"Friends" has accompanied the audience through a wonderful decade, and has also been billed by many as the greatest sitcom of all time, in fact, in the ten years it has been broadcast, it has not only occupied the first position in the ratings for six years, but also the highest-rated series in the history of the NBC television network, and the finale of such a series will undoubtedly have very high ratings, and the finale of "Friends" reached a terrifying 52.5 million.

In second place is the reality show "Survivors: Borneo" with 51.7 million, followed by the TV show "Noble Son Jon" with 40 million.

The fourth is "The Story of the Emergency Room", "The Story of the Emergency Room" can be said to be one of the most successful medical dramas in history, and this drama officially ended this year, the 14th episode of season 6 is the saddest moment of the whole show, Knight and Dr. Carter are attacked by patients with schizophrenia, and the audience is anxiously waiting in front of the TV, hoping that the two can be safe, Knight's death may be an eternal pain in the hearts of ER fans, with a rating of 39.8 million.

The fifth is "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire", with ratings on May 3, 2000, 36 million.

Then came the seventh season finale of "Happy Family" with 33.7 million, followed by "Everybody Loves Raymond's 32.9 million" and "Spinning City" season four finale with 32.8 million.

It can be said that those who have reached the 30 million level are all super dramas, the basis is sitcoms and variety shows, and the only feature film category is "Spring in the Emergency Room", and the current extremely popular "Rice Country Idol" has not exceeded 30 million. (38.1 million when the first episode of the sixth season of "American Idol" aired, and that was next year).

The dramas with more than 30 million ratings are all cash cows of major TV stations, the root of life, UPN does not have more than 10 million ratings of dramas, the highest rating is "All Rice Supermodel Competition", six seasons of popular fans have accumulated, and now the ratings are about 6 million; , with an average rating of 15 million, Warner regarded it as a big fat meat and booked the next season early, but Egger, who had other plans, declined Warner's request, and he also wanted to use it as the pillar of his TV station.

Now Mark actually dares to scream and create a drama with a rating of more than 30 million, which is almost equivalent to shouting, I can make a movie that breaks 300 million in Beimi at any time.

Iger said, "Are you sure?"

Mark said, "Of course!"

"If we have such a movie in hand, I can guarantee that our TV station will not lose money," Iger said. ”

Mark raised his hand in support of Egger's confidence and the consensus of the others.

Larry said, "We're going to visit Raymond tonight, and Robert is offering a goodwill acquisition of B to Time Warsaw Pact. ”

Iger smiled, "OK!"

Lei Shidong, the head of the media empire, lives with his second wife Paula Fortner, and after he got married in 04 years, in order to ensure that the husband and wife can spend 15 million US dollars to buy a mansion in Beverly Hills from Stallone and settle down in Hollywood.

The legendary tycoon and his first wife, Phyllis, have been married for more than 50 years, and the two have a son and a daughter, but for most of the past 50 years, Phyllis has been living alone in Boston, while the self-proclaimed "workaholic" Lei Shidong is busy expanding his entertainment empire in Los Angeles, and of course, he will also date some beautiful women from time to time, but either because they can't stand Lei Shidong's tyrant-like temperament, or they can't impress Lei Shidong's "hard-heartedness" , Lei Shidong has never spent more attention on women.

After 20 years of divorce litigation with his wife, this extremely smart guy finally reached a divorce agreement after the Internet technology bubble, because he took advantage of the company's stock price crash and paid only $2.5 billion to get back to freedom, a record that no one has yet been able to break.

Many friends who were close to media mogul Sumner Leishidon believed that Paula Fortnardo's union with him had made the grumpy rich man a lot gentler, and even a true husband for the first time in his 80-year life.

Larry also owns a mansion in Beverly Hills, not very far from Reston's mansion, and can be called neighbors, and the two are also old acquaintances, Larry leads Iger, Mark, Meghan, and David to visit the tycoon.

According to the data released by Forbes magazine last month, Lei Shidong's personal assets are now about 5 billion US dollars. According to the list of the 40 richest people, Lei Shidong's assets this year have shrunk by $3 billion compared with 2,000 years ago, and in order to prevent the bank from canceling the $1.6 billion loan to National Entertainment Company (which controls Viacom and CBS), Lei Shidong had to sell $300 million worth of shares in Viacom and CBS in December last year.

