict control of his game time and enjoys them healthily.

The "Tinder" game company has been making some casual games for the past two years, and the income has maintained the company's expenses, and there is no big achievement.

Anyway, these geniuses need to be nervous weirdos, and "Kim" in "IT Maniac" and "Penny" in "The Big Bang Theory" are ordinary people, thus setting off their weirdness and highlighting the life and wisdom of ordinary people, and Penny also sets off the high IQ of smart people, forming a hilarious chemical reaction.

Of course, the story form and style of British dramas are very different from American dramas, and there are no characters in "IT Maniac" who are not crazy, and both the plot and shooting techniques are absurd and nonsensical. For example, in the sixth episode of the first season, Kim came to "Big Aunt", and her image in the office changed to a blond red-haired demon, and this special effect technique was also used in the fourth season of "The Big Bang Theory", episode 11, where Sheldon turned into the Flash and ran wild in his imagination.

Now he wants to do this "idiot smart man" theme, his idea is to unite the original "IT Maniac" screenwriter and director Graham Lineham, as well as the original "The Big Bang Theory" creative team, and then absorb some elites to form a "new" "The Big Bang Theory" crew, to create a set of absolutely mature and absolutely hilarious sitcom season 1 from the debut!

Coupled with the attention of the market, the audience to him and the promotion of throwing a lot of money, there is no problem with "The Big Bang Theory" relaying "Friends".

The first season of the original "The Big Bang Theory" didn't have high ratings, averaging 8.31 million viewers on CBS Monday at 8:30 p.m., ranking 68th in the year. There may be a lot of external factors, but the series itself undoubtedly has many flaws, and it wasn't until the third season that its pacing, story, and lines matured, and the ratings soared to 14 of the year.

One of the biggest problems in the first season is the imbalance, whether it is the character lines, the characters' scenes, and the proportion of life and CIT scenes. As a result, Penny's character lacks explosive energy, and the details of the story are not dramatic enough, often throughout the episode, Sheldon and Leonard are talking to each other, telling the same joke, what joke? Translating ordinary everyday conversations into scientific terms, those taunts seem to them to be common sense, but to the audience they are very mysterious and interesting.

It's a "circle culture" where there is a unique, inventive language and jokes in any circle, such as "you look upside down montage" in a movie and "you look upside down" in a movie, or a basketball player can say "you're like an air balloon, nothing." "The Big Bang Theory is the knowledge and terminology of various disciplines, string theory, dark matter, free electron lasers...... From season 1 to season 5, the joke keeps repeating, repeating, repeating in the lines, but still has a lot of fun, and there is more fun when the balance matures, maybe that's the charm of science.

This theme must be the kind of sitcom that people who like it are hardcore, and those who hate it will also hate it.

But there's no doubt that the new first season will immediately strike the balance of "majority favorites". In terms of plot, he is going to absorb the funniest episodes in the five seasons that are close to the 2003 environment, and there are also some new event ideas, such as Sheldon and others after watching "MIT-21-TEAM", they think they are smart and invincible, so they challenge card counting, and several people go to the casino to try it together after practice, so as to make all kinds of interesting things.

These plots are then refined and arranged by the new screenwriter team, integrating some story details and spoof thinking of British dramas, and the audience who likes it must laugh to death!

However, Wang Yang frowned suspiciously, what kind of Chinese scientific genius role is added? He wants Chinese faces to appear on the screen in the big scene comedy, which is an important step to change the market and change the audience, but he doesn't want to simply change the skin color of a certain character, turn Jews into Chinese, or Indians into Chinese, and then "translate" the dialogue again.

After five seasons of scanning in his mind, Sheldon, Leonard, Howard, and Raj are all very mature characters for him, and there is no need to explore and experiment; if it is the protagonist, the foursome can become a five; if it is a supporting role, CIT's colleagues can, both have more plot space and joke combinations.

"Let's play the game for a while, I haven't played it in a few days. After thinking about it for a long time and having all kinds of messy ideas, Wang Yang suddenly rubbed his hands, smiled and held the mouse, clicked on an icon on the desktop, and opened "Warcraft 3: Frozen Throne". It's been more than two months since the latest Frozen Throne expansion was released, and he hasn't played much of it, and he hasn't even fully figured out what's new.

Dada...... Spacious and bright bedroom, with a laptop on the bed and table, a network cable that extends into the wall connects to the online world at a stable and high speed. Wang Yang, who was wearing plaid pajamas, sat at the head of the bed, staring at the screen with a focused face, holding the mouse and pressing the keyboard, his hands moving like flying, and Jessica, who was wearing blue pajamas with a large-mouthed monkey pattern, sat next to her, accompanied by the sound effects of the game, she commanded: "Next out the Minotaur Chieftain." ”

"Roger-that, out. Wang Yang clicked a few times in the center of the town, and then heard the sound of the hero's birth sounding in the notebook, "I have an axe to sharpen!", and transferred back to the team to clear the monsters. Under his influence, Jessica is also a loyal gamer, and when they play Warcraft 3 together, unless they play against each other, he, the fast-handed person, usually controls the keyboard and mouse, and she acts as a dog-headed strategist.

"Oh my God, this slut, dare to sneak up on us. Seeing a team of undead enemy players coming to rob the monster and attack, Jessica suddenly shouted, glared slightly, pointed to the screen and said, "Hit it, hit it!" ”

Wang Yang gritted his teeth and said OK, and the two wolves and several orc infantry who controlled the prophet clicked frantically; Jessica nervously rubbed his head and shouted at the sound of the hero's attack: "O soul of the earth and the storm, attack! attack!"

"Ye ——!" successfully killed all the undead team that came to sneak attack, and the two of them high-fived each other in cheers and kissed each other. Before it was calm for two seconds, Jessica exclaimed again: "Someone has come to harass, go back to the city!" Wang Yang nodded and said, "Okay, Minotaur Chief!"

(To be continued)