Chapter Ninety-One: First Suppressed and Then Raised

Although the TV circle in September is lively, when the king "Friends" does not appear, anyone's toss is regarded as a tiger in the mountains, and the monkey is called the king.

Of course, Fire Lion TV has no intention of competing with NBC's "Friends" right now, and what they are really focusing on is "CSI Crime Scene Investigation," which premiered on October 6.

As a TV series led by the current Hollywood gold producer Jerry Bruckheimer, although "CSI" has been unpopular with major TV networks before, when it really wants to be broadcast on Warner TV, the concerns of major TV networks are of course indispensable.

Among them, of course, the Fire Lion TV station is the most concerned.

"Okay, okay, let's take a look. On Friday night, October 6, Mr. Charles was waiting in front of the TV in the living room of his home, and the picture on the TV stopped on the Warner TV channel.

After a few commercials, the feature film of the premiere episode of CSI finally began.

is completely different from the current American dramas, and the multi-line parallel and rapid advancement, not only Mr. Charles and his wife are very interested in watching it, but also many North American audiences in front of the TV set are watching it with relish.

Although I really expected Warner and Jerry Bruckheimer to mess up this "CSI", but at the end of the first episode, Mr. Charles had to admit that the other party did play a good card this time.

The next day, official data released by Nielsen Ratings Research showed that Warner Bros. Network's premiere of CSI Crime Scene Investigation last night had a full 17.8 million viewers!

This is the highest-rated American drama result of Warner Bros. TV Network since its inception!

As previously said, "CSI" is a king American drama that can change the fate of American dramas and TV networks. The success of the premiere not only made Warner TV CEO Abel Samiton suddenly raise his eyebrows. Even the two CEOs of Time Warner and AOL, who are in the midst of a merger, can't help but say that the success of CSI is the benefits and dividends brought by the merger of the two groups.

This also caused a good wave of gains in the stocks of Time Warner and AOL.

However, the so-called good times are short-lived.

On the weekend of the second week of the premiere of "CSI", the "Los Angeles Times" suddenly released an article titled "On the Success Factors and Future of American Criminal Investigation Dramas".

The article carefully and carefully analyzes the reasons for the success of the latest style of criminal investigation American drama "CSI Crime Scene Investigation".

Originally, an article like this that came into being at the right time was not remarkable. After all, every time there is a big hit movie or TV, there will always be some people who will take advantage of the hot season to write a wave of eye-catching things.

However, this article is clearly written and very persuasive.

The article said that the reason why the broadcast of "CSI" was so successful was mainly due to the subversive approach in many aspects such as script and footage.

Compared with the previous slow water dramas such as "Law and Order", "CSI" breaks the convention by using multi-scenes, fast transitions, multi-line parallelism, and scientific evidence collection to bring the audience into a new world of criminal investigation American dramas.

At the same time, in terms of pictures and lenses, "CSI" also uses a lot of cinematic techniques, whether it is the application of high technology, or the close-up of gunfights, or cool and handsome lines rich in professional terms, all of which subvert the previous American dramas.

And the audience's taste needs to be cultivated, after the emergence of new criminal investigation American dramas such as "CSI", the market space of existing American dramas will be compressed, and in the long run, only the TV network that dares to walk on that side can gain the first opportunity in the fierce competition.

Otherwise, you will be trampled under the feet of others.

Based on this, the article also boldly predicts that with the emergence of such a cinematic style of American dramas, the forms and rules of today's American dramas will be subverted and changed. Cinematic images such as 16:9 and fast-paced plots like action movies will become the regular rules of future American dramas.

In fact, having said that, many people have doubts about the content of the article and the author, and the author with such a sharp eye has never heard of it before.

However, at the end of this article, the author's name reveals the truth - Sid Leonhardt!

The unabashed byline not only shocked the North American television circle, but also made Warner Bros. Television Network and Abel Samiton angry.

"CSI" is leading across the era, and if you let people from other TV networks figure it out for themselves, I'm afraid that it may not be successful for several years. Just like the current reality show of Fire Lion TV, no TV network can replicate its success.

But Sid's article, which peels back the key and reasons for the success of "CSI", is definitely a typical example of a bad guy business.

And other TV networks also know that "CSI" was cut off from the hands of Fire Lion by Warner TV, for this drama that was originally made by Sid himself, if there is anyone in the world who can really understand this series except for the main creator Jerry Bruckheimer.

That's just Sid Leon.

A lot of people are aware of this, so the rest of the real big four TV networks immediately took Sid's article seriously.

The CBS television network that really built "CSI" was the fastest action among them, and just a month later, they announced that they would be creating a criminal investigation series with the theme of missing persons investigation - "Missing Scenes"!

Then the Fox TV network, which was not willing to be lonely, quickly followed up, and they also proposed to create a "Criminal Minds" with the theme of psychology to solve crimes.

For a time, all kinds of criminal investigation American dramas created by the North American TV circle were all the rage and became everyone's first choice. Originally, it was not news that Hollywood companies borrowed and imitated each other.

Just like after the success of the "historical" Marvel Cinematic Universe, major companies began to "learn" one after another, put up a banner and started their own "XX Universe".

But this time, the rapid advancement of major TV networks was obviously promoted and provoked by Sid.

Warner Bros., as the protagonist, of course, jumped up and down in anger.

"Damn Sid Leon!" Abel Samiton threw the cup out of his hand in anger, "Damn little bitch!

Originally, after the successful premiere of "CSI", Abel Samiton quickly reached a reservation with Jerry Bruckheimer for the second season, and Jerry Bruckheimer also reciprocated by proposing a series of follow-up actions such as developing a spin-off.

If they follow their plan, with "CSI" as the center, Warner Bros. TV can create a new family of criminal investigation American dramas. In the future, the Warner TV Pig Group can grow into a presence that is not inferior to HBO, and he will certainly rise to the top.