This is also one of the reasons why Egger is sure to persuade Lei Shidong, although Lei Shidong is in his eighties and is an old-timer, but Larry is one of the top three billionaires in Forbes all year round, and his personal assets and company scale are far above Lei Shidong, although his influence in politics and society is not as good as Lei Shidong, but Lei Shidong gives Larry enough courtesy.

The two sides were polite and noisy, and Lei Shidong, who was in a good mood, also took them to see his personal collection, he was a bit strange, he liked to raise all kinds of tropical fish, there were more than 500 kinds of huge three-dimensional fish tanks, more than the Marine Fish Museum, many of them were precious and rare species.

Mark is carefully looking at this tycoon he suspects to be a traverser, a fierce life like a hanging, the head of the media empire, he is tall and thin, he is eighty years old and has no hunchback, his eyes seem to be a little cloudy, and his hearing seems to be a little unbright, but Mark will not be deceived by him, the sharp edge in this guy's eyes when he stares at people is very sharp, and now Mark does not have such sharp eyes.

Lei Shi Dong enthusiastically introduced all kinds of fish to Larry, Larry was not interested, several times he diverted the topic and was bypassed by him, always talking about his collection, and when the two people came, Mark understood the other party's intentions, these two people are his daughter Sally, vice president of National Entertainment, this National Entertainment is the Lei Shi Dong family business, and is also the controlling party of Viacom and CBS, the other is Viacom Chief Operating Officer Philip Dawman, both of whom are Lei Shidong's right and left arms, one of the designated heirs.

Lei Shidong should have known that Larry was a night owl who entered the house and was uneasy, so he dragged them and secretly summoned his assistants.

Larry laughed and said, "Summer, you old fellow, are you afraid that I will cheat you?"

Lei Shidong, the old guy, was deaf and dumb and said, "What?"

Sally said with a smile while holding her father: "Philip and I heard that you are visiting Summer, so we rushed to meet these young and promising upstarts, young people are getting better and better, I am still in college at my age, and you are already in charge of a 10 billion company." She shook hands with Mark as she spoke, in the style of a strong woman.

Mark They also greeted politely, put on their business cards, Mark and Sally met at the theater representative meeting, and Viacom Vice President Dawman greeted them and became famous, as the helmsman of a large enterprise, Viacom is not comparable to MM, but he is only a part-time worker, only a small amount of equity in his hands, and the difference in status between the two sides is not so big.

Larry knew that Lei Shidong had seen through their intentions, and said bluntly: "We, MM, are very interested in the UPN in your hands, and are willing to buy all the shares in your hands at a premium of ten percent." ”

Lei Shidong said: "What? Who said we were going to sell UPN?" He turned to Daoman and said, "Oh my God, you want to sell UPN without telling the old man?"

Dawman said blankly, "How is this possible? This is the first time I've heard about this today, and I have to kill me if I sell UPN Gray (President Paramount)." ”

Sally said, "Why do you think we're going to sell Paramount?"

Megan smiled: "With more than three billion in cash and a burden of hundreds of millions of losses every year, it's easy to choose." ”

Meghan said so ruthlessly, the three guys who were pretending to be didn't look embarrassed at all, Lei Shidong said: "It's strange, we never thought of selling UPN, why do you want to buy it?"

"We're making too much money and we want to buy a TV network to play with, and if you don't want to sell it, we can find B," Larry said. ”

Dawman said: "Actually, everything has a price, it depends on whether your offer can impress the board." ”

"In the case of UPN, with more than 10 consecutive years of losses and hundreds of millions of dollars in huge debt, the premium of 10% is very reasonable. ”

Lei Shidong's face sank, yawned, and said, "Could it be that today is April Fool's Day, and you are here to be funny." ”

"We pay in cash, in one lump sum, so the offer is very reasonable, and I'm sure you won't find a more genuine buyer," Iger said. ”

Daoman said: "Your sincerity is too small, as one of the seven major national public television networks, you dare to say that you are full of sincerity when you make such an offer?"

David said, "Aren't there only four of the seven major television networks?"

UPN and B are in the name of the Seven, and the gap between them and the others is not a little bit, and the people of the United States also ignore them when they mention them, only recognizing the Big Four, and the Seven are just making up the numbers.

Sally said, "If it's as bad as you say, why do you spend this money?"

Larry said, "So you're willing to sell, but you're not satisfied with the price?"

Daoman said: "Only sincerity can move people, and your sincerity can't even impress me, let alone the shareholders of the board of directors." ”

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